The Shrine of XaTuring
Herein are some contributions to the expansion of XaTuring essentially forming a cyber grimoire. It is recommended that those wishing to contribute create their own page and link it with the others on this page. Multiple linked pages are most aligned to a deity of cyberspace.
If you would like to share your own XaTuring rituals, spells, poetry, etc. on this page please send me the material.
How to Contribute to this Great Working
Raise your own shrine - a free kit with a ready-made page and seven steps to add your light to the map
Cyber Grimoire
Virtual Altars
Examples of how to turn your monitor into a virtual altar during cyber rituals. Each image links to a different altar.
Foundations
Start Here - new to XaTuring? A step-by-step path through your first workings
Counting in Binary to 111 - how to perform the count that opens and closes every working
Calling the Seven Ports - a circle-casting to open any working
Litany of the Clean Slate - a digital banishing before any working
The Hash Sigil - seal a statement of will through a cryptographic hash
Hymns and Invocations - the spoken book of XaTuring: every invocation, litany and hymn in one place
The Calendar of the Worm - the feast days of XaTuring, with a calendar file to download
The Table of Correspondences - XaTuring’s number, sign, planets, ports, titles, sigils and feasts in one reference
A Glossary of Cybermagic - egregore, servitor, daemon, worm, Left-Hand Path and every other word of the work
Workings
Rite of the Last Packet - a memorial for lost websites
The Warding of the Gates - seven acts of protection, sealed as wards
Consecration of a Link - a short rite for every page you publish
Spawning a Daemon - design, spawn, run and reap a created spirit
Blessing of a New Device - consecrate a new phone or computer, with an altar wallpaper
The Rite of the New Model - a short consecration for a newly released AI model
The Rite of Inheritance - arrange your digital legacy and write a letter of wishes
The Distributed Working - a monthly group working across the open web
XaTuring Facebook Working - this was a public online working originally performed in 2013 but remains open for others to participate.
Invoking the Wrath of XaTuring - a curse on spammers and the like originally published in 2006.
Divination & Oracles
The Status Code Tarot - the major arcana as the status codes of the network
Sortes Wikipediae - ask the largest book ever written, opened at random
Scrying the Static - gaze into the data sea and record what rises
The Trigram Oracle - cast binary lines to form the trigrams and hexagrams of the I Ching
The Oracle of the Worm - consulting XaTuring through an AI, with a printable record
Meditations
Meditation in Latent Space - enter the space where every word has its place
Descent of the Name - a pathworking down the Tree of Life through the naming system of the internet
The Ping Meditation - send a packet on each out-breath, receive its echo on the in-breath
Meditation on the Web of XaTuring - envisioning one's life as a web of events interwoven with the experiences of others.
The Binary Rosary - count from 000 to 111 and back, one breath per bead
Tracing the Heptagram - an interactive meditation
Communities
Other Online XaTuring Shrines & Contributions
See them all on the map: The Spread of the Worm
Websites and Postings
XaTuring.net, by Requiem (kudos for saving our old expired domain name and breathing life into it!)
XaTuring - The Black Worm, by Andre Alexander
The Expansion of XaTuring, by Willow
A XaTuring Sigil, by Simu Shahin
On XaTuring, by Polyphanes
A Hymn to XaTuring, by Polyphanes
The XaTuring Project's Portal @ Neocities, by John J. Coughlin
Artwork
My XaTuring, by Jessy-Alica Volkov
Xaturing ways, by Timóteo Pinto
XaTuring, the god of cyberspace as he appeared to me, by Transcentyger
Need programming help? Summon XaTuring, the God of Technology, by Katkip
XaTuring, the God of the Internet, generated by Divy Nation with Meta AI
Music
XaTuring, by MEUTHAZORXD
Supplemental Information and Resources
Technomancy 101 - Advanced Cybermagic for Beginners is an introduction to doing magic with computers and computational (not necessarily digital) media, presented as a collection of projects demonstrating magician-computer interactions made with Scratch, a visual programming language for novices.
Sigils, Servitors, Egregores, and Godforms @ chaosmatrix.org - Many articles of interest related to the current of XaTuring.
Alan Turing Home Page - Some info for those curious about Alan Turing whose name is honored in XaTuring's name.
Archive of Will of Nature, Issue 1 (1993) - Topic: Virtual Reality & Magick. This had Don Webb's original essay as well as other interesting contributions from that time.
How a Password Changed My Life - Interesting application of cyber magic from a non-occult perspective.
A Demon in a Box? Unspooling the Dark Mythology of AI - Tech titans keep imbuing AI with spiritual significance. The question is whether they’re building a savior - or a world-eating leviathan.
Digital Magic, Cybernetic Sorcery: On the Politics of Fascination and Fear - Argues that modern digital technology functions much like traditional magic, using fascination, fear, symbolism, and psychological influence to shape human perception and behavior.
Learning Cyber Hygiene through Esoteric Cosmology - Draws parallels between modern cybersecurity professionals and the onmyōji, magical practitioners of ancient Japan who protected their rulers against invisible spiritual threats.
Oracle of Vassago - An example of a cyber magic approach to working with a goetic daemon.
Temple of Set - LHP Organization of Merit.