A Bearwytch Guide to Pokemancy

Enter the Unown

The unown are a favored topic of mine to touch on and explore. They have been around as long as, yet separate from the creator Arceus. They dwell in their own dimension, yet sometimes frequent old tombs and ruins, pretending to be hieroglyphs. In their solo state, they may seem weak, only knowing one move, but that one move has a deep meaning.

In their dormant state, unown are unmanifest, unobservable, yet when they come together, the creative potential reaches magnitudes almost unheard of.
The unmanifest is the Absolute, the pure and formless ground of being from which creation and manifestation arise. As such, the unmanifested is free from change, the unmoved mover. It also, necessarily, cannot be comprehended or explained in terms of any manifest reality, neither mundane nor transcendent. The Absolute is the unknowable, undefinable, unfathomable, immutable, timeless, spaceless, indivisible, formless Omnipresent Divine Reality.
When unown come together, it is said an odd power emerges. Of course, when you combine letters, you make words, and with words you can create spells- it's all in the name. Spell, ya know. Each letter has a meaning, a force behind it, both in the human world, but also when dealing with Pokémon.  So we go from unmanifest, the ultimate pre potential, and then shift into chi, in our universe, circulating life energy.

It is known that the unown are based upon the Greek/ Phoenician  alphabet, with 26 letters. Added to that are the punctuation marks '!' and '?' , giving a total of 28 varying forms. Visually some look similar to  the cryllic alphabet.

The Phoenician alphabet

The Greek alphabet

The cryllic alphabet

Here's the list game freak released of the unown and their meanings.
In Pokémon cards, you find various unown cards, each with a different word, or simple spell written upon them. Just as you would with rune staves, you can combine these to make glyphs and sigils.
Their use in divination would be similar to casting runes, and interpreting their meaning based on your own experience with the symbolism.

I'll share my interpretations below, although you can feel free to seek your own meanings, as these are personal to me.

Unown glyph meanings in divination:
A- angry- conflict, confrontation
B- bear- motherhood, spirit, protection
C- chase- travel, wasting time, frivolity
D- direct- positive, continue, teach, hierophant
E- engage- action, pos/neg,
F- find- questions, answers, location
G- give- cups, fulfillment, generosity
H- help- be open to giving and receiving
I- increase- addition to the situation
J- join- community, friendship, work, orders
K- keep- stay to this path, selflessness/selfishness
L- laugh- medicine. Banishing , cleansing
M- make- pure creation, go out and do the thing
N- nuzzle- romance, lovers, hope, family
O- observe- no action required, just watch
P- preform- action, knight cards, work
Q- quicken- fast paced, changes, tower
R- reassure- everything's gonna be okay, hope, the sun, the star
S- search- seeking, introspection, helping find things, spirituality
T- tell - communication, truth, spells
U- undo- look to the past to help with issues in the future
V- vanish- disappear, lay low, introspection, hermit, solitude
W- want- manifest, the magician, ego
X- xxxx- null, no answer, not now
Y- yield- stop, pause, wait
Z- zoom- pay close attention to your surroundings, haste, travel, air and earth.
!- exclamation, strong answer, important
?- a question, unsure, unclear answer