This is imported from my small, practical book "Pagan Spells", which also contains a rite for making alliance with a Familiar Spirit.
In many
cases, when you have a specific need for magic, it can be answered by asking
your allies for aid. The Ancestral Teacher can convey many things to and for
you, and the Familiar can be your herald or your guardian. But no spirit has
every power. If your Familiar should be of the Wise, then martial tasks are not
best suited to it, if it is of stone then it might not work the weather. Yet
the Familiar is a spirit, free in the realm of spirits, and it can be asked to find
a proper agent among the spirits to do as you wish.
For those with a developed
relationship with their allies this can be as simple as an inner conversation,
the spirit called by will alone. In moments of immediate need, the simple
charms in the calling section of this work can bring the Familiar quickly,
without formal ritual. For newer students, it is well to set this request into
a ritual format. Even for the experienced, we find that our calling and
speaking with spirits takes on a repetitive, ritualized tone. In my opinion that
is simply the spirits’ way of communicating with mortals.
In this simple charm you will need
only a simple fire-offering for the Kindreds, and whatever offering has been
customary between you and your Familiar. If you are regularly offering to your
allies at your shrine, you can simply ask them for aid in honor of your
relationship. If you have something more serious or unusual a special offering
is best. When in doubt, make the offering.
The Work:
• Find
your basic trance, and attune to the Two Powers
• Offer to
the Fire, Well & Tree, saying:
Mother of All, Let this Well
be blessed.
First Father, kindle magic in
this Fire.
Let this Tree be the
Crossroads of All Worlds,
That the Sacred Grove may be
established.
• Sprinkle
all from the Well, and cense from the Fire, saying:
By the might of the Waters
and the Light of the Fire,
this Grove is made whole and
holy.
• Make an
offering into the Fire, and say:
Keeper of Gates, aid me to
open the Ways.
• With
your work hand, make a welcoming triskel (in to out, deisil) over the Fire, saying:
By Land, Sky and Sea;
By Gods, Dead & Sidhe;
By Fire, Well & Tree;
Let the Gate be open!
• Turn
once deasil, saying:
So the Way is opened and this
place is claimed. Let no ill or harm come to me and mine, and Wisdom, Love and
Power flow to me through this gate. So be it!
• A short
invocation to the Kindreds, with a simple offering, can be done if this is
being done formally at the shrine:
Gods and Dead and Mighty
Sidhe
Powers of Land and Sky and
Sea
A gift I give, from me to
thee
Come and lend your aid to me.
• Prepare the Offering and envision
the Familiar, calling to it both with your voice, if possible, and aloud in
your mind, saying perhaps:
O spirit (spirit’s name) O Noble One
I call to you by Well and
Fire and Tree
Draw near, and come in peace,
I bid you now,
Take you this gift, O (spirit) come to me!
• When you
feel the presence of the spirit, greet it with a flow of love and welcome in
your heart, asking it your boon, saying perhaps:
Welcome (spirit), to my fire in peace. I would ask a boon.
Can you send a spirit, O (spirit)
Can you send a spirit?
I would work my will, whether
you are sent or you can send a spirit.
To: (state intention clearly and specifically)
Do this for me and I will
give to you due offering.
This can
be repeated, often three times. After each repetition, open your Inner Eye to
the Familiar, and seek a response, conversing as is useful. Can the Familiar
find an agent? What are your specific needs? – include a time-based deadline if
you need to. If you like, use a simple divination to see whether your visions
are true. After three repetitions, you may spend some time communing with the
Familiar, perhaps meeting the agent that is found for the task, perhaps not.
• When you
know that the work will be done, thank the Familiar, saying something like:
Depart now, my friend, O (spirit’s name), and remember
your oath, complete the charge I have given you, with harm to none, and come
again at the proper time, or whenever I might call you, and I will make to you
due offering.
• A Short Closing
Let bound be bound and wound
be wound;
Thus all is done, and done,
and well done,
And thus I end what was
begun.
Make a
banishing spiral (out to in, tuathal) over the Fire, saying:
The sacred center has held
well,
Now, by Tree and Fire and
Well,
Let this gate be closed!
To the Three Holy Kindreds I
give my thanks.
To the Keeper of Gates I give
my thanks.
To the Mother of All I give
my thanks.
Let wisdom, love and power
kindle in all beings
The rite is ended!
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