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Correspondences
A working table: take a Grimoire aspect (a planet, element, card, phase or day) and a machine pattern (a queue, a scheduled job, a firewall, and so on), and see the instrument the pairing suggests. It is the input table for the Instrument Workshop.
These are design prompts, not laws. Use a row to make a decision, build the smallest version, and change the mapping if it does not survive use.
Today’s row · Venus → Cache — A charm that keeps one good thing within reach.
The table 24
| Grimoire | Machine pattern | Instrument | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aether | Canvas render | sigil forge | The display as the working surface: draw the sigil, the card or the altar. The Sigil Forge drawing an SVG inside a ring marked with the planet and element. |
| Air | Network socket | instrument workshop | A messenger that needs a live line, not a queue. A two-person working with a shared channel and a closing message at the end of the session. |
| Earth | File system | servitor ledger | A grounded working: named files, a manifest and a place for everything. A working folder with `brief.md`, `sigil.svg`, `ledger.jsonl` and a `close.md`, named by date. |
| Fire | Event listener | instrument workshop | A charged trigger: something happens, the working responds. A listener on a file that, when a new draft appears, writes a timestamp and a one-line intention to the ledger. |
| Friday | Connect and share | sigil forge | A Friday working for a shareable card or a reconnection. A Venus card posted on Friday with one line and one seed, kept in the cache for a week. |
| Full Moon | Publish | sigil forge | Release the card, the post or the work, and name the close. A full-moon sigil card posted with its seed and the line 'closes in four weeks'. |
| Jupiter | Archive | servitor ledger | A blessing on the store: make the record durable and close the working. A quarterly backup with a manifest, a read-back test and a closing note in the ledger. |
| Mars | Firewall | digital banishing switch | A ward: a rule that admits what is wanted and refuses the rest. A Mars working that writes three firewall rules and one closing line, then tests them against the week's traffic. |
| Mercury | Message queue | servant foundry | A queued messenger: each request waits until it can be delivered. A Mercury servitor whose task is 'surface one useful contact each Friday', fed by a queue of names and closed after eight weeks. |
| Moon | Feed | glitch oracle | A lunar reading from the feed: what returns, what changes, what to release. A monthly draw from the first three items in a feed, read against the moon phase and recorded. |
| New Moon | Seed | sigil forge | Begin with a seed, not a plan: make one small thing and record it. A new-moon sigil with a single seed; the card records the seed and the close at the full moon. |
| Saturday | Archive and close | servitor ledger | A Saturday close: review the week, archive the record, close one working. A Saturday ledger review that closes one servitor and archives its sheet. |
| Saturn | Scheduled job | planetary hour daemon | A Saturday review that closes the week's open loops. A cron job on Saturday evening that lists the week's open loops, prints the three oldest and writes a close line. |
| Sun | Dashboard | instrument workshop | A daily solar readout: one screen, one state, one action. A homepage that shows the current project, the next planetary hour and the one open loop. |
| The Fool | Bootstrap | random rite generator | A starting act with no guarantee: the smallest possible first move. A ten-minute rite drawn at random, done once, recorded before deciding whether to continue. |
| The Hermit | Local-only | instrument workshop | A private instrument that works without a server. A sigil generator that runs entirely in the browser and never sends the phrase anywhere. |
| The Lovers | Two-key pairing | instrument workshop | A working that requires two people, and fails closed if one withdraws. A shared sigil that only renders when both people hold a half; either can revoke. |
| The Magician | Build pipeline | instrument workshop | An instrument built in stages: each stage does one thing and can be tested. A sigil pipeline: read the phrase, reduce it, draw the glyph, stamp the aspect, export the card. |
| The Tower | Crash | digital banishing switch | A close that is also a demolition: remove the broken thing and clear the ground. A failed build leads to a banishing: delete the abandoned branch, close the working and write the lesson. |
| The World | Release | instrument workshop | The release as the close: ship it, log it, stop promoting it. A final issue or a v1.0 tag with a release note, a close line and no further changes. |
| Tuesday | Deploy and defend | digital banishing switch | A Tuesday working for defence or a hard launch. A Tuesday firewall review: three rules, one test, one close. |
| Venus | Cache | instrument workshop | A charm that keeps one good thing within reach. A browser bookmark that surfaces one saved contact or image each visit, kept in a small cache for a week. |
| Water | Log | servitor ledger | A memory: the working keeps a record of itself. A JSONL ledger for a servitor: creation, feeds, readings and the close. |
| Wednesday | Write and send | sigil forge | A Wednesday sigil or message working. A Mercury sigil forged on Wednesday at the Mercury hour, with the card kept in the ledger. |
Use a row directly, or open the Workshop to combine an aspect, a pattern and a form into a build brief.
Leave it to chance, or choose a row and change it.