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I think of sigils in two different ways (which may be a matter of me missing some terminology). First, there's sigilization as an encoding process. Taking a desire or a description of a servitor's function or whathaveyou and monkeying around with it until you have something which is not recognizable on the surface. Your subconscious knows exactly what you did to turn sentence X into glyph Y, but because your conscious mind was busy on the aesthetics of how it should look, it doesn't recall the exact series of transformations, making it easier to get the 'I WANT IT' out of your head. You can then use that glyph or mantra or numeric code for whatever you like (graffiti, tattoo, ritual focus, blah blah blah). This may or may not be lazier than coming across a correspondence in another fashion. The other way I think of sigils is the more usual encode-fire-forget method of spellcasting.
Now, sigils of the second sort, in the realm of getting things done, are the equivalent of a to-do list. Excellent, excellent things for short, defineable statements of what you want to happen. But a to-do list is hardly suited for everything; if you want transcendence, or to guide your career for the next several years, or whatever, you need a novel, not a scrap of napkin with bullet points. It's not so much that using a to-do list for everything is lazy; I just wouldn't expect it to work very well. "Item 1: Become rock star. Item 2: Achieve immortality."
I don't think it's about "forgetting the intent" as much as it is about disassociating yourself from "lust of result". Getting into that space where something happens naturally without your conscious micro-management interfering and muddying the waters.
I came up with a fun trick for getting to this state of mind (and a decent success rate suggests to me that the above is 100% correct); I call it binary desire cancellation because I like jargon. Once you consider your spell to be cast, and you're back in your everyday mental state (maybe you ground afterward, maybe you just wait a little bit, whichever), think about the result that you want. First, ponder how, really, there is almost no way that it's actually going to happen. There are a million reasons to believe that X isn't going to occur; go ahead and think of a few of them, like human nature or the way things can go wrong. Resign yourself to the fact, and become okay with not getting what you want—feel that certainty. Now, remind yourself that, really, it's a virtual certainty that your result IS going to happen. There are a million reasons to believe that X is going to occur; go ahead and think of a few of them, like human nature or the way that things sometimes just work out. Nod to yourself that the check is in the mail and so no longer worth worrying about—feel that certainty, too. Go do something else for a bit.
I've found that having accepted both the virtual certainty and the total hopelessness that what you're after will happen, it's no big deal if your mind wanders onto the topic of the spell, and it's more likely to wander off of it. Much easier than DON'T THINK ABOUT IT DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. |
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