The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
A definition
Charge
The moment a symbol is loaded with intention and attention, usually in an altered state.
What it is
The moment a symbol is loaded with intention and attention, usually in an altered state.
In practice
A charge needs a beginning and an end. Mark both, and do not keep recharging the same sigil because the result has not arrived.
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One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
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Every entry that names Charge, grouped by section.
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- Gnosis Related
More in Glossary
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Sigil A condensed glyph made from a statement of intent and charged in a state of gnosis.
- Gnosis A narrowed, non-discursive state used to launch a working: drumming, breath, dance, exhaustion, sexual excitation or a long still sit.
- Technomancy Magic made with technical systems: a working that uses a machine, a network or a program as its medium or its instrument.
- Forgetting The deliberate dropping of a sigil's wording after it is charged, so the conscious mind stops editing the result.
- Ledger An append-only record of constructs, feedings, readings and closings.
- Servitor A purpose-built construct with one task, a name, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.
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