Sigil Sisters
The Sigil Sisters are Delphine Tomes, Orla Forrest and Renata Minoldo, a collective of three brujas who recently graduated from the MA Art + Ecology at Goldsmiths University. Sigil Sisters is brought together by our shared affinity with queer ecologies, ritual and storytelling through engagement with the more-than-human realm, where we bring together our practices which include textiles, slow crafts, somatic embodiment, and experimental reinterpretations of folklore and symbols to offer spaces of collectivity, activism, joy and mischief.
Workshop: Sigil Ritual to be summoned, activated and forgotten
Join a sigils session to explore symbols, signs, and sigils. A sigil turns a personal intent into an abstract design, charged with your will. Using words, signs, and symbols that matter to you, you’ll create your own sigil and send it into the unconscious to activate its potential.
We’ll begin by sharing our ideas of what symbols are, drawing on diverse examples from different cultures and eras. Then, we’ll briefly explore the history and meaning of sigils. Each participant will make their own, using wool and needles to felt a magick symbol with our guidance.
Wool has been a universal source of craft for thousands of years, and it has deep spiritual connections with women who spun, felted, and wove with it. Needles are also an ancient tool, used across cultures to connect, repair, and reinforce. Wool is one of the preferred materials amongst our collective, as it can be foraged from fences or bought from local farms. It is an ancient and renewable material. We’ll end the workshop by activating the sigils in a collective meditation. Participants can then choose to bury their sigils in nearby soil, letting them decompose and transform, returning intention to the more-than-human realm, allowing change, transformation, and forgetting to become part of the work.
By combining storytelling, rural craft, and communal intervention in the landscape, we position ritual as both a therapeutic practice and a playful form of dissent. Our work asks: how might magic function as a shared language for wellbeing?