Sigil Generator

How to make a sigil

A sigil is a wish compressed into a single drawn mark. You write the wish as a sentence, strip the sentence down to a handful of letters, and fold those letters into one shape that no longer reads as words. The word is Latin — sigillum, a seal — but the method below is barely a century old.

1. Write the sentence

The sentence does more work than the drawing does. These are the rules the practice has settled on, and they are mostly just good instructions to give yourself.

1. Present tense. Write it as though it is already so. “I am”, not “I will be” — a sentence about the future keeps the thing in the future.
2. No negatives. Do not write what you want to stop. “I am not anxious” spends most of its letters on anxiety. Name the state you want instead.
3. One thing. One sigil, one wish. A sentence with an “and” in the middle is two sigils wearing a coat.
4. Yours and specific. “My work is paid what it is worth” beats “abundance”. A vague sentence gives you a vague mark and nothing to recognise later.
5. Short enough to hold. If you cannot say it in one breath, cut it. Fewer letters also make a cleaner glyph — the maths of the method rewards brevity.
6. Then stop looking at it. Spare's own instruction is the one everybody skips: charge it and forget it. A sigil you check on every day is a to-do list.

2. Strike the letters — and the one step nobody agrees on

Take I AM SAFE AND PROTECTED. Put it in capitals and drop everything that is not a letter and you have IAMSAFEANDPROTECTED. What happens next depends on whose version of the method you are following, and the two do not meet.

Neither is wrong, but they are not the same sigil. Spare’s own instruction in The Book of Pleasure is to strike the repeated letters; the vowel strike is a later simplification that spread through the chaos-magic handbooks and then through every generator that copied one. Across the 42 example sentences further down this page the two rules produce a different set of letters 42 times out of 42 — which is to say always. Spare’s rule leaves 12.5 letters on average and the modern one leaves 8.7, so the modern glyph is the simpler drawing and the older one carries more of your sentence. Pick whichever you like; the toggle at the top of the page switches between them.

Y is treated as a consonant here, as it is in every published version of the method. Nothing turns on it: if your statement has a Y in it, it survives. Letters are drawn in the order they first appear in your sentence. Spare fixed no order, so this is our choice, and it is what makes the result repeatable.

3. Fold the letters into one mark

Overlap what is left — rotate letters, resize them, sit them on top of each other — until the result stops reading as writing. Spare’s worked example in the book is the sentence “THIS IS MY WISH TO OBTAIN THE STRENGTH OF A TIGER”, which reduces under his own rule to these 15 letters:

T H I S M Y W O B A N E R G F

Then bind it in a circle. The circle is not decoration — it is what tells you the thing is finished and closed.

The other method: a path across the square of Saturn

Turn each letter into a number, then walk those numbers across a magic square in order, leaving one unbroken line behind you. This is how the planetary seals in the Renaissance grimoires were drawn, and it gives a completely different-looking mark from the same sentence.

The square below is the kamea of Saturn, printed in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia in 1533 alongside the six other planetary squares. Every row, every column and both diagonals add to 15. It is the smallest magic square that exists, it is the one Agrippa assigns to Saturn, and it is the only planetary square whose cells are exactly the digits 1 to 9 — which is why it is the one that fits a letter-to-digit reduction with nothing left over.

Reading MSFNDPRTC off the numerology table gives 4 · 1 · 6 · 5 · 4 · 7 · 9 · 2 · 3, and joining those cells in order is the path above. The small circle marks where the line starts and the short bar marks where it stops — the convention the grimoires use so a seal can be read in one direction only.

Where this is an adaptation, and we should say so. Agrippa traced Hebrew letters by their gematria values. The Latin alphabet has no gematria, so the 1-9 table used here is the modern numerology one — the same table that gives you a Life Path number. It is an adaptation of a real method, not the method itself, and it is only ever the 3×3 square: the larger kameas run to 16, 25, 36, 49, 64 and 81, and nothing in a 1-9 reduction can reach those cells.

How to charge a sigil

Charging is the part of the practice that gives the mark a moment, and then gets it out of your sight. Spare’s instruction is the one people skip: once it is charged, forget it. A sigil you check on daily is a to-do list.

The best day to make one

The names are not a coincidence and they are not modern. Sunday, Monday and Saturday carry the Sun, the Moon and Saturn in plain English; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday carry Týr, Odin, Thor and Frigg, the Norse gods the Romans matched to Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus — which is why French still says mardi, mercredi, jeudi and vendredi. That much is documented history. What each planet is good for is tradition, and no day is required: the best day to make a sigil is the day you actually will.

Fourteen sigils to start from

Each one below is a real sigil, drawn by this page from the first sentence in its list, with the stones our crystal database ties to that intention and the day the tradition gives it. Tap any sentence to load it into the generator and make it your own.

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Where all of this comes from

The HISTORY is fact and citable. The letter method is Austin Osman Spare's, set out in The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy, privately published London, 1913, where the worked example is the sentence 'THIS IS MY WISH TO OBTAIN THE STRENGTH OF A TIGER' and the instruction is to strike out every letter that repeats. Spare kept the vowels; striking the vowels as well is a later simplification that spread through the chaos-magic handbooks of the 1970s-80s and is now what almost every online generator does. The 3x3 number square is the kamea of Saturn, printed in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres (1533, Book II) alongside the six other planetary squares, and tracing a name across a kamea to produce a seal is the documented Renaissance method; Agrippa traced Hebrew letters by their gematria, so applying it to the Latin alphabet through the modern 1-9 numerology table is an adaptation and is labelled as one on the page. The seven planetary days are fact: Sunday, Monday and Saturday carry their planets in English, and Tuesday to Friday carry the Norse gods the Romans equated with Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus, which is why French still says mardi, mercredi, jeudi and vendredi. What each planet or day is GOOD FOR is tradition, as is every theme, charging practice and reading on this page. Nothing here is medical, psychological, legal or financial advice, and a sigil is not a treatment.