Items needed:
Alter Candle
Day candle (whichever color for the day you be will doing your spell)
(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

Props:
Crystal ball or clear glass of water

Incense:
anise, cardamon, and corriander

Oil:
jasmine, lemon, rose, and sandalwood

Bathing Herbs:
cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, 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 cirlce in the Hour of Mercury. Light the incense. With the oil, dress
the Altar Candle and the Day Candle while concentrating on the purpose of the
ritual.

Light your Altar candle and your 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 in around censing the whole area
around the altar, while rhythimically 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 the oil. Put it back on the altar, light it, direct
your energy into it, and say:
"Here do I light the second Lamp of Spirit. May it's 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 the
altar while chanting the word "Merge" Build up your energy to focus.

Take violet candle #3, inscribe with the word "Spirit", dress with oil, charge
with your energy, light it and say: "Here do I light the third Lamp of Spirit.
May its light also reach out across the barriers from this world to the next. 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 3 white candles with the word "Truth"and anoint each candle with
oil. Light the 3 white candles in order of 1, 2, 3, and say: "Here do I build
Truth. As these candles burn throughout this ritual, their power generates 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 entire altar area while chanting the word "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 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,dis-continue 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 of your conversation will proceed. You
will ask your questions mentally (or out loud) and the answers 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 suggested 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 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.