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A sigil by any other name

 
 
remorse
00:23 / 07.09.02
I used to try and cram the whole twenty-four letter alphabet into one little symbol. This was before I ever knew what a sigil was or meant. I just crammed a bunch of letters into the smallest space possible. Then I would write phrases out of less letters and the symbol would evolve into different shapes. Since then I've created my 'get laid', 'find money' and 'world peace' sigils, with no results.
When I heard that my aunt is hurting with throat cancer among other ailments, I created a sigil immediatley and meditated for longer than I can remember. It was something to the effect of: Rose heal and feel no pain. Obviously I truly felt the need to work this healing spell, she was up and off to the beach a day later, feeling fantastic. I commited fully to charging that sigil and I felt it work.

Could someone explain further (or post a link, or reccomend book) on charging and releasing sigils. I know of the deep meditation method, which I used and felt with urgent focus. There is also the infamous 'wanking', I just can't concetrate on three things at once enough for that to work.

Other than those two methods, any suggenstions?
 
 
Trijhaos
00:47 / 07.09.02
Here's an old thread about alternate charging methods. There are probably a few more threads about charging sigils and you can find them by making use of the wonderful search function.
 
 
Anathema
01:07 / 09.09.02
Remorse: Take a trip over to my site, Thee Sigil Garden. You will find lots of ideas and inspiration on things to try with your sigils visually, as well as many essays, writings and links for various methods of charging sigils. Your most effective work will be that which comes to you sponstaneously but it doesn't hurt to have a look at how other people approach the subject in order to get the ball rolling. There's more on sigils to explore at www.topy.net as well. Best ov Luck.
 
 
illmatic
08:01 / 09.09.02
Jan Fries "Visual Magick" is very good and he sees sigils as manifestations of "true will" (whatever that is) rather than a big magicakl mail order catalogue.

Steven Mace's stuff is brill (I think you can order it from Dagon Productions (www.dagonproductions.com/) as is Phil Hine's.

If you really wanna ben' up ya head trying reading the daddy, Austin Spare.

IMHO, best thing to do put your own approach together. I see all my own failures and successes as part of this.
 
 
remorse
19:12 / 09.09.02
Thanks Tri, Ill and Anathema. That is exactly the info I was looking for. Very helpful, thanks again to all.

Anathema, I know what you mean about the spontanaity of effective work. That is how I achieve most goals naturally.
 
 
fondula
19:53 / 09.09.02
I once puked my guts out on a drawn sigil.. I think it's the most effective one I ever maded . Note that I didn't puke on it intentionally, but hey, I got tremendiously sick - it was an opportunity!

On the charging methods: anything works, as long as you generate energy and direct it into the sigil. I once experimented with 'digital entities', trying to create a servitor exclusively inside a computer, and fed it with a continuous stream of entropic data and specifically-choosen digital images.. didn't work out that well - somehow 'psychic' energy seems to be most appropriate.
 
  
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