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Animalia / Selfhood Collection (Elements #1-8)

Chart Order	Glyph Image	Symbol Name	Drawing Description	Keyword Associations
#1		That Which Knows	A Pictogram of an Eye	Understanding, Perception, Insight
#2		That Which Acts	A Pictogram of a Hand	Craft, Activity, Making, Doing
#3		That Which Is	A Pictogram of a House	Location, Structure, Existence, Atmosphere
#4		That Which Moves	A Pictogram of a Wheel	Going, Leaving, Arriving, Dynamic
#5		State of Matter	A Stick Figure Person	Health, Illness, Body, Incarnation, Physical
#6		State of Feeling	A Heart Symbol	Emotional, Aversion, Preferences, Attraction
#7		State of Mind	A Synapse Symbol	Mental, Mindset, Belief, Thought, Process
#8		State of Self	A Yin-Yang	Spiritual, Totality, Wholeness, Integrations

Logic / Operative Collection (Elements #9-16)

Chart Order	Glyph Image	Symbol Name	Drawing Description	Keyword Associations
#9		Continuous Aspects	A Circle	Uninterrupted, Analog, Spectrum
#10		Discrete Aspects	A Zero and a One	All or Nothing, Quantized, Digital
#11		The Unknowns	A Question Mark	Uncertainty, Variable, Inquiry
#12		Negations	An Exclamation Point	'Not' Operator, False, Simulacrum, Disputed
#13		Concurrences	An Ampersand	'And' Operator, Both, Co-Occurring, Including
#14		Dysjunctions	The Word 'Or'	'Or' Operator, Alternatives, Choices
#15		Implications	A Right Pointing Arrow Sign	'If/Then' Operator, Implications, Conditional
#16		Entanglements	A Two Headed Horizontal Arrow Sign	'If and Only If' Operator, Interdependence, Necessity

Sciences / Systematic Collection (Elements #17-24)

Chart Order	Glyph Image	Symbol Name	Drawing Description	Keyword Associations
#17		The Kilogram	A Pictogram of a Reference Weight for a Balance Scale	Physics, Material, Natural forces, Tangible
#18		Atomic Legos	A Benzene Ring Symbol	Chemistry, Atomic, Molecular, Electric
#19		We the Living	A Pictogram of a Leaf	Biology, Living, Organic, Organism, Metabolism
#20		The Blue Marble	A Water Molecule Space-Filling Model Pictogram	Ecology, Biome, Ecosystem, Biosphere, Environment
#21		It Takes All Kinds	An Empty 3 Part Venn Diagram Constructed of Circles	Set Theory, Groups, Definitions, Inclusions, Exclusions, Unions, Intersections
#22		Chances & Cohorts	A Pictogram of a Dice Showing Five Pips	Probability, Statistics, Chance, Odds, Randomness, Patterns, Distribution
#23		Divergences	A Pictogram of a Butterfly	Chaos Theory, Nonlinear, Complex, Recursive, Turbulent
#24		Cycles & Flows	Two Curved Arrow Signs in the Shape of a Circle Pointing One's Head to the Other's Tail	Emergent Systems, Systems Theory, Feedback Flows, Interacting, Superorganisms

Humanism / Archetypes Collection (Elements #25-32)

Chart Order	Glyph Image	Symbol Name	Drawing Description	Keyword Associations
#25		Expressions	A Music Quarter Note Sign	Creativity, Synthesis, Invention, Imagination, Art, Music, Story
#26		The Transceivers	A Pictogram of a Graduation Mortarboard Hat	Education, Learning, Knowledge, Teaching, Experiences
#27		City, Tribe & Family	Five Small Circles Joined by One Bigger Ring	Social Interaction, Balance, Fairness, Justice, Society, Community
#28		Utility Vs. Valuation	A Dollar Sign	Value, Worth, Usefulness, Exchange, Exchange, Economy
#29		The Horde Within	A Cartoon Thought Bubble	Psychology, Thought, Cognition, The Mind, Motivation, Personality
#30		Star Alignments	A Pictogram of a Four Leaf Clover	Luck, Fate, Karma, Coincidence, Synchronicity
#31		Extra Energies	A Pentagram	Magic, Intention, Ethereal, Extraordinary, Supernatural
#32		Across the Mirror	A Pictogram of a Court Jester, Fool, or Playing Card Joker's Hat	Trickster, Paradox, Surprise, Clarity, Truth, Humor

Forces of Nature / Existential Signposts Collection (Elements #33-40)

