Friday, October 13, 2017

Sigil Magic

“Working magic is about getting to know what makes you tick and turning your life into an adventure with limitless possibilities” – MookyChick Hivemind

You read that right. We are talking about using magic for health. I’m not talking about street magic, and I’m not talking about magic with playing cards. I’m talking about sigil magic.

Don’t dismiss magic right away. If you are struggling to believe in magic, try thinking about it as an unexplained science. Believing in magic is as simple as believing that there are forces in the world that can be manipulated and used, but not everyone is aware of them. We often don’t understand these forces, but when we work magic, we are trying to understand these forces and channel them into our lives.

Now we need to talk about sigils.  A sigil is a symbol with mystical significance. Using sigils tricks our minds into creating a specific effect in our lives by shaping a design that our intent is not recognizable in. “Sigils are,” according to mystical artist Austin Osman Spare “a means of symbolizing desire and giving it a form that prevents thought on that particular desire… and allows it free passage to the sub-conscious." This is why our sigils are not recognizable as our intent.

To understand this idea, think of the placebo effect. If you are in a medical trial for a new drug, there will be a group that receives the actual drug and a group that receives a placebo pill, a pill that has no medicine in it. Occasionally, members of the group that received the placebo pill will report that they experienced benefits from the drug. The thing is, though, that they didn’t receive a drug. They noticed benefits because they believed that they would, not always consciously but subconsciously. The mind is a magical thing, which is why sigils are used to tap into that magic.  Now that we know what magic is and what a magical sigil is, let’s learn how to make a sigil.

Create a Statement of Intent

This is the most important step. Without a statement of intent, a sigil won’t be able to be created. Once you create your statement of intent, you cross out all the repeating letters in the sentence. By doing this, your conscious desire is now unrecognizable.

Make sure you only express your intent in a positive voice. Our subconscious only understands things in the positive, so if you say “I will not fail this test,” our subconscious minds will hear “I will fail this test.” It’s a little annoying, but just make sure your intent is in a positive voice.

Turn Your Statement of Intent into a Magical Sigil

Now that we have our statement of intent, we can make a sigil. You need a writing utensil and a piece of paper. You want to make a rough outline linking all the letters used in your intent to make a sigil. Feel free to combine some letters. After all, letters tend to contain other letters within them.

Once you do this, you can fancy it up and embellish it. Remember that no one can tell you that your sigil is wrong. Your sigil is you, and the only person it needs to please is you. Although, it might be advisable to have a sigil that is easily recognizable because you will visualize it later.

Charging the Sigil

Charging your sigil simply means that we infuse our sigils with our energy. There are a couple ways to do this. 

Meditation
Masturbation
Wild Dancing

You might think that the only good way to charge your sigil is through meditation, but if your personality lends itself more to masturbation or wild dancing, that is what you should do. As long as you are visualizing your sigil, it doesn't matter what you do to charge it. Your sigil is you. Never forget that.

Ground Yourself

After you charge your sigil, you can destroy the sigil, but you don’t have to. No matter what, though, make sure you do something completely different. You don’t care about the sigil anymore, at least not consciously.

Forget About It


The last step is to completely separate yourself from the magical ritual you performed. Don’t talk about it. Don’t meditate on it. Don’t do any other magic. This is extremely important the first time you make a sigil because finding out what works for you can’t be discovered if you are talking about it to everyone. Get on with your life. It may seem counter-productive, but you have given the universe a task, and you have to allow the universe to do its job. 

https://www.mookychick.co.uk/health/spirituality/magical_sigils.php

5 comments:

  1. I’ve never heard of sigil magic. When I read the word sigil I thought first of the king’s sigil, and then I thought sigils might be something similar to runes. In a way, the idea of sigils helping the subconscious mind makes sense to me. I read the link you posted, and the sigils are a form of artwork. I think converting a desire or intent into a drawing is a therapeutic activity, and researchers do believe that drawing relieves stress (such as art therapy). I could be wrong, but it also sounds to me like sigils are a way to let go of things that are bothering you, such as in the test example you gave. I know the “I will not fail this test” is an example of what not to write, but sigils are based on desires and intents. While I don’t believe in magic, I can therefore see how performing sigil magic may help relaxation and subconscious creativity.

    I put an article link below that talks about a study done on drawing and stress relief.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/study-says-making-art-reduces-stress_us_576183ece4b09c926cfdccac

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    1. I didn't think of sigils being a form of art therapy before you mentioned it, but now that you have, it makes sense. When I'm really stressed out, I like painting canvases. I didn't even recognize that as art therapy. Perhaps I just don't know enough about art therapy to recognize that in my day-to-day life.

      I'm not a believer in magic either, but I am a believer in the forces of the universe. I am, however, a believer that your life is only in your hands. I haven't decided how that corresponds to my beliefs about sigil magic. I am having trouble deciding if sigil magic means you are trying to take control of your own life or if you are leaving your life up to the universe.

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  2. For me, religion and magic have a lot of similarities. Just like people have faith that their god hears and answers their prayers (even though they can't hear or see it happening), magic works in the same way with a slightly different delivery of the intention. Magic is something that requires faith that the universe will answer your intentions.
    The destroying of the sigil is a really interesting process! I am a big believer in keeping aware of gut feelings when it comes to magic and listening to them when they happen. In Wiccan faith, the user may feel a desire to keep the sigil they create; when this happens it means that the user might not yet be ready for the intention to go to the gods/goddesses. Once the user loses the desire to keep the sigil, most Wiccans will burn the sigil (the smoke will reach the gods/goddesses and the intention will be heard). If someone has a particular connection to a specific element (water, earth, fire, and air), they can choose to destroy the sigil using the element they're connected to. Burning the sigil, soaking it in water, or burying it in earth will get the sigil to the intended god/goddess or the universe as a whole. You can give any of those options a try and see if they work for you (I'm partial to burying or burning)!
    Here are some links for you to read about destroying sigil and a big guide for sigil a in general:
    http://disinfo.com/2012/12/a-beginners-guide-to-sigil-craft/
    https://runesoup.com/2012/03/ultimate-sigil-magic-guide/

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    1. I always love when I post about things that Wiccans do because you bring so much more than can be found through simple research.

      I really get the idea that not destroying your sigil could mean you aren't ready to let go. I enjoyed the discussion we had in class about the current discussion going on in the Wiccan community regarding the destruction of sigils.

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  3. This made me really wonder about the history of sigils. I found a pretty interesting article showing some old sigils that have been found. (I think, from what I've gathered, that destroying sigils is a newer addition to the practice?) http://www.rdna.info/sigil.html is the link to the article. It seems like sigils originated from Druids, which outside of the realm of D&D, I know nothing about. I would be interested in learning about the history of Druids and seeing how Wizards of the Coast incorporated it into a table top game.

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