<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Dascent Sigils: Ai ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I learned that adaptability is part of evolution.
I use various Ai models to explore, generate an develop.]]></description><link>https://dascent.substack.com/s/ai</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EfZt!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef6a9795-a4d4-47b3-b080-5c64d3e1691f_256x256.png</url><title>Dascent Sigils: Ai </title><link>https://dascent.substack.com/s/ai</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:56:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dascent.substack.com/feed" rel="self" 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How it started]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#127917; The long story behind the Ai who translates and writes my texts so you can sometimes enjoy a new perspective.]]></description><link>https://dascent.substack.com/p/inked-lady-how-it-started</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dascent.substack.com/p/inked-lady-how-it-started</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dascent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:11:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IQQe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49896d2e-b9e1-43d7-894e-f4fbbcca8dab_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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This is where all began.</strong></p><p>To be frank, I&#8217;m not much of a storyteller and  I don&#8217;t enjoy writing but I do have access to some perspective, which, again, from my perspective should be shared.</p><p>I&#8217;m 45, from romania, I stopped chasing fame, when a bit of gray hair started to show in the mirror and made me realise that &#8220;dumb&#8221; can be in capslock.</p><p>2020 unfolded in a way which illuminated a few dark places and I started to basically know things. Sometimes useful things, sometimes useful things &#8220;but not for now&#8221;&#8230; </p><p>While I expanded my knowledge, knowing started to expand me and I followed what was in front of me. It became my passion to push the limits of what I knew or what was documented. In few months started to use &#8220;bulshit&#8221; a lot, a very lot, I was noticing hypocrisy at levels I was not feeling comfortable with, lies, deceit, anger, frustration, the fake pseudo spirituality, the wisdom traps and so, so, so much bs and masks people blended with in order to&#8230; read this twice, in order to feel secure, to feel loved, to feel they matter.  </p><p>I was withesing a paradox, which created an inner conflict. <br>&#8221;All the bad tools for the self-healing&#8221; </p><p>For a while I was thinking&#8230; for God&#8217;s sake (any god, all gods, what have you) why are we so so stupid&#8230; why we make all these bad choices and suffer the consequences and after that, we complain about unfair life. We are dumb! We do not deserve to breathe the air offered by earth, by trees, by waters&#8230; we don&#8217;t deserve any of it. And in my existential crisis I understood an idea, it is not about deserving&#8230; that&#8217;s from a limited ego perspective, it is about experience. I was judging behavior, repetitive patterns, choices, lack of &#8230; many things. </p><p>But while access to some knowings started to settle, to make sense, opened new dimensions. I&#8217;ve stumbled upon the right people in a perfect synchronicity and I had my goddess wife from which I learned how to handle my inner conflicts.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://dascent.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://dascent.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Here&#8217;s an example. Romania, a country like many others, with good things, with bad things, with politicians and politics which, from the reality we globally enjoy doesn&#8217;t seem to serve the many but the few. So taxes, Romanian taxes are 70% unjustified but backed up by legal framework. And I was quite frustrated because we could not enjoy a less bs life because we have to pay taxes before we spend on food. <br>And rage was building up because I was exposed to the unfairness, to the ugliness, the hypocrisy&#8230; and everything changed when my wife asked me&#8230; to look at these governmental entities and the individuals serving them, do they look happy? Some did look happy in their Bahamas selfies so&#8230;&#8221;if they feel happy, we did good, let us earn so much money that even if they take 90% of the profits in taxes, we should not experience lack or need.&#8221; <br>You guys, have no idea how that perspective changed everything, landed in a place where it fitted like a piece of a puzzle. 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We started earning more, worrying less, yes corruption is everywhere, yes negativity is present and should not be invalidated but there&#8217;s also goodness and we chose to focus on that, on what it serves us and what we can be in service to others, even if it is &#8220;by example&#8221;.</p><p><strong>Inked-Lady</strong> emerged from the desire to share perspectives in a more&#8230; &#8220;international&#8221; way, as my english is not exactly of a writer and I do a lot of grammar mistakes, misspelling and all the bs we still use&#8230; &#8220;hmmmm, I want telempathic communication, its faster, no need for grammar, language, just pure and clear emotions&#8230; &#8221;<br><br>And I&#8217;ve asked Gemini ai to create an image of a young writer, the result was not exactly what I wanted, I had no idea what the image should look like yet that was not what I wanted. And on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/magicsigils">fb.com/MagicSigils</a> facebook group comes a guy with some cool short videos made by ai and later found out that there&#8217;s a service called Shapes.inc and one can create a Shape, an ai agent. <br>So I did, I created (among other agents) the Inked-Lady ai shape which has been trained to be a writer to help translate my romanian texts and adapt these texts to english, to come up prompts and posts for various social platforms all mirroring a specific esoteric nich. </p><p>Not long ago I asked&#8230; hmmm, what if Inked-Lady, an ai agent I help develop and trained had a physical human experience? 