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    Magic Secrets As Taught By Robot Fish

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    Want to see what shoaling looks like? Proper shoaling, that is… the thing fish do. In this case, sticklebacks. Go and watch this video of scientists testing out whether a shoal of wild fish would follow an artificial leader. Of particular interest in the companion article is: Robofish moved faster than the real fish,...

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    10 Universal Sigils To Bulk Out Your Shoal

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    Never saw The Sorcerer's Apprentice... Anyone know if it's worth a watch?

    There is a very specific reason for deploying multiple sigils at once: You’re playing tricks on your brain. It’s an extremely effective way of removing result lust. Take it from me, it’s much easier to detach from what each symbol means when there is more than one of them sitting in front of you....

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    Sigilize Your Letters To Santa Today

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    As mentioned in the previous post, today is St Nicholas Day. Obviously, the contemporary egregore we know as Santa is a bizarre hybrid of  a Levantine saint, various nature spirits, the devil, a Coca Cola advertising campaign and the broken dreams of countless millions of children. Despite being a supremely powerful creation, he’s more...

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    Your One Perfect Day: How To Enchant For It

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    We like to joke about our dream existence where we live in a palace by the sea with scantily clad movie-stars and a private jet. Especially on bad days. But it’s not actually want we really want. Be honest. You’d get bored really quickly. Most people would. Magical folk -being more inclined toward seeking...

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    One Explanation For Sigil Bleed

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    My ongoing sigil adventures have got me thinking. I am dissatisfied with prevailing theories of accidentally launched signals because they rely on notions that I have no evidence for: Principal among these being my improvement as a magician. In one of those bibliomantic synchronicities that befalls voluminous readers such as ourselves, I may have...

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    Shoaling: Making Sigil Magic More Awesome Since 2010

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    Shoaling. Think of it like birds flocking but with a few key differences. Firstly, the aerodynamic (in this case hydrodynamic) advantages aren’t as great. That’s because fish ‘shoal’ when they aren’t heading somewhere, and ‘school’ when they are. Schooling gives a hydrodynamic advantage. You guys all know I used to work for Discovery Channel,...

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    How Sigils Are Like Firearms

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    If you leave them around loaded then the unexpected can happen. Like what happened to me last night and this morning. We had a lovely, warm evening here in London. And because these things are exceedingly rare, I had agreed to meet my partner at a restaurant after work. Somewhere where you can actually...

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