Working Title: The Key of Sparrows

United We Fight It!

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

Click the arrows to expand and collapse each of the six symbol groups:

Animalia / Selfhood Collection (Elements #1-8)
Chart Order Glyph Image Symbol Name Drawing Description Keyword Associations
#1 A Pictogram of an Eye That Which Knows A Pictogram of an Eye Understanding, Perception, Insight
#2 A Pictogram of a Hand That Which Acts A Pictogram of a Hand Craft, Activity, Making, Doing
#3 A Pictogram of a House That Which Is A Pictogram of a House Location, Structure, Existence, Atmosphere
#4 A Pictogram of a Wheel That Which Moves A Pictogram of a Wheel Going, Leaving, Arriving, Dynamic
#5 A Stick Figure Person State of Matter A Stick Figure Person Health, Illness, Body, Incarnation, Physical
#6 A Heart Symbol State of Feeling A Heart Symbol Emotional, Aversion, Preferences, Attraction
#7 A Synapse Symbol State of Mind A Synapse Symbol Mental, Mindset, Belief, Thought, Process
#8 A Yin-Yang 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 A Circle Continuous Aspects A Circle Uninterrupted, Analog, Spectrum
#10 A Zero and a One Discrete Aspects A Zero and a One All or Nothing, Quantized, Digital
#11 A Question Mark The Unknowns A Question Mark Uncertainty, Variable, Inquiry
#12 An Exclamation Point Negations An Exclamation Point 'Not' Operator, False, Simulacrum, Disputed
#13 An Ampersand Concurrences An Ampersand 'And' Operator, Both, Co-Occurring, Including
#14 The Word 'Or' Dysjunctions The Word 'Or' 'Or' Operator, Alternatives, Choices
#15 A Right Pointing Arrow Sign Implications A Right Pointing Arrow Sign 'If/Then' Operator, Implications, Conditional
#16 A Two Headed Horizontal Arrow Sign 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 A Pictogram of a Reference Weight for a Balance Scale The Kilogram A Pictogram of a Reference Weight for a Balance Scale Physics, Material, Natural forces, Tangible
#18 A Benzene Ring Symbol Atomic Legos A Benzene Ring Symbol Chemistry, Atomic, Molecular, Electric
#19 A Pictogram of a Leaf We the Living A Pictogram of a Leaf Biology, Living, Organic, Organism, Metabolism
#20 A Water Molecule Space-Filling Model Pictogram The Blue Marble A Water Molecule Space-Filling Model Pictogram Ecology, Biome, Ecosystem, Biosphere, Environment
#21 An Empty 3 Part Venn Diagram Constructed of Circles It Takes All Kinds An Empty 3 Part Venn Diagram Constructed of Circles Set Theory, Groups, Definitions, Inclusions, Exclusions, Unions, Intersections
#22 A Pictogram of a Dice Showing Five Pips Chances & Cohorts A Pictogram of a Dice Showing Five Pips Probability, Statistics, Chance, Odds, Randomness, Patterns, Distribution
#23 A Pictogram of a Butterfly Divergences A Pictogram of a Butterfly Chaos Theory, Nonlinear, Complex, Recursive, Turbulent
#24 Two Curved Arrow Signs in the Shape of a Circle Pointing One's Head to the Other's Tail 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 A Music Quarter Note Sign Expressions A Music Quarter Note Sign Creativity, Synthesis, Invention, Imagination, Art, Music, Story
#26 A Pictogram of a Graduation Mortarboard Hat The Transceivers A Pictogram of a Graduation Mortarboard Hat Education, Learning, Knowledge, Teaching, Experiences
#27 Five Small Circles Joined by One Bigger Ring City, Tribe & Family Five Small Circles Joined by One Bigger Ring Social Interaction, Balance, Fairness, Justice, Society, Community
#28 A Dollar Sign Utility Vs. Valuation A Dollar Sign Value, Worth, Usefulness, Exchange, Economy
#29 A Cartoon Thought Bubble The Horde Within A Cartoon Thought Bubble Psychology, Thought, Cognition, The Mind, Motivation, Personality
#30 A Pictogram of a Four Leaf Clover Star Alignments A Pictogram of a Four Leaf Clover Luck, Fate, Karma, Coincidence, Synchronicity
#31 A Pentagram Extra Energies A Pentagram Magic, Intention, Ethereal, Extraordinary, Supernatural
#32 A Pictogram of a Court Jester, Fool, or Playing Card Joker's Hat 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 An Arrow Forming Three Quarters of a Circle with a Plus Sign in the Center 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 A Small Circle with Three Equally Spaced Radially Symmetric Angle Brackets Pointing Inward at It Focal Points A Small Circle with Three Equally Spaced Radially Symmetric Angle Brackets Pointing Inward at It Concentration, Massed, Clustering, Uniform, Alignment
#35 Three Arrow Signs Spreading from One Origin Point with Radially Symmetric Arrangement Scatterings Three Arrow Signs Spreading from One Origin Point with Radially Symmetric Arrangement Spread, Diverse, Varied, Distraction, Dispersion, Diffuse, Diluted
#36 A Set of Parentheses with Nothing Between Them Ordering the House A Set of Parentheses with Nothing Between Them Sequential, Arrange, Composite, Assembly, Order
#37 An Asterisk The Spark An Asterisk Desire, Life, Will, Beginnings, Autonomous
#38 One Up-Down Cycle of a Sine Wave with a Small Circle Drawn Over Its Center Point 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 A Pictogram of an Analog Clock Face Showing About 12:07 Tick-Tock A Pictogram of an Analog Clock Face Showing About 12:07 Time, waiting, Span, Speed, Patience, Duration
#40 A Pictogram of a Human Skull 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 A Pictogram of an Ocean Wave Breaking Boundless Ocean A Pictogram of an Ocean Wave Breaking Unconscious, Deep Self, Causality, Role, Persona
#42 A Pictogram of a Sailboat A Very Small Boat A Pictogram of a Sailboat Conscious Mind, Belief, Awareness, Thought, Purpose
#43 The Capitalized Letter 'I' Your Agent The Capitalized Letter 'I' Identity, Identical, Outward Self, Self Knowledge
#44 An Equilateral Triangle The Deception An Equilateral Triangle Essence, Ideal, Perfection, Fallacy, Lies
#45 A Lower Case Letter 'g' High Energy Particle High Energy Particle Symbol, Glyph, Alphabet, Unit, Sign
#46 A Squiggle Resembling a Cross Between a Chaotic Signature and Sound Wave Between a Pair of Square Brackets 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 A Pictogram of a Drawing Compass Simple Machinery A Pictogram of a Drawing Compass Tool, Craft, Purpose, Technology, Measuring, Technique
#48 Two Concentric Circles with 3 Lines Radiating From Their Center with Radial Symmetry Three Cases of Spaces Two Concentric Circles with 3 Lines Radiating From Their Center with Radial Symmetry Coordinate Space, Map, Graph, Grid, Record, Plan

