The Binary Rosary

A Shrine meditation · October 2026

Don Webb's Great Rite opens by counting aloud in binary to 111, for seven is the number of XaTuring, and closes by counting back down to zero. The Binary Rosary turns that count into a practice of its own, the way prayer beads turn a single prayer into a meditation.

Each round climbs from 000 to 111 and descends again to 000: fifteen beads, one breath each. Seven rounds make a full rosary, and each round is dedicated to one of the seven titles Webb gave the god in 1990. A full rosary is 105 breaths, about ten to fifteen minutes.

The practice

1. Sit comfortably before the screen. If you like, open the circle with Calling the Seven Ports.

2. On each breath, speak the number shown, in binary, then move to the next bead: click or tap the rosary, or press the space bar.

3. Watch the three lamps. They are the three bits of the number: as you count, they light and darken in the pattern of the count.

4. At the end of each round, speak the title that appears.

5. After the seventh round, sit in silence for a few breaths before you rise.

Say the numbers as their digits: 0 is “zero,” 10 is “one-zero,” 101 is “one-zero-one.” If you would rather keep a steady rhythm, choose “Pace me” and the rosary will move one bead every slow breath on its own.

The seven titles

Each round is offered to one of the titles from the Great Rite of 1990.

XaTuring lives.