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The Saturn Deadline Egregore

A group construct for a shared deadline, with a charter, a weekly check-in and a public close.

What it is

To give a small group a shared time-shape and a clean end.

Charter a group for one quarter. The task is to finish one shared project by a fixed date. Use Saturn and Earth. The feeding is a Sunday check-in; the close is the last Sunday of the quarter.

How to do it

Write the charter: purpose, members, boundaries, feeding, review and close.
Generate the shared sigil and pin it in the shared document.
Hold the first Sunday check-in and agree the project.
At each check-in, read the charter's purpose and close one open loop.
At the final Sunday, review the project, archive the charter and post the close.
The steward removes the sigil and records the close.

What you need

A charter from the Egregore Charter
A shared sigil
A Sunday check-in
A shared task board
A review and close date
A steward

A worked example

A four-person group charters 'The Saturn Room' to finish a zine by the end of the quarter. The Sunday check-in closes one loop each week; the final Sunday ships the zine and closes the charter.

How you know it worked

At the mid-point, ask each member whether the check-in is useful. If half say no, change the feeding rather than adding another meeting.

Variations

Use a Moon phase for a one-month group.
Make the project a single deliverable, not a backlog.
Run a silent group: a shared document and a weekly line instead of a call.

Code sketch

This is a sketch, not a runnable program. It names the shape of the automation; the definitions are yours.

# {{group}} — charter

**Purpose.** Finish {{project}} by {{date}}.
**Feeding.** Sunday check-in, one loop closed.
**Review.** Mid-point and final Sunday.
**Close.** Steward archives the charter and posts the close.

Related entries

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The Egregore Charter

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Constructs

Egregore

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