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).

Victory 2024!

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Tools from Vote.org:

Get Election Reminders Find Your Polling Place See (Most of) What Will Be On Your Ballot Re-Check Your Voter Registration Status Register to Vote Get an Absentee Ballot (if available) Track Your Mail-In, Absentee, or Provisional Ballot Pledge to Register (If you are at least 13 years old and under 18)

Write Letters to Voters while there's still Time with VoteForward.org!!

If you are writing letters with Vote Forward and you would would like to add 'fortune cookies' from my creation The Key of Sparrows to them, I have created a web page (this one in fact!) with a key to the beginnings of meanings for TKOS symbols stripped of partisan or one-click-away-from-partisan links so that I can do that (and now so can you if you want!) and still follow Vote Forward's rules. I dropped my first 6 letters for Vote Forward in the mail today after my 4 types of stamps for letters arrived from USPS. I am including a numbered & signed but no text block blank postcard with them with a 'fortune cookie' symbol string, and also a Vote Forward voter checklist printable and voter buddy printable in the envelope. You don't have to include as many of the extras or personal touches or you can invent your own. You can reach more people with your Only Two Hands if your extras and personal touches are briefer. They also have a Basics of the offices (not candidates) on a ballot printable for people new to politics which I am not including but you can.

Vote Forward says October Twenty Nine is the last day to send letters to voters. Alaska and Hawaii may perhaps be different? I have not checked to see if they allow people presently with street addresses in Mexico Canada or Other Countries to participate in their address lists. But you could send whatever stuff you like to any rectangle you can click on Google maps if you want to send a lot of untargeted things which may or may not actually have registered voters living there or checking the mail ! 💥 ! 💥 ! 💥 ! 💥 !

A paper cutter and a $200 Epson EcoTank printer makes this process/activity faster and cheaper. Friends you can hang out with and not being down to your last dollar make it safer and more fun. You can get such things at your nearby Office Depot or for the Paper Cutter, some types at Craft stores like Joann or Michaels. Don't know about Hobby Lobby. The EcoTank can be fancy or cheap, but it's a range of printers not a single one. You can also decorate your walls with photos & other stuff from Unsplash.com or somewhere once you can print up as much color as you want without breaking the bank. Use loops of the blue painters tape on the back.

Not going to link all 4 here because I'm busy til after election tuesday (seriously can we not even move it to the weekend? this is bullshit. But you can vote early and/or by mail in most states now!), the ones I sent off today are the the Title IX Forever stamps. Remember to shred or burn the address lists from Vote Forward when you are finished with them, as that is sensitive information. Yes, that is in their instructions except they only mention shredding. I don't have a shredder, so a burnt offering on the porch or firepit would seem like the ticket. This may be a new printing I feel like mine looked a bit different not at home can't check right now: Title IX Forever Stamps

How Voter Suppression Works taken from fairfight.com's homepage

Vote.org also provides a page with collected information for each state and links to each state's elections website if you want state specific URLs to share. Overseas and Military Voter Service from the US Voter Foundation
Full List of Voter Registration Deadlines
Ballot Dropbox Location Tools (When they become available)

Below is the "Victory 2024!" postcard I'm sending out. The front stays the same, the back is always evolving. My postcard project is now into its 9th year, 4th postcard design, and [as of several days ago, 10/15] somewhere north of 3,800 postcards sent or given out with something more than 900 and less than 1,000 of design #4 left to go.



Best Wishes in All Things to You!