A friend of mine got me into making sigils because I see it as both a fun artistic exercise and a way to focus on what you really want. If you consider the Universe as balanced, any attempt to change it would require something to occur to balance your change. I end up typically thinking of it in a monkey's paw type scenario in which the thing you want is also the thing that will cause turmoil because of its existence. My favorite sigils I've made so far are one that was created with "comfort" in mind and another that was "save Japan" (at the time of the tsunami). I'm hoping they're both just vague and positive enough to make things a little better.
I was actually writing a comic for a little bit that was centered around a couple of girls in a Universe where some people realize they can really blatantly reshape reality according to their wills and it was kind of going to be about fairy tale magic in a realistic setting and how it's not even that things balance out, but that you don't understand the consequences of your actions in advance. Anyway, then I saw Puella Magi Madoka Magica and it kind of blew away anything that could really be done with a magical story...
