Rune Magick

April, the month of Rune Magick has started, so I will be going for the month-long training.

More information about Armanen runes can be found here:
http://www.american-buddha.com/cult.runemagic.kummer.htm

First scrying evocation: Anael

Who is Anael
Anael is one of angels of Venus. He is associated with the Fire element and he is called the messenger of God. anael's field of work are visions, messages, predictions, simply contact with the divine. That's also why Anael should be the first one to be evoked through a black mirror.

First scrying evocation
Prepare your incantation. Make sure you call Anael a couple of times and you ask him to bless the mirror to give you messages through him.

Mirror should be placed in an angle so you can see a reflection of your face (scrying bowls and crystal balls do not have this requirement). Your environment should be completely dark except two candles placed on the sides of the mirror. Play around with the position of the candles, your reflection in the mirror should be neither too sharp nor too vague. The reason is that your mind needs some reference point in the mirror to start with but having too sharp reflection will beat the idea and too vague image won't give you the sense of depth needed to successfully operate the mirror.

Choose some point on the reflection and observe it, repeat your incantation a couple of times out loud, then silently as well. You will feel your vision getting blurry and distorted. Usual reflex is to re-focus to gain back the sharp image, but you have to avoid this process so the lucidity can kick in.

If you manage to observe passively without refocusing the image will start looking sharp again but the appearing face will be completely different from your own, hopefully that will be Anael. Then proceed as we have learned before in the chapter describing basic format of the rituals.

Evocation through smoke

Smoke evocations are probably the most used ones in ceremonial magick. The setup is simple, has a lot of variations and can be done with any level of experience.

Idea behind the smoke
Many Magicians believe that to have a visible contact with an entity, one needs a physical vessel to operate upon. For that purpose sensitive mediums were used to get possessed by the entity and hadle the message. Unfortunately this method makes the whole ritual fraud accessible. Is the medium a real deal? Can we really identify a genuine medium. In the second grade I gave you few tips about how to recognize suggestible Somnambulic subjects, but it can happen that some fraud will know Mesmerism or will be lucky enough to pass the test, so naturally we had to come up with something to get rid of our human oracle.

Naturally, the next step were inanimate objects (animals are not very good mediators). But what object is light enough and easy to manipulate, after all we usually do not possess the power to craft clay golems... smoke was the answer.

Smoke is light, naturally moves in swirls, curls (thanks to the air currents) and is easy to shape, even a small blow can change its shape. So if we force an entity to manifest its presence through a smoke, we can have a nice little proof that the ritual works. Plus smoke's natural movement is very mesmerizing and adds to the atmosphere of the ritual and the mind state of the practitioner, multiplying the chances of success.

Actually we can also use incenses in the burnt material to enhance the atmosphere even more. We can pick a specific incense for a specific entity based on its planetary correspondence, we can color the light of the flame with shaders to attain even bigger planetary influence, smoke is actually a very versatile ritual tool.

For the smoke we can use pre-fabriced incense sticks to be compact, we can burn coal on incense plates with a few drops of water for a very thick smoke (using hot or cold water actually lightens or darkens the smoke), we can also make our own incense sticks, just put a bunch of plants together, tie really hard and let dry.

Spirit's manifestation via smoke
There are various ways about how the spirit will manifest via a smoke. The least noticeable (and most often in the beginning), is that the smoke will split into two straight lines with a lot of curls at the eye level. Sometimes it also "freezes" in the air. The positions of the smoke is so stable it looks like it was a solid object.

After some experience, you will start seeing faces, hands, even parts of events in the smoke, rarely the smoke will take a full body shape of an evoked entity (to be frank I never saw that one), but parts of the body are quite usual.

The source of the smoke can be put on the chair, on summoning triangle or simply be carried in your hands at the arms' length away from your body during the ritual or some combination of these. I personally like to sit during evocations, so I usually place a summoning triangle on the table in the front of me and put an incense stick in the holder on the triangle. It's compact, quick and easy to set up.

Dream invocation

What is a dream invocation
We have already learned about invocation, so let's talk about one specific branch of this practice, the dream invocation.

Dream invocation is a bit misleading term because this practice is more similar to evocations than invocations, except the evoked entity is commanded to appear in your dream, it is invoked into the dream but there appears external to your "dream body".

