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charging sigils

 
 
karma farma
09:38 / 05.08.01
I have problems charging sigils using some of the more popular methods. I need some ideas for alternate techniques. Realistic and varied ways would be of great help. Thanks in advance.
 
 
SMS
09:38 / 05.08.01
What have you tried and how do you know you're having trouble charging?
 
 
Mordant Carnival
12:47 / 05.08.01
Without knowing what you've tried in the past and what went wrong it's hard to say very much, but off the top of my head:

Big pitfall #1: Was your sigil too ambitious? eg, bag off with Helen Mirren tomorrow, blow up the Universe, etc, etc.

Big pitfall #2: Was your sigil too restrictive? "I will recive money in the next four months" is a lot more doable than "I will find £349 in a brown paper bag on the number four bus to Euston Station next Thursday".

Big pitfall #3: Did you find yourself dwelling on your intent a lot? This can blow the whole thing out of the water.

Right, as to alternative sigil charging techniques: Create a nice big copy of your sigil and blu-tac it somewhere you'll walk past it several times a day. After a while it'll cease to register conciously.

Tape your sigil to an inconspicuous part of the TV screen.

Make a screensaver of your sigil (never done this but apparently it's effective).

Turn your magickal intent into a mantra and chant it whilst focussing on your sigil.

Write your magickal intent out fifteen times a day. (This is a far meatier technique than it sounds.)

Good luck!
 
 
klint
00:24 / 06.08.01
Another method is to tape the sigil to your ceiling above your bed or someplace else so it will be the last thing you see before falling asleep and the first thing you see after waking up.
 
 
Annunnaki-9
15:02 / 09.08.01
One I've been expiramenting with lately I call 'compression.' I'll make a somewhat lenghthy statement of intent, pretty precise but not TOO precise (I rarely include a time frame, I want to be surprised). Generally, at least recently, I write it up into a rhyming poem and memorize it. I'm no poet at all, but the poem format makes it easier to remember. Then in suitable surroundings (buck nekkid in the mountains is my thing), I dance around and chant the mantra. After some time I dissassocaite with the actual words- it becomes just a series of sounds to me- then I know I'm getting somewhere. As I continue, I let the syllables collapse in on themselves. It's a gradual thing and shouldn't be forced, just let it happen. This really is the hard part- letting it collapse. Eventually, a long statement of say six lines of poetry can 'fall into' two, three or four syllables. Then I 'seal' it by any number of techniques- if I'm with my girl, sex, if alone, sex.

Another thing I do for charging an already made sigil is waht I call 'The Flex.' I stand on my tip-toes and flex every muscle in my body that I can. If you hold it long enough, eventually, you'll fall down- and at the moment of loosing balance, I open my eyes for one blink, looking at a previously placed, large drawing of my sigil. By the time you hit the dirt, your eyes are closed agin and I imagine the thump on the ground kicks the sigil into the ether. I try to get up and remove the sigil without looking directly at it.
 
 
Myfi
17:00 / 09.08.01
What's the deal with the 'seal' thing? Why sex? I seriously don't get it. Is it just the charge/thrill/energy? How does this aid the 'sealing' of the sigil?

Here's one I'm going to try, incase anyone is interested.

Meditate and ground...take the wish and put it into a bubble, fill the bubble with your own energy until you see it glow, seal it in a golden shell, send it out through your aura into the cosmos...once it's out there, it's down to whatever you believe in to find it and make it real.
 
 
Mordant Carnival
17:37 / 09.08.01
quote:Originally posted by Myfi:
Why sex? I seriously don't get it. Is it just the charge/thrill/energy?


It's not so much sex in and of itself. It's that blank moment at orgasm when the mind clears completely of extraneous thought that's important.
 
 
Myfi
19:13 / 09.08.01
So is it the moment of clear-mindedness alone, or are you supposed to do something in that moment?
 
 
Mordant Carnival
19:14 / 09.08.01
quote:Originally posted by Myfi:
So is it the moment of clear-mindedness alone, or are you supposed to do something in that moment?


Yeah. You look at the sigil.
 
 
Seth
20:20 / 09.08.01
I constructed my first sigil a couple of nights ago. I’ve gaffa taped it inside my djembe (hand made African drum - see the Bang the Drum topic). I plan to charge it by spending an evening worshipping God using only the djembe - making the entire event a prayer offering. My djembe has been used in a spiritual context for years, and so it already resonates with the Holy Ghost. It’s a very physical, very personal instrument.

My djembe already has two carved symbols at its base (one of them means “accept God,” I think), and so I won’t be doing anything I haven’t done countless times before (at least, that’s the way I see it from my limited understanding of all this). Don’t know what the results will be!
 
 
Mordant Carnival
20:43 / 09.08.01
Oh, yeah... regarding the 'put your sigil somewhere you'll walk past it' technique... you might want to put up a 'decoy' design as well, and leave it there. That way you'll get used to walking past some sort of sigil flavoured object and your concious mind will tend to ignore it even after you've put up the real sigil.

Hope all that made sense.
 
 
z3r0
11:32 / 10.08.01
I'm still snooping around in the "Magick", even if my experiences with magick were not sactisfatory, just in case I'll bump into some piece of information that puts me back on the track... anyway, this was a technique I developed some time ago:

-Create a card with small squares printed on it, covering all its surface (like one of those old perforated cards they used in computers)

-Pick a poem which you feel connected to, which you specially like or feel its ressonance, and write it on the card, every word in a square.

-Make your intent as usual, take off the vowels and repeated consonants.

- Cut off the holes in the card where the letters from the poem match the letter of your intent (all matching letter from the card must be cut off, even repeated ones)

-Take a piece of blank paper, put it underneath the card and fill the holes with a pen or pencil, so the piece of paper will get marked.

-Now take this paper, which is now filled with random spots, and connect the spots the way you prefer. This is your sigil, born from mixing your intent with a poem (oh-la-la)

-Jerk off looking at your sigil (whaddya expected?) AND reciting the poem.

-Do whatever you wish with the piece of paper.

-The perforated card must be inserted at a crossroad, or inside a Bible, or near a stream of running water, or in a ley line (You got the idea. Glue it on the asphalt, tape it on a tree, make it meaningful).

This way is powerful because it requires you to focus not on the intent, but in the whole process of creating the thing. Hope it helps.
 
 
grant
15:26 / 10.08.01
Put it on stickers and put them up everywhere. Try not to get caught by cops.

focus on sigil while going potty.

make mantras instead and chant during long road trips.
 
  
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