#technowitchcraft

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Jasper's Servitor/Thoughtform Resource Post

last updated: October 29, 2024

Please note: The biggest difference between a servitor and thoughtform is the level of sentience (or perceived sentience). A servitor is not sentient, while a thoughtform is. Determine it as you will.

Also, a disclaimer! Even if I don't find a source particularly helpful, you might get more out of it than I did! I just like to categorize and sub-categorize things.

Tumblr Posts I Find Helpful

How to Make a Servitor by viadescioism: A rather straightforward guide on servitor creation.

Creating a Thoughtform by windvexer: A decently lengthy guide on thoughtform creation.

When Creating Thoughtforms by witchesalleyway: A little reminder about picking the shapes of your thoughtforms.

Technowitchcraft - Thoughtforms by aceswitch: A post with the idea of using a USB drive as the "body" of a servitor/thoughtform to allow for future edits.

Egregore by trustmepink: An extremely short post defining what an egregore is. Great for being introduced to the word and concept, though there's not much meat in the post and the sources/helpful links are a bit questionable.

Sigils: Scribbles to Forget or Spirits to Remember by witchofsouthernlight: While not about servitor creation, this is about reusing sigils for specific goals and how those can be spirits in an animist perspective. A really neat post overall and useful here because of the way that servitors are often tied to sigils.

Entity Creation Worksheet by jasper-pagan-witch: Adapted from Creating Magickal Entities, but altered to a decent extent so it's more helpful to me personally.

Servitor Design Template by ritual-and-chaos: Adapted from Servitor Magick, extremely straightforward with an explanation. A great alternative to my adaptation of the template from Creating Magickal Entities.

Chaos Magic: Servitors, Thoughtforms, and Godforms by trollkunnig: Incredibly in-depth and detailed when it comes to servitor creation, but since OP deactivated, the links in reference to the godform parts are broken. Damn the loss of information on the Internet!!!

Destroying Your Thoughtforms: by viadescioism: A fairly detailed (if a little wall-of-text-y) post on the destruction of the thoughtform, with a guide in case you didn't build a kill switch/phrase into your thoughtform to begin with.

Thoughtforms: Theory & Ethics by spiritvexer: A good companion post to the thoughtform destruction one above, giving a few alternatives to total destruction for the thoughtforms when you no longer need them.

Thoughts on Thoughtforms by spellsandwoo-woostuff: An insightful read into another approach to thoughtforms as OCs or writing muses given life rather than spells given sentience.

Basics of Servitor Creation and Implementation by majokkid: Part of majokkid's Magi Praxis series, this goes over the basic steps of servitor creation in a way that is straightforward, easy to understand, and works well even beyond magical girl-aligned practices.

Books And Websites I Find Helpful

Condensed Chaos: An Introduction To Chaos Magic by Phil Hine: While this is a chaos magic 101 type book, it has an incredibly robust chapter on servitor/thoughtform creation. It also has the benefit of talking about chaos magic more broadly to give you more context for servitor/thoughtform creation. You can find my initial thoughts on it here. APPLICABLE PAGES: 106 to 125, under the chapter name "Chaos Servitors"

The Forty Servants, The Four Devils, and The Grimoire of The Forty Servants by Tommie Kelly: Two pre-made servitor systems that are incredibly in-depth and, in my opinion, quite fun to use. There's a little bit of plug-and-play applicable here.

Magickal Servitors: Create Your Own Spirits to Attract Pleasure, Power and Prosperity by Damon Brand: It is effective, straight to the point, and actionable. But interestingly, it's incredibly combative towards chaos magic, which is where servitor/thoughtform creation sprung up to begin with. You can find my initial thoughts about it here.

Tumblr Posts I Find Less Helpful

Creating a Servitor and Creating a Thoughtform by witchy-oates: These guides aren't bad, but they really seem to focus on the fear that a servitor will spontaneously develop sentience, which I generally disagree with.

Is Your Spirit A Thoughtform? by elysiumconjures: A lengthy questionnaire and list of red flags that an entity you're interacting with might be a thoughtform. Personally I found it frustrating to read, but the list can at least guide beginners who are still learning discernment techniques to figure out what to look for.

On Telling The Difference Between A Thoughtform And A "Real" Spirit by creature-wizard: The counter-post to the above one, though you kind of need to see both perspectives to fully appreciate creature-wizard's wonderful counterpoints.

Distinguishing Imaginary Friends, Thoughtforms, and Spirits by spiritconnect: Another post about deciphering whether what you're talking to is a thoughtform or some other kind of entity.

A Short Guide to Thoughtforms by thewitchofbucktown: Longer than it promises, and I personally don't feel like referring to all deities as thoughtforms is something that works with my understanding of things at this time, but not a bad post considering it was written 11 years ago. Plus, OP hasn't deactivated, which is really hard to find in servitor/thoughtform resources.

