Sigils Reboot: How To Get Big Magic From Little Squiggles

https://runesoup.com/2012/03/ultimate-sigil-magic-guide/

>> Sigils Redux: Target Selection

Target selection is the key to all magic. Fail to reasonably approximate the probability of your preferred outcome and you are scuppered from the start. You could summon the Crown Prince of Hell and it still won't get you out of your mother's basement.
Let's return to PJC:

"Thus we arrive at the sobering conclusion that although this universe contains enough Chaos to allow magic it doesn’t contain enough to permit gross miracles in a hurry.

The magician will need to target events which depend on very small energy or entropy changes and the results won’t often look much like spectacular parapsychology, they will look more like a series of events going somewhat improbably in the desired direction.”

What does that look like in practice?

• Choose what you want to achieve and break it into smaller pieces.
• Find the piece that provides the biggest uplift in terms of achieving your goal and go after that one first.
• Break that larger piece into at least three interrelated statements of intent and sigilise them all.

Choose things with higher or flexible probability, choose timings when it is easier to nudge, choose self-focused goals rather than external ones. Here are five examples of target selection for use with sigil magic.
One that last point on target selection. It’s not recommended to curse someone via sigil magic in the same way it’s not recommended to swallow a grenade when you should be throwing it. Protection is fine, however. Or placing yourself out of harm’s way... The cursing/protection example is precisely what is meant by choosing your target carefully.