A blessed design and coding studio
Websites, shops and tools for witches, readers, metaphysical shops and anyone who wants their work protected. Built by hand, warded with real runes in the code, and launched on a waxing moon.
Your site's source carries a ward
Runes were made to be carved into things. The oldest finds are inscriptions on spearheads, combs, brooches and gold bracteates, and the charm word alu turns up again and again on them. We do the same in the place your site lives: its code.
Every page we write opens with an inscription in Elder Futhark, the charm words you choose, and the Sator square, the palindrome scratched on walls from Pompeii to medieval churches. Bindrunes and sigils can go into the design itself as hand-drawn SVG. Open the source of this page and you will find ours.
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Six steps, start to launch
A reading first
We start with what the site is for and who it serves, the way a reader starts with the question. Your intent shapes the colors, the sigils and the words.
Design by hand
No templates. A layout drawn for your work, your photos and your voice, fast on a phone and clear to read.
Code by moonlight
Hand-written code with runes, charm words and the Sator square inscribed in the source, where they guard the page the way runes once guarded a spearhead or a comb.
Launch on a waxing moon
We time the launch to a growing moon and christen it with a launch rite drawn from the old blessing of ships.
Bless the machine
Your laptop, your phone and the code itself get a blessing from the Tech & Machines shelf of the grimoire.
Keep it warded
Updates, speed and search upkeep after launch, with the wards renewed each full moon.
We bless the machine, too
Ayudha Puja honors the tools that feed a household, and every autumn in South India that includes computers. The Roman Ritual kept a blessing for any thing at all. We draw on rites like these, honestly, to bless the laptop, phone and server your work runs on.
From the Tech & Machines shelf
Abracadabra Bug-Shrinking Charm
Abracadabra began as a Roman fever cure: the word written in a triangle that lost a letter on each line, so the illness would shrink away with it. This page tells that history and adapts the shrinking triangle as a way to narrow down a stubborn bug.
The Alu Inscription for a Program or Server
Alu and laukaz are mysterious formula words carved in Elder Futhark runes on amulets, gold bracteates and stones between about the 3rd and 8th centuries. This page explains what runologists know of them and how to inscribe alu, alone or as a bindrune, in a program's comments or on a server as a protective mark.
Ayudha Puja for Computers and Tools
Ayudha Puja is the Hindu day, falling at the end of Navaratri, when people clean, decorate and honor the tools of their work, from ploughs and lathes to cars, laptops and phones. This page explains the real festival and gives a simple, respectful way to thank and rest your own working machines.
Blessing for Any Thing: a Computer Blessing from the Roman Ritual
The old Roman Ritual includes a short blessing for any object that has no special form of its own, and its later editions added blessings for telegraphs, aeroplanes and machinery. This page explains that history and gives a simple lay prayer of blessing for a new computer, phone or tool.
Blessing the Daemons: Background Processes
In computing, a daemon is a program that runs quietly in the background doing chores. The name came from Project MAC at MIT around 1963, inspired by Maxwell's demon in physics and, behind that, the Greek daimon, a guiding spirit. This page explains the real history and gives a short blessing for the daemons on your own machines.
Bone to Bone: a Merseburg Repair Charm for Hardware
The Second Merseburg Charm, a ninth or tenth century Old High German healing spell, closes with a famous list: bone to bone, blood to blood, limb to limb, as if they were glued. This page tells its history and adapts that joining formula as a charm said while repairing broken hardware.
Is your magical shop on a dated site?
Metaphysical shops, botanicas, occult bookstores, covens, groves and readers: we are rebuilding a few tired magical websites free this season. Tell us where your site lives and what you wish it did.
New sites, ward inscriptions on an existing site, and machine blessings are all welcome too. Rather talk? Call or text (951) 904-2477.
