Had a deep conversation over on Tiktok with a fellow practitioner concerning Sigils, their creation and the theories on how and why they work. We focused less on the creation and more on the theories behind their effectiveness and so I wanted to share my own experience from my own paradigm: as a spirit-worker. So, sigils are graphic representations that reach our Lower Self (according to the psychological model). The Lower Self is also called the Child Self as it is our subconscious mind. It is called the Child Self because it speaks in images and symbols (usually through dreams), and our Middle Self, or Consciousness interprets the symbols for practical understanding. When most people make sigils, they take a positive affirmation, phrase or name, and make a graphic representation of it. These then become a focal point for our altered state of consciousness. Sigils, according to the idea of working with Spirits are Signatures of those Spirits. And our Grimoires are full of them. Whether Goetic, Angelic or otherwise, Sigils have been a mainstream of Occult wisdom. And most important, THEY WORK. No matter your paradigm. To me, when we create a Sigil we are creating a connection to an ALREADY EXISTING ENTITY. Its like discovering the phone number of a person that could potentially help in manifesting said goal. Some people feel these are ARTIFICIAL constructions, elementals or egregious only here to serve the bidding of theor creator. But, I find this to continue idea that mankind is somehow superior to all other animals and Spirits. When we create a Sigil, we take a phrase...for instance: I AM PROSPEROUS. Then we get rid of repeating letters: I A M P R O S E U Then the full part, we rearrange the letters to form a NAME or a Mantra. PAIMROSEU. Then we would take either a relevant Planetary Square and translate the letters into numbers to create our sigil, or we could take the letters into any alphabet to create a design that is aesthetically pleasing. This we would then have sitting on our altar as focal point. This is our "phone number". The name would be PAIMROSEU for the Spirit.

Over in Facebook, a close friend of mine has been leaving comments on posts referencing Christian ideas to the point that I had to make a comment on it...and I like to share here, my thoughts on it from the point of view of a Fayerie Traditionalist. He commented on a post and this is a paraphrase of my response: "...and to me the Bible is just another fairy tale. So citing the Bible to me is like saying Frodo really did destroy Sauron by destroying the ring. I really dont care. If that myth serves your life cool. But it has no bearing on my life. Its not my myth." And naturally he private messaged me: "You know calling the Bible a fairy tell i have to ask what do to hurt you what driving it like that because I love and I can tell the difference between anger and hurt." So, I wrote a post on my "Witchy Page" a short diatribe: "To me, all myths and legends, all religious books are Fayerie Tales. And most people that hear that get knee-jerk reaction, especially when it concerns their most beloved beliefs. For instance, when I call the Christian Bible a "fairy tale", they tend to feel that I am attacking, not only their religion, but, themselves. That just isnt the case. The same goes for the followers of the Quran, the Tanakh and Torah, the Iliad and Odyssey, the Norse Sagas and the Upanishads. These are all STORIES, passed down and collected by adherents of their faith or by historians. Some are Literalists. They feel that their books have some sort of provenance above other stories and that their stories are completely true. They were written down and told by the various priesthoods and historians of the time. But, in the end, in my opinion, they are stories. Does this invalidate them as holding some sort of truth? No. Most record historical events which have been confirmed by archeologists and anthropologists. They can instruct in life lessons. They can hold some deep cosmological significance to a practitioner who builds a relationship with mentioned entities.

You can use all the ingredients, say all the words, and make all the motions a spell or ritual calls for, but if you cannot alter your state of consciousness you will not have a strong effect upon the world around you. Achieving such a state honestly is not as easy as it may seem. Where some people can easily use a guided meditation, others might need other means to do such. There can never be "one true way" of bridging the worlds. Most Witches come to the understanding of consciousness-shifting via the Eight means mentioned by Gerald B. Gardner (founder of Gardnerian Wicca), but I learned about 12 Gateways to Power via Christopher Penczak (Temple of Witchcraft Tradition). Utilizing as many of these can assuredly help you achieve this state. Our Conscious Mind does not like not being in control. When we attempt to alter our state of consciousness, it fights back. Thus it is important to learn to train your Middle Self to let go. One means of doing this, and it seems the most boring, is to Countdown. Begin by getting physically relaxed by whatever means you utilize. Close your eyes. And then, on the Screen of your Mind, visualize a set of numbers appearing. Begin with 12, counting down to 1. If you cant visualize the number, practice can help. Take your hand or mentally see yourself drawing the number. Focus on each number, knowing that the number is there. If you break concentration, start over. If you can maintain that. Try a higher number. The goal is to reach 100. This trains the mind to hold this focus for a long period of time. Many are there who can achieve an altered state, but cant maintain it when they absolutely need it. I will be creating video guides to do this here soon. They will be part of my upcoming course on developing psychic abilities.

In the book, The Secret History, Robin Artisson introduces us to the idea of an occurrence, or wave of Fateful influence which has caused the breathing world great suffering. He called this "The Red Tide" or the "Ravishing Hunger". If we look at existence from the point of view of a giant web or a ocean, it is easy to imagine in our mind's eye, how outside, distant currents can influence everything within this Web of Existence. Have you ever sat at the edge of a lake that is seemingly very still. Gazed within its surface and then gently tossed a pebble into it? Have you sat and observed the ripples? Or watched rain fall into a pond? It is not too dissimilar in concept. Robin Artisson states: "In the vast body of Fate, the darker, deeper texture of reality, you might say there are ripples- Like waves on the ocean's surface. These "ripples” or tides, they extend from an infinitely deeper level of the cosmos-structure than I have been talking about in this work before now. It's fair to say that the Indwellers themselves might seem "small" compared to these great waves or ripples or tides." Just as we can create ripples in a still pond and see the origination point, there are many other sources of said ripples that are beyond our ability to directly observe or come into being with out knowing whence they spring. Every entity of beingness can be called a ripple or a tide. Every birth and death creates these ripples. The seeming choices that one or two seemingly important entities choose can leave even greater ripples. But, there are even other, greater, far-reaching ripples that come from deeper levels. Just as some ripples create monthly or seasonal tides, or certain births and deaths create especially important days of remembrance, longer lasting waves some time develop. Some entities, being highly adaptable have ways of maneuvering and shape-shifting through these changes wrought, such as the World Indweller Himself, that Great Serpent. But other entities, such as mankind itself, can easily fail in these capacities, and some ripples can end species.