Basic usage
Some entities are supposed to give us some information or knowledge. This means we are somehow expected to actually communicate with entities, to exchange information with them. This can be done either through higher senses (clairvoyance, clairaudience, etc) or through tools (mirror, pendulum, ouija board, tarot...).

Tools like tarot are too general for the exchange of specific information, pendulum is a bit one-sided and ouija is not suitable for longer communication (plus most of us need at least one another person for ouija to work).

Black mirror is not a bad tool, it helps greatly during evocations and evoked entities can also partially communicate with us using images with symbology, but that's still not sufficient enough to replace actual talk. So, unless you have greatly developed higher senses, you will have to work with visions and dreams.

How to
During evocation you command the summoned spirit to appear in your dream in a human form able of speech, you also should demand that you will remember the dream afterwards, you can actually use pendulum or other tool to communicate conditions of the dream. This way you can e.g. find out that the entity will appear in your dream, but you won't remember it (which sadly is sometimes the spirit's condition to appear during your sleep).

People usually think that forgetting the conversation renders the ritual useless, but the subconsciousness is a strong tool. Even if you don't remember the actual event, you can still feel assurance and relief (or opposites) based on the information you gained. That's especially useful in desperate situations.

Dangers of dream invocation
People also often ask me about security issues. Dream invocation has the same dangers as astral projection, if you allow something to happen, it will happen, so if you are seriously worried about your life, rather avoid this procedure. It's not like the worry about instant death can cause instant death, that would be a very rare case. Most of the times when a dream invocation goes wrong you will just wake up tired in the morning with a very shady recollection of what happened.

Spirit possession is about the same risk as the death, very very rare and only if you allow it. Generally a strong will with no doubts is a very important tool of Magick, this whole curriculum is based around it. If you got this far (and didn't cheat), dream invocation should be no danger to you. Your dream is yours only and nothing in your dream can go against your Will.

Basic invocation

What is an invocation
Invocation is a process od summoning entities "inside" ourselves. Evocation calls the entity so we can make our demand. Invocation calls the entity within so we can temporarily or permanently gain new abilities or boost older ones.

Sometimes during the invocation it happens the Magician becomes temporarily possessed by invoked entity and starts talking without conscious control. This memory is usually lost after the consciousness is regained, actually dreams and possessions are related so based on how well you remember your dreams, you will also remember your possessions. You can also use a recording device during your invocations to check later.

Simple form of invocation
A simple way how to attune yourself to the entity and slowly gain its abilities is using its name as a mantra, repeating it again and again through the day. Most usual names for this use are names of deities, e.g. YHWH, IAO, Eheieh Asher Eheieh, AGLA. Sometimes the mantra can also contain an action or intent, e.g. Om namah Shivayah.
My "Spirits, beings of The Light and of The Darkness, don't forget me, stand by my side and do my Will" is also an invocation mantra.

Ritualistic form of invocation
There is also a way of temporarily boost your abilities in a ritualistic approach.
You close your eyes and repeats entity's characteristics while trying to picture the entity in your mind, say as much as you can and the whole incantation repeat 3 times.

Then visualize the entity looking at you and repeat the whole incantation 3 times as if you were talking to him. So if e.g. your previous incantation started with "He is Posmiol, the spirit of Venus..." then now it will be "You are Posmiol, the spirit of Venus...". Your visualization can start changing on its own, don't panic, it means it started working.

For the last step imagine you are the entity, looking from its eyes at you. Once again repeat the incantation 3 times, replacing "you" with "I", so it will look like "I am Posmiol, the spirit of...". Picture yourself as best as you can, you mean literally feel like you are really the invoked entity. During this process the possession usually begins.

Downside of the ritualistic approach
For the ritualistic approach you should have at least a decent visualization skills and you also should have something to visualize. Many deities are formless, spaceless, timeless and therefore incompatible with this method.

How to recognize a spirit's presence

To detect the presence of spirits at your home or ritual space is crucial ability. It is crucial for the success of the operation, it is crucial for your health, your sanity, and it can be crucial for saving your life, as well.

Strange occurences
When things fall from the table, television switches on and off no matter what or your wardrobe sings, it certainly means there is some spirit present (or it can also mean you should stop doing drugs). The thing is that this usually doesn't happen, spirits do not usually levitate tables, pets, mother-in-laws... they do not break vases, windows, they do not turn on and off TVs and they certainly won't pay for your cable to watch adult movies. It can happen (and sometimes this happens during the rituals), but most of the time symptoms of having a spirit companion are more subtle.

