In recent months, as I approach menopause, I have found myself with increasingly awful hormonal mood swings, including debilitating depression for 3-7 days each month. I find this unacceptable, so what is a witch to do, but use magic to help combat what is otherwise a helpless situation? If you have hormonal mood swings, regardless of your gender or age, may the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings help you as well!

Whether you are estrogen-dominant
or testosterone-dominant
or somewhere inbetween,
are self-generating your hormones
or on HRT,
you may use this sigil
to calm mood swings
that come from the ebb and flow
of hormonal cycles,
and find equilibrium
even during hormonal extremes
and trying times.

The intent of the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings is to reduce the severity of hormonal mood swings, and help your hormonal cycle stay in a healthy rhythm. What that means is that regardless of the source of your hormonal mood swings, it will help to reduce the severity of those mood swings, and help you remain consciously aware and keep your head even if the mood swings get bad. It will also help to regulate your cycles so that they are as close to a healthy rhythm for you as possible.

Since the sigil is open-ended on the source of the hormonal rhythm, it may be used by anyone who is experiencing hormonal mood swings. This includes people of all genders and sexes, whether they are self-generating their hormones, or taking hormones provided by a pharmacy. They can be of any age, including the roller coaster of adolescent hormones, a consistent issue during adulthood, and the change of life. It can even be of help for those whose hormonal mood swings stem from chronic illness, side effects of medication, or other atypical sources.

Much of the emphasis is on rhythm and allowing for highs and lows, since it is healthy for humans of all genders to have hormones that fluctuate cyclically over time. In most cases it would be extremely unhealthy to attempt to stop those cycles of fluctuation.

No sigil is a substitute for qualified medical care. If your hormone levels or hormonal cycles are monitored by, partially regulated by, or entirely regulated by medical care, please do follow the advice of your doctor. The sigil will be more effective when supported by physical actions wherever possible.

In a similar vein, if there are self-care techniques that you know help to calm your hormonal mood swings, you may use those in concert with the sigil to increase the overall efficacy of all your efforts.

Symbology of the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings

The overall symbology is created in such a way as to imply both balance and movement throughout the sigil, creating power and equilibrium with fluctuations that happen over time. It deliberately mimics the look of an atom drawing, but with a continual line rather than multiple ovals. This harkens to a steady rhythm with regular highs and lows in a seemingly endless cycle, and acknowledges the fundamental nature of hormonal fluctuations.

The repeating pentagrams are part of the balance, and also centering and empowering, to help you get through the mood swings and retain energy and equilibrium even at extremes of your cycle. The many circles are balanced at median points, further emphasizing flexibility and movement that is in harmony with your hormonal rhythms.

How to Use the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings

You can use this Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings in any way that is in line with its intent and makes sense for your practice.  Some ideas are to:

• inscribe it on a candle
• print it or draw it on a piece of paper and place it on your altar or somewhere you see regularly
• put a copy in your wallet, especially when mood swings are prominent
• make something crafty and include the sigil in your creation
• use it as a focus for meditation
• draw it on the body using salted water, anointing oil, an herb blend, makeup, body paint, henna, markers, temporary tattoo pens, etc.
• and so on

Your rendering of the sigil does not need to be perfect.  Intent is what matters, so do not worry if you cannot draw it “perfectly”.  As long as all the elements are there, you are good.

Like any sigil, it will be most effective when it is used in conjunction with real-world actions.  Be sure to do what you can physically to treat your condition, and be sure to follow your doctor’s instructions.  The sigil alone is not going to fix everything, but it can give a powerful boost to the actions you take, and hopefully help you live a longer life.

If you wish you use it as a focus in workings to help the world in general and anyone who needs it, you are welcome to do so.  Instead of focusing the sigil for a single person/situation, send the intent to help anyone who is struggling and could use the benefits of the sigil.

Please read On the Care and Use of Sigils for more information about how to use sigils.

Tattoos and Body Art of the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings

If you want to get a tattoo of any of my sigils, you do not need to ask me for personal permission.  Permission is granted.  However, I do recommend that you carefully consider whether or not the sigil in question is actually something you need working on you constantly for the rest of your life.  If the answer is no, temporary body art is probably the better way to go, even if you recreate it on a frequent or semi-regular basis.

I also strongly recommend using a temporary body art method to test-drive any sigil before getting it permanently inked.  This can let you test the impact of the sigil, including how placement changes the effects.  This isn’t just some cool design that you like.  It is a piece of magic and will have impact beyond aesthetics.

If you do decide getting a tattoo of one of my sigils is the way to go, I would love it if you showed me how it turned out!  You can send me a message through my website or social media.  If you post the photo to the internet, please tag me on social media so I can see.

Print-on-Demand Purchase of the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings

I have set up the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings print-on-demand in my RedBubble shop, so it can be more convenient to use for those who do not have the time/skills/energy to redraw or recreate the sigil. I have set the items in the shop to 0% commission, so the prices you see are the base prices. Due to my own health problems, I am incapable of doing order fulfillment or running a business, and as a spoonie witch I want the convenience of purchasing for myself as well.

Print-on-demand is provided purely as a convenience, not as a business endeavor. That means I am unlikely to rush to meet any requests for available items or sigils, and I have no control over RedBubble’s order fulfilment processes. I have not purchased or tested the vast majority of products available from RedBubble, but I have set them up in ways that I hope will be issue-free.

Sharing the Sigil to Calm Hormonal Mood Swings

The sigil graphic does contain enough text to help clarify it when it is shared out in the wilds of the internet, but best practice is to include a link back to this article.  That way others who see it can find out exactly what it is charged to do, in detail.  Sigils are most effective when the user knows exactly what they were created to do, and that is also the only way they can be certain this sigil is right for them and their situation.

This sigil is Creative Commons licensed:

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as they credit Sidney Eileen and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Want to Make Your Own Sigils?

I use the method described in the excellent book Sigil Witchery, by Laura Tempest Zakroff.  You do not need to consider yourself an artist to make your own sigils.

Want More Sigils?

Go to my Sigil Magic page to find all of the sigils I have created and shared publicly.