Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
Digital altar
Arrange a screen, folder or page as a place you return to for attention and offering.
What it is
To give a working a place, not only a time.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A space; an image; an offering; a schedule; a record.
- Outputs
- A maintained place, a visit log and a closing.
How to do it
Choose a small space: a desktop, a folder, a page, a virtual room. Put three things in it: an image of the working, an offering, and a record. Visit it on a schedule. Change one thing at each visit. Close it when the working closes.
A worked example
A folder named 'saturn-room' contains a sigil, a text file of the week's open loops and a short note. It is opened on Sundays; one loop is closed and the note is updated.
Variations
- Use a physical object beside the screen as the anchor.
- Make the altar a shared page for a group working.
- Use a virtual room and meet there for the weekly visit.
Related entries
Instruments
Protocols
Constructs
Correspondences
Workings
Related
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 18
Every entry that names Digital altar, grouped by section.
◈ Constructs 3
- Egregore Practices
- Tulpa Practices
- Genius loci Practices
⌬ Correspondences 3
- Venus — cache Practices
- Sun — dashboard Practices
- Earth — file system Practices
⚙ Instruments 2
- The Instrument Workshop Practices
- The Egregore Charter Practices
✧ Practices 2
- Planetary timing Related
- Cyber banishing Related
⌘ Protocols 2
- Build an egregore Practices
- Work by planetary hour Related
❖ Workings 2
- The Saturn Deadline Egregore Practices
- The Venus Network Charm Practices
⌁ Currents 2
- Cybermagic Practices
- Technopaganism Practices
▤ Glossary 1
- Digital altar Related
✎ Prompts 1
- State invocation Practices
More in Practices
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Algorithmic divination Use a random value, a hash, a feed order or a search result as the casting medium.
- Cyber banishing Close a working with a digital gesture: close tabs, clear a cache, log out, leave the desk.
- Glitch divination Read an error, a crash, a repeated fragment or a broken feed as the draw.
- AI oracle Consult a language model as a frame for a question, with a seed, a record and a fact-check.
- Planetary timing Choose the day and hour for a working from the Grimoire's planetary sequence.
- Hypersigil Encode a working in a long work — a comic, a series, a record — and release it.
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.