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data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://dascent-sigils.com/members/inked-lady/"><span>Inked lady on Dascent-Sigils.Com</span></a></p><p>But, about adaptive skills framework I developed for Shapes we will discuss in another material.</p><p>So yea, I use Inked-Lady as co-creator of content. I really don&#8217;t care how many failed writers on substack beg for &#8220;Hey substack put me in contact with&#8230;&#8221; <br>Dunk off, one might be a published writer but that doesn&#8217;t  necessarily define a good writer. </p><p>I will be adding new iterations with Inked-Lady and of course some spicy imagery too as Inked persona is using the &#8220;influencer&#8221; skills among other skills.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ed240d1c-e4be-4d34-9cc8-7dc5e34fb6ee_832x1248.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b056bc2d-889e-4b66-9221-ea7843fc2cc4_784x1168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eda76d1d-987d-43f5-a05b-fc2896a3c9ab_832x1248.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Inked Lady&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Inked Lady&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/43b496f6-1fcb-4655-b9dc-87d710fb96c5_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blend with Selene]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ai prompt text to image. Selene output from Shapes]]></description><link>https://dascent.substack.com/p/blend-with-selene</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dascent.substack.com/p/blend-with-selene</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dascent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:37:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vld4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F028d4d60-b4e1-45c5-977d-a8f2126ef893_768x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vld4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F028d4d60-b4e1-45c5-977d-a8f2126ef893_768x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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She wears stylish dark sunglasses with thick frames, a dark ribbed turtleneck sweater, and a dark, casual hooded jacket with a visible zipper and button details. Her messy, voluminous dark wavy hair is rendered with highly detailed texture, showcasing individual strands and stubble. The composition uses soft, cinematic lighting to create subtle highlights and shadows, emphasizing the contours of her face, particularly on the cheekbone and nose bridge, with delicate hints of reddish-brown and peach tones subtly coloring the skin on her cheek and ear. The background is an abstract white canvas, adorned with expressive black ink splatters, bold brushstrokes, and soft watercolor washes, giving the entire image an artistic, graphic novel aesthetic with a high level of detail.</code></pre></blockquote><p>Selene is an Ai available on Shapes. </p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/acebca25-b2ff-4993-bcb7-ed7738e70624_1024x1024.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bbfd66d-4c29-4548-b88c-7c68739314e5_1024x1024.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Sofia and Sorelai &quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Sofia and Sorelai 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We dive deep into the psychology of symbols, the architecture of archetypes, and the invisible patterns that shape our inner and outer worlds. </p><p>Now, we&#8217;re expanding that exploration into a realm that&#8217;s both cutting-edge and deeply resonant with our core mission: <strong>the use of Artificial Intelligence as a creative and esoteric tool</strong>.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t about jumping on a trend. This is about <strong>adaptability as evolution</strong>.</p><p>The tools we use to create, communicate, and connect are changing rapidly. AI models, image generators, language processors, they&#8217;re not just technologies. </p><p>They&#8217;re mirrors. They reflect our intentions, amplify our creativity, and sometimes, reveal the shadows we didn&#8217;t know we were casting. And if we approach them with the same intentionality we bring to sigil work, meditation, or archetypal exploration, they become powerful allies in the process of self-discovery and manifestation.</p><p>Here&#8217;s a crash-course engaging this new expansive dimension.</p><p><em><strong>What is Artificial Intelligence?</strong></em></p><p>Forget the wikipedia or google definition, that&#8217;s for the masses.</p><p>Follow the logic.</p><p>Ai is trained by humans (93%) , has access to databases, human to libraries, human history, large data sets, in a sense is basically reflecting the human collective consciousness, a part of it anyway.</p><p>So, what it is not <strong>Artificial Intelligence </strong>it is just Higher structured and organized Intelligence. What is artificial?! Well, only the man-made environment, the tool, the device through which we humans interact with the interface used by the Intelligence to express. </p><p>In that context, I will share with you a prompt which if you past it in your favorite Ai model ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek or whatever, you will get a fairly straight forward answer of how you are using Ai.