sigils are symbols that are said to have some sort of magical power they are symbols that you can use in your magical practice to achieve a desired result and you can make sigils for pretty much anything they're an easy way to incorporate the power of psychology into your magical practice as well because during the charging and activation process of your sigil which is what we'll discuss later in this video you are lodging these sigils deep into your subconscious mind sigils work because they manifest later on through your subconscious mind when you aren't consciously thinking about it so let's get into how to create your sigils and I will start from the least complex way to make a Sigil and work up to more complex methods as we go along let's start by identifying what Our intention is for this sigil let's say we want to create a Sigil for home protection so I would write my phrase as my home is protected and notice that this is in the present tense I spent a lot of time talking about intentions and how to write intentions in my video titled how to cast a spell and you're definitely more than welcome to check that out if you'd like but it's really important that when you're writing intention you want to make sure it's in the present tense as if it's something that you already have your brain doesn't actually know the difference between what is real and what is not essentially what has happened yet and what has yet to happen um so you want to make sure that you're writing it in the present tense that way by The Law of Attraction you are attracting the things you want into your life so we are going to write this as my home is protected I wrote a little example right below it that says my home will be protected and we don't want that so I'm going to ex that out we don't want my home will be protected we want my home is protected and when you're writing these intentions you want to make sure that your intention whatever sentence you choose is less than seven words or so approximately you want to make sure that it is short and concise you don't want to have a giant run-on sentence here to work with because that will make your sigil making process nearly impossible so make sure that it is short concise and effective make sure it's in the present tense and then you want to focus on the things that you want not the things that you don't want so a great example of this is let's say you are wanting to do a spell for anxiety let's say you have a lot of anxiety and you really want to try to um calm your mind a bit and it's basically an anti-anxiety spell but instead of calling it an anti-anxiety spell we call it a calming spell so you want to focus on the things you want not the things you don't want so if you're trying to get rid of anxiety you don't want to focus on the anxiety part because that's something you don't want anymore what you do want to focus on is being calm being safe and being grounded so if you were anxious and doing a spell with that instead of saying I no longer have anxiety you would essentially say I am calm I am safe I am grounded Etc so make sure that you're always focusing on the things again that you want not the things that you don't want so now that we have our our sentence here of Our intention the first method that we're going to do is essentially by um creating it from shapes and intuition alone so essentially you would intuitively draw whatever feels right for you um for the phrase that you chose so for this method um you may want to do some research beforehand and get a General sense of the symbolism behind circles triangles crosses Etc or you may just want to be spontaneous you know do do whatever feels right for you I did a little example sigil here so let's say my home is protected I'm going to draw a little house here with a little roof and then I want to put a shield around it so let's say I'm creating a shield around it x marks the spot and a circle typically indicates protection and then let's say I want to add some arrows because I want my home to be protected from all angles so I am going to add some arrows in here and that's that you can see that you've got the Little House in the center x marks the spot the circle for protection and then some arrows indicating that you want the energy to protect you from all different angles and that is just a super simple easy way to do the um the intuition version and like I said we're going to start from the easiest way to create a Sigil and work up to more complex versions so yeah you can essentially draw whatever you want you can also take sigils that already exist and elaborate onto that so as I showed you previously with these symbols here you can take other symbols that have meaning to you and then build onto that so that is the first way now the second method is by using the the letters itself so again we have our phrase my home is protected and what we're going to do here is we are going to cross out all the vowels that way we are leaving only the sounding consonants and and after we do that it leaves us with these consonants here and then what you do from here is you go through and you cross out any repeating letters so I've got a repeating M here and I've got a repeating T here and then that leaves us with our final version here so these are the letters that we're going to work with moving forward for this way of creating a Sigil and for the next few phases um or or ways of creating sigils so you can use these letters to create the sigil itself so I drew a little example here of what that could look could look like but essentially you are going to draw the letters in and create a shape so we've got the M here we've got the H here and then I decided to do the S above the P I decided to put it down below and you can do them upside down right side up you know however you want to twist those and then on the opposite side is where I did my R and then the T I decided to do down below and the C I added towards the top you can see that it's obviously backwards a little bit and then the D I decided to add onto the T down below so as you can see we have our sigil here just by using those letters alone so that is the second way to create a Sigil the third way to create a Sigil is by using the witch's sigil wheel so this is the witch's wheel here and we are going to kind of take what we've already done with the previous method so we have taken our phrase my home is protected we have crossed out all the vowels leaving only the sounding consonants and then we have uh crossed out any repeating consonants leaving us with this set of letters here so we're going to use this set of letters here and take it to our witch's sigil wheel and so we start with M we work our way down to H up to S over to P down to R over to T over to C and down to D so that would give us a Sigil that essentially looks like this right here so we have all these different lines and the open circle versus the closed Circle I want to touch on that briefly because not everyone does this