Best way to activate sigils in your opinion?

[Accipeveldare]

There are lots of ways to activate sigils such as charging them under the moon light, burning them or destroying them in general, perception activation, etc. But what is the most effective way? I personally charge mine under the moonlight or burn them but is that really the most effective way?

 

[Rowena]

The most 'effective' method - is the method that works best for you.
Try a bunch of different methods - not just for one sigil, give them a good work-out and really try them out, that way you'll find which method works best for you, and know a bunch of other methods that you can use when your go-to isn't possible due to time pressures, or some other reason.

 

[Aeternus]

As @Rowena said, the best method is the method that works best for you.

But, as a little tip never hurt anyone, I will share this: In my case, gazing upon them (perception activation) really makes a strong connection to either the Entity I wish to contact, or to materialize and provide the intention I wrote.

According to experience, you can also charge a sigil (both intention sigil and entity sigil) with the working element according to the case. Elemental charging will provide even more strong and adequate connections

 

[Accipeveldare]

As @Rowena said, the best method is the method that works best for you.

But, as a little tip never hurt anyone, I will share this: In my case, gazing upon them (perception activation) really makes a strong connection to either the Entity I wish to contact, or to materialize and provide the intention I wrote.

According to experience, you can also charge a sigil (both intention sigil and entity sigil) with the working element according to the case. Elemental charging will provide even more strong and adequate connections

Thanks, this helps a lot. I always tended to just charge my sigils under the moon every once in a while. But perception activation seems a lot more effective

 

[Xenophon]

There are lots of ways to activate sigils such as charging them under the moon light, burning them or destroying them in general, perception activation, etc. But what is the most effective way? I personally charge mine under the moonlight or burn them but is that really the most effective way?

Austin Osman Spare had some rather memorable views on the matter involving masturbation by moonlight, with some ritual implements involved.

 

[CrabsIsBugs]

Honestly probably seems like a cop out but it really does vary. I've done a lot of things to charge sigils. Moonlight, meditation, focus and intent, and the list goes on.

 

[Xenophon]

Honestly probably seems like a cop out but it really does vary. I've done a lot of things to charge sigils. Moonlight, meditation, focus and intent, and the list goes on.

Actually yours is the only honest answer possible. That's what separates a prophet from a mage. The one tries to say HIS way is the only way. The latter says go with what works. Indeed, a magickal tradition might be styled a collection of methods that work well for a significant, but scarcely universal, number of folks.

 

[AlfrunGrima]

My most favorite methods:

Make a strong psi ball and connect it to the sigil. For you start with this, define which color the ball needs to be and how the ball has to feel. Put the sigil with psi ball in a box or place them both on a empty shelf of a cupboard. If it is necessary you can reload that psi ball the next few days and it can be helpful to use divination about what kind of energy you need to add. Make a decision on what time of the the day you want to recharge the sigil. This method is for me the best suitable if I need really quick results.

Or the other method: bury the sigil under a plant. That can be a plant that is matching with the magic and the intent you are performing. You can even match the form or the color pot with the magic and intent, if you wish. Water that plant every day and talk to the plant, take care for it. Make compost tea for that plant. This method works for me better is I have magic that is needed for al longer period. This magic can be transformational because it is a process that takes so long.

I tried other methods as well and I think there as many methods as there are magicians/witches/and so on. After all we are all human and we all have our own unique path. Another method I never tested: place the sigil under a candle holder, burn every day a candle on it. At the start when you light the candle you have to focus/meditate on what you are trying to accomplish.

 

[IllusiveOwl]

I save all of my blessed and offered incense ash, burnt as a gift to a deity and therefore sanctified. When I make a sigil, give it blood, a hair, etc, seal it in a specific wax color, then place it in the ash bowl. Because I make an effort to make an offering daily to my chosen deities, fresh sacred ash continues the charge of my sigils. I don't know if this is a published method, but it is what I intuited as right and it works.

 

[OberonFromTheHills]

Make a strong psi ball

I swear the psi ball is the only magickal technique every magickian should master perfectly

 

[beardedeldridge]

Meditation and focus. Sometimes placing within a circle made by prayer/mediation/psalter beads and then meditation and focus based on the nature of the beads used.

Psi ball (or variances of it tbh) has worked well also.

