I’ve been asked by a few people how I make my sigils, the marks for various purposes and intents. I’ve decided to make this little tutorial in order to illustrate how I go about this process. Very important, as always, is the frame of mine of the practitioner. Austin Osman Spare is the one who popularized and created(?) this method.

First, you take a sentence or desire. Write out your intent fully. For this, I’ve picked….

Next, you go through the sentence and cross out all duplicate words. I generally spend this time also separating the vowels from the consonants.

Now, I start taking the letters and arranging them in an aesthetically pleasing manner. It doesn’t matter whether or not I use all of the letters, as long as the meaning remains constant in my mind. Focus is paramount.

Having created an image I’m passing fond of, I start playing with that. I add arrows, swirls (if appropriate), and lines. I may also erase parts of a letter to make a more cohesive symbol. If the symbol was very disjointed and opened, I may close the symbol by removing the entire middle part. This one seems fine as is, as far as that is concerned. I want to maintain the imagery of a peaceful and protected place, so I’ve turned the image on it’s side to make a cup like shape.

There are other ways to do this, as well. One method is the Rose Cross Sigil Method. There are numerous ways to go about sigil creation. An important thing in all of them is the focus of intent, the desire for the will to be done, and the ability to charge the object, once the creation is complete.