Each letter of your full name is converted into a numerological value according to the Pythagorean or Chaldean system. From the resulting digits, a visual sigil is created — a geometric seal that symbolically represents the energetic imprint of your identity. The analysis accompanying the seal includes the dominant numerological frequencies of your name, vibrational qualities, strong and weak energy fields, and advice for activating the sigil.

Where it comes from

Turning a name into a single drawn figure is an old practice with several separate roots. Medieval and Renaissance ceremonial magic used kameas — number squares assigned to the planets — and traced a line through the squares corresponding to the letters of a name, producing a sigil. The Kabbalistic tradition worked from gematria, where every Hebrew letter carries a number and words with equal sums are read as related. In the twentieth century Austin Osman Spare set out a simpler method: strike the repeated letters from a written phrase and combine what remains into one glyph. All of these reduce a name to a mark that can be looked at rather than read.

How the method works

A name seal is built from the letters of a name converted to numbers, then laid out as a path rather than a sum. Each letter becomes a point, and the points are joined in the order the letters appear, so the shape encodes both which letters are in the name and the order they come in. Two names with the same letters in a different order produce different figures. The result is unique to the exact spelling given, which is why the seal changes if a middle name is added or a diacritic dropped.

What a reading covers

You get the figure itself and a reading of what its parts stand for: which letters produced which turns, which numbers repeat, where the path closes on itself and where it runs open. Seals are traditionally used as a focus for attention rather than as a prediction — the practice is closer to a personal emblem than to divination.

Common questions

Which form of my name should I use?: The one you answer to. Practitioners differ on whether the birth name or the used name carries more weight, and many make both and compare the shapes.
Is a sigil the same as a monogram?: No. A monogram is made to be read as letters. A sigil is made so the letters stop being legible — the point is a shape the eye takes in at once.
Does the seal change over time?: Not on its own. It changes only if the name it was built from changes.