Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
Egregore work
Give a group a shared name, sigil, story and ritual, and treat the resulting atmosphere as a construct.
What it is
To make a group's shared attention deliberate rather than accidental.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A group; a purpose; a name and sigil; a charter; a feeding schedule; a steward.
- Outputs
- A charter, a shared sigil, a calendar, a record of feedings and a closing note.
How to do it
Write a charter: purpose, members, feeding, boundaries, review date and a closing clause. Make a sigil from the group name. Hold a first ritual or meeting that uses the sigil. Feed the egregore on a schedule. Review the charter on the date; close it if the group ends.
A worked example
The 'Saturn Room' meets on Sundays to finish one shared project per quarter. The charter names the steward, the review date and the close. The sigil is pinned in the shared document; the check-in is the feeding.
Variations
- Make the sigil from the group's first shared sentence rather than its name.
- Use a Moon phase for a short group and a Sun sign for a year-long one.
- Keep a public charter and a private record of the group's actual decisions.
Related entries
Instruments
Protocols
Constructs
Correspondences
Workings
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 10
Every entry that names Egregore work, grouped by section.
⌘ Protocols 2
- Build an egregore Practices
- Close an egregore Practices
⌬ Correspondences 2
- The Lovers — pairing Practices
- Friday — Venus Practices
⚙ Instruments 1
- The Egregore Charter Practices
✧ Practices 1
- Digital altar Related
◈ Constructs 1
- Egregore Practices
❖ Workings 1
- The Saturn Deadline Egregore Practices
✎ Prompts 1
- Charter clause Practices
⌁ Currents 1
- Technopaganism Practices
More in Practices
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Servitor work Build a purpose-built construct with one task, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Feeding a construct The scheduled attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
- Sigilisation Condense a sentence of intent into a glyph, charge it, then hide it and forget the wording.
- Dismissing a construct The close: recall, destroy the material basis, archive the record and return attention.
- Hypersigil Encode a working in a long work — a comic, a series, a record — and release it.
- Planetary timing Choose the day and hour for a working from the Grimoire's planetary sequence.
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.