Angel Banishing Sigil

The Angel Banishing Sigil

The angel banishing sigil must be drawn in blood. It temporarily banishes angels (except the one who drew it) from that location. However, in 5.18 Point of No Return, Castiel banishes four angels and himself with a sigil he carved on his chest. Apparently it banishes the angels in range to another location on Earth as after being banished in 7.21 Reading Is Fundamental, he calls from a dog track in Perth, Australia and wound up on a fishing boat after banishing himself and the other angels. It may also weaken the angels when they are banished, as Castiel notes that it takes banished angels some time to return after they are exposed to such a sigil, and Castiel lost most of his remaining powers after his fall from Heaven when he banished himself.

See Enochian for sigils that will prevent an angel entering a building.

Episodes

4.10 Heaven and Hell

When Sam and Dean join Ruby who has hidden Anna Milton from Alastair; Castiel and Uriel appear and proclaim they must kill Anna. As the angels attack, Anna cuts herself and draws the sigil, sending the angels away.

Anna banishes Castiel and Uriel.

4.20 The Rapture

After Castiel found out about Zachariah's true plan he wanted to warn Dean and Sam, but he was ambushed by some of his superiors. Castiel engaged in an angel on angel battle with some of his superiors.

After this angelic battle, Castiel was taken up to Heaven for re-education on angelic obedience. Sam and Dean find the sigil in the place where they were to meet Cas; he presumably used it to try and fight off his captors.

In the aftermath of Castiel's battle.

4.22 Lucifer Rising

Castiel uses the sigil to banish Zachariah after he decides to help Dean get to Sam, in hopes of preventing Sam from killing Lilith.

Castiel banishes Zachariah.

5.01 Sympathy for the Devil

Dean uses the sigil, which was all ready and hidden at Chuck's place, to banish Zachariah along with two more angels.

Dean banishes Zachariah along with two other angels.

5.13 The Song Remains the Same

Sam uses a sigil to banish Anna during their first confrontation in 1978. Later, Dean shows John how to make the sigil, but when Anna and Uriel arrive, they somehow defuse the sigil before the Winchesters can activate it.

Sam banishes Anna.

5.18 Point of No Return

Dean uses a sigil to banish Castiel to escape from Bobby's panic room. Later, while fighting four angels in the abandoned muffler factory, Castiel takes off his shirt to reveal the sigil carved into his chest with a box cutter. He puts his hand on it and banishes the other angels and himself, giving Sam and Dean an opening to go to the Green Room.

Castiel uses the sigil that he engraved into his chest to wipe out the angels (including himself) guarding the Green Room.

6.03 The Third Man

Outside of Balthazar's house, Dean and Sam are confronted by a hostile angel. He is a soldier of Raphael and, rather than fight him with the angel swords they have in their possession, Dean banishes him with a sigil etched on a wall of Balthazar's house.

Dean uses the Sigil to banish two angels loyal to Raphael.

6.10 Caged Heat

Samuel draws a modified version of the sigil and activates it, banishing Castiel temporarily.

Samuel uses a different type of sigil to banish Castiel.

7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

After Hester and Inias arrive and threaten, Sam, Meg, Kevin Tran and Castiel; Dean uses the sigil to banish all three angels. While it is unknown where the other two angels went, Castiel ends up at a dog track in Perth, Australia.

The burning sigil after Dean has banished Hester, Inias and Castiel.

9.01 I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

Unable to defeat two angels that are looking for Castiel, Dean tricks them into stopping beating on him then reveals that he drew a banishing sigil on the floor in his own blood, asking them where they will be sent as Heaven is closed. Before they can react, Dean uses the symbol to banish the two angels and leaves before any more can show up.

Dean draws a sigil on the floor, after taking a beating from two angels.

9.06 Heaven Can't Wait

When confronted by Ephraim, Castiel cuts his hand with the thorns of a rose and uses his blood to draw an angel banishing sigil on a glass pane. However, before he can use it, Ephraim notices and stops him.

Castiel's attempt to banish Ephraim.

11.14 The Vessel

While Lucifer is distracted with the Hand of God, Sam cuts himself and draws an angel banishing sigil on the Bunker wall. As Lucifer advances on Dean, Sam banishes him with the sigil.

The sigil after Sam banishes Lucifer.

11.21 All in the Family

In an attempt to buy Sam time to escape with Lucifer, Metatron creates a version of the angel banishing sigil and attempts to use it on Amara. While the sigil engulfs Amara in a white light, it has no effect on her and finds Metatron's efforts amusing.

The sigil Metatron uses against Amara.

11.23 Alpha and Omega

As Sam and Castiel enter the Men of Letters Bunker, Lady Antonia Bevell uses an angel banishing sigil to banish Castiel so she can capture Sam.

Lady Toni ignites the angel banishing sigil against Castiel.

See also

• Angel Suppressing Sigils