Sigil casting 101
The best thing to do when casting sigils is plunge right in with as little
preamble as possible, those of you with no idea what sigils are have an
advantage, the rest of us will have to forget right now.
Step 1. Take a sheet of paper and skipping every other line write down your
simple selfish desires.
example.
Get Laid
Get a raise
Find my missing mp-3 player
Get a ride to the coming Grimes show
Nathan at work have a shitty week
Step 2. Go back to that list and in each blank line write in a more responsible
desire.
example.
Get Laid
Get in better shape
Get a raise
Fix Car
Find my missing mp-3 player
Perform better at work
Get a ride to the coming Grimes show
Help Lucy with her divorce problems
Nathan at work have a shitty week
Step 3. Go to the bottom line and think of something you desire that actually
is a very sensible desire too.
example.
Get Laid
Get in better shape
Get a raise
Fix Car
Find my missing mp-3 player
Avoid war in Syria
Get a ride to the coming Grimes show
Help Lucy with her divorce problems
Nathan at work have a shitty week
Be able to Lucid Dream
Step 4. The next step is to utterly garble these intentions undecipherable to
the conscious mind. Do this by rewriting each letter of the intentions writing
down the first letter of the first word on the center of your line and then write
the next letter before it and the next one after it in rounds so that the garbled
collection of letters spreads from the center of the line outwards. Ignore any
letter that has already been written down out of the entire intention and
continue on outward thru all the words of the intention so that each intention
produces one single string of seemingly random letters each only occurring
once in that string. From this point on do your best to not think at all about
the intentions you wrote. Talking on the phone, listening to music or an audio
book etc. as you do all the steps beyond this point can also help you detach
your conscious mind from, nevermind, we agreed to forget about what, right?
Right.
example. Below I have picked as an example one of the intentions and below
it I have shown in stages the build up of the scrambling process so as not to
be overly confusing.
Help Lucy with her divorce problems
stage one of scrambling: H
stage 2 of scrambling: EH
stage III of scrambling: PEHLU
stage four of scrambling: ODTWCPEHLUYIRV
Step 5. Now it is a good idea to fold your paper so that only the scrambled
strings of letters are now visible. Take each letter of the strings and out of
them all create a esoteric but not overly complicated looking symbol. As you
go along look carefully at your progressing sigil for where letters in the string
not yet incorporated by you have already naturally occurred. You don't have
to actually plan each letter into it, it just has to occur somewhere in it all.
Step 6. (optional) Now that you have some baby sigils drawn up you may
choose to embellish them or rework something here or there for aesthetic
purposes, putting arrow heads at the end of terminating lines, bending the
shape a little here or there however you see fit, maybe you want to add a
spiral, flourish, or saw tooth. This is all totally up to you. Don't worry if
tweaking the shape compromises a letter, it really doesn't, trust me it's still in
there astrally. The only consideration as to sigil creation is that it stay
relatively simple so that visualizing it without it in sight is not nearly
impossible. This of course means the complexity of it can also be relative to
your own existing visualizing memory skills.
Step 7. There are many different ways to charge sigils but 2 popular ways
both conceived by Austin Osman Spare are the Death Posture method and
the Ecstasy method.
The Death posture furthermore can be done 2 different ways. The first way is
to get down on your knees with your toes touching the ground and your heels
to the ceiling but in an upright posture, spine erect, hands flat on thighs. This
pose is slightly uncomfortable and a little wobbly but don't worry, just try to
be reasonably balanced. Stare fixedly into a mirror about 2 feet away, into
your own eyes, or lacking a mirror stare into the middle distance intensely on
nothing in particular. Meditate on no-thing, not on the absence of something
but truly nothing, and despatch from mind any thought as it arises or
distortion in vision as to quote Peter Carrol "any sort of distortion of the
image is symptomatic of thinking and to be avoided. Yeah, hard isn't it? Be
aware only of non-manifestation, non-being, utter nothingness ( make the
nothing wolf proud here). Thinking no-thing at all is extremely difficult and
expect a hurricane of inanities to assault you (welcome to the circus), but
entertain none of it and strive for that moment in which you realize you don't
quite remember the last few seconds, that death gnosis preheat light just
went out. Time to bake. Close your eyes and visualize your sigil or if you
rather post it on the wall before you (ignoring it until now), or if no wall is
available place it on the ground beforehand. Whether visualizing your sigil
with eyes closed or staring at the drawing of it think only upon the shape.
During this process you will likely lose yourself in this act and cease to be
aware of your body, location, etc. You may even lose awareness of your being
or feel yourself as a microcosm or macrocosm. As this meditation is
completed even the symbol will fade from your mind (not suggesting you
close your eyes here if you had opted to stare at your sigil) until you are only
aware of the life force that permeates all. A slightly different approach is to
once you have reached that point of no-mindedness (" that moment in which
you realize you don't quite remember the last few seconds") now begin to
hyperventilate (breathe rapidly and shallowly) while otherwise proceeding as
discussed except in this case at the point of beginning to black out, then rise
and stand on your tip toes with arms locked behind you upwards and strain
with all your being, neck tensed, your whole body straining to the limit until
either total exhaustion or black out or both occurs lower yourself to the floor,
still staring at the sigil/ visualizing it, most intensely at this point as this will
be the climax of your death posture sigil charging. Done.
The other method is to just jerk off and at the point of orgasm fully focus on
the sigil, either visualizing it or staring at the drawing of it, hint, its handy to
draw these things a little big, as you will be staring at it half out of your mind
(literally). It is strongly recommended by some that you arouse yourself by
touch alone resisting all fantasies and thoughts like in the death posture
method dissolving yourself in your desire like a sugarcube in grain alcohol.
I'm a brat though so I watch porn having wicked fantasies until my climax
point!
This set of instructions should be viewed more as suggestions and this how to
should in no way be reversely held as a how not to. The step of skipping a
line then writing down intentions you know you ought to have is a twist of my
own and serves both to create a surplus of more sigils than just the ones
rendered from intetions you are more fixed on, the last intention I approach
with a receptive divinatory state tending towards whatever intention I feel the
magick is telling me to have. The fact that this method also gives you a big
batch of sigils is a boon as sigils tend to be more effective when done in big
batches.
Happy casting!