-Eld

 

[AlfrunGrima]

I swear the psi ball is the only magickal technique every magickian should master perfectly

Yes, agree with that. It has loads of possibilities.

 

[dazeitem]

There are lots of ways to activate sigils such as charging them under the moon light, burning them or destroying them in general, perception activation, etc. But what is the most effective way? I personally charge mine under the moonlight or burn them but is that really the most effective way?

I just joined, so please pardon me if commenting on an older post is against the norm in this community.

I charge mine through excitatory states. These are usually emotional states, which I admit is my weakness.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I just joined, so please pardon me if commenting on an older post is against the norm in this community.

I charge mine through excitatory states. These are usually emotional states, which I admit is my weakness.

This is perfectly good. Any sufficiently different state of consciousness that pushes aside your conscious mind for a time will work.

 

[IllusiveOwl]

excitatory states

I like to prolong the charge from the moment of the ecstatic state and try to "trap it in amber" by associating a specific candle with the working, channeling the energy through the candle, then pouring wax from it on the sigil. It might not be classy, but it is a kind of physical echo, proof of the state, that may carry its memory and continue the charge a little longer.

I do something similar with protective spells, pouring wax on the item or area of protection, sometimes mixing blessed incense ash while the wax is wet for extra chutzpah.

 

[Altan]

The "whatever works for you is best" approach is always lauded, and it should be. We can also add a caveat: "whatever works in the best way for you is best". That means you may not be maximizing what can work for you with your current approaches. That is a path of discovery in my experience.

Every approach has pros and cons. While I found prolonged focus with deep immersion works better than other methods for me, the training to attain that kind of state does not make it the best choice for most. But any choice can lead you to more effective methods as you go.

This is a kind of advanced yoga approach known as samyama where your consciousness saturates the seal and brings it to life.

 

[newalexandria]

Consider 3D printing them, if you have such tools. The process takes a bit of time, and watching it build and materialize could be a strong anchor. Even without watching it, your awareness of the build process may give you enough anchor. This also leaves you with an object that can be broken later, upon completion.

 

[pixel_fortune]

The guy from What Magic Is This? podcast does a whole Solomonic ritual in a graveyard, with necromantic support. (The rite is from Hygromanteia I think, called something about Pinning the Demon Down with a Black Knife). He collects sigil statements over a period of a few months and then activates them all at once in a big batch.

He gives a full walkthrough of the process but it's on the Patreon bonus eps of the podcast.

The takeaway though is that you don't have to go minimalist. He said he has always got the best results from Solomonic magic and the dead, so that's what he uses (like everyone else said, the best method is the method that works for you).

It's also like: what's fun for you? If you like doing full ceremonial rituals, but don't enjoy staring at sigils or energy work, then go the method that takes longer but you actually like doing.

 

[Asteriskos]

The Golden Dawn principle of "Flashing Complimentary Colors" used for Talismanic creation:

Create your sigil as you would normally with pencil, once it's finalized, then redraw it on say Black card stock or construction paper with a Silver Sharpie, or on White background with Black Sharpie. The idea is High Contrast between Sigil and Background.

It's best to use candle light to charge / imprint the sigil, a couple of votive candles or tea lights on either side, adjust get a good view of the sigil, now we're ready to charge / imprint the sigil upon the "deep" mind.

Focus / Unfocus your vision on the sigil till it begins to "flash", once the flashing begins you only need a short exposure to imprint it upon the deep mind. You can also save the sigil and repeat if you feel that might be needed for some reason as well, but once it begins to flash it's usually pretty much a done deal.

N.B.
The Golden Dawn Adepts used this "principle" to create Talismans such as the Adeptus Minor Rose Cross, in Complementary Colors: Red / Green, Yellow / Purple, Blue / Orange, et al. When used together the Complements will appear to Flash, imprinting any sigils on the Talisman into
the "deep" mind of the magician, or "recipient" of the Talisman.

The principle has been picked up by a number of authors like Gordon White of Rune Soup, who seems to like Silver Sharpie on Black Background as well, and recommends it.

Works Really Well for me!

 

[Azareth]

I have a few sigils. Never could get them to work.

One of them is tattooed on my chest is supposed to be for telekinesis (figured if it was directly on me it could draw from me... well at least it's decorative)