Apparently they aren't teaching kids cursive anymore, and they haven't been for some time...

I don't really know this is true. I was talking to a guy who said he heard, that (allegedly) we are getting to a point where cursive is really dying out, and fewer and fewer people even know what it is.

"Oh No!" I comically exclaimed, "We won't have any historians to translate Lincoln's diaries anymore!"

But I was just thinking... If the exclusion-level is high enough. If its becoming that rare. Doesn't that kind of make it a magical cypher language?

Think about those Daoist style paper talismans? Don't they look cool? When they write the characters all sloppy like that, with the fluid motion? Well... (with some exceptions, which I won't get into because this post isn't supposed to be a detailed study of Daoist Fu Magic,) in a lot of cases those are just the same Chinese characters they normally write with, just written really.... cool.

A big thing magic-types do is they always want to use some farfetched magical language. Some ancient form of Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or Egyptian, or some crazy-out-there thing like Enochian. In the Book of Abramelin, it says you shouldn't do this, you should always make prayers in your "mother tongue" because its the only way that YOU can be certain that YOU understand what YOU are saying/asking for.

UGH! But that's BORING! Right? doesn't feel very magical at all to just write "bad stuff DONT happen" on a post-it note and stick it over your front door?

... but what if you could write it... Cool... ?

So, like... I guess if you're old enough, like me, you probably already know how to do this, but you probably don't write in cursive much, which means your cursive looks like shit, BUT THAT'S GREAT! You want it to look like shit... like, totally unreadable... but you should practice so it looks like really cool shit that has a consistent style, with a fluid motion. If you can't even read it back yourself, that's probably good. It's basically already a sigilized form of what you wanted to write. Get a brush and experiment with different types of pens and line weights. Maybe try learning calligraphy? It takes a lot of focus to write each letter neatly in that Germanic/Olde English-y style using one of those kind of pens. And I've always been jealous of people who can write in that graffiti-style, that shit looks cool, you could definitely make sigils and talismans with that shit.

Lots of ways to write really cool magic in English, or any language using the Latin Alphabet, AND IT WAS INSIDE YOU ALL ALONG!

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