Sigil thread

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You know what's funny, I can't see the pic you just posted, and I can still sense that it's full of fail.

[Iason Ouabache]

Wow. That made me shudder.

It's worse than it sounds.  Imagine two asthmatic and particularly hairy bears having a wrestling contest, with both of them making weird noises out of orifices that shouldn't make noise at all, while everything gets all sloppy and gross, and bits that shouldn't move flop all over the place.  Fact is, it should be illegal for anyone over the age of 40 to have sex unless they do it in a sound-proof room and have proof of purchase of at least 3 canvass tarps and 200 feet of saran wrap.  Plus, by this point, we all have some horrible disease or parasitic infestation, so you have these huge fucking syphilis worms the size of fucking PYTHONS crawling out of your ass, eating through the condom, and smashing your partner's chromosomes flat. 

Your parents do this, mind you.  Oh, yes.

How's your head now?  This sigil thing working?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Wow. That made me shudder.

It's worse than it sounds.  Imagine two asthmatic and particularly hairy bears having a wrestling contest, with both of them making weird noises out of orifices that shouldn't make noise at all, while everything gets all sloppy and gross, and bits that shouldn't move flop all over the place.  Fact is, it should be illegal for anyone over the age of 40 to have sex unless they do it in a sound-proof room and have proof of purchase of at least 3 canvass tarps and 200 feet of saran wrap.  Plus, by this point, we all have some horrible disease or parasitic infestation, so you have these huge fucking syphilis worms the size of fucking PYTHONS crawling out of your ass, eating through the condom, and smashing your partner's chromosomes flat. 

Your parents do this, mind you.  Oh, yes.

How's your head now?  This sigil thing working?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That's called "Self-Hypnosis", isn't it?

Also, if I understand the Pagospags, a "charged" sigil should work even if you don't know what it is.  From what I'm getting from you, you're using it as a way of tricking your Thinker/Prover mechanism.

That's kind of how I use ritual and tarot. It's a useful tool to help quiet my mind and let things filter up to the surface.

[hooplala]

That's called "Self-Hypnosis", isn't it?

Also, if I understand the Pagospags, a "charged" sigil should work even if you don't know what it is.  From what I'm getting from you, you're using it as a way of tricking your Thinker/Prover mechanism.

That's kind of how I use ritual and tarot. It's a useful tool to help quiet my mind and let things filter up to the surface.

Me too.  For some reason, a lot of the time I DON'T know what the hell I think of something until I've talked about it with people... then I get prickly about certain aspects of the talk, and know how I feel...

If I'm by myself, though, a tarot reading works wonders.  I can't see how my tarot reading would work on someone else though.  Or sigils for that matter.

[Faust]

PROTIP:  Subliminals don't work.  Neither do Sigils.

they do but only in so far as reassuring yourself that you want something. Tarot cards, sigils, swinging a pendulum is basically just an act to make you feel assertive about the outcome you think you want.

[Z³]

People can do whatever they want to try and manipulate their subconscious mind.

[Faust]

People can do whatever they want to try and manipulate their subconscious mind.

you are now thinking of her.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

That's called "Self-Hypnosis", isn't it?

Also, if I understand the Pagospags, a "charged" sigil should work even if you don't know what it is.  From what I'm getting from you, you're using it as a way of tricking your Thinker/Prover mechanism.

That's kind of how I use ritual and tarot. It's a useful tool to help quiet my mind and let things filter up to the surface.

Me too.  For some reason, a lot of the time I DON'T know what the hell I think of something until I've talked about it with people... then I get prickly about certain aspects of the talk, and know how I feel...

If I'm by myself, though, a tarot reading works wonders.  I can't see how my tarot reading would work on someone else though.  Or sigils for that matter.

I prefer bibliomancy, myself. Write a program to spit out a random series of words that seem like they might make sense, and then assume a meaning. Less baggage than tarot -- but I never really learned the tarot baggage.

I have done tarot-style readings with collectible card game cards (netrunner mostly).

[BabylonHoruv]

That's called "Self-Hypnosis", isn't it?

Also, if I understand the Pagospags, a "charged" sigil should work even if you don't know what it is.  From what I'm getting from you, you're using it as a way of tricking your Thinker/Prover mechanism.

A "charged" sigil works better if you don't remember what it is.

On the other hand that doesn't mean you don't know what it is, you have to know on a subconcious level so it can connect properly, but if your conscious is out of the way it's going to interface more successfully.

[The Wizard]

A "charged" sigil works better if you don't remember what it is.

That's the problem I've had so far with my sigils. They seemed to work eventually, but it took longer than I thought it would.

[BabylonHoruv]

A "charged" sigil works better if you don't remember what it is.

That's the problem I've had so far with my sigils. They seemed to work eventually, but it took longer than I thought it would.

I don't do much sigilmancy.

The advice I found in Liber Null though was to make a LOT of sigils, that way there are too many for you to remember which one is tied to which desire.

[Faust]

god what pretentious terminology.

[The Wizard]

god what pretentious terminology.

We didn't do it.

[Faust]

god what pretentious terminology.

We didn't do it.

you are perpetuating that dogmatic meaningless but ohhhh so DEEP AND MYSTERIOUS occultism that renders the psychology of this stuff inaccessible and useless to everyone who isn't into that obnoxious vanity wankfest.