from the Workshop
Scrywells
“Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind.”
— Austin Osman Spare, The Logomachy of Zos
What arrives when the circumstances create a perfect condition?
A dark deep enough to scry into. A frame around a well, and in that well, blackness, set deep so nothing stands between you and it.
Each Scrywell is built once, start to finish, on an upcycled frame. Size, depth, and finish vary. Crafted, aged, and charged.
Reflection shown to demonstrate depth.
The Lot
Can new meanings be found in old, familiar symbols?
Ten coins, ten aspects, each with two faces. Cast them all when the question is open. Cast a chosen few when you already know the forces in play.
The reading lives in the pattern, not the single coin.
HEART · whole · broken
FLAME · spark · ash
TIME · left · spent
CYCLE · start · end
GUARD · held · struck
SIGHT · outward · inward
LIGHT · seen · hidden
UNITY · one · many
CUP · empty · full
OMEN · warning · luck
Fatem Bones
“He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.”
— Peter J. Carroll, Liber Kaos
If thrown in truth and sincerity of will, does the universe blow a little luck on the dice?
Five dice, five questions: what force, what actor, what timing, what movement, what method. The bones don’t predict. They compose. Read them as a sentence, and the shape of the spell is already in your hands.
FORCE: fire · water · air • earth · monad · spirit
ACTOR: solo · group · shadow • work · world · spirit
TIMING: now · soon · turning • threshold · mystery · chance
ENERGY: inward · outward · still • transform · sudden · cyclical
METHOD: meditation · ritual · chant • offering · blessing · destruction
Saltcord
Can a new take on an old practice still hold?
Salt sewn into a long cloth channel, coiled to keep, to remember and strengthen with each use.
Lay it in a ring to hold a circle. Lay it across a threshold. Take it into the grass and the garden, where loose salt would burn the ground, and lift it clean when the working’s done.
Cleanse in smoke, sound, or sunlight.
Ragfolk
If you will it, can a poppet carry what you surrender or protect?
A body to make a someone of. Up-cycled cotton and natural cloth, hand-sewn, weighted at the hands and feet with salt and herb, and left blank, a canvas for anything you sew it into being.
Sew a sigil. Give it eyes. Write something in, or stitch it inside. Let it stand for you or for someone else. Venerate it, or destroy it.
No instruction comes with it. None should.
White sample not for sale — shown in ritual use.
Bonebells
A bone dry and small, sealed in wood, that rattles when you shake it. You’ll never see it. You’ll never know what it was.
Bells call. Bones remember. When something is both, it speaks two languages at once. Shake one to open a working or close it, to mark a moment, to summon. No reading, no system.
Offered in sets of three; every set unique, each built from its own bone and its own wood.
Cinderwitch
A little witch made to burn. Write the thing on the scroll, tie it to her, say it once, and give her to the fire.
The going is the working. When she catches, the flame turns color, a change you didn’t make and can’t mistake. That’s her carrying it off.
Made in batches, sold one at a time, each her own. Scrap cloth, twine, and a scroll to fill. Burn her outdoors, and don’t wish for anything you want back.
Hagulum
“Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life.”
— Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure
What matters more, that the stone never meant to hold its hole, or that we find magic in it being there?
A seeing-stone, holed by water long before it came to us. Hung on a long chain from a ring made for the hand. Each its own, found not made, no two alike.
Long enough for a pendulum. Let it run a room and find the cold. Hold it at a doorway and read the swing. Ask it yes and no, or ask it nothing and wear it against the dark.
Put your eye to the hole and look at what won’t sit still in plain sight.
Cast and Ask
If a tool can answer two ways, does the question choose the method, or does the method shape the question?
Cast into the tray on the one face, swing a pendulum on the reverse, and let the question choose how it want to be answered. Each its own, no two alike. Size and shape vary.
Pendulum and Cast charms not included.
Markstones
Slate, cut and engraved, each marked with its own sign. Some laid out to swing a pendulum across. Some made to hold a thing and charge it slow.
Choose the mark that fits the working. Set your stone, your ring, your charm, and leave it. Or hold the pendulum above and read the swing.
Bane Boxes
A box made to close on something and keep it. Name the thing. Set it inside. Shut the lid. The box doesn’t care what it holds. It only holds.
Some say as much across the lid, in words worn into the wood. Some say nothing and leave the saying to you.
The Declarant
If will alone can change what’s real, can one strike make a thing so?
A small gavel, aged, marked with words and signs that mean what you decide they mean. Say the thing. Bring it down. What was loose is now fixed.
Use it to close a working, seal a decision, or land a vow somewhere your body can feel it. The marks are there to give your conviction a place to catch.