Feelings
The flow of a wind in closed room, feeling like someone's watching you from behind, tapping your shoulder, touching your back, sometimes there are also marks from scratching, but these are somehow attracted just to sensitive individuals. All these can have alternative reasons. E.g. the window lacks the isolation which explains the breeze, feeling of being watched from behind is intuitive process that happens during the night, scratches can be from your own hands when you were scratching your own back, tapping can be a little mischief of your neural network. During the spirit's presence there is usually more than just one symptome.

Sleep
During spirit's presence there are more indicators, one of them is a changed quality of sleep. You usually have to sleep more, you always feel tired and even shortly after you woke up, you are out of energy. Lack of energy PLUS wild sex oriented dreams can mean the presence of a succubus or incubus, simply sexual demons.  These demons use sexually oriented images, visions and dreams to rob you of your sexual energy, your vitality and even your sexual desires.

External verification method
It is a good idea to have some external verification, as well. Something that isn't based on our feelings and ideas. Do you feel tired after waking up? Well, maybe you just didn't sleep well enough. To verify if there really is some spirit that haunts your environment, put a glass of water on the table next to your bed, you can put a lid on it, it doesn't really matter. If there is a spirit in your house, the water will be full of small bubbles during the morning. I know this can sound stupid, but it really works. If you find bubbles in the water, do the banishing ritual and try once more. Next day use new water and check it in the morning. The result will be different.

You can also try this test for your rituals. Someone explained to me that presented spirits like "refreshments" during rituals and bubbles will appear in no time if your evocation goes smoothly. Sometimes it happened to me that bubbles appeared in a matter of minutes when I was just talking about spirituality with my apprentice, sometimes bubbles didn't appear during the whole ritual and the result was usually a failure then.

Strange healing occurence...

Yesterday I accidentally cut my nail, creating a deep little pocket in it. You know, that sort of the thing you must be careful not to rip off accidentally else you have a big problem. This happened to me in the morning.

During the evening I wanted to show it to my friend to have some laught about it (the accident was kinda funny) just to find out the nail is completely healed.

Now I don't know what just happened. Well, my regeneration is kinda funny, often I have starting symptoms of being sick which then just disappears, but I didn't expect this level of regeneration...

3rd Grade, Week 2: Eyeless evocation

What is the evocation
Evocation is a practice of summoning spirits to appear outside of you as opposed to invocation which calls spirits inside yourself (more of that later).

Will the spirit be visible
For the spirit to be visible you either have to develop a specific clairvoyant sight or the spirit has to manifest physically (we will learn that later). For now we will have to stick with "feeling the spirit's presence", we will have to stick with eyeless evocation.

What is an eyeless evocation
Eyeless evocation is a ritual performed with a closed eyes. During the ritual you will have feelings of "there is someone in this room with me", actually there will be multiple signals, as we specified before, there are always a lot of lurking spirits around rituals.
This feelings you will have will allow your mind to get to the gnostic state, right frame of the mind to perform Magickal practice. The reason is that the feeling of someone being in your space and you cannot really see him will force your subconsciousness to allow you to access other senses, in return you will be able to feel these spirits even more and freak out even more, it's a recursive cycle. During the first try you will probably hear humming, random words or parts of phrases, you might also see a flash of a figure or something like that.

Warning
I have already told you how the ritual looks like, how to prepare your incantations, you are pretty much ready for the evocation, but there is one thing I want to tell you about the eyeless evocation. Once you close your eyes to perform the ritual, keep them closed till you finish the ritual. No matter what you see, hear or feel, don't open your eyes. You might even hear voices of your relatives standing next to you, chances are these won't be what you think it is. For that reason lock your room or hide in some distance place for the ritual.

What happens if you open your eyes? In better case you will see nothing, your mind will drift back to the normal waking state and you just wasted your time. In the worst case you will see something that will earn you a lifetime in a padded cell but I cannot really say you would be actually able to notice that in such a condition. Well, or you will see just an entity you have evoked, but still, don't risk.

Few improvements for the ritual setup
If you don't believe in yourself, use a blindfold. If you want to at least know where the spirit is, put two chairs in your ritual space facing each other. Sit on one of the chairs and you can expect the spirit you are calling will sit in the other one.

If you want to stand during the ritual, just place a summoning triangle on the floor. Solomon's summoning triangle is pretty easy to find on the internet or you can just draw a triangle within a circle, that's it, no brainer.

