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*** Spirit Guide
Meditation ***
What you'll need:
salt water - roughly two cups (I use tap water and Kosher salt,
but any salt is ok)
1 white candle in sturdy holder
matches or lighter
notebook and pen are also handy
What you'll do:
Make sure you have privacy. Give yourself at least a two hour
window of opportunity. It's always easier at first, if you
eliminate as
many of your ties to the human plane as possible. Take a shower
and afterwards, wear no cologne, deodorant, hair spray, etc.
Dress
or undress should be according to your own standards, but I have
found that wearing black or grey is best. You can get better
auditory reception! Then, choose a room in your house (or outside
if you have a private spot!) and make it as clean as possible. (No
crumbs on the floor!) to work in. Turn off the phone, have no
outside interference.
Pick a spot on the floor and set up candle and have notebook and
lighter next to you. Take the salt water and sprinkle a circle
around you and your tools. Once you cast the circle, DO NOT cross
out of it! The purpose is to protect you when you raise energy.
Walking out of it destroys its protection. If you have to move
around inside the circle, make sure you move CLOCKWISE.
Sit down and get comfortable. Speak or think a small protection
verse.
This can be as simple as "Please protect me in my sacred
circle."
Feel free to be as elaborate as you wish. Light your candle and
first, just study it's flickering. (A good hint to know if any
spirit
energy is in the room with you is to have all windows and doors
closed before you start and when the flame moves, you will know
when energy is nearby.) When you feel relaxed enough, concentrate
on contacting your guide. Keep your eyes closed if this helps
keep your concentration. Don't push yourself to hear anything. It
may come as a whisper or as a thought in your mind. Don't worry
that you are *forcing* yourself to hear something. That's how it
works.
If you make contact, ask questions, have a conversation, TAKE
NOTES!! It won't be considered rude. Ask for your guide's name.
Have fun! It's like getting reacquainted with an old friend. When
you feel that you are ready to end the discussion, thank you
guide,
ask him/her to stay with you or visit you often and say goodnight/bye.
Blow out your candle and using your power hand (generally your
writing had is the "power or sending" and your other is
the
"receiving", "chop" an opening in you circle
and say something along the lines of,
"I open this circle and thank all the energies that
protected me this night."
As you get more experience, you will become more comfortable
making up your our words.
Afterwards, reflect on what you learned and if possible, get a
good night's sleep. It's natural to feel "high" after
an encounter, so
take a few minutes before bed to read a chapter of a book, watch
some mind-numbing Tv to reconnect yourself to the human
plane.
Don't be discouraged if it doesn't work the first time. Like I
said, don't push anything or try to rush through things. Part of
the
process is to get you to learn patience and quiet. If it doesn't
work the first time, try again in a few days.
*** Spirit Guide Spell ***
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.
** IN General About Spirit Guides **
Are they Angels or are they Friends who have passed over - or are
they Guides as the name states?
Artical by:Sylvia Percival
When people start on their Spiritual path, straight away there
are millions of questions in their minds. How do we get in touch
with
our guides? This is the main one that I come across the most. Or,
is it really a spirit or is it my imagination - am I going crazy?
I
hear voices in my ears. I see things that are going to happen.
Who is this? Is it my guide?
This is my concept only. I feel that we have 3 guides when we
first start on our path. I believe that we have a guide that is
with us
through many life times and I figure this one is the boss. Then
there is a gate-keeper. This guide only allows those through the
gate
for your learning. I feel that they will not stop you from
learning or having experiences for your own growth and spiritual
development and to give you insight into the reality of what life
is all about.
Then I feel we have like a foreman, who keeps an eye on our
spirit friends that want to communicate with us, because when we
open up our channels of communication we open the flood gate and
there are so many in the spirit world that want to be heard, and
have a message to pass on so this I feel has to be. When we
communicate with our guides, we seem to get carried away. Some
seem
to hand their lives over to their guides. This is not a good idea.
We are here on the physical plane and have to live our physical
life
and keep the balance.
How we communicate with our guides: Each one of us does this in
different ways. Not all can communicate through meditation.
This is OK, I feel that your guides will communicate with you the
way that you are comfortable with or are able to accept. There
are no fast and hard rules, to communicate with your guides. We
are in tune with our spirit guides all the time. We do not
realise
this at first until we let go of the analytical mind, and trust
in our own higher self. Relax and allow the mind to be free to
gather in
the information that is needed for you at this time. When you put
your analytical mind into gear this is when the channels shut
down.
Sometimes there is a fear of feeling stupid and sometimes a
feeling of doubt, and is it me or my guides?, or is this what I
want to
believe in? How do I know that it is my guides or some mischief
maker, or an entity? All of these things go through our minds and
it
starts to race, then the doubts set in and we get upset, and do
not want to discuss it with anyone in case they feel as if we
have
flipped. All of these things go through our minds.
This is natural until we build up enough confidence to believe in
our own ability to feel the difference, with the different
energies
that are around us. When our guides are close, there is a lovely
energy. Some people get hot, others get on a real high. It is
very
hard to explain because everyone feels differently and this is
good because we are all different, none of us develop in the same
way
so if you have a good gut feeling then it is right. If the gut
feeling tells you it is no good, listen to it.
Another way to tell if the guide is good of bad is, I feel, that
if a spirit guide is good then they will not use the instrument
while you
are low in energy or are not well. If a guide does not respect
the instrument that it is channelling through, then do not allow
it to
come through. Ask your gate-keeper not to allow anyone through
that is not for your higher self. this you can do. Remember that
the choice is yours at all times.
Spirit Guides guide us through life's situations. They can
present themselves in thought forms, or in our meditation as an
Indian
chief or a nun or an angel or sometimes even in the form of
Christ. They present themselves as to what we can accept at our
time
of learning. In the Catholic Religion people have their favourite
Saints, they pray to Our Lady, some pray to The Sacred Heart,
Saint Jude. This is what the individual concept is so this is
right for them. I do not believe that we pray to our guides,
thank them
yes, but not pray to them. They are only too pleased to assist us
on our path.
Remember that our guides are not always right. We have the last
say. I have heard some different people say that their guide does
so much for them. Guides are there to guide. To guide us in our
spiritual path. Our physical is our responsibility. We cannot ask
them to take on our learning experiences and to, as the saying
goes, do our dirty work. If we do not want to talk to someone, we
say that our guides told us that we are not allowed to associate
with them, that they are evil and have an entity with them.
Please
do not blame your guide for this or to blame them for what you
have done yourself. The guides can be fun, they do have a sense
of
humour and they are great. They bring a beautiful lovely energy
and are there as our friends. Remember this and allow the
communication to be only for the higher self.
