Astrotechne
A toolset for data-aided ritual practice, including election calculation and ritual timing.
Realized, ongoing.
Astrotechne’s live chart workspace, showing the current sky for Denver with planetary positions, angles and timing controls.
I use Astrotechne in planning DANCER <> SELECTOR and YOLOROBICS: choosing dates, making and distributing posters, and preparing ritual objects. These preparations include sachets, consecrated jewellery and poured candles.
A particular example
For Mother’s Milk, a gathering with Materia, I used astrological timing to shape the event’s ritual intention. I chose a moment associated with maternal nourishment and relationship, seeking a supportive structure for healing and renewal.
Mother’s Milk, Ogden — 5 July 2024, 8:38 p.m. The retained election chart and invitation show the same date and time. The chart is an Astrodienst export from my practice archive.
Mother’s Milk election, Ogden. The retained chart and invitation share July 5, 2024, 8:38 p.m. This is an Astrodienst export retained in the artist’s practice archive, not an Astrotechne-generated chart.
Mother’s Milk invitation. Its printed July 5, 2024, 8:38 p.m. start matches the retained Ogden election chart.
Synthetic Denver GPS fixture: latitude 39.7392, longitude -104.9903, July 22, 2026, 12:42 PM America/Denver.
Studio
When is a file born?
I use timestamps and location metadata to cast charts for photographs, files and journal entries. Revisiting old images this way adds another dimension to remembering: I can place a moment alongside my natal chart and transits, and make what I think of as a celestial artifact of that moment.