Bury
The sigil stays hidden. To see it again, you unearth it from the Journal and confirm.
Sigils with a journal
A sigil is a wish hidden in a drawing.
Sigyl takes you from a sentence to a sigil, in seven steps, and keeps the journal of what you did for it. No account. Everything stays on your device.
Works in the browser and can be installed as an app.
Try the beginning
The letters of the wish
- I (struck)
- S
- L
- E (struck)
- E (struck)
- P
- W
- E (struck)
- L (struck)
- L (struck)
Kept
S L P W
What you type here never leaves this page.
Seven steps, from wish to forgetting
The ritual is short and has an order. You can leave at any point: the draft is kept.
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Wish
Write what you want, in the positive.
A short, concrete sentence. The app warns you, without blocking, when a “not” shows up.
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Actions
Decide what you will do on your side.
Up to three actions, with a date or a repeat: every day, certain weekdays, or a few times a week.
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Letters
Reduce the sentence to a few letters.
Let tradition strike the vowels and repeats, let chance choose, or strike them yourself.
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Sigil
Join the letters into a single drawing.
Draw it in the app, with a broad-nib pen, or photograph a sigil made on paper. It needn’t be pretty or legible.
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Gnosis
Charge the sigil with a quiet mind.
Silence, with a meditation time you turn like a dial, or exaltation: music, dance, exhaustion.
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Fate
Bury it or burn it.
Burying hides the sigil, and you can unearth it from the Journal. Burning erases everything, for good.
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Check-in
Get a reminder of your actions.
On the day you chose, the app reminds you of your actions, one by one, and asks whether you did them. With no actions, it is just a nudge to look back. The reminder never mentions the wish.
Breathing is part of it
In silent gnosis, a guided breath follows the time you chose. No counting: just the word and the rhythm.
Inhale
Hold
Exhale
The wish stays out of sight.
Tradition says to forget the sigil once it is charged. That is why Sigyl hides what you wrote: the wish, the letters and the drawing only show during the ritual and when you decide to unearth them.
Burn
The drawing, the letters and the wish are erased from the app. There is no undoing it.
After the ritual, the journal.
Your actions, check-ins and notes live together, in three screens: Actions, Today and Journal.
Did you do it?
On the day you set, Today reminds you of your actions and asks whether you did them. One tap answers, and the answer becomes a note linked to the ritual.
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Actions
With a date or repeating, in the order you drag them. Done ones move to the end of the list.
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Notes
Write in markdown and link a note to a ritual with [[ ]]. It shows up in the ritual and in the Journal.
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Search
Search your notes. Wishes never show up in search.
Yours only.
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No account
No sign-up, no profile, no password to remember.
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On your device
Your data is kept here, and the app works offline after the first visit.
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A backup is a file
Download everything in one file, with a password if you like, and take it to another device when you need to.
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In two languages
Portuguese and English, in Settings, or by your browser’s language.
Install it like an app
It opens full screen, works offline and has an icon on your home screen. It’s optional: it also works right in the browser.
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Android (Chrome)
Open Sigyl, tap the ⋮ menu and “Install app”.
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iPhone (Safari)
Open Sigyl, tap Share and “Add to Home Screen”.
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Computer (Chrome or Edge)
Open Sigyl and click the install icon at the end of the address bar.
Questions
What is a sigil?
A sigil is a wish condensed into a drawing. You write a sentence, reduce it to a few letters, join them into a drawing, charge it with a quiet mind and then forget it.
Does it work?
Sigyl does not promise results. It is a traditional practice that comes from Austin Osman Spare and was taken up by chaos magic authors such as Peter Carroll. Every step in the app has a “Why?” with its sources, and says what is the practitioners’ convention.
Do I have to believe in magic?
Not to use it. The app treats the sigil as a practice with an origin and a method, and makes clear what is tradition. The clear wish and the actions you choose are recorded in your journal.
Do my wishes go to a server?
No. Everything is kept on your device. The app has no account and does not send what you write.
What if I change phones or lose mine?
In Settings you download a backup, with a password if you like, and restore it on another device. Without a backup, what lives only on the device is lost with it.
Does it work offline?
Yes, after you open the app once with a connection.
Start with a sentence.
Seven steps and a few minutes. The rest is up to you.
Open Sigyl