Purification/
Healing Ritual
Adapted from the
Navajo Beauty Way
Healing Ritual
This
is a Wiccan adaptation of a traditional Navajo healing Ritual. The original was a very involved native Rite, lasting hours,
ending with a Shaman performing an elaborate sand painting. I have adapted it here by merging it with a Wiccan Purification
Spell, and making it short enough to perform comfortably without losing any of the true meaning, and adding correspondences
used by Witches to make it a little easier. You need to Purify yourself first to add power, so the first part is Purification.
This was used traditionally for Rape victims, but this version works for anyone who has suffered a great loss, or is going
through tragedy. A little warning here, this can be an Intense Spell, so be sure you are ready to perform it, or wait until
you are. Here we go:
Materials
needed:
Your
typical Altar setup
One
White candle
One
red candle
Incense:
Cedar, pine, Frankincense (whichever you have)
Stones
for Power: Amber, Bloodstone, jade (For mental healing, Use Sodalite if Physical healing is needed)
Colors:
Magenta or Red (for Altar cloth or whatever)
Element:
Fire (for Purification)
Time:
Do this Ritual on a waning moon to diminish pain, or a waxing one to increase healing. Do this Ritual on the day of the week
that represents the ones needing the healing.
First,
take a Ritual bath with sea salt, and then light Altar candles.
Ground,
cleanse, and center,(in any way you usually do)
Cast
a Circle,(in your favorite way)
Concentrate
hard on the parties to be healed, visualizing their pain, feel the Pain yourself, try to pull it into yourself, into a ball
of Energy to be burned off later.
Then,
Call the Quarters or the Guardians of the watchtowers, (your preference), and gather energy for the Spell.
Invoke
Gods and Goddesses: (some that help this spell are the Goddesses Brighid, Carmenta, Gaia, or Isis; Gods Belenus, Ganesha,
or Dian Hecht.)
Light
the Red candle, and say, “Here stands (your name), whose Spirit burns brightly and as truly as this flame. He (She)
is upstanding, steadfast, and true. “Purity is His (Her) name.”
“Here
is His (Her) Honor, Righteousness”, Light the white candle and say,
“Here
also is His (Her) Purity, His (Her) Truth, and his (Her) sincerity.”
Think
hard of all these qualities entering into you and remaining.
They
are now part of you, part of the Goddess that is part of all of us. Now concentrate and recite this story:
The
High Priestess, attended by her maidens, came out of the East, and arrived at last at the banks of the stream. There did she
pause, and, Her eyes reflecting the glimmering of the waters, She smiled, and lifted Her arms to the skies. Her maidens approached
Her, and with musical laughter, began to remove their Lady’s garments, the delicate silken scarves they laid upon the
dewed grass beside the stream, and on them they placed the High Priestess jewels.
As
the youngest of them brushed out their Lady’s hair, they removed their own garments. Then did they all clasp hands,
and, with cries and gasps of delight, run down the bank and into the silvery stream. There did they splash and run and jump
and cry, and the dusts of their journeys fell from their bodies, fell with them the dross of their cares, cleansed were they
as they played in the sparkling ribbon of water. Cleansed were they and Pure again.
Let
the candles continue to burn as you began the Healing part of the Ritual:
Concentrate
hard about the ones to be healed, letting the ball of energy full of their pain grow full of their pain and tragedy. Concentrate
on it growing smaller, smaller, smaller until it is barely visible, and open up a little door at your heart charka, and push
it through, and close the door firmly. Think of the healing beginning, the purity of your help burning through all evil, bad
karma, pain or negative thoughts. Then, recite this:
”The
world before me is restored in beauty”,
“The
world behind me is restored in beauty’,
“The
world below me is restored in beauty”,
“The
world above me is restored in beauty”.
“All
things around me are restored in beauty”,
“My
voice is restored in beauty”,
“It
is finished in beauty”
“It
is finished in beauty”.
Think
hard of the ones to be healed, see them happy, carefree, and fully healed. Picture their future, happy and full. See, feel,
and live the moment. Then recite:
“By the Goddess, I destroy the pain,
“By
the Gods, I restore the gain,
“By
all that is good, and all that is real”,
“You
are now Full, You are now Healed”.
Let
the candles burn down, partake of cakes and wine, then thank and dismiss the quarters as you usually do.
Close
the Circle, and meditate quietly of what you have just done. Ground and Center again to drain off excess Energy raised.
I
know this is a long Ritual, but works well if done in Perfect trust, with Perfect Love.
Icefire,
2006