Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
Hypersigil
Encode a working in a long work — a comic, a series, a record — and release it.
What it is
To let a working travel through attention over time.
At a glance
- Inputs
- An intention; a long work; an encoding; a release date; a close date; a private note.
- Outputs
- A finished work, a private operating note and a close record.
How to do it
Write the intention. Encode it in the structure and imagery of a long work rather than stating it. Make the work and publish it. Keep a private operating note with what is encoded, for whom and when it closes. At the close, record what happened and stop promoting the work.
A worked example
A six-part comic about a locked room, made while the practitioner is trying to leave a job. The encoding is in the room's doors; the close is the final issue. The private note records the intention and the date.
Variations
- Use a record or a song cycle instead of a comic.
- Make the work with a group and keep the operating note with one person.
- Release it serially and close at the last part.
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 3
Every entry that names Hypersigil, grouped by section.
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- Living work Practices
⌬ Correspondences 1
- The World — deploy Practices
⌁ Currents 1
- Pop magic Practices
More in Practices
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
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- Cyber banishing Close a working with a digital gesture: close tabs, clear a cache, log out, leave the desk.
- Servitor work Build a purpose-built construct with one task, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Digital altar Arrange a screen, folder or page as a place you return to for attention and offering.
- Egregore work Give a group a shared name, sigil, story and ritual, and treat the resulting atmosphere as a construct.
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.