Money Glyph, Forum Game Options

I am attempting to represent the inner or essential qualities of common objects which show up in magick. While doing this I realized how little time I spend trying to articulate, particularly in a condensed way, essential qualities of objects. Having done one of them I think this might be something interesting to put up for the forum, so I am posting these here with an invitation to post your own.

Using the bagua I came up with a less than perfect representation (Ts'ui; Lake over Earth, called Collecting Together) "it will be advantageous to see the great man. There will be progress, though firm perseverance is required if the most is to be made of this auspicious time. great sacrifices will be conductive to good fortune; movement in any direction will be advantages."

My next attempt was a bit more successful. I used the parts of the dollar sign ($) To make a sigil consisting of an equilateral triangle representing the material base of money, and wavy lines passing through them to represent the fluid kinetic aspect of money.

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Interesting... how mainstream do you want this to be?
I mean.... is this a mental imaging device meant just for you, or are you going to use this to convey meaning to others?

I ask cause it's an interesting figure, but it's very ambigious.

Have you ever studied Chinese Kanji?
I have a book that talks about the pictographical nature of chinese kanji, and it sounds like chinese kanji might fit with what you're trying to do.
The Spirit of the Chinese Character - Gifts from the Heart by Barbara Aria and Russell Eng Gon

Kanji are basically pictograms that use very specific imagery to convey certain concepts and ideas, without giving regard to spoken language.
The pictograms are universal enough that kanji are used through out china to send and receive knowledge around the country. This would be impossible without kanji because there are at least 2 seperate languages that dominate throughout china, and i'm not entirely sure they've documented all the little sub dialects that exist. Regardless, the language that unites the country is the written language of the kanji, not a spoken one.

Basically, i'm curious as to what you're trying to do.
Are you trying to convey meaning to others or enhance your own imagery?

I mean.... is this a mental imaging device meant just for you, or are you going to use this to convey meaning to others?

I ask cause it's an interesting figure, but it's very ambigious.

Have you ever studied Chinese Kanji?

Basically, i'm curious as to what you're trying to do.
Are you trying to convey meaning to others or enhance your own imagery?

Its a meditation tool, an exercise in thinking deeply about the inner nature of an concept - in this case money. It does not need to be assessable to everyone at a glance just represent in some way the concepts inner nature as you see it. My first thought was to use the Chinese ideograms but they represent a cultural frame that limits what someone from without that culture can do with it. Money likes to amass and it is most useful in large quantities which are used to gain material goods. Therefore it is fluid, generative, and material. The reason why I tried baguas was that they are very useful for expressing subtle relationships but they are not so useful without the cultural information they represent. That is why I used a picture. I think in someways a pictogram can express the same idea but without needing the culture.