Reverse Engineering Sigil Magic

What if you could use runic sigil magic to reverse engineer a situation and then transform it? You can.

1. Create a sigil of a situation that you want to change. Not as you would like it to be, but as it is as closely as you can identify. The sigil could be runic or otherwise, it doesn’t really matter. Tune into all your fear, anger, doubt, confusion, and determination and feed all that into the process of making the sigil.
2. Now unpack the sigil into pieces. Draw and sketch and scribble until you have exploded that neatly packaged sigil into as many elements as seems appropriate.
3. To each element of the sigil, assign a rune. Go with your intuition on this (you have thoroughly studied the rune poems and mythology and history, right? If not, this might be harder. You get out what you put in when it comes to rune magic).
4. Now you have a runic formula that describes the problem situation.
5. Start adding, removing, and swapping out runes from your ‘as it is’ formula. Try to make the smallest number of changes as possible – we want to work efficiently. No pointing throwing your energies at changes that you don’t need. The Chaos Butterfly is your friend, kids.
6. Now you have a new runic formula which describes your preferred outcome. If you like, you can use it as the basis of creating a bind rune or even freely extemporized sketching into a more elaborate sigil (the post-Conversion Icelandic staves are good inspiration for this sort of thing).
7. Fire your new sigil in whatever manner you see fit.
8. Forget – does not matter, need not be, that or something better.

It is my suspicion that reverse engineering sigils in this way could produce more precise, efficient magic that more faithfully reflects the practitioner’s true will. I hope you will try it out and share what came of it!

P.S. yes the forthcoming Elhaz Ablaze book is almost here. A matter of weeks! Some last minute computer failures are holding us up: a final invocation of chaos, no doubt.