- Hi, it's editing Olivia here.
So, I just got back from Texas
and I filmed this wonderful video with Marshall,
and basically what we did was we sat down
and took some suggestions from you
that you gave us on Instagram on sigils
that you would like to see or see us make.
So we chose two each and made a sigil for each one
So he made the sigil
and I made the sigil for the same thing each time,
and I don't know if I just plugged in my microphone
incorrectly or something,
but the whole entire video is completely silent.
So you can't hear anything that we're saying.
And I don't know what we're saying so I can't caption it,
but I did use my other camera,
this one that I'm using right now as B roll
so you can hear some of the things that we are saying.
So I think I might be able to save this video.
We'll see how it goes.
But that's the context so that's why it's
kind of put together funky because I'm basically just using
footage that was meant to be B roll,
and I will try to use some voiceovers
and little inserts like that
to kind of give you a little more context.
And hopefully this video won't be totally lost
because I really liked this video.
It was super cute.
And I was really happy that I got to work with Marshall
and meet him and have a really good time with him.
And I learned so much while I was there,
but regardless I'm getting onto a tangent,
let's get to the video and hopefully it's not trash.
- Okay mental wall (laughing)
- I enact a mental wall.
- Yes.
- Okay.
Scribble that guy out really quick.
Okay.
I feel like I'm trying to think of something
but I am also like cheating where I'm like
what's he doing?
- All right.
- Eyes on your own paper.
- Eyes on your paper.
- Sorry.
I might accidentally be drawing Mike Wazowski
and I don't know why look at-
- Mike?
- From monsters Inc. The big green guy with one eye.
- Oh my gosh, yes.
- That's not what I was going for.
- Sometimes things just pop up
and they mean something to you.
That's actually kind of cool.
- Mike Wazowski
- (whispering) Mike Wazowski
- The protection of my thoughts.
(fire crackling)
- So I made this sigil and I use the method where
you remove double consonants and vowels.
And I ended up starting with two double circles to make sure
that this isn't just a protection.
This is a ward. It is a full-on block.
And then, because this is to keep people out.
I thought the idea of an X and that came
from me actually removing the letter T, which is leftover
'cause it's just two strokes, and then the W which
is four strokes ended up adding to that X for extra X'ness.
And I took the following four letters that were left.
The M the N the C and the L and I designed this sigil
to go on all four quadrants and that filled it out,
creating in my mind a mental wall.
- Oh, I like that. Let me get some B roll.
God I love this notepad.
- Oh my gosh me too
- Perfect. Okay, so mine started out you can kind of see,
it looks like Mike Wazowski 'cause there was an eye,
but I was thinking at first horns, you know,
like you have your brain right?
And then like horns are like a protective.
So like I was thinking like something like that,
but then I figured,
if you're trying to protect something mental,
it's not just your thoughts. Like it's also your emotions.
It's also like intentions and things like that.
So you would have to know when somebody is trying to
get those things out of you. So it kind of used an eye
so that you would be able to see the things
that you need to be protecting yourself against.
And then I have arrows going in all four directions
so that you kind of have that direction of like,
okay in order to protect myself,
this is the way that I need to go.
Or this is the thing that I need to do.
And then I have- I don't know why,
the little stars, like the asterisks.
that's the woman from how to train your dragon.
- Astrid, yes.
- Asterisk just kind of as like a little burst.
- Beneficial communication.
- Beneficial communication, okay.
These look like chickens
- Beneficial communication and I actually used two colors
because I wanted to show, coming from two sides
and then synchronizing to come together sharing.
And I actually took the letters from the two strokes
from the L and the T each of them having two
which makes four strokes and the four strokes of the M
which is one, two, three, four, and made hashtags symbols
because it reminds me of sharing data.
- Oh, I like it.
- It fits doesn't it.
And with the two triangles going either opposite side
from the opposite colors that is shared.
It's being synchronized.
It's a very, just straight up beneficial communication.
- I like that a lot. I think that's cool.
- Thank you.
Mine is not as pretty, but you know,
you win some and you lose some.
- It's yours, that's the beautiful part.
But this one is, well, I scribbled out all of them
but it kind of looks like a little face.
I thought it was like two people kind of talking in that
like wave of communication.
And I wanted something above because communication
is air, it's intellect. It's always like above right?
- It's understood.
- Yeah, it's like an understanding and it's like,
when I try to think about communication
whether it's between two people or if it's
between the spirit realm or whatever,
like it's just up here.
- Right.
- You know, so I wanted something up here, but it
it just kind of looks like a really sad face that's
crying that has like a cute little head dress on.
(smooth music)
- (mumbles)
- I do like that. Yours remind me of hieroglyphs.
