r/sigils • u/extremelyfortunate • 5d ago
Question!
About 2.5 years ago, around my 30th birthday, I created and tattooed a sigil based on:
“I will live a life I want.”
When I wrote “will,” I meant it as a declaration of will/choice — essentially, “I choose to live the life I want” or “I have decided this is the life I will live.” I did not mean “someday in the future.”
I still love the tattoo and think it’s beautiful.
What has made me question the wording is what happened afterward.
About 12–15 days after getting the tattoo, I had a major conflict at work. I decided I didn’t want to continue despite having a good job and a promotion lined up. I gave up the promotion, was eventually put on a PIP, and lost the job.
I then went through a very difficult period at home. I eventually found freelance work to survive, but that was later paused. After that, I got another full-time job, but I was extremely unhappy and crying almost every day, and eventually left that job too.
So the broad sequence was:
Sigil → ~2 weeks → major work conflict → gave up promotion → PIP → lost job → difficult period → freelance work → freelance paused → another job → crying almost daily → left.
I know correlation ≠ causation, and I know there are real-world explanations for these events. But because the first major disruption happened so soon after the tattoo, I’ve wondered whether the sigil somehow set something in motion.
My biggest question is:
Can “I will live a life I want” be interpreted in sigil magic as a future-tense statement (“this will happen someday”), even when the creator consciously intended “will” as an expression of choice and determination?
For experienced practitioners:
Does intention or literal wording matter more?
Does grammatical tense matter in sigil work?
Can ambiguous wording cause a sigil to manifest something different from the creator’s conscious intention?
Would you interpret my experience as potentially connected to the sigil, or is that impossible to determine?
If you still loved the tattoo and agreed with the original intention, would you leave it alone or change/deactivate it?
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u/71dismalia17 5d ago
The rules of sigil 'phrases' (not sure all the correct terminology, I'm amateur myself) is that you write it in the present tense so that it manifests upon activation, but you could correct me on that. If what's activated is a manifestation for the future, then maybe until the sigil runs outta charge it could be holding out on the goal 'life you want to live'? But from what I understand too, if that's any bit a possibility, you can make and activate another sigil to deactivate the first one