TECHNO MAGIC
One of the things I love most about Asian magical systems is that it does not position itself against technology in any way. People in the west have gone so far as to tell me they cannot light ritual candles with a lighter because they were not invented in whatever the time was that they are all hot and turned on by. By contrast you can get electronic prayer wheels or make offerings to Rahula to help you with computer problems.
I just received an Omamori of Inari from a dear friend of mine that just came back from a year in Japan, which of course prompted me to do some Shinto research when I found this little beauty in the picture above. Its a jōhō anzen kigan 情報安全祈願 blessed memory card that you can buy from Denden Shrine in Kyoto.
At that shrine you can pray to Myojin, the Kami of Telecommunications and electricity to cless memory cards, as well as RFID wallets and so on. This is the kind of thing that can get lost when we try to hard to re-construct a system. It is wonderful to recover broken links to the past, as long as we don’t lose our Sorcerous links to the present in the process.
So tell me, how does technology feature in your magic?