They remind me of like an ancient language that obviously
depicts what it's supposed to mean,
but sometimes you'd have to decipher it
in a way that is based off of the language
in which the people who are speaking it.
So I feel like when I'm looking at this, I'm looking
at Olivia hieroglyphs.
- Olivia hieroglyphs. I like that.
- [Marshall] So this is how I describe it.
Sometimes you have a hard time figuring out how
you're going to make a very specific situation.
That's maybe even a one-time sigil used.
So I take the root statement, which is clarity.
And I made this sigil all in silver,
basically breaking down the word clarity
and putting it's strokes and letters in this round circle
and then the situation I need that clarity in,
I start at the top and I work my way around saying
the situation in which I seek clarity
and what that ever could be. That could be your job,
that could be a work situation,
that could be in a relationship,
that could be, should I buy this home?
I'm seeking clarity and blah, blah, blah.
And then that might be a way in which you would take this
and turn it into almost more of a grimoric seal,
and then burn it or bury it or enact it in any way,
shape or form you enjoy, charging sigils.
- [Olivia] I like that a lot. That's super cool.
- [Marshall] Thank you.
- [Olivia] I like that you can use it
for kind of any situation like you were saying.
You have that- It's like a one pack punch sigil.
- [Marshall] I like to make a lot of sigils
that are almost more like basic statements,
and then I'll apply them to the specific situation
using a method like this.
This could be done in a sinister way as if you want to
do the opposite, I want to cloud someone's clarity
and I might write their name going in the opposite direction
in a sinister or counterclockwise way.
I do not want them to have clarity on a situation.
Now that's a little painful that may not
be your bag, but you know what
- [Olivia] It is what it is, whatever you need it. Sweet.
There you go. So I chose this one.
They're the same thing, but this one I drew better.
I just think the sun for clarity, right?
Everything is in the light. It's very bright.
It's very warm. And also clarity, I think is very spacious.
You know? So clarity, I think meditation, I think-
- [Marshall] Yes.
- [Olivia] Oh spaciousness, so these little squiggles are
kind of like, oh space. But also you have the triangles
that kind of represent direction.
Like you have a direction of, okay now
that everything is clear, I know what I need to think,
what I need to feel, what I need to do, type of thing.
- [Marshall] This actually is inspiring an idea that
I'm staying in the middle of a very flat crossroads.
I can see in every direction, the sky is perfectly clear,
and I am literally, I see clearly in every direction.
All four directions, whether that's up and down,
side to side, or diagonal, each direction.
That's where I feel like I'm the dot in the center
of this crossroads and I see it in every direction.
- [Olivia] That's a great way to look at it too.
- [Marshall] I love that.
- [Olivia] Oh I love that.
(nostalgic music)
- And that's actually my version of a inspired lowercase D
- [Olivia] Oh really? I like that.
Mine are kind of, I don't know.
- [Marshall] Oh, wow.
There are a lot of unrepeating letters here too.
- [Olivia] Oh, really?
- [Marshall] That's great though.
- [Olivia] That is good.
- [Marshall] Well it gives me the opportunity
to really take advantage of all the strokes.
Sometimes I run out and I'm like there's empty space here
- [Olivia] Actually pretty hard for me
- [Marshall] Coming up with this one?
- Yeah.
- What's hard? What's kind of like that feeling or
that block that's coming through.
- I think it's that I can't figure out how to represent
in my head, the person that needs the courage.
It's easy for me to represent the people spectating,
but, the person needing the courage is kind of
the most important part of it so I'm trying to figure out
how to represent that in a strong way.
- You know, I always find that if I'm kind of blanking,
I start going down to basic geometric figures.
So you could do like a small upside down triangle
with a whole cross going through it
as the center of a heart and then a human figure.
So something kind of like-
- We will start there.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- And then across going through the whole thing
and that's the center of the human figure.
- Oh, I love that actually. Okay.
- Geometrics are really helpful.
I think as a hairstylist, 'cause I cut hair up here
where it lives down here so there's so much geometry
in the way that you carve out shapes.
I kind of bring that to my craft as well.
- [Olivia] And there you have it.
This is my salvaged video of sigil making with Marshall.
I'm so happy I was able to save this video
because I was really looking forward
to sharing this with you.
I think it's really cool to watch other people
make sigils the way that they make sigils,
and see how one intention can turn
into two totally different sigils,
and still work just the same.
And it never hurts to be inspired by others
and pick up a few ideas.
As mentioned before, Marshall does do live sigil making
on his Instagram, taking suggestions from his audience.
Those are always fun to just pop in and hang out while
he makes sigils. And as a tribute to Marshall,
I used the same background music that he uses in his lives.
And of course that will be linked down below
but that's all for this video.
And as always best of luck, be kind to each other.
And may your gods treat you as you've treated others. Bye!