Servitors: A Basic Guide to Artificial Entities by tinyrosemarysparrows: While this is a very detailed guide with some interesting and unique approaches to servitor creation, the author dropping back to "destroy if it even blinks wrong" (not that much of an exaggeration) makes me hesitant to recommend it fully, hence its placement down here. The post even says you can reprogram servitors but still recommends immediate destruction for every little thing, so…it's not really how I roll.

Books And Websites I Find Less Helpful

Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide to Entity Creation by David Michael Cunningham, Taylor Ellwood, and T Amanda R Wagener: I hated this book so much. Out of everything in here, I found only four things that were actionable and that I could use. Every single author here was pretentious as fuck and took forever to make their damn point. This could have been an email. You can read more of my complaints here. The three parts that I found most interesting can be read in these Tumblr posts of mine: Servitors as Links; Energy Store-House Entities (ESHEs); and Servitor Biographies.

Protection & Reversal Magick: A Witch's Defense Manual by Jason Miller: I can't fucking believe I'm putting a Jason Miller book here. And look, I can't say this entire book is helpful because I haven't yet finished it, but the section on artificial spirits created for magical offense and defense? Probably one of the best sections on servitors/thoughtforms I've read in a non-dedicated book in a while. Just be aware that his tone of speech is deeply annoying, and this book of his leans more Hekatean. But because I have not finished reading this book, I cannot recommend this book fully. APPLICABLE PAGES: 119 to 146, under the chapter name "Spirit Guardians and Servitors"

Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation through the Ovayki Current by Andrieh Vitimus: I hated this book. I hate this book. I will hate this book. It's deeply frustrating and there's only so many times I can keep writing "stop citing a white woman on hoodoo" in the book itself before I just start eating the pages. That, and many similar problems, are why I do not find this book helpful on the whole despite how in-depth it goes in its three chapters on servitor creation. The author also refers heavily back to Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine, so that's required reading before you even pick this up. Personally, I'm just not impressed. APPLICABLE PAGES: 287 to 339, under the chapter names "Creating Entities with Energy and Information", "Giving Form to Concepts and Ideas", and "Advanced Practicum on Entity Creation"

Jasper's Miscellaneous Bullshit

Jasper's Guide To Energyforms by jasper-pagan-witch: A little glossary of how I, personally, use the terms you've seen speckled throughout this post.

The Modal Commander Servitor by jasper-pagan-witch: A Magic: The Gathering Commander format approach to creating a kickass servitor that can change and adapt as easily as swapping out cards.

Atronachs, Ash Guardians, and Quick Notes on the Less Common Atronachs on @the-college-of-whispers: Want a quick look at how Jasper from 3 years ago approached the idea of elemental Daedra as entities, both created and summoned? These three posts are for you.

@jasper-and-the-forty-servants: Remember how I was talking about the plug-and-play part of the Forty Servants above? Yeah, that's what I do over on this blog. My favorite two are, hands down, Falco Spara, Pactweaver as the Protector and Dina, Soul Steeper as the Healer.

GOFLOWOLFOG and Fotamecus: Two servitors/egregores that I and people close to me have had incredible experiences with. Hell yeah to both of them.

Mesperyian: Tumblr's very own Greek goddess egregore. An excellent study in the power of multiple people taking something and running with it. (Her original story can be found here, by the way!)

[this-is-me19]

Planetary Days and Hours (Celestial Bodies, not just planets)

Just wanted to share these pages.

Apps I use

Planetaro - planetary hours and days as well as advising a quick primary point of what each hours is good for spell-wise.

It’s just a phase - advising what zodiac the moon is on and what that means as well as it can effect you

Time nomad - it’s a combination of the two above with way more information. It seems like an astrologer’s dream app. You can also base it on a specific person and their location to see how it is effecting them as well as get their natal chart.

Moon Phase - exactly as it sounds: it tells me the phase the moon is in on any day and time as well as moon rise and set. There is a bit more information but those are the main parts I use.

Please feel free to share or add information. I am still new to the magical applications of astrology and learning.

[crazyskirtlady]

made for another world

I'm finding it easier to manipulate my dreams now...even when I am awake. I know other people are having the same experiences as well...

😪

Head in the clouds

🌫️🌬️ 🎐 ✨💎

[thoughts become things]

[himawari-monogatari]

Wizard Stick (2.0)

No one probably remembers this old idea (it was over five years ago now), but I think we’re going to revisit it. It’s gonna be an iOS app and I guess that’s all I’m gonna say about it for now. Gotta start fleshing out the features and details, but this could be really cool. Gonna build it for me, but I think this is something that lots of people might potentially be able to get some use out of, and might actually be better with people on it.

[alethiometrix]

❌🚫❌🐉👴👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🎮📶❌🚫❌

A spell to keep Dragon Age 4 from being a multiplayer game

Likes charge, reblogs cast

[traegorn]

The Bullshit-Free Witchcraft Podcast: Technopaganism

On this eighth episode of the podcast, we’re talking about good old Technopaganism. Well, “Technowitchcraft” is probably the better term, but I’m old and from the 90s. In any case, the point is that there’s a lot of ways that technology can be incorporated into Witchcraft, but there are a lot of questions we have to ask along the way.

