Altar Candle:
Day Candle:
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.
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 questions mentally (or out loud)
and the answer will be clear inside your
mind.
Ask if you
have more than one Spirit Guide.
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.
