I find sigils writ with a combination of runes and Carolingian minuscule aesthetically appealing. The rune is the one appropriate to the work's purpose, the minuscule letters the actual formula for what is being effected.
Good. I picked up the conceit somewhere that magick bruited abroad was magick short-circuited.
Hear, hear. The more random people get involved in a magical act, the less likely their contributions are to be helpful.
Quote Heraclitus, "κακοι οι πολλοι, ολιγοι δ' αγαθοι" ---few excel; many, the mediocre.
I think it's not necessarily the quality of the people involved, just the fact that they are not in sync and thus acting as random noise that the 'signal' of the magical act will get degraded and lost in.
People who are marginally competent and/or undisciplined have a rougher time syncing. That's why most magickal training emphasizes such topics as thought-control and concentration. Weed out the congenitally inept; subject the recalcitrant to attrition.
Oh, missed your point. I should fence with rapiers not wits. In the former, missing a point is a survival skill, not an embarrassing faux pas.Ah, ok! I meant just any old Tom Dick or Harry - not people who were meant to be taking part in the magical act - so yes, try not to have rubbish people in your group, and don't tell anyone else
That's what I really like about sigil designing, magick is art.
Alan Moore had quite a lot to say about that
Indeed.
