The Sigil Forge

How it works

1. The sentence is reduced to consonants: vowels and repeated letters are removed.
2. Each remaining consonant becomes a stable drawing instruction; the aspect changes the geometry.
3. The seed chooses orientation and legal alternatives, then sixteen candidates are scored for balance and hand-copyability.
4. The strongest path is kept. An open terminal marks the start; a filled terminal marks the end.
5. The card records the intent, the aspect and the seed. Keep it with the date.
6. Charge the sigil in a focused, non-ordinary state (gnosis), then hide or destroy it and forget the wording.

The downloadable SVG is transparent; view it on the card colour. The seed is the handle: same intent, aspect and seed, same glyph.

Build your own

The forge is small enough to copy. The core is the reduction and the hash; the drawing is one bounded path selected from a deterministic candidate family. Change the turn rule, the scoring or the aspect grammar and you have a different instrument.

const reduce = (s) =>
  s.toUpperCase()
   .replace(/[^A-Z]/g, '')
   .replace(/[AEIOU]/g, '')
   .split('')
   .filter((c, i, all) => all.indexOf(c) === i)
   .slice(0, 12)
   .join('');

const hash = (s) => {
  let h = 2166136261;
  for (const c of s) { h ^= c.charCodeAt(0); h = Math.imul(h, 16777619); }
  return h >>> 0;
};

// Make a small deterministic family from intent + aspect + seed.
// Score it for balance and hand-copyability; keep the strongest path.

Read the full instrument entry: The Sigil Forge. For the protocol, see Forge a sigil.