The "quartered square" - a functional magical diagram

[5kinr]

Early on in my magical work, I was thinking about how I might go about designing my own system, particularly in regards to symbolism. I wanted the primary symbol by which a system could be represented (i.e. a pentagram in a circle is often used to represent Wicca) to do two things:

1) Be free from any outside cultural or religious associations. A problem I've seen in magic is the way that many symbols get associated with the wrong thing; i.e. someone I know frequently says that the pentagram is "Satan's star" even after I've explained to him that only the inverted, stylized one is such. Likewise, the equilateral/equiangular hexagram is most often associated with Judaism. I wanted a symbol that was free from any and all associations, and this meant creating one; I believe I've succeeded, as I've never seen this shape used in any magical context.

2) Be useful as a placement diagram; i.e. drawing it on a surface and placing objects inside or on it.

This is the symbol that I call the "quartered square".

The first picture is how it appears 'normally'. During the typical ritual that I would do, a light source (candle or refracting crystal/mirror) is placed in the top quarter. The other objects involved would be placed in the left and right quarters, in causal order. For instance, if consecrating a tool, the medium would go in the left square, and the object to be consecrated in the right. Finally, the ritualist's hands are placed in the bottom quarter. This would normally be done while sitting or kneeling in front of the square.

An alternative would be if there was only one focal object (say, a scrying mirror or crystal ball). In this case, the object would be placed in the top quarter, and one candle in each of the side quarters.

The second picture shows what the square would look like if it were "unfolded". This setup would be used in cases where the ritualist was standing in the center. Obviously there's no real "front" when standing inside the square, so I thought of putting candles at each of the far corners. However, I have not yet done any work with this setup (no space).

Another unexpected benefit of the square is that I've been using it as the basis for a rudimentary runic alphabet.

So, if anyone finds this useful, and is able to implement it in some practical work, I'd love to hear how it went.