The Sigil for Successful Surgery and Recovery was created with the goal of helping to make surgery as smooth and complication-free as possible. It also facilitates healing during the recovery period, blessing the healing process to be as fast and complete as possible.

As with all health and healing sigils, follow the directions of medical professionals for best results. My sigils are designed to aid and boost proper medical care, including after care, and will be most potent when they have physical support. They do not replace taking care of yourself.

This can be applied to anyone who is undergoing surgery and will have a recovery period, be they human or animal.

Intentions for and Symbology in the Sigil for Successful Surgery and Recovery

The overall flow of the sigil moves from left to right, to emphasize progress. I organized it this way because I am a native English speaker. If you associate progress as moving from right to left it is best to flip the sigil.

Wards Against Human Error

The last thing anyone in surgery needs is for the doctors doing the surgery to make very human errors. It happens, of course, because everyone makes mistakes, so we ward against it happening this time.

This is symbolized by the straight solid and dotted line through the main components of the sigil, showing that the surgery should progress in a smooth and predictable manner. The arrows emphasize progress along that line, and the multiple crescent moons ward against inconsistencies.

Wards Against Technological Problems

Technological problems can be just as problematic as human error, resulting in botched, incomplete, or lengthy and difficult surgeries. This ward is just as much for the benefit of the people doing the surgery as the patient, as technical problems make the surgeon’s job much harder than it has to be.

The main ward is at the left of the sigil, the chaos star (representing chaotic and unpredictable circumstances) couched in crescent moons. The moons contain the chaos and help it to follow predictable patterns (maintenance and checking tools ahead of time). It is placed at the left so that any such problems are taken care of before surgery even starts.

This is further reinforced by the other crescent moons, and by the circles with the dot at the center to the far right of the sigil.

Wards Against Complications

Even when human error and technological problems are taken care of, there can still be complications, as the human body does not always respond well to being cut open. These wards help to reduce the likelihood of such complications.

Since these complications, if they happen, will happen during surgery, these elements are in the core part of the sigil. The multiple crescent moons, “+” symbol, and pentagram all work to keep complications from happening. If complications do happen, they will aid the surgeon and nurses with quickly and effectively managing/correcting the problem(s).

Surgery Accomplishes All Goals

If someone must go under the knife, it is best that the surgery accomplishes all its goals, so that as few surgeries as possible will be required.

This is symbolized in the up arrow and the pentagram in the core of the sigil, and the bullseye with pentagram at the far right.

Medications are Effective

All surgeries involve medication, at the very least a localized numbing agent. Most surgeries involve a lot more medication than that, and it is important that they do their job properly. If you have ever had a numbing agent fail on a minor procedure, or woken from full anesthesia while surgery was still happening, you know what I mean. If you have not, you do not want to have the experience. Other medications can be critical to the success of a surgery, or help to avert complications.

This is symbolized by the pill-shaped oval in the core of the sigil, with the “+” sign in the center of it. It is also symbolized by the three dots above the arrow, indicating that the medication is doing its work.

Experience Minimal Side Effects from Medications

Allergies are real, and different bodies respond differently to different medications. That means different people will experience different side effects to greater or lesser degrees. This intention helps to ward against severe side effects, and minimize even the minor side effects.

This is symbolized by the crescent moons cradling the pill shape at the core of the sigil.

Receive Quality After-Care

Successful surgery is important, but so is after-care. This is where you give your body a chance to heal fully, so that you can return to normal as completely as possible. Failure to receive after-care can be as damaging or deadly as a botched surgery.

This is symbolized by the multiple layers of hearts to the right of the surgery bundle. The line cuts through the center, creating the heart shapes as recovery progresses. There are multiple layers and shapes to the hearts because different people will be involved in seeing the subject back to health, each with their own role and contributions. This turns into arrows as it moves towards the ultimate outcome of healing.

Blessings to Heal Quickly and Completely

No one wants to be laid up forever. This intention is to help you heal as quickly and completely as possible.

This is symbolized in the “+” sign, the full circles, and the pentagrams. The symbols to the far right of the sigil are very much a blending of this intention, and the next one.

Wards Against Infection and Post-Surgery Complications

Even when you are past the surgery itself, there can still be complications that pop up, especially infection. This intention is to help protect against anything that might cause problems during the recovery phase.

This is symbolized by the crescent moons protectively cradling the goal of a return to good health. The arrows point into the side of the crescent moon to ward against trying to move out of the recovery phase too soon, because pushing yourself before your body is ready is the easiest way to gum up the recovery process and make it take even longer.

How to Use the Sigil for Successful Surgery and Recovery

You can use this sigil 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
• use it as the wallpaper, login background, or screen saver on your phone, tablet, or computer
• 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.
• print it onto temporary tattoo paper and apply it to your body
• 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 both before and after surgery, 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.

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

If you are having trouble accessing the medical care you need before, during, or after surgery, I recommend also using the Sigil Supporting Access to Medical Care, and I sincerely wish you all the luck in the world. Quality medical care should be a right, not a privilege.

Tattoos and Body Art of the Sigil for Successful Surgery and Recovery

While I expect most uses of this sigil will be temporary, there are some chronic conditions which require regularly scheduled surgeries as a critical component of effective treatment.

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 for Successful Surgery and Recovery

I have set up the Sigil for Successful Surgery and Recovery 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 for Successful Surgery and Recovery

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 intended to do, in detail.  Sigils are most effective when the user understands the symbology and 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.