Modern practice
Free-form casting of small personal or symbolic objects in its current Western form has no single ancient canon. Set meanings, surface, and reading rules must be declared before the cast.
- • Open Field — no mandatory sectors
- • OmenHall Map — explicitly authored map
- • Personal Oracle — separate versioned dictionary
Historical relatives are not a license to appropriate
Lots, dice, and object-divination ensembles are historically attested, but Chokwe ngombo, Edo ewawa, Ifa, and other culturally specific systems remain distinct traditions. They are not renamed as generic Charm Casting.
- • mechanical kinship does not mean one tradition
- • no borrowed sacred corpora
- • no invented Traditional 48 Charms
Five declared technologies
Each consultation stores the technologyId and policy version before objects are chosen: Open Field, OmenHall Four-Zone Map, Focus Significator, Physical Reconstruction, or Charm Draw.
- • geometry locks before prose
- • AI does not choose or move objects
- • a recast creates a new record