a spell for seeing your frequency word with Kate Van Horn

a sneak peek into a guest grimoire

We’ve been loud and proud sigil spell creators (Digital Altars, anyone?) for many years at Holisticism HQ.

A sigil is, most simply, a visual spell.

Here’s how it works: While creating a sigil (this can be as lo-fi as symbol you draw, or as detailed as a piece of pottery or collage), you hold an intention for a desired outcome. This directed attention “charges” the visual spell, and the magic begins to do its work. Every time you catch sight of the sigil, the magic is reinforced.

Depending on your practice, you might prefer to use sigils and visual spells as a way to communicate with your unconscious mind. The abstraction of your intention allows the conscious mind to take a backseat, which ultimately means we can let something more intuitive takeover.

We publish a weekly visual spell in our Tuesday Portal, but we thought we’d query some of our favorite intuitive folks to come on the ‘stack and cast a visual spell for us.

MEET KATE VAN HORN

Kate Van Horn is the author of The Inner Tarot, an intuitive mentor, and writer who guides others in creating intentional, energetically-aligned lives. Find her at

Intuitive Living with Kate Van Horn

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KATE’S INTENTION

This practice is for the seekers, the ones who know that language itself is a spell. It is a spell to uncover your frequency word—a word or short phrase that comes from within, revealed through the process of channeled writing.

We often think of writing as an auditory practice—we hear the words forming in our minds, we listen for their meaning. This is a spell not just to receive a word, but to see it, to turn it into a visual talisman that holds power every time it catches your eye. Besides, what feels more sacred than the inner voice of your beloved journal, a handwritten note, or the rhythm of a pen as it dances across the page?

This word will not be chosen by your logical mind. Instead, it will arrive via your intuition, your higher self, your inner oracle—an offering that will guide you for this season of life.

KATE’S INSPIRATION

This practice is something I guide my mentorship clients through—a ritual of asking the future self to speak, to offer guidance through ONE WORD. The brevity is what makes it feel tangible, easeful, and engrained. First we invite in the version of ourselves that has moved through the present chaos, the doubt, the fog we might be facing. We ask them:

What do I need? What do you want me to hold onto?
What word will be my anchor, or my divine instruction during this season of life?

The Ideal Outcome

By casting this spell, you will receive a word that hums at the exact frequency of your soul’s current longing. This word will be a visual sigil, something you can place before you—on your desk, your mirror, your altar—so that every time you see it, you are reminded of the magic you set in motion.

Inspiration

I have been practicing channeled writing for years. It’s how I access clarity when my mind is clouded, how I connect to something bigger when I find my vision getting tunneled, or small.

There is a phrase I say often when I teach the practice of channeled writing:

"Write until it surprises you."

That’s the moment you know you’ve dropped in. When something appears on the page that feels like it didn’t come from you, but through you. When your own handwriting changes a little bit (often more loopy, curvy, and poetic) and reveals something you weren’t expecting, yet instantly true.

A spell like this is about surrender. It’s about trusting that the wisdom you seek is already present, waiting to be transcribed.

A RITUAL TO WRITE YOUR SOUL FREQUENCY WORD