Chart Order	Glyph Image	Symbol Name	Drawing Description	Keyword Associations
#33		Active Stillness	An Arrow Forming Three Quarters of a Circle with a Plus Sign in the Center	Here, Now, Silence, Mindful, Harmony, Patience, Contemplation, Consideration
#34		Focal Points	A Small Circle with Three Equally Spaced Radially Symmetric Angle Brackets Pointing Inward at It	Concentration, Massed, Clustering, Uniform, Alignment
#35		Scatterings	Three Arrow Signs Spreading from One Origin Point with Radially Symmetric Arrangement	Spread, Diverse, Varied, Distraction, Dispersion, Diffuse, Diluted
#36		Ordering the House	A Set of Parentheses with Nothing Between Them	Sequential, Arrange, Composite, Assembly, Order
#37		The Spark	An Asterisk	Desire, Life, Will, Beginnings, Autonomous
#38		Nondualism	One Up-Down Cycle of a Sine Wave with a Small Circle Drawn Over Its Center Point	Wavicle, Mass, Energy, Objects, Space, Fields, Points
#39		Tick-Tock	A Pictogram of an Analog Clock Face Showing About 12:07	Time, waiting, Span, Speed, Patience, Duration
#40		Releasing	A Pictogram of a Human Skull	Endings, Fear, Loss, Conclusion, Completion

Cognition / Communicative Collection (Elements #41-48)

Chart Order	Glyph Image	Symbol Name	Drawing Description	Keyword Associations
#41		Boundless Ocean	A Pictogram of an Ocean Wave Breaking	Unconscious, Deep Self, Causality, Role, Persona
#42		A Very Small Boat	A Pictogram of a Sailboat	Conscious Mind, Belief, Awareness, Thought, Purpose
#43		Your Agent	The Capitalized Letter 'I'	Identity, Identical, Outward Self, Self Knowledge
#44		The Deception	An Equilateral Triangle	Essence, Ideal, Perfection, Fallacy, Lies
#45		High Energy Particle	High Energy Particle	Symbol, Glyph, Alphabet, Unit, Sign
#46		The Utterance	A Squiggle Resembling a Cross Between a Chaotic Signature and Sound Wave Between a Pair of Square Brackets	Language, Communication, Words, Speech, Transmission
#47		Simple Machinery	A Pictogram of a Drawing Compass	Tool, Craft, Purpose, Technology, Measuring, Technique
#48		Three Cases of Spaces	Two Concentric Circles with 3 Lines Radiating From Their Center with Radial Symmetry	Coordinate Space, Map, Graph, Grid, Record, Plan

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The Key of Sparrows website and glyph based fortune telling or brainstorming schema, graphics and writings © Copyright © Cooper Dozier 2016-2024 ©. Information about various other works and projects of mine may be found at https://linktr.ee/cooperdozier. Background image source: @cedric_photography on Unsplash.com

This page and site will continue to evolve and be refined. Since I am now sending out postcards with this URL and glyph based 'fortunes' I need to get something online. This is kind of the minimum quality I was willing to expose to the public. There's a bit more to this brainstorming / fortune telling / creativity tool / divination architecture but this is all you need to form your own conclusions or ideas if you want to draw meaning from it. I first began working on a version of this in 2016 and I think it has just about reached its final version, although I intend to eventually refine the designs into a card deck, posters and other more graphically polished items to try to sell, probably through a print on demand service. I have my doubts about whether getting significant inventory manufactured and trying to place it in stores or sell online would produce results worth the investment.

I usually work with these in chains of 3 symbols, and u7nlike tarot, the positions do not have predetermined significance and there is no such thing as 'reversed cards'. But you can use spreads or other bells and whistles however you want. When the logic symbols or the parentheses come up I tend to draw more or arrange them in such a way as to make a legible math/logic-like 'sentence'.

There are two ways I usually use to draw the symbols. For expediency there is random.org which gathers its entropy from some sort of 'atmospheric noise' to get 'true random numbers' instead of the pseudo-random number generator computers use for most tasks. They've been running since the 90s and you can use them as a certified third party for lotteries or drawings for a fee. The other way is to set the symbols up as an 8x6 grid and select the row by rolling a six sided dice and selecting the column by flipping a coin three times to generate a binary number from 0-7 from the heads and tails of the coin. But be sure of whether youre writing numbers from right to left or left to right before you start to avoid confusion.

Either method provides a much stronger randomization than card shuffling, I do believe, and with less work. Use your head and don't let oracles of any type run your life or get compulsive with them. There may or may not be something to it on some occasions. But brainstorming and fortune telling, depending on how you approach them, can be nearly the same practice. And sometimes you may want to make a decision where there is no definite right answer (like in writing a novel). Or with questions wherein you have no possible way to access information about what will produce the 'best' outcomes you want (such as most of the significant things looming up in your not-predestined future, for example) and with them you want a little extra help or outside ideas to shake your mind into a new shape? In such a case this system could be helpful, whether you believe it has any real predictive power or not. And you can do the same thing with any collection of 48 elements of any type (or another quantity that can be arrayed in a grid, but the ubiquity of six sided dice and coins makes 48 a handy number of elements or keys to use in your preferred systems).