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Side note, for some reason, the action of adding pictures at the top of the post seems to be getting dicey on Dreamwidth lately. Not a complaint, just an observation.

I went outside and read for a bit this morning. I am re-reading John Greer’s “The King In Orange” and Chapter 4: The Orange Sign, the coming of the Kek Wars got me thinking about what I am going to be doing when I draw the cards as described here. As a side note, I only re-read it because I remembered the idea of sigils and wanted to research it.

If the chaos dudettes/dudes are on the right track, what I am trying to do with each card's draw is to “charge” the card I am drawing with the subject/action that I am hoping to anticipate. In order to do that, I need to have a clear idea of what I am asking and where the borders are that allow the question to be focused. In a way, I can see a lot of similarities to the creation of sigils to concentrate on. That is the bread and butter of chaos magic workings. I am considering making up a “sigil” for each of the “houses” for which I am drawing a card.

Greer wrote about this in “the King”

The basic working tool of common or garden variety chaos magic is the sigil, a symbolic image or pattern used to represent the intention of a magical working. Internet memes by and large make good sigils, and some of them make very good hypersigils—this is the chaos magic term for a sigil used by a group of people with a shared intention.

Maybe this will work, but I need to figure out how to come up with a symbol of some type that will allow me to tightly focus on what that “house” represents. I am intrigued about the use of memes. Not because I go out and search for them, but because when I run across them, sometimes they are super-funny. It strikes me that this is the kind of thing that will encompass the whole picture of what you are trying to get a look at.

So I am going to spend some time trying to figure out what image will make a good sigil/focus to have in mind when drawing the cards.

Along with that, I have to figure out if this is even a good idea. In lab work, a lot of the time you take techniques from another subdiscipline and file the serial numbers off and insert it into your work. I suppose that it is the same for a lot of folks and realms. From what I can tell in my reading, and especially in the Akron/Banzhaf book that I am reading, a lot of effort has been made doing cross references between the Qabala, Astrology, and the I Ching. That tells me these all try to do the same thing in different ways.

As I forgot about two bananas, I will also be baking banana bread.