Sigil walking is a technique I’ve developed based off Bua Gua, which is a martial arts moving meditation of circle walking. I recently had the opportunity to learn the basics of Bua Gua and it occurred to me that the principles of circle walking could be applied to charging and firing sigils for practical magic, or for invoking and working with a spirit. It is suggested that for you to get the possible use out of this technique, you should make yourself familiar with some type of walking meditation that moves the energy.
In Bua Gua, when you walk, you are pushing your internal energy to the Earth to connect with the Earth energy and then bringing that energy back up through your body and connecting it with the Stellar energy. Or at least that’s my experience when I do the walking. Since you are raising energy in this way, it occurred to me that you could also direct that energy accordingly, either for a practical magical working, or as a way to connect with a spirit.
To do this technique, first you need to come up with the sigil that you’ll walk. If you’re working with a spirit, then you would walk it’s sigil. If you’re creating a practical magic working, then you’ll create the sigil. For my initial experiment with this process, I created a sigil using the classic chaos magic approach of taking a statement of intent and getting rid of the repeating letters. I then got rid of the consonants, which left me with two vowels, which allowed me to create a simple shape to walk. I would suggest, at least initially, keeping your sigils simple to make the sigil walk easy, because you want to memorize the pattern you are going to walk. A complicated pattern will be harder to remember, whereas an easy pattern to remember will allow you to focus on the actual process.
The basic walk that I’m doing is only using three hand positions, and is mostly just straight line walking, which works well for this process. I would imagine that a more developed version of the walk could be applied to this technique, but I’m presenting this based on my experience and what I know.
I start the sigil walk with my palms pointing to the ground. I walk the pattern once that way, and the focus is on accumulating the energy that will be used to charge and fire the sigil. The next time I walk the pattern, I raise my hands to my chest, with the palms facing inward, like I’m carrying a ball. At this point I’m charging the sigil as I walk. The third time I walk the sigil, my hands and arms are raised to my left and right, with palms facing upward. At this point I am firing the sigil.
You don’t have to limit your walk to three repetitions. Instead you can walk it as many times as you want and do whatever hand position feels appropriate. You should do the sigil walking until you no longer think about the sigil, but instead of achieved a state of blank mind, where you are just doing the walk and letting the sigil go.
If you do this process to invoke a spirit, you would still walk the sigil pattern of the spirit, but instead the focus would be on achieving communion with the spirit. You’ll use the same hand positions, but when you raise your hands to the heavens, you’re welcoming the spirit and inviting it to walk and talk with you in sacred communion. You will walk the sigil pattern of the spirit for as long as you are in communion with it. I’ve done this process with the archangel Suvuviel.
As I continue to learn more about Bua Gua, this technique will undoubtedly be refined. I have shared more about this technique in my ultimate sigil magic course if you want to learn more.
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