#ds faq

About one a month if I’m lucky. More typically– one every other month.

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It is through PayPal!

The way it works is– after everything has been hammered out over email or tumblr messages– you confirm the email address that I can use to send you an invoice– which is just a receipt basically, that lists how much you’re paying and what you are paying for!

Hey there! I don’t have a specific method– here are some links to my redlines on previous sigils. 

(Redlines of “Energy” and “My Pain Will be Manageable for Me Today” along with me answering this question before)

(Redline of “Relief from Loneliness”)

But let me try and expand on that, since maybe I can explain something that was missed in that answer? 

On top of having a library of symbols that I use directly in sigils, I also try to incorporate significant iconography into my pieces, symbols are very powerful, even if they aren’t sigils, because they are meant to become mental shortcuts to associate shapes and ideas. And those symbol inspirations can be from anywhere, for example for; “Knowledge Flourishes Within” you can make out a symbol that draws on the shape of symbol of Jupiter/ the Greek letter zeta.

Each of it’s distinct parts already help to symbolize things like expansion, abundance and knowledge / higher education, but in the symbol that I made tweaking that shape, I focused on the “crossroad of two paths” portion of it’s symbolism. 

And not everything is that high brow– even symbols like stairs and winners podiums have their place in my sigils. Like for “My Art will continue to improve and excel”, that motif was the key one.

And more common than that is sigils that play on shapes that invoke the feeling of green life growing, even when they aren’t about plants or green life. Like in these three:

I’m probably not the best person to emulate if you are just starting out and are the sort that likes rules or methods, all of my sigils are very organic. There’s really no wrong way to do a sigil. It’s far more about intent than it is anything else (in my practice, no disrespect meant to anyone who likes to use established methods)!

If you want to work on sigils and use a pre-established method, here are some good links for that! (They mostly focus on variations of statement/letters as symbol methods! With and without vowels)

Inkanddestroy’s A Small Guide to SigilsSigilDaily’s Creation and Activation GuideScry-and-Sketch’s Sigil AdviceTheSigilWitch’s Response About Sigils

I feel like all of them are infinitely more helpful than I am– but I hope I get better at explaining my method in time, and I also hope that this will help you in the meantime! 

The only advice I have worth repeating is that intent is more important than technical ‘artistic’ skill, so don’t let yourself get down!

Printing it, drawing it– both are good, but the most important part is making sure you charge it!

TL:DR Version: It would be okay, but please reflect on the sigil in a serious way before you put it on your skin. But if you do ultimately decide to get it as a tattoo, it would be an honor, and I’d love to see a picture of it once it’s done, I’ve got my submissions open just for that!

Well, I am not the end-all be-all with the final word in sigil etiquette, but I’ll answer to the best of my abilities!

I, like a lot of other sigil makers, will be the first to say that creating your own sigils can be a very rewarding experience and the results are often deeply personal and impactful. But there are times when someone elses’ sigilwork speaks to me deeply in a way that my own efforts have failed to for particular purposes. And some people just aren’t comfortable crafting their own, be it from a perceived lack of technical/artistic ability (which you don’t need to worry about, but if you can’t or don’t want to, well that’s why so many people share their sigils!), or feeling like they aren’t in a headspace to create something that they need.

So it’s a little bit of both! If something speaks to you and it’s posted somewhere that is sharing them for the purpose of others use, go for it! If you have a meaning/purpose inside you that you wish to make and you’re inspired, craft something yourself!

For my sigils, a lot of my more complicated ones were done with the idea that you would be printing them out or using them on digital devices, but others will tell you that their sigils are meant to be redrawn by your own hand, I’d recommend whichever the sigilcrafter in question recommends for their own work. (Mine personally is either/or, just make sure that you charge them sufficiently if you’re not redrawing them yourself!)

Unless someone has marked a sigil as private/not for others use I would say that it should be fine to use sigils that you come across, particularly from blogs that are dedicated to sharing them. I’d say that a fair amount that are posted publicly are expected to be used by others. What I’ve seen a lot of people do if they don’t want their sigils to be used by others, is that they post them without context, so as to share the art of them, but not the meaning. 

(Some links for other sigilcrafters that share their work so it can be used by others! Their work is so phenomenal I wish I was half as good as them! Not only is their work amazing, but a lot of them have been around way longer than me and thus have some super great guides on charging sigils, creating sigils and much moreInkandSigilsSigil DailyAlluraSigilstixThe-SigilistTheSigilWitch / now Sylvaetria ))

I use multiple sigils at the same time, some are my own, and some are others creations. I’ve never come across anything that mentions that being rude or disrespectful. And I’ve seen a lot of other people using many at the same time as well. I suppose the best advice I can give in this regard is that if someone mentions that they don’t want their sigils used in tandem with others– respect that, but I think you should be fine. (100% fine with me with regards to my own sigils at least)

Your sigil doesn’t have to be the exact same / as fluid! I do my sigils digitally, so I have the benefit of a lot of ‘ctrl-z’ing in order to get mine looking as precise as they are. My hand drawn versions are a lot clumsier.