Ritual Questions?!?! (desperate call of HELP!)?
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I think a good example of ritual/formula questions are the ones asked at every Passover by the participants.  Although exactly the same, they become part of a cultural tradition and instill history and learning in new particpants.  Plus, any ritual has some degree of reverence to it.\n\nGood luck!
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Santeria is interesting stuff, i am not fluent in spanish, so i could only pick up a little at the local botanica.  But trance possession by the Orisha is some pretty intense stuff! It is NOT mumbojumbo... it is a real way to connect with the divinity and with the ancestors, once you are "ridden" you will understand what i am talking about....
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Interesting, most interesting terminology -- "Temple of Vanthal Clan".  Indeed, you just found one of the most elaborate word-play "tricks" of the occultists.  Even though, this "trick" will provide some kind of encoding for the occultic texts, it is NOT that unique.\n\nI must warn you that, I strongly advise AGAINST the attempt of performing this "Ritual of Vanthal Clan"; I believe that, after you have read the informations I am to present in the following, you will understand my vote of against the ritual to take place.\n\nThe word-play "code" is on "Vanthal Clan", these words are NOT in English.  I know they APPEAR to be English words but, they are actually in the Etruscan tongue.  The translation of "Vanthal Clan" is -- the Son of Vanth.\n\n"Vanthal" means "of and/or belonging to Vanth" whilst "Clan" means "Son" in Etruscan.  In the Etruscan Mythology, Vanth is the "Goddess of the Underworld" and the "Mistress of Death".\n\n"Vanthal Clan" is a necromagghia (death-magic) term to denote "Cerberus" which, is the same as Naberius in one of the other questions I have answered for you.  "Temple of Vanthal Clan" is a necromagghia term referring to graveyard and/or a tomb as well as a crypt.\n\nNow, do you see the reason of why I am totally against the "Ritual of Vanthal Clan"?  In any country, breaking into someone's grave is an act of crime; it is most unwise to go to jail just for the attempt of a ritual.  Also, there is another reason...\n\nOccultically, if you believe in such, summoning "Vanthal Clan" is very dangerous.  Naberius is one of the most highest in command amongst the Marquis of Hell, this Infernal Entity is not that easy bindible by a novice (no offense in your skills, I am just concerned about your safety).\n\nBy the way, the Necromagghia I refer originated in the old Etruscan Strega which gave birth to Streggheria and Necromagghia as well as a few other magical practices in the Renaissance Italy.  Even though some occultists do study magical works (most occultists do not work with the so-called sorceries), the author of the text you possess on this "Ritual of Vanthal Clan" has gone way too far...by my standards.
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You could forgo rings completely and do a "binding" or "handfasting" ceremony instead, this is done with cords - the officiant loosely ties the hands of the bride and groom together, binding them. (The cords are removed after the "binding").  If you need a ceremony for this email me and I will find one to suit you.\n\n Or if you want to do the rings just have the ring fitted to your little finger or your middle finger.  The audience wont know what finger your ring was put on unless you make a big deal out of it.\n\nGood Luck
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Most of the rituals revolve around the building of King Solomon's Temple. We use the building tools of the ancient operative stonemasons symbolically as an allegory for how to live our lives as just and upright men.  (on the level...fair and square, etc.) It's no secret. Only the passwords, and grips we use to identify ourselves to each other are secret, just like in any college fraternity or sorrority. Also, we cant quote the rituals.  But as far as what they are about....pretty much public knowledge to anyone who will put down their pre-conceived notions and just ask.  Many lodges hold open houses a couple of times a year where the community can tour the building and ask questions.  The cross-spitting thing that one answerer mentioned is a myth.  Just like they say we ride goats, worship the devil, make ritual sacrifices, and...(oh, my personal favorite) have sex with satan in our initiation.  If anybody honestly believes any of that, then they deserve to make fools of themselves by stating them out loud.
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I am a witch and it is nice to know that there are other practitioners out there. However I can't help with your request. I do wish you the best of luck. \n\nAnd you know you're going to get a lot of hate responses. Ignore them and keep looking. Good luck!
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Going to Cirlce and we are doing a ritual to help my best friend and her hubby get pregnant.  Best time to do it.  We are doing this on the eve of Beltane.  Then the whole Beltane weekend they have rented a hotel room.  Hope it works.  \n\nAlso we are doing a ritual for peace and prosperity.\n\nAlso, Balefire jumping and all around merriment with cakes and ale.
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I once saw a one legged witch turn a storm.\n\nMy first ritual, we were all comfortable throughout the ritual, but the instant the ritual ended, we realized that the room was cold. The heat hadn't been on and the whole time and it was spring equinox.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could put healing energy into people and tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nI have this one singing bowl which plays differently, responding to the place where it's played, or what chakra it's played on. I use it to locate blockages for spiritual healing. I also used it to find the perfect place to set up my tent the first time I camped in Kansas. One night the wind ripped through the camp. By morning, just about every tent had blown over except mine.\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection through an object which was divided and each of us kept half, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost i
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There is a good collection of Pagan symbols on Google Images. Lots of good historic books in the library, look at American Folk Magic. I hope your class work is positive, young people should be introduced to the old religions and rituals.
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Study!  In particular, please study English!  The spelling help you need has nothing to do with magic or ritual.
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You are really where you need to be. When it comes to metaphysics and spirituality, question everything. I have been on this path for an awfully long time; I talk to the dead, have visions, and overall, very psychic. I never stop asking questions, including my favorite after a vision: Where the heck did that come from? ;-)\n\nAt this point, don't allow others to define you or what you should be doing. You say that you are Native American and born with the gift of healing. If that is true, then you know you have a very special gift---why not explore that and just see where it leads? Find other people with this gift and learn from them for the sake of learning. Do not lock yourself into anything, just explore, learn, and leave no stone unturned. This includes studying as many beliefs and ideas as you can pack into your brain, including (especially) myths and legends. Below is a site that is a good place to start.\n\nAll the best to you...
