Laura Tempest Zakroff - Sigil Witchery: A Witch’s Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Sigil Witchery: A Witchs Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols 2018 by Laura Tempest Zakroff.

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First e-book edition 2018

E-book ISBN: 9780738755854

Book design by Donna Burch-Brown

Cover design by Ellen Lawson

Interior art and photos by Laura Tempest Zakroff, except for the photo on page by Carrie Meyer

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For my parents, Pete and Terry Zakroff.

Thank you for believing in your crazy artist daughter.
From putting up with 10-foot-tall chicken-wire/plaster-wrap goddesses,
salt block sculptures, and life-size horses painted on my bedroom walls
to collecting my latest creations and commissioning me to paint your mailbox,
your support for my work throughout my entire life has made all the difference.

Contents

Il

by Anaar Niino

: A History of Mark Making

: The Meaning of the Mark

: Making Magick

: Design Guidance

: Practice Exercises

: Gallery

and Suggestions for Further Research

of Symbols

Illustrations and Photographs

Chapter 1

Montage of Images from Cave Paintings

Entoptic Phenomena

Cave Art Handprints and the Familiar Turkey Hand

Collection of Aboriginal Signs and Symbols

Evolution of the Chinese Character for Cart or Wagon

Egyptian Cartouche

An Array of Amazigh Symbols

Amazigh Tattoos

A Variety of Veves

Photo of Graffiti in Greece

Chapter 2

Point (Closed Dot)

Open Dot

Circle

Horizontal Line

Vertical Line

Dotted or Dashed Line

Diagonal Line

Cross

Chevron

X

Arrow

Wavy Line

Zigzag Line

Triangle

Square

Rectangle

Diamond

Crescent

Spiral

Pentagon

Hexagon

Other Polygons

Star

Pentagram

Hexagram

Septagram

Asterisk

Heart

Vesica Piscis or Mandorla

Eye

Infinity and Hourglass

Wheels and Shields

Wings

Key and Keyhole

Scales

Anchor

Butterfly

Hand

Spoon

Elements

Directions

Zodiac and Astrological Signs

Chapter 3

Photo of the Artist at Work

Donnas Sigil

Illuminating a Sigil with Traditional Pen and Ink on a Card

Vitality and Vision Spell Paintings by the Author

Sigil SatchelsCanvas Bags Embellished with Washable Paint by the Author

My Power Sigil Design, Embroidered and Photographed by Kohenet Ketzirah haMaagelet

Wood, Bone, and Clay Make Great Bases for Sigil Pendants

A Chalk Sigil on a Doorstep

Earth Sigil

Water Sigil

A Sigil of Smoke

Planting a Sigil

For the Birds

Photo of the Authors Leg Tattoos

Sigils in Motion

Chapter 4

A Sacred Sphere of Energy

Drawing Circles and Ovals

Drawing Pentagrams

Drawing Six-Pointed Stars

Drawing Seven-Pointed Stars

Drawing Crescents

Drawing Spirals

Traditional Pen and Ink

Kinds of Brush Tips

Chapter 5

A Festival Sigil

A Coven Sigil

A Business Plan Sigil

An Office Ward Sigil

A Healing Sigil

A Transformational Sigil

A Sigil against Bullying

An Anti-Anxiety Sigil

A Fertility Sigil

A Focus Sigil

A Banishing and Binding Sigil

An Inspiration and Creativity Sigil

A Prosperity Sigil

Chapter 6

Upright Power Sigil

Inverted Power Sigil

PantheaCon Sigil

Paganicon Sigil

DragonCon Sigil

Workshop Sigil at Hernes Hollow in Delaware

Sigil Crafting and Notetaking

Another Sketchbook Page

Mago Djinn Sigil

Jaimes Sigil

Carolyns Sigil

Jennifers Sigil

Kims Sigil

Ms Sigil

Marys Sigil

Matthews Sigil

Megans Sigil

Pauls Sigil

Stephanies Sigil

Veronicas Sigil

The Drawing of the Mother Matrix

The Painting of the Mother Matrix

Details from Paintings from the Iconomage Series: The Star Goddess The Huntress Hekate When Love Lay with Death and Darkness, Light Was Born

Familiar Territory

Queen of the Sabbat

The Shaman

Foreword

by Anaar Niino

What if, from the depths of your liminal consciousness, you could create your own symbolic language? What if you could create, from the ether, a personal language? What if you could create a magical language, a secret language?

What would you do with such a thing? Would you slip it under your pillow? Would you place it beneath a crib? Would you draw it in the air with smoke? Would you write it in lipstick?

What do I mean by symbolic language ? Its a set of signs used to communicate all manner of things. The very words youre reading now are a set of agreed-upon signs. You can understand these words because you know what the agreement is. It is symbolic because when I write apple you understand what is meant by that set of abstract symbols. I do not need to draw an apple for you.

That is one form of symbolic language. It has its uses but is by far and large taken for granted. With lightning-fast imagery flashing before us, these symbols begin to lose their symbolic nature. They become divorced from their magical nature, losing their symbolism to become mechanical.