Finding
Your Spirit Guide
Items
Needed
Altar
Candle
Day
Candle (Monday-white, Tuesday-red, Wednesday-purple, Thursday-blue,
Friday-green, Saturday-black, Sunday-yellow)
Offeratory
Candles - 3 Violet Candles
3
White Candles
Tools
Athame
to inscribe candles
Crystal
ball or clear glass of water
Incense
anise,
cardamon, and corriander.
Oil
jasmine,
lemon, rose and sandalwood
Timing
Best
done during the Mercury hour of the day, although any hour should work. Any moon
phase is appropriate.
Preparation
Breathe
deeply and build a ball of protective light around you. While soaking in your
ritual bath, meditate on the whole ritual: the steps you will take and what you
wish to say to your spirit guide when you make contact.
Ritual
Enter
the circle in the Hour of Mercury. Light the incense. With the oil, dress the
Altar Candle and the Day candle while concetrating on the purpose of the ritual.
Light your Altar Candle and Day Candle and state your intent:
"I
am here to make contact with my Spirit Guide, and to acknowledge him or her."
With
your athame, inscribe Violet Candle #1 with the word "Spirit". Dress
it with oil. Light the Violet Candle #1, direct your energies into it and say:
"Here
do I light the first Lamp of Spirit. May its light reach out across the barriers
from this world to the next. May it make contact with that World of Spirit into
which we will eventually enter."
Take
your censer or incense wand and swing it around, censing the whole area around
the altar while rythmically repeating the word "Merge" and building up
energy to focus. Replace the censer and pick up Violet Candle #2. Inscribe it
with the word "Spirit" and dress it with oil. Put it back on the
altar, light it and say:
"Here
do I light the second Lamp of Spirit. May its light also reach out across the
barriers from this world to the next. May it make contact with that World of
Spirit and help spread the light, illuminating the passageway between our
worlds."
Again
take the censer or incense wand and cense the entire area around while chanting
the word "Merge." Build up your energy to focus. Take Violet Candle
#3, inscribe it with the word "Spirit", dress it with oil, charge with
your energy, light it and say:
"Here
do I light the third Lamp of Spirit. May the light from these three lamps blend
and grow, dispelling all darkness and lighting the way that my Spirit Guide may
come to me and speak with me here today."
Inscribe
the three white candles with the word "Truth" and anoint each candle
with oil. Light the three candles in the order of 1, 2, 3, and say:
"Here
do I build Truth. As these candles burn throughout this ritual, their power
generating nothing but truth in all that transpires between this world and the
next. Through these candles there is truth in all communications that come to
me. "
Again
cense the altar area while chanting "Merge." Replace the censer and
continue chanting. Sit comfortably while chanting, and gaze into the crystal
ball, or the clear glass of water. Continue chanting until you feel it is right
to let the chant taper off. Continue to quietly look into the crystal ball or
glass, not trying to picture anything. Keep your mind blank, so whatever comes
will appear and will come in it's own free will. Gaze into the center of the
crystal, there is no need to try not to blink. Look into the crystal and blink
naturally. Try not to notice anything in your peripheral vision, just the center
of the crystal. Eventually a face or figure will appear.
This
may take a long time, or it may
appear almost immediately. If it doesn't come at all within approximately 20
minutes, abandon this attempt, extinguish the candles in the order in which they
were lit, leave the altar set up, and try this ritual again in three days.
You
should have results within a month at most.
When a figure does appear, ask if he/she is your Spirit Guide. You will
hear an answer, you may not hear it out loud, or even see the figures lips move,
but you will be aware of the answer. This is how most conversations will
proceed. You will ask your questinons mentally (or out loud) and the answer will
be clear inside your mind. Ask if you have more than one Spirit Guide. If yes,
ask them to appear also. You may
ask anything you wish to know, but it is better to establish a connection first
where your Spirit Guide may appear to you at any time, or at specific times, so
that you can converse with any other spirits through him/her. When you have
finished speaking with your guide, thank him/her, then sit for a moment with
your eyes closed, meditating on all that you have learned. Extinguish the
candles in reverse order to clear the circle.