Sigil Tattoos

[silencewaits]

I've been thinking of creating some sigils intended to be tattooed. The actual process of tattooing makes for a great opportunity to charge them. Deep black shading and thick lines create wonderful opportunities for pain and perhaps bleeding. I have meaning behind much of my ink, but from seeing it every day and it becoming a part of me, they tend to fade into the background. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[Baranova Alya]

My personal opinion, which I have been convinced of more than once, is that you can't get tattoos on your body with runes, glyphs, sigils. Everything has an end goal. Like a sigil. Reaching the goal, it at least ceases to work, so why it will remain on the body? Okay, if you constantly need the energy of a certain pattern. But our views, worldviews, thoughts change over time. And for example runes, having worked their task, remaining on the body, can begin to work in the opposite direction. I have a tattoo. It's not esoteric. And I know that it has changed my inner energy. But I'm still considering whether to remove it completely or cover it with something neutral.

 

[silencewaits]

I have a tattoo. It's not esoteric. And I know that it has changed my inner energy. But I'm still considering whether to remove it completely or cover it with something neutral.

You can add to it to change the energy. Personally, I'd rather do that than remove it or cover it up. An edgy skull someone got as a teenager can have flowers added to it and be made a symbol of rebirth.

Like a sigil. Reaching the goal, it at least ceases to work, so why it will remain on the body? Okay, if you constantly need the energy of a certain pattern.

Yes, that's mainly why. I don't wear a lot of jewelry because I do a lot of physical labor and training. So no amulets or jewelry that tarnishes with sweat. My other tattoos are things I will carry with me until death, or traditional art that suits me. The sigils would be made for patterns that are meant to stick.

 

[Amadeus]

The special symbols may significantly boost the effects of your practices. You can get a boost, a huge one, supporting your practices. However if you suddenly decide to change the path the energy can become incompatible and cause problems.

Something like this needs a lot of thinking, research. The pros and cons, right now, in the future.

I heard that even the ordinary symbols may have a good effect on one person but a negative effect on another.

There's also something about the symbols coming in conflict. A person having multiple ones and the tattoos cause issues A conflicting with B. There was a case of somebody crazy tattooing multiple angelic symbols and also demonic ones and it turned into a horrible mess.

 

[Anziel_Merkaba]

Symbols work because we believe they work. So if you get any sort of sigils tattooed on yourself, you must keep that in mind. As an aside, if they are sigils for spirits, it could either be really good or really bad depending on your particular practices and mentality towards spirits. Tattooing the sigils of the Ars Goetia in a ritualistic method as a way to bind them as aspects of the self would be very different than tattooing sigils of the Loa to glorify them with your being in a vodun-based practice.

 

[PinealisGlandia]

I've been thinking of creating some sigils intended to be tattooed. The actual process of tattooing makes for a great opportunity to charge them. Deep black shading and thick lines create wonderful opportunities for pain and perhaps bleeding. I have meaning behind much of my ink, but from seeing it every day and it becoming a part of me, they tend to fade into the background. Anyone have any thoughts?

My wife and I both tattoo a bit, we did each other's wedding rings as a sigil tattoo. You should know, tattoos don't bleed while being inked unless the artist pushes too hard. The tattoo itself is formed by the ink bonding with white blood cells though, so if you're looking for blood majique in your tattoos, there it is.

On a light note, I'll tell you to avoid red ink for sigils on your fingers. Whenever I catch it while washing my hands at work, I think I cut my hand on something.

FWIW, almost all of the sigils I put on my fingers came to me in dreams. I didn't design them with the conscious mind, the unconscious explained them to me.

 

[silencewaits]

You should know, tattoos don't bleed while being inked unless the artist pushes too hard. The tattoo itself is formed by the ink bonding with white blood cells though, so if you're looking for blood majique in your tattoos, there it is.

Haha, thanks for the information. I usually only bleed during heavy shading work, but my artist might be heavy-handed. I can't tell how he sees what he's doing because it's just red everywhere until he's done. All those poor wipes. He does good work though so it's worth it.

FWIW, almost all of the sigils I put on my fingers came to me in dreams. I didn't design them with the conscious mind, the unconscious explained them to me.

I saw some images while I was tired and cramping up in the middle of a pickup truck's back seat. No leg room at all. It was always an uncomfortable, long ride back to camp when I was doing disaster relief but we had only recently started riding five deep. I just closed my eyes and let my mind wander. I had always thought a few of the images would make for great tattoos but I haven't found the right artist for them yet. They weren't sigils per se, but they definitely had some unconscious meaning behind them. Things I would want to carry with me.

 

[NightWatchman95]

I've been thinking of creating some sigils intended to be tattooed. The actual process of tattooing makes for a great opportunity to charge them. Deep black shading and thick lines create wonderful opportunities for pain and perhaps bleeding. I have meaning behind much of my ink, but from seeing it every day and it becoming a part of me, they tend to fade into the background. Anyone have any thoughts?

dont get a tattoo to do something a quick 20 minute meditation session wont do...

 

[PinealisGlandia]

dont get a tattoo to do something a quick 20 minute meditation session wont do...

Why are you here?

 

[silencewaits]

dont get a tattoo to do something a quick 20 minute meditation session wont do...

If something can be done with a twenty minute meditation session then perhaps that would be best, I agree. But I don't think it would be best for what I'm talking about.

