Is there a right way for me to make sigi

· Answered by the Doramagic.ai AI assistant · Tarot

Question

Is there a right way for me to make sigils?

Answer

There's no single right way — sigils aren't a tarot thing at all, they come from Western grimoire and chaos-magic practice, and that tradition has no central authority. So the honest answer is: there's a common core that most makers share, and a handful of points where practitioners genuinely disagree.

The part most people agree on:

  • Fix the *intent* in words first — a full sentence, not a mood.
  • Reduce it to its letters; drop vowels if you work that way, then meld what's left into one glyph.
  • Draw the glyph fresh at the time of the working. Most practitioners consider drawing it in advance and copying it later as the thing that breaks the method.
  • Activate it inside the ritual itself — tracing it, breathing on it, or holding it while you state the intent — not as a separate step later.

Where they split:

  • Vowels in or out. Chaos-magic practice usually drops them; older grimoires often keep them folded in.
  • Whether the charging has to be deliberate ritual, or plain focused attention counts.
  • Whether the sigil must stay secret, and whether copying or carving it changes it.
  • Whether a "failed" attempt (losing focus, stray mark) is redone or used anyway.

One thing I'll leave to you: whether any particular tradition you follow permits this isn't my call to rule on — that's a question for whoever holds that authority in your own community.

If it'd help, I can lay out one concrete five-step version you could actually try tonight, or you can put the same question to the tarot deck instead and I'll draw for it.