Don't use normally lit room (that would be stupid), but don't sit in the darkness either (that would be a very creepy experience), use candles to light the room. Dancing shadows will add to the gnosis, plus candle light is very warm and calming, just make sure no open flame is too close to you so you won't burn yourself accidentally.

Have a bag of salt ready in your pocket. If you really have to quickly interrupt the ritual, take the salt from the bag and throw it around yourself in all four directions.

Don't panic! No matter what you see, hear, feel or fear, don't lose your cool, the other chair might fall back, stuff can fall from the tables, glass can break, something may appear to breathe at your face from the distance of few inches, be ready for that and keep calm. If it is unpleasant either tell the spirit to stop it or you can use license to depart to stop the whole ritual or you can use your emergency salt.

3rd Grade, Week 2: Preparing own incantations

What is an incantation
An incantation or enchantment is a charm or spell created using words. An incantation may take place during a ritual, either a hymnor prayer, and may invoke or praise a deity. In magic, occultism, and witchcraft it is used with the intention of casting a spell on an object or a person and may employ the use ofpharmakeia. The term derives from Latin"incantare" (tr.), meaning "to chant (a magical spell) upon," from in- "into, upon" and cantare"to sing". --Wikipedia

What to expect
This grade is mainly about evocations so that will be our focus here. Sorry there won't be much detail for anything else but readers can hopefully fill these gaps with logic.

Existing incantations
Probably every grimoire has its own incantations, most famou probably being the Bornless ritual from Goetia (most probably Crowley's addition, but I can be mistaken).

Grimoires usually ask you to memorize their incantations, which actually isn't a very good practice. Firstly it makes the incantation a routine, somethig you can do without really thinking about it.  Secondly it kills the creativity and honesty.

Your incantations should always come from your heart and belief, partially scripted and partially created on the fly. You can actually even memorize some passages from well known incantations and use them during yours for the dramatic effect or when words are not exactly coming to you.

Sample incantation
First of all we should specify the type of the operation, in this case it will be an evocation. Secondly we should specify an entity we are going to evoke. I don't want to mention any real entity yet so let's go for a fictional one.

Name: Posmiol
Element: Air
Planet: Venus
Ability: To find long lost friends

Description:
Posmiol is a mighty spirit, commanding 7 legions of familiar spirits. His favorite form is an unicorn and he shows in this form most of the time. He can be commanded by the Magician to take a human form, then he appears as a tall old man with long white beard and his forehead has a symbol of pyramid tattooed on it, this tattoo represents the horn of his unicorn form.
In his human form he is able to speak about your long lost friends and give you the description of their fate. His unicorn form makes him unable to speak but in return his ability becomes more powerful. Posmiol in his basic form is able to bring your friends to your doorsteps or force them to contact you in a very short period of time.

It's possible that many of you will actually try this and Posmiol will start his existence, but he doesn't really need to exist for now.

Let's start
So, we have our fictional spirit, now we can finally prepare the incantation to call him, because we didn't see our friend Suz for quite some time and we would like to get in touch again. The prepared incantation could look as follows:

Posmiol, I call you in the name of everything divine and pure, I call you in the name of everything that is black and dirty, I call you in the name of Chaos, appear before me and grant my wish. Appear before me in your favorite form of the unicorn, I call you by the name of all the Sylphs, elementals of the Air element, your base element. Show yourself in the mirror/water/dream. I command you by the forces of Venus, don't make me wait. I command you in the name of Haniel, mighty spirit, grant my wish and find my friend Suz, make him/her to contact me within next 3 days. Posmiol, grant my wish and bring no harm to me or those close to my heart.

When the incantation is ready, read it a couple of times, maybe modify it a bit, let your creativity to lead you. When you think you are ready, toss your notes away and do the incantation. If some words are forgotten, just replace them during the process, improvise, that's what makes you part of the ritual, part of the incantation.

3rd Grade, Week 2: Magickal prayer

What is a Magickal prayer
According to Papus the Magickal prayer is the most pure and divine version of Magick ceremony, as such it shouldn't be done regularly but only during special occassions so it doesn't become a mindless and boring habit, but always stems from the heart.

How to perform the Magickal prayer
First of all, I am going to present my modified version here, if any of you want to learn the original, you should study Papus' amazing work.