but I do find that a lot of practitioners like to indicate where it starts and when it stops so we started on the m so usually an open circle typically indicates the start of the sigil and then we ended on the D and a closed Circle would indicate the the end of that sigil you can choose to include this if you want you certainly don't have to but that's what that means the open circle versus the closed circle is the start and the beginning or excuse me the the start and the end and so that would be our sigil using the witch's wheel the fourth and final method that I will be showing you is through planetary grids this is the most complex way to make sigils in my opinion at least there's a lot more steps to it and you do have to have some prior knowledge uh a little bit of planetary magic so you would want to know these seven traditional planets so you have the Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Saturn and Jupiter so you would essentially want to know what archetypal energies each of those planets represents and I do plan on making a whole planetary Magic series I'm hoping to do that in the next couple weeks we'll see how soon I can get to that but um you definitely need some prior knowledge on which planets to use for what type of spell so let's say for example this is where we get into some Cosmic witchery and this style of magic is old by the way this is very very old hundreds of years old at least it goes back into older grimoire um I don't want to say centuries because I don't know when the actual original grimoire was where they were showing this astrological magic but it's an old style for sure um so I love using planetary grids it's a way to invoke a little bit of the energy of that planet into your spell workking so let's say for example you are trying to get a job and you are wanting to use Mars Mars rules over your drive your ambition your temperament so if you're in some drive and ambition and motivation to get this new job you could use Mars in that spell workking or let's say you're doing a love spell let's say you're doing a spell for self-love Venus is an excellent planet to use for that because Venus rules over love beauty relationships and Venus actually rules over a a bunch of different things that I won't go into right now but Venus would be exceptional for that and let's say Mercury for example is an excellent planet to use in mind spells if you need some mental Clarity some mental focus and it also rules over communication so if you're wan to better the communication between you and your boss let's say you're doing a spell for that you might want to incorporate Mercury so definitely need to have a little bit of a um a background in understanding the planetary energies or at least know how to look it up you don't have to have them memorized but at least know how to look up what planets are used for what magical purposes and these planetary grids every planet has their own planetary grid and these were made mathematically so I don't know if you can see from the screen let's see if I can zoom it up here so we have Saturn Jupiter Mars the sun Venus Mercury and then the Moon is the biggest one down here and each of these adds up so um the the columns and the rows all add up to be the same number so these all add up to be the same number going down they add up to be the same number and going diagonal they add up to be the same number and these numbers correspond to these planets and the whole system behind planetary grids goes back so far and I highly recommend doing a deep dive into the into that if this is something that interests you because it is it is incredible how these planetary grids were originally created and I won't bore you with a whole Spiel on that but anyways so we essentially have all these different grids for each planet now for what we're doing here where my home is protected I am going to use Saturn for this and this is controversial because you could probably use um a couple different planets for home protection for me Saturn is like the father figure of the seven planets Saturn is all about discipline and structure and for me Saturn feels very protective like if I want to create a Sigil for um home protection I would use Saturn because I want that um that energy into my spell workking but let's say if if you want your home protected from negative emotions I guess it depends on you know what you're protecting your home from if you want to get rid of negativity in your house and and negative emotions is a really big thing for you you might want to use the moon because the moon rules over our um our inner worlds and our emotions so it's really up to you to kind of figure out which planet is going to work best for you uh depending on the the purpose or the intention of the spell so for this I'm going to use Saturn because like I said I really love Saturn's energy for protection so let me show this to you here I know this looks a little daunting right now so we are going to take the letters that we already established previously so if you remember let me see if I can bring this back so our original phrase is my home is protected we have crossed out all the vowels leaving the sound in consonants and then we crossed out any repeating consonants giving us this final set of letters with planetary grids you want to take that final set of letters and then you want to translate them into numbers and so this this little grid here you can make it yourself but there's if you go on Google you could probably find one in two seconds and just like print it out so you can always refer back to this but um translating this into numbers it gives us this number here and so we are going to use the grid of Saturn this is the grid of Saturn right here so as you can see hopefully I can get my camera to zoom in whoop There we go so that is the grid of Saturn so I have drawn it on this piece of paper we are going to start with the four open circle and then we are going to move down to the eight over to the 1 to the 7 to the 9 to the two then to three and back to four so this one's interesting because it starts and stops at the same point so you can choose to do what you will with that so it translates essentially to look like this and I put a circle around it for protection I always put circles around my sigils but you certainly don't have to and you can even take this and make it a little bit more aesthetically pleasing rather than the harsh lines and harsh corners of this entire sigil you can choose to make it a little bit curvy and you can add embellishments I didn't add embellishments to these but you certainly can if you want to to make it look a little bit more um aesthetically pleasing but that would be using the the Saturn grid so that's what this sigil would look like and you as far as embellishments go I do want to touch on that really quickly it is nice to make your sigils look beautiful I do appreciate that however the more time you spend on a Sigil typically the opinion is the less