Planetary Sigils · Magic squares
The kamea of Mercury
The 8 × 8 magic square of Mercury: every line sums to 260.
The 8×8 magic square — every row, column, and diagonal sums to 260, and the total sum of all cells is 2080. The sigils of Mercury's entities are traced across this grid of intellect and swift-moving force.
The square
The kamea of Mercury holds the numbers 1 to 64 in 8 rows of 8. Each row, each column and both diagonals add up to 260, and all the cells together to 2080.
Row by row:
- 8 · 58 · 59 · 5 · 4 · 62 · 63 · 1 = 260
- 49 · 15 · 14 · 52 · 53 · 11 · 10 · 56 = 260
- 41 · 23 · 22 · 44 · 45 · 19 · 18 · 48 = 260
- 32 · 34 · 35 · 29 · 28 · 38 · 39 · 25 = 260
- 40 · 26 · 27 · 37 · 36 · 30 · 31 · 33 = 260
- 17 · 47 · 46 · 20 · 21 · 43 · 42 · 24 = 260
- 9 · 55 · 54 · 12 · 13 · 51 · 50 · 16 = 260
- 64 · 2 · 3 · 61 · 60 · 6 · 7 · 57 = 260
These numbers are Mercury’s: 8, 64 cells, 260 on every line and 2080 in all (the profile lists 8, 64, 260, 2080).
How a sigil is traced
A sigil is a picture of an intention, or of a name, drawn by joining numbers on a kamea. Planetary Sigils follows a simple method:
- Write the intention and keep each letter once.
- Drop the vowels.
- Turn each consonant into a number, A = 1 to Z = 26. If that number is not on the square, reduce it to 1–9 (J = 1, K = 2 … R = 9).
- Find each number on the square and join them in order: a small circle marks the start, a short bar the end.
Example: ELOQUENCE on the kamea of Mercury. Unique letters ELOQUNC, consonants LQNC:
- L 12
- Q 17
- N 14
- C 3
Work with a sigil of Mercury in Mercury’s own hour, ideally on Wednesday. Today’s planetary hours show when it falls.
The traditional sigils of Mercury’s intelligence (Tiriel) and spirit (Taphthartharath) were traced on this same square, from the Hebrew letters of their names.
Trace your own
Planetary Sigils does the reduction and draws the sigil for any intention on any of the kameas, then lets you watch it traced line by line, save it and share it.