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The Sigil Forge

Turns a sentence, a Grimoire aspect and a seed into a deterministic sigil, a charge card and a record line.

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What it is

To make a sigil in the browser, with the Grimoire aspect and the seed written down so the working can be repeated, compared or closed.

At a glance

Inputs: A sentence of intent; a Grimoire aspect (a planet or an element); a seed (or a random one).
Outputs: An SVG glyph; a charge card (intent, planet, element, seed, date); a short protocol; a downloadable SVG.

How to use it

Write the intent as a positive sentence in the present tense.
Remove vowels and repeated letters; keep the consonant string.
Choose a Grimoire aspect. It changes the geometry: compression, expansion, angle, curve and the tendency to close.
Mix the consonant string, the aspect id and the seed into a 32-bit stream. The letters remain the drawing instructions; the seed chooses orientation and legal alternatives.
Generate sixteen bounded paths and score them for balance, useful space, hand-copyability and freedom from edge-hugging runs.
Keep the strongest path. Leave it open unless its end naturally returns near the start; mark the start with an open terminal and the end with a filled one.
Download the SVG and copy the charge card. Keep the card with the date and the seed.
Charge the sigil in a state of gnosis, then hide or destroy it and forget the wording.

What you need

A browser
An SVG-capable image viewer
A place to keep the charge card
A way to destroy or hide the SVG

A worked example

Intent: 'I finish the archive before the new moon.' Aspect: Saturn. Seed: 'saturn-archive-01'. The forge returns a compressed angular mark whose open and filled terminals show how to redraw it. The card records the reduced letter key, the seed and the close condition: delete the SVG at the new moon.

Variations

Use a tarot card instead of a planet; the card's number becomes the ring count.
Run the forge at the planetary hour of the chosen planet and add the hour to the card.
Make a seven-day series: one seed per day, all with the same intent, and compare the glyphs.
Print the SVG on paper and burn it as the close.

Code sketch

This is a sketch, not a runnable program. It names the shape of the automation; the definitions are yours.

const reduce = (s) => s.toUpperCase().replace(/[^A-Z]/g, '').replace(/[AEIOU]/g, '').replace(/(.)\1+/g, '$1');
const hash = (s) => { let h = 2166136261; for (const c of s) { h ^= c.charCodeAt(0); h = Math.imul(h, 16777619); } return h >>> 0; };

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