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.
Contents
- 1 Episodes
- 1.1 4.10 Heaven and Hell
- 1.2 4.20 The Rapture
- 1.3 4.22 Lucifer Rising
- 1.4 5.01 Sympathy for the Devil
- 1.5 5.13 The Song Remains the Same
- 1.6 5.18 Point of No Return
- 1.7 6.03 The Third Man
- 1.8 6.10 Caged Heat
- 1.9 7.21 Reading Is Fundamental
- 1.10 9.01 I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
- 1.11 9.06 Heaven Can't Wait
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
6.10 Caged Heat
Samuel draws a modified version of the sigil and activates it, banishing Castiel temporarily.
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.
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.
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.