Finally she shares some of her beautiful sigils, paintings and artwork, followed by a helpful appendix of further reading and resources. She turn shows you her solutions to these. Then the author presents some exercises for sigil crafting, encouraging you to have a go at crafting sigil for some more complex ideas and situations. The process of creating a sigil in a ritual way is described, and how to activate and apply sigils in various ways (drawing, planting, anointing, tattoos, henna, embroidery, fabric paints, and more). Next there’s a section with some key concepts like community, inspiration, love, journeys, invoke, mirror, etc and you were invited to create symbols for each of them. Then there’s a section on various symbols that are commonly used in many different cultures: hearts, stars, circles, triangles, crescents, dots, and so on, along with some handy hints on how to draw them. It starts with a thorough investigation of magical marks and signs in various cultures (and warns the reader away from cultural appropriation, which is excellent). The book is very attractive, with the Power Sigil on the cover, and I was excited to get my hands on it. Llewellyn are publishing a series on the witch’s tools, and Moon Books have published guides to specific types of magic. There seems to be a very welcome trend towards writing in-depth guides to specific areas of magic. So I was very excited when I saw that she had written a book about sigil crafting. I get a similar buzz when she posts a sigil from a workshop on her Instagram page. I remember the thrill I got when I first saw Laura Tempest Zakroff’s blogpost where she released the Power Sigil into the wild.
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