senor-cat's Alchemy

Beyond the base polygons, symbols and glyphs have specific meanings that guide a reaction or define a part of it such as ‘separate’, ‘fire’, or ‘oxygen’. Many parts of an array can be combined or rearranged in dynamic ways to change the meaning. For very specific and complicated arrays, you may also add scripts to literally tell your array important details such as defining the amount of atoms in a molecule.

(speaking of activity, sorry to a few old asks ive never answered)

So, same concept as before. We've got the soul powering a seal of saturn using a heptagram and the mind directing where and when to go. I overlayed the seal of saturn on my heptagram glyph. My main problem before was that I had to cram the SoS inside of something or make it super huge because it was impossible to overlay because of the point counts, but my 7glyph only has 6 points so it works out(technically there is a 7th but architecturally there's 6). Starting at the top we have the symbol for the mind(mercury) connecting directly to the circle and the other 2 human symbols. Going clockwise we get to the symbol for the soul(sulfur) placed on the point representing energy. Next is union(cancer) and separation(scorpio) on their respective points, followed by body(salt) on the point for planes. I chose planes because it's the only physical aspect of this array and it just looks better than putting it on organic. Putting it on organic may also affect what kind of things you can bring with you. Around everything is a nonagram+nonagon and a braced circle. The little node at the bottom is where the user stands. The way this works is you kinda fold spacetime outwards to make a hole, and patch it up by connecting it to another hole where you want to go. The universe doesn't really like that so you're gonna need a philosopher's stone to power this. Notes: wait do i even need cancer and scorpio? i switched to a wormhole method instead of essentially astral projecting so no i shouldnt. but they make it look so good :/ References: My old time array matt-awesom3.deviantart.com/ar… Seal of Saturn matt-awesom3.deviantart.com/ar… Symbols themrparticleman.deviantart.co… Point Meanings greenlover77777.deviantart.com…

This is a recreation of anon67890's sword heating array. On the hilt is a mini array to heat steel. The semi circle on the bottom is to prevent back flow and aid control, though you're controlling it so that shouldn't happen in the first place. Along the blade is a string of pentagons that extend control and can act as focus points. I have two methods for how to use this. You could slowly build up heat from oxygen that hits the blade, or you could store some sort of fuel in the pommel and handle, which would be activated by the hexagram. For this method to would you would need a hole in the pommel for oxygen intake. My favorite idea is a small amount of thermite, magnesium, and the material on matches. Lighting the match would be easy with the hexagram, and would light the magnesium which would then light the thermite. Thermite burns hot enough to melt iron, and a small amount of it could be contained to not damage your sword by dispersing the heat along the entire blade. The runes read top to bottom then left to right and say "suppress the heat and direct up"

Apparently I never posted this when I tried to do time travel, my bad. The seal of Saturn is an old Wiccan symbol for time and is derived from magic squares and the unicursal hexagram, which ties in with the 6th planet Saturn. Kronos, the Greek titan of time, was called Saturn by the Romans. I haven't found an alchemical symbol for time so I decided to adopt this one. There are 2 other derivations I've made from this which can be found on my deviantArt. I'll also try to make another one since I just realized it comes from the hexagram today.

http://notshurly.deviantart.com/art/Power-Control-Array-Explained-166149572

A simple example of using the heptagram glyph. Clotting is a pretty easy process. Platelets react to a cut and change to a spiky shape and stick to each other. Proteins in your blood do various jobs and make fibrin which holds it all together. Using Taurus, the symbol for coagulation, we can pull these together and help the process along. The heptagram helps with working with the body and the glyph's shape helps with control and focuses flow on the Taurus. You have to remember that Taurus isn't what's clotting the blood, it's just gathering what does that automatically. I had that misconception and I wouldn't be surprised if other people did.

http://notshurly.deviantart.com/art/Power-Control-Array-Explained-166149572

Similar to my unicursal hexagram glyph, this is a morphed version of a 7 pointed star. 7 pointed stars work with living things and are mostly used for medical alchemy. The two lines forming the top point have been pulled out into a circular shape. This can generally replace a normal 7 pointed star, but isn't good for something where you're using more than 5 of the points. I suppose you could put 2 things where the circles turn in, but I think that would have very specific applications. This works well as a mini array or a way to connect two parts.

Sorry this is old and I’m slow. The unicursal hexagram is the symbol for the second stage of alchemy, decomposition/destruction. A long time ago in chemistry I drew this and today I decided to make it a thing. At first it looks awkward and weird but it's quite useful. If it was placed over the symbol for carbon, it would break down all forms of carbon to the molecular or atomic level. The 3 protrusions allow it to interact with the rest of the array very well and on the side there's plenty of room for runes/nodes. It's better than the triangle for things where you don't care what happens, you just want it gone. It's kind of like a half terra, you don't need to control it much it just goes. The original is more powerful but this can be integrated more. Best placed on corners or along circles. It can be used the same as a basic triangle but it shouldn't replace concentric triangles.