The Safe Travels Sigil provides magical protection to help you reach your destination safely, no matter how you travel, and whether you are the driver, a passenger, or a pedestrian.

This sigil works on any traveler, whether driver or passenger, or even a pedestrian, because it is focused on what needs to happen in order for anyone to be safe when vehicles are nearby. Those vehicles can be any vehicles, be they cars, motorcycles, bicycles, busses, trains, planes, boats, etc. In all those situations, you want the intentions to hold true in order to have the safest possible journey.

Intentions and Symbology of the Safe Travels Sigil

The overall layout of the sigil is reminiscent of a winding road with multiple vehicles, to represent the path taken and the presence of others on that path. None of the elements touch each other because when travelling and vehicles are involved, it is best that nothing that is moving touch anything else.

The dots at either end of the curved line represent your start point and your destination, and indicate that protection should be provided from the moment you start on your journey, until you reach your destination.

Nearby drivers are alert and paying attention

Travel is by far safest when all drivers (including the driver of the vehicle you are in) are alert and paying attention. Most accidents happen when drivers are distracted, tired, inebriated, or not paying attention. This is symbolized by the exclamation point inside the double circle.

All vehicles in the vicinity move predictably

Another time accidents happen is when a vehicle moves in a way that is surprising to those around. When talking about road vehicles, much of this predictability stems from the driving culture of the immediate area, so this intention also encourages the drivers around to understand or learn what that local driving culture is, and adapt to it. This is symbolized by the crescent moons, protecting against unpredictability and encouraging adaptability to different driving styles and cultures.

Ward against accidents

There are numerous other circumstances that can cause accidents, including road conditions, weather conditions, unexpected obstacles, and vehicle malfunction. Rather than try to list out every possible cause of accidents, this intention is a ward against anything else that might create an accident, and help drivers avoid having an accident if travel circumstances are less than ideal. This is symbolized by the crescent moons cradling the turns in the road, and the circles protecting travelers.

Minimize injuries if an accident occurs

Sometimes an accident may happen anyway, no matter what has happened to help avoid it. This intention seeks to protect all those involved in the accident, so that injuries are as minimal as possible (ideally miraculous). This is represented by the double circle protecting the exclamation point.

Ward against crazy/incompetent/reckless drivers

Even if you can avoid an accident, it is no fun to travel near reckless drivers that seem determined to create an accident. This intention discourages reckless drivers from coming near you, and encourages them to move away quickly if they do. It is represented by the angry, disjointed asterisk in the lower circle, which is kept away and sent onward by the crescent moons.

Ward against road rage

This intention furthers the reckless driver intention by emphasizing that people prone to road rage should just move on without incident. It discourages such people from thinking you, the vehicle you are in, or vehicles near you, are worth expressing their rage against. If you are a pa in a vehicle, it also encourages the driver of that vehicle to stay calm and not engage in road rage.

How to Use the Safe Travels Sigil

You can use the Safe Travels 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 vehicle (if you have one)
• put a copy in your wallet
• use it as the wallpaper, login background, or screen saver on your phone or other electronic device you take with you when you travel
• make something crafty and include the sigil in your creation
• draw it on the body using salted water, anointing oil, an herb blend, makeup, body paint, henna, markers, temporary tattoo pens, etc. before you travel
• print it onto temporary tattoo paper and apply it to your body before you travel
• and so on

Your rendering of the Safe Travels 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.  Take appropriate physical precautions whenever you travel. For example, use your seatbelt when you ride in a car (to minimize injuries), don’t get into a car being driven by someone you know is an unsafe driver, be aware of vehicles around you when you are a pedestrian, obey traffic laws (move in predictable ways for those around you), don’t use your high beams when you are in traffic and can blind other drivers, etc.

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

Tattoos and Body Art of the Safe Travels Sigil

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 Safe Travels Sigil

I have set up the Safe Travles Sigil 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 Safe Travels Sigil

The Safe Travels 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.