Math, from basic addition and subtraction all the way up to differential calculus and quantum physics has a language that can be used to communicate all sorts of meaning. Any language can be used to build symbolic magic. Learning hidden symbolic languages can bring deeper understanding of rituals and artworks, literature, architecture, and more: knowing that some symbols tend to repeat and mean roughly the same thing every time they appear can help illuminate meaning to outsiders. A chalice, a knife, a pentacle drawn on the ground, will all have a specific meaning shared among a set of practitioners. If you work with others, it’s useful to have a shared language so that greater meaning can be conveyed. A solitary practitioner may have no need to use a common library of symbols and meanings, because their art and magic is only meaningful and meant to be read and understood by themselves. Any symbolic language can be used to carry meaning and magic.Īs long as you know what your symbols mean, they have meaning. So it’s no wonder at all that we also use art to create magic. We use art in therapy to heal our psychic wounds, and to express emotions and states of being to one another. Art is communication with others and with ourselves. It’s one of the hallmarks of human development, and we look for it in our children: are we grabbing tools to make marks on paper at developmentally important stages, and are we interested in trying to communicate through our scribbles? Are we progressing along as proper human beings, just like every single one of our ancestors and forebears? From cave paintings to handprints on walls, to modern artistic expressions, art unites us.Īrt speaks to something deeply primal in us, a symbolic language that tells each of us that there is a shared world view, a person behind the eyes of that other being.

In modern usage, especially in the context of chaos magic, sigil refers to a symbolic representation of the practitioner’s desired outcome.įrom as far back as humans have been able to hold a charred stick and make marks on walls, we’ve been drawing symbols and creating meaningful scribbles. Sigilla or sigils) is a type of symbol used in ritual magic.The term has usually referred to a type of pictorial signature of a Jinn or other entity. Thistle Sigil for protection, good luck and hex breaking. Sigils, hex signs, symbols, arcane alphabets and more witchcraft goodness! See more ideas about witchcraft, sigil magic, symbols.

Simply put, a Sigil is a symbolic representation of an energy, word, or intention statement that when activated, helps manifest the energy, word, or intention statement that it represents. Sigil of Ameth (Ameth means ‘Truth’ in Hebrew.) Click this image to learn more about this Sigil and how you might use in your practice. Drawing and inscribing symbols onto substrate is our species first artistic expression and act of magic.

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