We use art in therapy to heal our psychic wounds, and to express emotions and states of being to one another. So it’s no wonder at all that we also use art to create magic. Any symbolic language can be used to carry meaning and magic.Īs long as you know what your symbols mean, they have meaning. A solitary practitioner may have no need to use a common library of symbols and meanings, because their art and magic is only meaningful and meant to be read and understood by themselves. If you work with others, it’s useful to have a shared language so that greater meaning can be conveyed. A chalice, a knife, a pentacle drawn on the ground, will all have a specific meaning shared among a set of practitioners. Learning hidden symbolic languages can bring deeper understanding of rituals and artworks, literature, architecture, and more: knowing that some symbols tend to repeat and mean roughly the same thing every time they appear can help illuminate meaning to outsiders. Any language can be used to build symbolic magic. Math, from basic addition and subtraction all the way up to differential calculus and quantum physics has a language that can be used to communicate all sorts of meaning. Define your variables and write an equation for your magic: if A is yourself, and B is wealth, then A + B = here and now (for certain values of ‘here’ and ‘now’.) Sigils are a way to take the symbolic meaning and condense it down into one single image. A sigil is shorthand for a longer chunk of communicated information. There are tons upon tons of famous sigils. Sigil of Mars, the Moon, Lead, Gold, alchemical sigils abound. Magic squares and ceremonial magical works, Kabbalah, and more! You can use a sigil created by systems lost in time, dragged out of dusty books or translated from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. You can grab sigils from your fave on Insta or Tumblr, or make your own. A sigil has meaning if you imbue it with meaning. A sigil that is shared, can have meaning and power because many people have imbued that symbol with meaning and power. Hex marks, runes, bindrunes and emblems famous in all sorts of different cultures.
There are tons of sigils out there.įor myself, if I’m going to use a sigil created by someone else, I prefer to understand how it was created, and what the elements of the sigil mean.
I have used sigils that I didn’t fully understand, trusting in the tradition and accrued energy of the sigil, but I still would rather know, than simply trust. I do tend to have trust issues…Ĭreating a sigil is fairly easy! One simple method is to take the letters for a word which represents to you the point of the sigil, either run the letters together or on top of one another, perhaps using common shapes or strokes to build the sigil. Simplify until you have something that is pleasing to your eye, but still conveys the meaning you need. You can also create a sigil by thinking of a common image that implies the meaning you’d like. Achievement could be a star, growth a leaf, abundance a flower. Draw out a simple line image, and there you go. How do you use a sigil, once you’ve got it? Combined with a letter based sigil, or used to enhance the sigil, and you can build a powerful image to use.
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