Is there a right way for me to make sigi
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.