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DK_Holistic_Healing@yahoogroups.com...try  here....he can  help  or  let you know
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I haven't used this one yet, but have spoken to those who have, and  it has worked well for them (if you're looking for financial prosperity)\n\nWhat You'll Need:\n\n    * 5 new coins in each denomination (pennies, dimes etc.)\n    * 5 each of the following spices/seeds:\n    * Dried corn\n    * Sesame seeds\n    * Cinnamon sticks\n    * Cloves\n    * Allspice\n    * Pecans or peanuts\n\nInstructions: Place coins and spices in a glass bottle (an empty spice bottle works well). Shake for several minutes to combine the ingredients. While shaking, repeat the following: "Silver and spices, Copper and grain, I need to increase my money gain." Keep the bottle near where you usually store your purse or wallet.\nWhen to do this spell: For best results, do this spell on a Thursday during the waxing moon phase.\nTip about the coins: If you're Canadian, you can omit extra large coins like loonies or twoonies if they won't fit in your bottle. Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters are sufficient. Same goes for other countries with particularly large coins.\nMy Experience with this Spell: I recently tried this spell, and it was more successful than I would have guessed. You can read more about my own spellworking experience with the money bottle spell.\nHere is a Midsummer Ritual for a Solitary:\nBefore the rite, make up a small cloth pouch filled with herbs such as lavender, chamomile, St. John's Wort, vervain, or any of the Midsummer herbs listed in "An Herbal Grmoire." Mentally pour all your troubles, problems, pains, sorrows and illnesses, if any, into this petition as you construct it. Tie it shut with a red string. Place this on the altar for use during the rite. The cauldron should also be there or nearby. Even if you use candles to mark the quarters, the red candle in a holder should also be on the altar. For outdoor rituals, light a fire - however small - and drop the pouch into this.\n\nArrange the altar, light the candles and censer, and cast the Circle.\nRecite the Blessing Chant.\nInvoke the Goddess and God.\nStand before the altar and say, with wand upraised:\n\nI celebrate the noon of summer with mystic rites.\nO great Goddess and God,\nall nature vibrates with Your energies\nand Terra is bathed with warmth and life.\nNow is the time of forgetting past cares and banes;\nO firey Sun,\nburn away the unuseful,\nthe hurtful,\nthe bane,\nin Your omnipotent power.\nPurify me!\nPurify me!\nPurify me!\n\n\nLay the wand on the altar. Take up the herbal petition and light it in the red candle on the altar (or, if outdoors, the ritual fire). When it is burning drop it into the cauldron (or some other heat-proof container) and say:\n\nI banish you by the powers of the Goddess and God!\nI banish you by the powers of the Sun,\nMoon and Stars!\nI banish you by the powers of Earth,\nAir, Fire and Water!\n\n\n\nO Gracious Goddess,\nO Gracious God,\non this night of Midsummer magick\nI pray that You charge my life with wonder and joy.\nHelp me in attuning with the energies adrift on the\nenchanted night air.\nI give thanks.\n\nReflect upon the purification you have undergone. Feel the powers of nature flowing through you, washing you clean with divine energy.\nWorks of magick, if necessary, may follow.\nPart take in the Cakes and WIne ceremony.\nThe circle is released.\n\nAnd for a small group (4)\nThe South Warden opens the Circle.\n\nSouth: Now is the time of summer, when the heat steams from the earth, the lakes grow warm, and the breezes bring heat with them, as well as rain. I invoke the warden of the South, Paralda.\n\nWest: Now is the time of summer, when the rains fall hot and bring with them heat and making the air wet, soaking the earth. I invoke the warden of the West, Nixsa.\n\nNorth: Now is the time of summer, when the heat makes the earth shimmer under our feet in the air, and the rain steams from the ground even as it hits. I invoke the warden of the North, Ghob.\n\nEast: Now is the tim
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You don't really need a set ritual for any spell, although it can help sometimes. Traditionally, banishing spells are done as the moon waxes, and it is a common practice to bury or burn something that represents what you're banishing. Hope this helps!
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I got into that a while back. I was indoctrinated by someone who had me bring some offerings such as an orange, a handkerchief and some other items to a ceremony where he uttered my "magical" word. Mine was "Om". I was to take this magical word and chant it in my mind continuously while I closed my eyes and sat in meditation for around 15 minutes. 2 minutes in the beginning to clear you mind and think of nothing, then repeat the magical word over and over again for the rest of the time. Towards the end, stop for another 2 minutes and think of nothing, then slowly open my eyes. If I'd open too fast, or stop in the middle of my meditation, I usually got a bad headache immediately.\n\nSeems to work for me, but it was definetely not better than praying in Islam.
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Merry meet you \n\nWell im new to Wiccan myself and all i can tell you is to find a person that is into the path that you follow and talk to them look up on different web sites and read alot of books because nomatter if this for you or a friend you have to relize that to fully understand the Wiccan path you have to do a whole lot of reading ive been doing research for almost 2 months  and i still havent done any spells yet so all i can say is do research here are a few sites that i go to for some info k.\n\n\nhttp://www.glasstemple.com/basics/\nhttp://www.solitarywiccans.org/\nhttp://magickaschool.com/\n\n\nJust remember "Do what thou wilt as long as it Harm None"\nbecasue the law of three will apply to any spell you cast good or bad. not to scare you but its true.,
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I think that http://www.voodoogrillmystic.com looks the most professional. I don't believe in this crap, but if it is real, this person is obviously good enough to afford a decent website. Logic rules over magick, for sure. But good luck, and let me know if it works. I'm interested, just doubtful.