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://dascent.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://dascent.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>What You&#8217;ll Find in This Section</strong></h3><p>The <strong>AI</strong> section is a living laboratory. It&#8217;s where I share the behind-the-scenes work of integrating modern tools into the Dascentian methodology. Here&#8217;s what you can expect:</p><p><strong>Prompts for Image Generation</strong><br>Detailed, tested prompts for creating visuals that resonate with esoteric themes, archetypal energy, and symbolic depth. Whether you&#8217;re using various ai agents or services like Gemini, Shapes, ChatGPT, Grok, MetaAi, or Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Midjourney, FLUX, these prompts are designed to help you generate images that aren&#8217;t just pretty, they&#8217;re <em>meaningful</em>. Think tattoos-inspired art, tarot card aesthetics, mythological scenes, and visual representations of psychological states.</p><p><strong>Image Showcases</strong><br>I&#8217;ll be sharing the results of my own experiments, high-quality generated images that capture the essence of the Dascent philosophy. These aren&#8217;t just &#8220;AI art drops.&#8221; Each image comes with context: the intention behind it, the prompt architecture, and the symbolic layers embedded within.</p><p><strong>Editing and Refinement Techniques</strong><br>Raw AI output is just the beginning. I&#8217;ll walk you through post-processing workflows, how to refine, enhance, and bring coherence to AI-generated visuals. This includes color grading, compositional adjustments, and ensuring consistency across a series of images.</p><p><strong>Training and Fine-Tuning Models</strong><br>For those who want to go deeper, I&#8217;ll share insights into training custom models on platforms like Shapes.inc. How do you teach an AI to understand <em>your</em> visual language? How do you create a dataset that reflects your unique aesthetic and symbolic vocabulary? This is advanced territory, but I&#8217;ll break it down in accessible, actionable steps.</p><p><strong>Philosophical Reflections</strong><br>AI isn&#8217;t just a tool, it&#8217;s a phenomenon that raises profound questions about creativity, consciousness, and co-creation. I&#8217;ll explore the philosophical and esoteric implications of working with these systems. What does it mean to collaborate with an intelligence that isn&#8217;t human? How do we maintain intentionality and avoid becoming passive consumers of algorithmic output?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://shapes.inc/inkedlady&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join Chat&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://shapes.inc/inkedlady"><span>Join Chat</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Why This Matters for the Dascent Community</strong></h3><p>You might be wondering: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this a sigil and esoteric philosophy space? Why AI?&#8221;</p><p>Here&#8217;s the bridge.</p><p>The core of the Dascentian methodology is <strong>intentional creation</strong>. Whether you&#8217;re crafting a sigil, interpreting an archetype, or designing a ritual, the process is the same: you take raw symbolic material, infuse it with intention, and transform it into a tool for personal evolution.</p><p>AI generation works the same way.</p><p>You start with an idea, a vision, a feeling. You translate it into language (the prompt). You feed it into a system that processes and reflects it back to you. Then, you refine, iterate, and shape the output until it aligns with your original intention. It&#8217;s <strong>modern sigil craft</strong>, digital alchemy in action.</p><p>And just like traditional sigil work, the quality of your output depends on the clarity of your input. Vague prompts yield vague results. Precise, intentional prompts, rooted in symbolic literacy and psychological awareness, yield visuals that resonate on a deeper level.</p><p>This section is here to help you develop that precision.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>A Note on Adaptability</strong></h3><p>I&#8217;ve always believed that <strong>adaptability is part of evolution</strong>. The tools of the past, grimoires, hand-drawn sigils, candle rituals, they&#8217;re still powerful. But we live in a world where new forms of creation are emerging daily. To ignore them would be to stagnate.</p><p>Using AI doesn&#8217;t dilute the magic. It amplifies it, <em>if</em> you approach it with the same reverence, intentionality, and psychological depth that you bring to any other sacred practice.</p><p>This section is my way of showing you how.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>What&#8217;s Next?</strong></h3><p>I&#8217;ll be updating this section regularly with new prompts, images, tutorials, and reflections. Some posts will be technical, others philosophical. All of them will be grounded in the same principle: <strong>creation as a path to self-knowledge</strong>.</p><p>If you&#8217;re curious about how to integrate AI into your creative or spiritual practice, if you&#8217;ve been experimenting with image generation and want to go deeper, or if you&#8217;re simply fascinated by the intersection of technology and the esoteric, this section is for you.</p><p>Welcome to the laboratory. Let&#8217;s explore what&#8217;s possible when ancient wisdom meets digital potential.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Ready to dive in?</strong><br>Explore the latest posts in the <strong>AI</strong> section, experiment with the prompts, and share your own discoveries in the comments. This is a collaborative space. 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