 

[voidcat]

I considered tattoos once. I was going to get a cat to represent Bastet and love for cats on a transgender flag because I'm trablns, and an lgbt flag with a gold autism infinity symbol because I'm autistic in the lgbt community.

Changed my mind because I came to the conclusion I'm too fluid to have tattoos. I practice a lot of mental shapeshifting as part of my occult practice and feel tattoos are not a good idea as a result...they are too permanent for someone too flexible in spirit.

I see no problem with sigil tattoos as long as you think it through. I was given advice once regarding tattoos...frame it first. Put it on your wall for a year. If you still like it there's more of a chance you'll still like it down the road. If you don't like it after a year do not get it tattooed.

I think that would be a good idea here. Charge a sigil frame it and put it on the wall for a year. See if you like its energy and how it effects your life. Then decide.

 

[NightWatchman95]

Why are you here?

because i want to know if there is anything to this other than larping, so far im not convinced.

 

[PinealisGlandia]

because i want to know if there is anything to this other than larping, so far im not convinced.

Considering your annoying attitude is the worst thing in my life at the moment, I'm convinced majique still works.

Do you have any friends IRL? Because you're casting Heightened Maximized Wet Blanket on the entire forum.

I'm gonna give you the best advice anyone on the internet ever gets. Lurk before posting.

 

[Promise]

I think Henna is the way to go for Sigil tats. It lasts for several weeks, which is probably a good length of time to reevaluate, whether to continue with the same sigil(s) or evolve them or just let them fade. I had avoided tats in general due to the permanence, but I think there is some (maybe large) benefit in the shorter term for sigil tats, Henna doesn't have the long term possibility of evolving out of a sigil or set of sigils.

 

[NightWatchman95]

Considering your annoying attitude is the worst thing in my life at the moment, I'm convinced majique still works.

Do you have any friends IRL? Because you're casting Heightened Maximized Wet Blanket on the entire forum.

I'm gonna give you the best advice anyone on the internet ever gets. Lurk before posting.

im a raw pragmatist at heart.

 

[Dascent]

Like most of you, I do have my own experience and my own perspectives so this is my shared thoughts about the tattoos.
First, I consider tattoos to be symbols with deep meaning because tattoos (permanent ones) don't wash after the first rain or shower so there's the time factor to them... when I bring time into equation I say portals, always.... time = portals therefore, a tattoo becomes a portal with a specific meaning, energy and symbiology.
I've studied a few things about tattoos especially body art with deep meaning like tribal tattoos, Yakuza, indigenous, meanings, positions on body parts and all carry information and meaning on top of the actual visual representation of the tattoo.

As far as sigils as tattoo ... and charging a sigil via pain and blood... it depends... because I would not charge a sigil with pain unless the manifestation of the sigil is to generate pain.
Blood magic is less understood by practitioners because of the commodity and lines becomes blur and magic diluted because it is possible.
A few examples.
Some female practitioners use menstrual blood in their magic with strong belief it will help in whatever crafts and spells but it is not that simple.
Menstrual blood is considered "dead blood" because it is no longer needed by a living body, therefore... eliminated.
Pure blood - potent and pure blood is found in the neck zone, the side where heart is (vampires knew ) because that blood is highly oxygenated* for the brain use.
Heavy blood - not so good in some magic practices is the blood from the lower part of the body.. feet... varicose veins, heavy metals, thicker blood....

I hate it when it happens... I start with an idea and being flooded by so many downloads all at once....and not in a specific order....
About oxygenated blood... we need oxygen for our optimal survival.
Imagine we breathe in consciousness. Low levels of oxygen in blood generate hypoxia and cerebral aneurysms.
If you hold your breath for a long time, not the lungs will be the main problem but you will loose consciousness first.

So back to sigils as tattoos... I would not recommend unless determined to carry that portal for a long time.
I would not suggest charging sigils with pain unless pain is the main manifestation of the sigil otherwise, use a crystal to convert pain into a more useful energy to charge the sigil.
Definitely not suggesting blood for charging and activating sigils because of the above mentioned reasons.

Of course there are exceptions and one can choose whatever they think it is working for them reality is created by using belief as building blocks so... use the right tools for the right reasons expecting a specific outcome.

 

[Voidking]

I've studied a few things about tattoos especially body art with deep meaning like tribal tattoos, Yakuza, indigenous, meanings, positions on body parts and all carry information and meaning on top of the actual visual representation of the tattoo.

I wonder if you could share nsights on consecrating magickal tattoos according to these traditions?
The reason I'm asking is that I once had a discussion with a fellow mage who is able to channel spirits, and he told me that in order for your tattoo to be very powerfully imbued and activated as a portal, it should be consecrated by a ritual channeled from your patron/patroness (I'm not saying a normal tattoo won't be effective -mine is normal yet very effective, but a magickal one is allegedly stronger, if we believe my friend).

Speaking for myself, I have tattoos of Hecate (sigil included) and I must admit that I'm obssessively devoted to her, I'm planning to get more tattoos of the Goddess though (oddly enough, Hecate is among the best things that happened in my life).

If I can suggest, before dedicating a tattoo of a spirit, try to think of the long term and if you want that spirit to really influence you, your behaviour, your psyche, your life, and everything.