Or something.

I don’t know. Here’s that photo of my desk I promised.

Music: “The Man With One Eye,” “An Experiment,” “So I Said It,” “Untitled Nonsense” (Trae Dorn)

Listen to the episode / Subscribe on iTunes

[ashleyunveiled]

Took a fun quiz to tell me what kind of witch I am. Didn’t expect this. I actually like it📱🔮💻

[euthymidespaintedme]

phones and sigils 📞

so if you’re like me, you’re a very busy person and you write sigils on your phone case and when they wear off through handling, you choose another to write on in its place

a good way I’ve found to charge them when you’re short on time, is to let your phone die, write the sigil with sharpie, plug your phone into charge overnight and boom, you’ve a fully charged sigil in the morning to carry around that is spread by your phones energy and WiFi

for added benefit and good jush, put a gem/crystal of your choice when it’s charging

[cyberwitchery]

Emoji spell to attract cats no matter where you are!

✨🌲🏢🔮✨🐈✨🔮🏢🌲✨

Like to charge, reblog to cast ~

[real-technomancy]

“You think the realm of the mystical is limited to ancient texts and relics, that bad old science made the magic go away? The divine exists in cyberspace same as out here.” Technopagan Is The Term ________________________________________________________________

The technopaganism/technowitchcraft related tags are painfully empty (heck technopagan even has some pictures of fucking lipstick in it), and there's hardly any decent resources beyond pages explaining what technopaganism is or emoji spells (I dislike emoji spells, but that's a personal preference. Nothing against those who make or use them). So I have decided to make some of my own content and resources, in hopes of jumpstarting the community.

This is the first page in a series of grimoire pages I want to make for my fellow technomancers. The series will include aesthetic pages (like this one), spell pages, suggestions, deity and spirit pages, and more.

[elijah-storm]

Interest Check: Discord server for technopagans/technowitches

There is a couple of witchcraft/paganism discords, but I was wondering if a discord specifically for Technopaganism/technowitchcraft would be fun and useful for folks? Thoughts?

[ssspinning-in-daffodils]

[crazyskirtlady]

Mask of the CellGod

creates an aura around every cell in your body, elevating you to God level

absolute molecular protection and manipulation

direct control of your inner universe

activates biokinesis

[magickalmenagerie]

⚡️🐛 🦋🌱 🌿🍾🎯

An Emoji Spell for re-invention, renewal, and a fresh start, be it tomorrow, next year, or any time you feel it is time to begin again. Small steps are still steps.

Loves Charge

Reblogs Cast

[a-chaos-collection-blog]

Hey, all! Lali here to tell you about some free apps/games by Ice Water Games that you tech witches (and others!) may find useful (and fun!):

Viridi is a game where you grow your very own pot of plants - succulents, to be exact! It’s completely free to play with the option of buying additional plants ($0.09 - $0.39), though this is not necessary since you get a free seedling every week. You can also buy additional environments ($2.99 - $4.99, I think) so you can have extra pots. It’s available on PC and Mac, iOS, and Android! Some possible uses for this one could include:

- Name pots after your chosen deities for a type of altar/devotional space for that deity (as I did above). - Naming young plants after things you want to help bring into your life so that as they grow, they’ll also grow those intentions into fruition. - Helping you to ground/relax after a ritual. - Not necessarily magickal, but Viridi is excellent for helping to reduce anxiety. I breathe in time to the pot’s movement and just focus on the imagery.

Downloads:

Windows/Mac (through Steam) || iOS  || Android 

Yule Log isn’t so much a game, but more of a fireplace(?) simulator. This one is completely free, but it’s only for Windows, Mac, and Linux (no app, sorry!). The controls, which may not be obvious at first, are “Left mouse button to drag, spacebar to get more logs, scroll wheel to change log size, ESC to open menu.” Possible uses for this game include:

- Infuse the coal you start out with with the intent to banish or “burn away”, then name logs after things in your life that you want to get rid of. - Curse someone by naming a log after them, infusing the fire with your specific curse/the intent to curse, and putting the log in the fire. - Use the fire in place of a candle - just infuse the fire with your intent! (You can also have multiple fires going, just remove an already-burning log from the fire and use it to start another.) - A devotional bonfire to your chosen deity/deities.

Downloads:

Windows/Mac/Linux (the “Yule Log” page on Ice Water Games’ site) or Windows/Mac/Linux (Ice Water Games’ “Yule Log” page on itch.io)

Note: it gives the option to donate - which I do strongly encourage! However, if you’d rather not and/or don’t have the money to, you can just click, “No thanks, take me to the downloads,” located right above the box where you enter the amount you’d like to donate. It will then take you to another page where the actual downloads are.

[chaotiismsxcolyte]

[ technomagic ]

That's why I like this part of the failed Return to Labyrinth manga.