finally watched @cryptotheism's most recent wizard stream and made my own guy symbology below the read more in case you don't wanna know
this is based of a symbol (top left corner) i've been playing around with recently, and for which i've stolen the term "strange loop." it represents in combination the creation/destruction maintenance/revolution loop, the way the loop reinforces itself, and the nature of conciseness and self as self emerging and self defining
bottom to top the rough hewn wooden/ceramic bowl of the spirit, chained to the trophy - base instincts, cave paintings, drawing lines in the sand - the emergence of the self not from the womb but from interaction with the material world - a baby playing peekaboo, and putting their hands their mouth to define their body. out of it rise flames, risen from the smoke into the goblet, which are of the loop, and from those flames a serpent
serpent, ouroboros - nonvenomous, connection with the earth and sexuality, its jaw splayed in a triangle because it has been provoked. creation eats, itself, but remains, existence is an aggression against the world - Sisyphean, do it out of spite. the serpent is wrapped around an egg, which it birthed as the loops intertwined. The serpent is male, phallic, and in heat - sex and violence, pain and pleasure so deeply intertwined with the simple loop of creation that they become one
the egg, broken, cracked with the blunt force of reality and springing forth smoke, illusion, in it, the yolk, the orb, the circles and spheres of the heavens, glowing with created or reflected life, this is the idealized self, creation which births the illusion of personality, real phoenix and flame type shit. the smoke of the egg rise up and is caught by the goblet
goblet, finely made, a trophy, the other side of the material, not artificial but constructed, metalwork and glass, skills tuned to their finest to make a microchip, the other end of human creativity and its destruction, it's beauty the smoke which rises into the chalice gives birth to the flame form the bowl, the space between the portals we cannot see represents the numinous, the undiagnosable switch of consciousness, what is called soul or emanation of god. In this space, the smoke/illusion of personality changes into the fire of creation, scorching away what part of being has not been selected as self, and giving birth to what gives birth to itself
The chalice and bowl are chained together as they represent the false dichotomy of human and nature - they are the same object, with space put between them by the egg, the serpent, the creation of the self, but still connected as a portal, a womb, a cradled universe worth preserving in all it's aspects
