Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
Feeding a construct
The scheduled attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
What it is
To keep a construct alive deliberately, and to notice when it is being fed by anxiety instead.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A construct; a feeding method; a schedule; a ledger.
- Outputs
- Calendar entries, ledger lines and a weekly review.
How to do it
Pick a food the construct can actually receive: attention, a repeated phrase, a song, a small offering, a weekly review. Put it on a calendar. At each feeding, log the date and what was given. Once a week, read the log and ask whether the construct is still doing its task.
A worked example
A servitor is fed for one minute every Wednesday at the Mercury hour. The log shows four feeds in a month; the review decides to keep it for another four weeks.
Variations
- Make the feeding a physical act — a candle, a glass of water, a written line.
- Use a group feeding: a shared post or a Sunday check-in.
- Feed only when the construct has produced a result, and see what happens.
Related entries
Instruments
Protocols
Correspondences
Workings
Related
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 15
Every entry that names Feeding a construct, grouped by section.
✧ Practices 3
- Servitor work Related
- Egregore work Related
- Dismissing a construct Related
⚙ Instruments 2
- The Servant Foundry Practices
- The Servitor Ledger Practices
⌘ Protocols 1
- Feed a servitor Practices
⌬ Correspondences 1
- Water — log Practices
❖ Workings 1
- The Mercury Inbox Servitor Practices
✎ Prompts 1
- Field note Practices
More in Practices
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Egregore work Give a group a shared name, sigil, story and ritual, and treat the resulting atmosphere as a construct.
- Dismissing a construct The close: recall, destroy the material basis, archive the record and return attention.
- Servitor work Build a purpose-built construct with one task, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Planetary timing Choose the day and hour for a working from the Grimoire's planetary sequence.
- Sigilisation Condense a sentence of intent into a glyph, charge it, then hide it and forget the wording.
- Glitch divination Read an error, a crash, a repeated fragment or a broken feed as the draw.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.