Sigil work is a mainstay of chaos magic and it has become common even within the more positive-vibe-only practices of vanilla witchcraft. I first came across it in a book called 'Shaping Formless Fire: Distilling the Quintessence of Magic' by Stephen Mace and others. This is not the usual chaos magic classic, but it is a useful and engaging work for beginners.
The principle is simple. You take an intention or statement of will, write it out, remove the vowels and/or repeating letters and see what is left.
So you might take
I want to be king of the moles
and remove vowels and repeating letters so you end up with:
wntbkgfmls
Then you combine the letters into a form that is attractive to you and makes a single symbol. You can use letters upside down or backwards or merge letters into each other. Make it beautiful or meaningful to you. Consider your intention as you make it. Play appropriate music, image yourself as king of the moles, turn the sigil into a mole in your mind. Think mole-like thoughts. Make into something resembling a king of the moles.
If you are a vanilla witch and influenced by new thought, as most of us (I have written previously about the influence of new thought on magic), a good use of sigils is to remind us of our intentions and to propel the will forward. So it is like an affirmation we could carry with us, write on our exam paper, on our car, on our mirror. It is a stylised way of saying positive things to ourselves or expressing positivity in the world.
What this misses is the charge. Sure you can breathe on it or bless it or cleanse it with smoke or put it on your altar, and that is magical work. But to charge the sigil you need to change your consciousness.
Orgasm is a great way of charging sigils. The idea is that at the moment of orgasm, you focus your entire will into the sigil, and then hurl it into the void. This is not easy to do. The state of orgasm naturally is diffuse and difficult to get a hold of. Focusing power at this point requires practice and self discipline. Then, what to do with the sigil itself. You do something to enable you to forget about it. Bury it or burn it. Leave it in the bottom of your wardrobe. Then you forget about it. That also is hard to do, as ignoring is not forgetting and nor is wondering about whether or not it is working. So, forget about it, don't mess with it, let it do its job. Go off and become king of the moles.
You can see why this is simple but not easy, and why you need to practice and experiment with yourself beforehand. This is where the thinking tricks bear fruit.
Here are some twists and ideas around this simple, but not easy, process.
Tricks to remember your sigil so you can focus on it at the moment of orgasm: I read about writing it all over the body of your partner in fluorescent paint and having sex in the dark. I have not done that. Calling out your intention at the moment of orgasm is a secondary reminder - I can imagine shouts of 'I want to be king of the moles!!' coming from the bedroom amusing your roommates. (Perhaps shouting Oh God has the same effect, effectively sending orgasmic power to a deity, or dedicating your orgasm.)
Anointing a sigil with further symbols of power can help. I mentioned the Court House Workings in a previous post, where four sigils were anointed with blood, cum, bourbon and the ash of a large denomination banknote.
A similar change of consciousness can be achieved by other means. Eroto-comatose lucidity is the obvious example. A Shamanic trance is also effective, providing you are deep enough to perceive the void but not do deep you lose all your will. You can see how much practice is needed to do this properly. I have used the group power of a black metal gig, casting a sigil written on paper into the pit at the climax of a track I knew would do it for me. You could use any mass event where consciousness is altered by music or chanting or movement, such as a festival or a political demonstration or a bar fight. This way you are surfing on the power of everyone else's psyches as well as your own.
EMOJI MAGIC
I think I invented emoji magic. I probably didn't, but I don't know anyone who has done it and I did make this up myself. I have suggested it on various online forums but people don't seem to get how it works. I like the idea of using what it to hand, and using tech. We are wedded to our phones, why not use them for magic as we use them for everything else. It is like grabbing a kitchen knife and telling it it is an athame. It is a quick and dirty magic of the sort I enjoy.
Instead of writing words, use emojis on your phone. Tell a story. Your friend has been called in for a urine test at work and he thinks he will fail. Your emoji string might start with an image of weed, or something like this😰. Then you put in some images of cleansing such as a tap running water or a drop of water. Then an image of success, a happy face or a medal. Here is another example. Your friend has broken her leg and is in hospital. You might start your emoji string with images of illness, then images of doctors or red crosses, then images of healing (perhaps herbs or water), and then an image like a dancer or a sport, depending on what your friend is into. After you have made your emoji string, charge it, as above, and send it to your friend. You may not want to mention how you charge it.
The principle behind sigil magic is the condensation of energy. Emojis force you to say a lot with a little, you are restricted to a limited number of images which can be only representative of what is going on. It is the limitation and condensation that provides the force behind your intention. This is similar to the use of only a few letters in symbolic form that you use for the written sigil. Either way, you are taking a lot of intention, and forcing it through a narrow channel of limited symbolism in order to condense its power, in order to release it into the void to do its work.
You will be pleased to know my sketchy friend got a clean urine test. Go me!
And as always, blessings on you, gentle reader.
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