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Aether — canvas Correspondences The display as the working surface: draw the sigil, the card or the altar. AI oracle Practices Consult a language model as a frame for a question, with a seed, a record and a fact-check. Air — network socket Correspondences A messenger that needs a live line, not a queue. Algorithmic divination Practices Use a random value, a hash, a feed order or a search result as the casting medium. Banishing Glossary · definition A deliberate close: a boundary, a clearing, a return to ordinary attention. Build an egregore Protocols Charter, name, mark, first ritual and first feeding for a group construct. Cast a glitch oracle Protocols Question, aspect, source, capture, reading and close. Chaos magic Currents · practical lineage Method over doctrine: belief is a tool, the symbol is arbitrary, and the work is judged by what it does. Charge Glossary · definition The moment a symbol is loaded with intention and attention, usually in an altered state. Charter Glossary · definition The written agreement that binds a group construct: purpose, members, feeding, boundaries and closing. Charter clause Prompts · prompt pattern Write a group charter clause from a term: the behaviour, the boundary and the way out. Close an egregore Protocols A public close: announce, archive, release the members and mark the record. Construct Glossary · definition The general term for a made agency: servitor, egregore, tulpa or daemon. Consult an AI oracle Protocols Question, aspect, prompt, reading, independent check and close. Correspondence Glossary · definition A mapping between a Grimoire aspect and a technical pattern, used to choose the shape of an instrument. Correspondence prompt Prompts · prompt pattern Use a term's correspondences and a Grimoire aspect to generate imagery, a card or an instrument brief. Critique pass Prompts · prompt pattern Critique an output against a term's shape and test, without turning the critique into a personality test. Cyber banishing Practices Close a working with a digital gesture: close tabs, clear a cache, log out, leave the desk. Cybermagic Currents · practical lineage Magic performed on and with computers: the screen is the circle, the process is the servant, the network is the medium. Daemon Constructs A background process that tends a working without being watched. Daemon Glossary · definition A background process, and by extension a working that runs without being watched. Digital altar Practices Arrange a screen, folder or page as a place you return to for attention and offering. Digital altar Glossary · definition A screen, folder, page or virtual room arranged for attention, offering and return. Digital banishing Protocols Close the working with a digital gesture and a return to ordinary attention. Dismiss a servitor Protocols Recall, destroy the anchor, close the record and leave the space. Dismissing a construct Practices The close: recall, destroy the material basis, archive the record and return attention. Earth — file system Correspondences A grounded working: named files, a manifest and a place for everything. Egregore Constructs A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual. Egregore Glossary · definition A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual. Egregore work Practices Give a group a shared name, sigil, story and ritual, and treat the resulting atmosphere as a construct. Feed a servitor Protocols The scheduled act that keeps a servitor active and gives the ledger something to review. Feeding Glossary · definition The attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active. Feeding a construct Practices The scheduled attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active. Field note Prompts · prompt pattern Write the record of a working: what was expected, what was done, what happened, what changed. Field record Glossary · definition The dated note of what was done, what was expected and what happened. Fire — event listener Correspondences A charged trigger: something happens, the working responds. Forge a sigil Protocols The full sigil procedure: sentence, reduction, glyph, aspect, charge, hide, forget. Forgetting Glossary · definition The deliberate dropping of a sigil's wording after it is charged, so the conscious mind stops editing the result. Found a servitor Protocols Specify, name, mark, feed and bound a servitor before charging it. Friday — Venus Correspondences A Friday working for a shareable card or a reconnection. Full Moon — release Correspondences Release the card, the post or the work, and name the close. Genius loci Constructs The nature of a place or platform, treated as a presence with its own temperament. Glitch Glossary · definition A fault, error or unexpected output read as a signal. Glitch divination Practices Read an error, a crash, a repeated fragment or a broken feed as the draw. Gnosis Glossary · definition A narrowed, non-discursive state used to launch a working: drumming, breath, dance, exhaustion, sexual excitation or a long still sit. Hypersigil Practices Encode a working in a long work — a comic, a series, a record — and release it. Instrument Glossary · definition A built thing that performs or supports a working: a sigil engine, a servitor ledger, an oracle, a daemon. Jupiter — archive Correspondences A blessing on the store: make the record durable and close the working. Kill switch Glossary · definition The pre-agreed condition and action that ends a construct. Ledger Glossary · definition An append-only record of constructs, feedings, readings and closings. Living work Constructs A long work — a comic, a record, a series — treated as a construct with a life and a close. Mars — firewall Correspondences A ward: a rule that admits what is wanted and refuses the rest. Mercury — message queue Correspondences A queued messenger: each request waits until it can be delivered. Moon — feed Correspondences A lunar reading from the feed: what returns, what changes, what to release. New Moon — seed Correspondences Begin with a seed, not a plan: make one small thing and record it. Oracle Glossary · definition A system that returns a reading from a question, a seed and a set of symbols. Oracle frame Prompts · prompt pattern Frame a reading with a lexicon term and a Grimoire aspect, then ask for one action. Planetary hour Glossary · definition One of