new vdh here this season.
As a rule, I HATE reticule-based abilities b/c I can’t find a good way to just keybind them and instead rely on my mouse.
This has resulted in more than once, putting sigils on the damned cieling or accidentally putting them behind me.
Is there a bettery way to handle this? ELI5, please …thank you 
my keybinds are a mess but they make sense to me
i have my sigil of flame bound to g (it is my aoe key for all my toons), and the others bound to shift/,e (misery) ,f (silence) ,g (chains), d (spite)
i feel like blizz has indeed provided more opportunity to put sigils on ceilings lol
but I think part of their power is to be able to place them where you want, rather than always spawning them at your feet or current target.
I don’t think that I would want a modifier to have to choose between four options (i.e. my position, target’s position, focus’ position, free placement).
maybe there macros for that but that would feel super busy to me.
Uh, sounds like Precise Sigils were made specifically for you lol.
precise sigils, or if you really want to get degenerate. @player
You can macro them [@cursor] but im guessing that might be how they ended up on the ceiling for you.
If you are tanking @player macro will be fine mostly. Create a mod macro for @cursor or have two key binds, one for each. Unfortunately for CC you will need both.