Peter J. Carroll on apophenia — the perception of patterns in randomness — as the cognitive mechanism underneath all divination. Connects divinatory practice to his Apophenia godform and the broader sigil and probability work of chaos magic. Hosted on Specularium.
Chaos Current / Topic
Divination
Oracular methods, randomness as signal
Early essay on automatic drawing as a magical and artistic method, co-written with Frederick Carter. Describes a subconscious technique of mark-making that became the technical basis for Spare's later sigil work. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Argument for the value of collaborative magical practice, followed by a walk through a collaboratively built chaos magick tarot deck with divinatory readings of individual cards.
Free I Ching reference and three-coin reading app, using an original public-domain English translation of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 German edition.
Darragh Mason's podcast on folklore, esoterica, and spirit work. Mason is co-creator of the Sigil Engine; the show's guest list regularly includes chaos magic and chaos-adjacent practitioners. Distributed via Spotify.
Crowley's commentary on the Thoth Tarot, illustrated by Frieda Harris. The canonical Thelemic tarot text and a reference point for many chaos magic decks. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
A 24-card divination deck. Each card pairs a recognizable life situation expressed as a tech metaphor with a systems-theoretic reflection on the pattern.
A browser based toolbox for practical magic. Seven sigil methods (Spare, planetary kameas, Rose Cross, Witch's Wheel, and others), tarot and I Ching decks, runes, a Dreamachine, pathworking exercises, ritual guides, and cut up tools.
Academic and philosophical podcast hosted by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel. Topics include the weird, the occult, divination, and the limits of rational thought.