First of all, the prayer is a ritual, check for the basic format of rituals as described in previous section regarding preparation and finishing of the ritual (centering, grounding, casting the circle, etc), as for the content of the ritual, you stand facing a direction of East, or North, or black mirror, or a chair and you pray to the force you believe in (God, deities, spirits, Chaos, life current, whatever...).

I understand this might look too simple, but it really isn't. Your words should come directly from your heart, which at first goes really slowly as you don't really know what you can talk about. Can you cuss? Can you beg for something? Can you ask for cursing of your enemies? Can you ask for anything at all?

The prayer should come from your heart so there really isn't any limit of what you can say or how, I should just warn you about few things. First of all, praying people tend to have moral limitations. They think they shouldn't ask about anything specific because that would be selfish. So they usually ask for a "more opportunity to grow". I would say that the force you pray to have a very specific form of humor and you often get what you ask for. Well, how "opportunity for growth" be translated? Sometimes you get some crazy illness no doctor knows how to cure, sometimes your house burns down and sometimes you lose your job and become a homeless. Considering that you originally wanted a new ferrari this fate is far away from your desires.

Secondly don't do the prayer because you have to, it must be a "want", not a "need", you must have a correct mood for it else don't do it at all.

Don't try to be too formal. After all we speak about forces that know about all your masturbations, cussing and drug abuse even sooner than you do (that's a bit creepy, isn't it?). But don't be too informal, a little bit of respect won't hurt you. After your prayer is done, close the ritual as you are used to.

3rd Grade, Week 2: Charging the black mirror

Now it's time to charge our mirror. The mirror, just like any Magickal tool, must be "yours", it must become a part of your Self. First part of this process is hidden in the creation of the mirror, tools you craft with your own hands have a much bigger sentimental value then things you simply buy and more time you spend with crafting and decorating your items, more valuable these items will be for you.

Put your mirror in the front of yourself, you can be sitting, standing, the mirror can be on the table, floor, simply anywhere. My personal approach is to sit down and place the mirror on my lap, that makes me more sentimental for me.

Now it's time to let your mirror absorb your magnetic and electromagnetic fluids. Place your right hand just closely above the mirror, waving over the mirror as if you were petting its surface (don't touch the surface, have your hand just above it). Don't make the movement regular, use different patterns, speed, play with it as if you were touching your lover, be kind and gentle.

Do the "mirror petting procedure" for about 5 minutes, then switch your hands and repeat the process for another 5 minutes with your left hand. After you are finished you can put the mirror away, wrap it in clothes or whatever method of storing the mirror that you have chosen.

This procedure should be repeated every day for at least a week before you use the mirror for the first time. Also remember, more often you charge the mirror, more powerful tool it becomes.

Some of you might find it a bit problematic to hold your hand above the surface for 5 minutes, if your mirror has a thick frame, you can use it to support your hand to ease the pain, but this shouldn't be the concern as you are still supposed to do your daily physical exercises as presented in the first grade of this curriculum and therefore your physical body should already be much stronger than before.

3rd Grade, Week 1: Basic format of the rituals

For a successful ritual we need to fulfill a list of procedures (no virgin sacrifice included, duh). So, first of all let's make the checklist:

-preparation
-performance
-finish

Too general? Well, let's take a look at these parts in depth:

Preparation
Preparation starts with a pen and paper. You write down the intended outcome and then starts an annoying process of research... can I use some servitor for my purpose? Is there one already available or need I create one? Does the tradition I am borrowing from have any conditions required to call the servitor, e.g. a specific planetary time, incenses, color decorations? How many of these can I cheat?

After the study is done and conditions filled or bent for the purpose we can start with the pre-ritual preparations:
1. centering and grounding
2. casting the circle around us to make us look more visible in the spiritual world
3. invoking/inviting deities/angels/demons/forces/divinity/whatever to gain spiritual authority

For centering and grounding you can use the Sacred Chamber Ritual I have presented to you earlier in this book or thousands of other practices available elsewhere

For casting the circle you can use the method available in your practice or you can draw a circle within circle on the floor using a chalk and into the space within these two circles you can write down your Alphabet of desire. You can also just walk 3 times around in the circle or let your Vital force to leave your body, draw the circle 3 times around you and then return back to your body (no wasting).
The circle itself is like a lighthouse, it grabs the attention of all nearby spirits/forces/whatever to turn their attention to you.

