Eight workings,
and what they are for.
Each of these is a category rather than a recipe: what the working has historically been for, where the tradition comes from, and how it has actually been practiced. Read alongside the correspondences, which cover the materials rather than the intent.
Protection
Probably the oldest category of intentional practice there is. What a boundary is for, how one is built, and why the impulse predates every cosmology laid over it since.
Read →Banishing
Not the same as protection. A boundary keeps something out; banishing removes what is already inside. The distinction matters more in practice than it does on paper.
Read →Transformation
The working this studio is named for. Arachne was not destroyed by Athena; she was changed, and kept weaving. Whether that is punishment or mercy depends on who tells it.
Read →Abundance
Money is usually what people are working toward, but the category is broader than money and reads differently once you stop treating the two as the same thing.
Read →Healing
The most carefully documented folk working, for an unromantic reason: for most of its history it was indistinguishable from medicine, and got written down accordingly.
Read →Love & Desire
The oldest continuously practiced working in the Western record, and the most ethically complicated. The tradition is worth reading with both of those facts in hand.
Read →Divination
Not prediction. Confusing the two is the most common misunderstanding about the practice, and the clearest thing to get straight before anything else.
Read →Ancestor Work
Keeping relationship with the dead: one of the few practices that shows up in nearly every religious and magical tradition on record, in one form or another.
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