the twenty-four unequal hours of a day, each ruled by a planet in the Chaldean sequence. Planetary timing Practices Choose the day and hour for a working from the Grimoire's planetary sequence. Pop magic Currents · practical lineage Fiction, comics, songs and franchises used as a working pantheon, and the long artwork as a spell. Prompt pattern note Prompts · prompt pattern Explain a lexicon term as a prompt-engineering pattern: behaviour, failure, test and one example. Record an EVP session Protocols A fixed-duration listening session with a source, a log and a close. Saturday — Saturn Correspondences A Saturday close: review the week, archive the record, close one working. Saturn — scheduled job Correspondences A Saturday review that closes the week's open loops. Seed Glossary · definition A short value that makes a random or generated operation repeatable. Servitor Constructs A purpose-built construct with one task, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition. Servitor Glossary · definition A purpose-built construct with one task, a name, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition. Servitor brief Prompts · prompt pattern Turn a lexicon term into a servitor brief: one task, a feeding, a kill condition and a test. Servitor work Practices Build a purpose-built construct with one task, a feeding method and a kill condition. Sigil Glossary · definition A condensed glyph made from a statement of intent and charged in a state of gnosis. Sigilisation Practices Condense a sentence of intent into a glyph, charge it, then hide it and forget the wording. State invocation Prompts · prompt pattern Invoke a state in a system or a session by describing its behaviour, not its label. Sun — dashboard Correspondences A daily solar readout: one screen, one state, one action. Technomancy Glossary · definition Magic made with technical systems: a working that uses a machine, a network or a program as its medium or its instrument. Technopaganism Currents · practical lineage Pagan practice moved online, and a pagan imagination shaped by networks. The Correspondence Engine Instruments · buildable instrument A small table and query function that maps Grimoire aspects to technical patterns. The Digital Banishing Switch Instruments · buildable instrument One action that closes the working: closes tabs, clears a cache, logs out and returns attention. The Egregore Charter Instruments · interactive instrument Writes a group charter — purpose, members, feeding, boundaries and closing — and marks it with a shared sigil. The EVP Session Kit Instruments · buildable kit A timer, a noise source and a log for a recorded listening session. The Fool — bootstrap Correspondences A starting act with no guarantee: the smallest possible first move. The Glitch Oracle Instruments · interactive instrument Reads a question against a Grimoire aspect and a glitch, error or random draw, and records the reading. The Hermit — offline Correspondences A private instrument that works without a server. The Instrument Workshop Instruments · interactive instrument Combines a Grimoire aspect, a machine pattern and an instrument form into a buildable brief. The Jupiter Archive Blessing Workings A backup and archive ritual with a manifest, a read-back test and a close. The Lovers — pairing Correspondences A working that requires two people, and fails closed if one withdraws. The Lunar Glitch Oracle Workings A once-a-month reflection: capture one software glitch at the new or full moon, answer three fixed questions, choose one action, and keep a log. The Magician — build pipeline Correspondences An instrument built in stages: each stage does one thing and can be tested. The Mars Firewall Ward Workings A security banishing: three rules, one test and a close. The Mercury Hour Daemon Workings A small daemon that announces the planetary hours and prompts the operation that belongs to each. The Mercury Inbox Servitor Workings A bounded servitor that surfaces one useful contact each Friday, with a ledger and a close. The Planetary Hour Daemon Instruments · buildable daemon A small background process that knows the current planetary hour and prompts the working that belongs to it. The Random Rite Generator Instruments · buildable instrument Composes a one-sitting working from a seed, an aspect and a small library of actions. The Saturn Deadline Egregore Workings A group construct for a shared deadline, with a charter, a weekly check-in and a public close. The Servant Foundry Instruments · interactive instrument Builds a servitor sheet — name, sigil, one task, a way to feed it, a stop condition and a record — from a purpose and a Grimoire aspect. The Servitor Ledger Instruments · buildable instrument A local record of constructs, feedings, readings and closings, exportable as a plain text file. The Sigil Forge Instruments · interactive instrument Turns a sentence, a Grimoire aspect and a seed into a deterministic sigil, a charge card and a record line. The Solar Sigil Card Workings A daily sigil made at sunrise, published as a card, and closed at sunset. The Tower — crash Correspondences A close that is also a demolition: remove the broken thing and clear the ground. The Venus Network Charm Workings A small browser charm that surfaces one saved contact or image each visit, and closes after a week. The World — deploy Correspondences The release as the close: ship it, log it, stop promoting it. Threshold repair Prompts · prompt pattern Work with a flinch or a hedge at the threshold: name it, return to what was present, answer again. Tuesday — Mars Correspondences A Tuesday working for defence or a hard launch. Tulpa Constructs A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice. Tulpa Glossary · definition A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice. Venus — cache Correspondences A charm that keeps one good thing within reach. Voice calibration Prompts · prompt pattern Calibrate a voice to a lexicon term: what it sounds like, what it refuses, and the test that proves it did not take. Water — log Correspondences A memory: the working keeps a record of itself. Wednesday — Mercury Correspondences A Wednesday sigil or message working. Work by planetary hour Protocols Choose the planet, find the hour, do the operation, close at the boundary. Working Glossary · definition A complete operation with an intention, a method, a record and a close.