Regarding attaining the authority part the simplest way is a prayer to your deity/whatever to bless your ceremony to be succesful but can be prolonged by litanies, glosolalia, begging, asking, commanding, whatever feels suitable for the dramatic effect (if you are scared of what you are inviting into your place, more powerful experience the ritual will be).

Performance
The performance itself is to evoke/invoke the desired servitor (if any) and state your wishes as commands coming from the authority you have attained during the preparation. Also keep in mind to get straight to the point and be specific, as well. Using vague and general terms because you are scared to be "selfish" usually lead to vague and general misinterpretations on the spirits's side with quite a mischief at the end.
Also remember: never offer anything in return, you are not exchanging, you are commanding and the only one you are responsible to for you actions is the authority you have called prior the ritual, not during it.

Finish
Banishing is generally a no-no unless something really sick starts happening. Unless that is the case, use a standard license to depart, either borrowed from your tradition or use something like this one:
"O, mighty spirits, I thank you for your assistance during this ritual. Now you can return to your places and grant my wishes. Please leave quietly and don't bring any harm to me or my loved ones and be ready for my next call."

Sometimes it happens that servitors lurk on your place even after the license to depart. If that happens, don't freak out, mostly they just like your place and want to stay for a little while, leaving few minutes or hours later. That is actually pretty usual, just don't mind them and mind your own business.

As the next thing you should go to do something physical to get back the touch with a physical reality. For example take a bath, exercise, make a sandwich, smoke a cigarette, just do some activity.

3rd Grade, Week 1: Alphabet of desire

What is the alphabet of desire
Alphabet of desire and simply a collection of pre-made sigils that can be used to quickly form a new Sigil.
The idea is to save some time and also to gain some additional punch in your Magick by actually re-using the Sigils, charging them stronger and stronger, plus it looks like some mystical occult alphabet, which is cool, too.

How to make your own AoD
Let's start traditionally, make a list of opposing aspects: yours can look like something like this:

Love/Hate
Life/Death
Passion/Poverty
Health/Stupidity
Good/Selfish
Evil/Selfless
.
.
.

Continue till you run out of ideas.
Notice that some things on my list do not seem to be opposing, the reason is that we all are individuals and what's opposing to me doesn't need to be opposing for you (I also did it so you won't just copy/paste it instead of doing actual work).

After your list is finished, make a Sigil for each and every force on the item, that means do a Sigil for Love, for Hate, etc, till you are finished.

Charging the AoD
Well, now you should associate each individual glyph with its intended meaning. You can do it by meditating upon each individual Sigil while holding some example of the intended purpose in your mind, you can also go for old-fashioned death postures, make some ritual to charge them all at the same time or just charge them on the fly while you are using them.

Usage of the AoD
You can create an old fashioned Sigil and then include some glyphs of the AoD as a decoration (e.g. in the circle around the Sigil, or to fill some empty spaces, et cetera) or you can build your Sigil purely from the glyphs, composing them in amazing structures or simply putting them on the horisontal or vertical line as if it were a sentence in some unknown language.

Additional glyphs
You might find out that your glyphs are not everything you need. Thinking super abstractly is not for everyone, we are practical people and by combining glyphs health/life/love we will hardly make our sexy accountant to love us. That's why we also need verbs and other words. Feel free to add them to your AoD, also feel free to use one-time glyphs for specific things, for eaxple I surely don't need permanent glyph in my alphabet for some client or a friend when I need to use it only once.

Exploiting the AoD
So, we can re-use Sigils so we can be more lazy in drawing them with a little side benefit called "more power", but what else is there?
You can also associate each glyph with a word or a sound which then can help you to use your AoD on the fly, literally creating your very own barbarian language. This gives more variety and usability into your Magickal practice.

So, we can pronounce our glyphs now, what else is there? You can add anything you want. If you add gestures and body postures to your glyphs, you have effectively re-invented Rune Magick.

You can also print or draw your glyphs on separate cards and then you can build your Sigils by simply placing some cards together to gain a desired outcome and then use your favorite method to charge your Sigil. I hope I don't need to mention that such a deck of AoD ca also be used for divination instead of tarot cards. You can also carve your glyphs into the stones or pieces of wood, re-inventing the rune divination system.

Generally having each glyph of your AoD imprinted on some deck or a collection of stones is a very good idea thanks to the portability and efficiency. A lot of times we are in conditions where we cannot use a pen and paper for our Sigils, but cards, stones, sounds and gestures are always ready for use.