forays into chaos magick

I'd like you to read the following with an open mind. Perhaps even more importantly, I'd like you to read it in the voice. The voice, in this instance, is the lilting, slightly slurred monologue of a Glaswegian man who hasn't been sober (psychoactive) since the 80s. If you can't quite conjure up the voice, I can highly recommend experiencing the original audio.

Anyway, here's Grant Morrison, acclaimed Scottish comic book writer, on one of the basic tools of chaos magick - the sigil.

It's quite simple, say it is my desire that "my cat wins the Olympics". Take out all the vowels—write this down, for fuck's sake, don't just listen, do it!—take out the vowels, and you'll be left with a string of consonants. Take out the repeated consonants and you'll be left with a string of consonants with no repeats in it, say X, Y, D, whatever.

Turn that thing into a little image. Take the D, draw a big D, and then you've got the T, draw a T under it... and keep reducing it down until it looks magical. And there are no rules for this thing, do it until it looks magical.

At that point you now have a sigil. The sigil will work, you can project desire into reality, and change reality. It works!

Now obviously these are absolutely unhinged ramblings, but the delightful thing about the episode of the QAnonAnonymous podcast from which I stole this transcript is that the hosts and guests go on to have a genuinely quite heartfelt conversation which touches on the therapeutic nature of art, and the creative freedom that you can tap into when working from the abstract or subconscious baseline that assembling a sigil provides.

So, in this spirit, consider this blog post as a small offering of my own sigils - I found the process of making them oddly calming, and would encourage you to give it a try.