![]() We take the word LOVEand transliterate it into numbers using the following table of values. This can be done by removing vowels or repeating letters if your statement is complex, but planetary sigils really do work best with as succinct an intent as possible. That’s one thing I do want to emphasize before you try this with something more complex - try to reduce your intent to as few letters as possible. The word LOVE, after all, only has five letters, and works well to sigilize in this fashion. It’s not very specific, but it’s positive, and using it in this fashion will be a great demonstration of this technique. Were I doing this for a specific, actual situation and not as an example, I might spend a long time deciding on the correct choice of word or words to sum up the goal of the sigil, but for the purposes of this example, we’ll just use the word LOVEitself as our statement of intent. Like with most sigils, you begin by summing up your intent. We could, in theory, just use the glyph, hexagram, or other symbol of Venus for this, but suppose your friend (who has bad luck in love, and needs help with it) wants a custom sigil specifically. Venus is associated with other matters, too, such as creativity, fertility, and art, though, so we want to be specific. Venus is an ideal celestial sphere to work with for this purpose, as most people know, given that Venus is not only named for a goddess of love, but also associated with love in astrology. Suppose you’re a witch and would like to create a sigil using it to help a friend find love, or to bring love of some sort into your own life, strengthen an existing relationship, or just invoke the concept of love for some reason in general. ![]() Lets just here, as an example, focus on the grid for Venus, which is shown below. It’s pretty far beyond the scope of this article to include all the grids, but resources for them can be found in various places online, including this site. Here, though, I’ll describe what’s (mostly) the traditional method for making a simple sigil using a planetary grid. Of note, many technowitches will use keypads and keyboards as grids in making sigils. While not all sigils with those features are planetary, they do employ a similar technique to those using the planetary grids, usually a grid setup of some sort. You’ve probably seen sigils made in this fashion before - the circle at the beginning and perpendicular line at the end make them rather recognizable. ![]() A line is then drawn between the numbers in their order within the statement, beginning with a circle to denote a start point, and ending with a perpendicular line across the main one. ![]() A statement of some sort of magical intent is translated into numbers, and then the numbers are plotted on the grid. This method, popularized by Agrippa, uses a series of number grids associated with each planet. A lot of us have different methods for making sigils, and there’s really no wrong way to do it (provided it works for you), but there do exist some traditional sigilization methods, among which we find the idea of using planetary squares. I personally just define them as any (usually) two-dimensional symbol communicating magical intent, and I’ve talked about my process for making and charging them here. There is much consternation and perhaps even a bit of debate, though, over what constitutes a sigil and how to use them properly. They are perfect for witches and magicians living in today’s dynamic world. Sigils are very, very popular on Tumblr and the Internet lately. ![]()
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