effective it's going to be because essentially you are going to want to Lodge this sigil deep into your subconscious mind and you're going to want to get it out of your conscious mind and the more time you spend creating a Sigil and making it beautiful the more it's lodged in your conscious mind which is exactly what you don't want you want it lodged in your subconscious mind I hope that makes sense but you can definitely spend a couple seconds you know making it pretty but for the most part this is going to be destroyed during the activation process so don't worry about making your sigils absolutely beautiful unless it's like something you're going to get tattooed on your body or something but if you're just planning on activating this and destroying it right afterwards it doesn't matter what it looks like it's the intention behind it that's what truly matters so try not to spend too much time on making your sigils look nice um because that kind of defeats the purpose so this is the the final way like I said with planetary grids I tried to keep this as short as and sweet as possible and when I make my planetary Magic series like I said I'm hoping to get to that shortly I will link those videos Down Below in the description box so once I've made the planetary Magic series I'll link it down below feel free to check that out so you can um learn a little bit more about the planets and the archetypal energies that they bring but I'm hoping that this was helpful let's move on to the next portion here which is where we talk about how to charge and how to activate your sigils let's discuss how to charge and activate your sigils many people will argue over whether charge and activate is the same thing or if they really are two distinct practices not everyone will agree on this but I like to think the act of charging your sigils as charging up a battery you are charging that sigil with your intention and the activation of a Sigil is where you release that sigil into the universe for manifestation let's begin with how to charge your sigil charging your sigil is where you will Lodge it deep into your subconscious mind to charge a Sigil you will need to slightly turn your conscious mind off and turn your subconscious mind on you can do this through moments of ecstasy Euphoria physical exhaustion or a deep meditative State you would essentially stare at a Sigil as you enter this heightened state of being you can achieve this heightened state of being through meditation chanting or even through sex magic and by staring at the sigil during the moment of climax some practitioners will physically exhaust themselves through sleep deprivation strenuous physical exercise or even go through a period of fasting any of these acts will help turn off your conscious mind so that you can Lodge the sigil deep into your subconscious mind I personally like entering a deep meditative space concentrating only on the sigil and nothing else or I will let myself slip into an alpha brain wave state as I chant over and over again what my intention is if you're interested in Altered States Of Consciousness I made a video about this and what it means to slip into an alpha brain wave state I will link this video below if you want to check that out once you've chared your sigil it's time to activate it sigils are typically activated by their destruction this means that you would take your sigil and burn it completely or you could write your sigil with smoke and Let the Smoke dissipate there are so many different ways that you can do this the key is to destroy this sigil so that it is completely out of your conscious mind and only left in your subconscious mind some people will simply leave their sigil somewhere in an old book that they don't read anymore so that the sigil is still with them but they aren't able to see it on a regular basis the point is you want the sigil to be out of sight out of mind once the sigil has been activated literally set it and forget it trust the process and allow it to manifest while you are not thinking about it the more you consciously think about it the less effective it's going to be so try to put it out of your mind as best as you can it's also worth mentioning that not every sigil will be charged and not every sigil will be activated with some sigils the destruction of the sigil during the activation process is how the practitioner is choosing to charge the sigil in this scenario charging and activating is the same thing a practitioner may choose to draw a Sigil and then burn it in their cold to charge and activate it at the same time as they Infuse that sigil with their intention there are other scenarios where a practitioner will continuously charge their sigil but never fully activate or destroy their sigil a good example of this is getting a Sigil tattooed on your body somewhere clearly you can't destroy the tattoo or to activate it once you've got it on your skin but you can charge that sigil during its creation by using the pain of the tattooing process as part of the charging process and you continuously charge that tattooed sigil as you go about life this is why there is so much confusion between the terms charging in activation listen to your intuition and do what feels right for you in the moment whatever you choose to do just make sure you aren't forgetting to Lodge your sigil deep into your subconscious mind because that is the one of the most important pieces to actually having success with your sigils and that's it now that we've discussed all the different ways to create sigils as well as how to charge and activate your sigils I'd like to give you a couple book recommendations so that you can further your education on this topic if you prefer the first two ways of creating a Sigil that I showed you today that are a little bit more intuitive based you're really going to love this sigil witchery book this is by Laura Tempa zakro this is really about um using the shapes and the symbolism of those shapes to create beautiful sigils so if you again if you like the first two methods definitely check out this book if you are wanting to get into planetary grids I highly recommend this practical sigil magic book and this book is great to have if even if you aren't planning on getting into planetary grids because it has a lot of the philosophies behind sigils and why we do the things we do and why we charge them this way why we activate them this way and this is by freighter UD so I'll show you the cover here definitely recommend this one and it's tiny as you can see I mean it's it's pocket size so if you um if you could get one book today I would maybe recommend this one just because it gives a comprehensive overview of the philosophies behind sigils but that is it we covered everything that I was hoping to cover in this video so thank you so much if you made it to the end of this video this is a long one thank you for being here um and I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you in the next video bye