Ritual To Overcome Painful Experiences.

We've all had experiences in our lives that have left emotional scars, but they can be healed if you really work at it. While this is a Wiccan ritual, it can easily be changed to fit your path and beliefs. As always, be creative and use your imagination. The purpose of this ritual is to rid yourself of some negative experience, or bad habit that you are still clinging to, when you know you shouldn't still be clinging to it. This ritual can be done many times if you have a lot of emotional baggage you wish to release from yourself.

This ritual should only be done during a new moon. This will be MUCH more effective if you write your own words instead of using my examples. This if YOUR bad experience/s, not mine, so put some effort into changing it to fit it.

Tools:

cedar/sage smudge stick, or other cleansing incense such as lavender.
2 white candles
bell
athame or wand
Book of Shadows or pen & paper
cakes and ale

Cast your circle:

Dim the lights as low as you can.
Light one of your candles so you can see better.
Take your cleansing incense and move deosil (clockwise) around your circle to rid it of any negative energy.

Pick up your bell with your power hand (the one you write with), and place yourself in the Goddess position (legs shoulder length apart, arms open wide in a V shape as high as the top of your head)

Ring the bell 3 times to signal the beginning of the ritual.

Invocation to the Goddess

I suggest you start out by reading the charge of the Dark Goddess

Invite Her into your circle to assist, protect, and watch over you. You can simply refer to Her as the Dark Goddess, or by any other name you feel comfortable with.

Put down the bell. Pick up your athame and hold it in the God position (feet together and arms crossed over your chest).

Invocation of the God

Start with the charge of the Dark God

Invite Him into your circle to assist, protect, and watch over you. Once again, you can call Him the Dark Goddess, or by any other name you feel comfortable with.

Statement of Intent

This is the part where you tell them what experience you've endured that you still can't shake. That still causes you pain, and that your sick of holding on to it, and want to release it from your soul....permanently. Start to slow your breathing. Take deep breaths. Inhale to the count of 4, hold for 4, and exhale to the count of 4. Envision the air coming into your body as pure white (Inhaling pure love), and as you exhale, see the breath as dark gray (ridding your body of negativity), and continue to breath from the stomach until you've reached a mild alpha state. This is your negative experience, not mine, so I'm not going to put words into your mouth. I will say that no Goddess or God cares about how flowering and elaborate you state your intent. What they care about is your true intent to rid yourself of this negativity, and that you've put real effort into what you want to say to them. If you can't think of something to write down, just start talking to them as though they are sitting right in front of you...because they will be. Be honest, and pour your heart out. This will be painful, but think of a time that you just felt so depressed you felt like you'd rather no even be alive, or just not able to go on. Let these memories come to the surface. Let them completely shower over you just as much as they did when you first experienced it. It is perfectly natural to even bring yourself to tears. Allow yourself to fully feel this pain with the same intensity as it did back when you felt that way.

Now, with enormous powerful conviction stand up. Light your candle and hold it up into the air (being careful not to let any wax drip out. Imagine the candle showering you with a brilliant white light. I like to visualize this like the way sparklers look, like millions of stars of light washing over me.
 

 Now in you OWN words, say something like:

Where there was darkness, now there is there light!
I completely release these feelings of negativity from myself
Let the power of (fill in the experience) return and transcend in the cosmos
I give myself permission to feel great joy and happiness!
I give myself permission to not allow (fill in the experience) to ever return again!
I feel light where there once I felt very heavy.
I feel the power of the Universe and the Dark Goddess and Dark God fill my body!

Lower the candle and pass it all over your body as you chant:

"Through this candle I implore
To feel (fill in experience never more!"

You should feel like a great weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Relax, enjoy your cakes and ale,
and take some time to write about this experience in your Book of Shadows (BOS). Stay in the circle
until the candle burns out.

Thank the Dark Goddess & Dark God for their presence, and protection, and release them.
Open the circle
Ring the bell 3 times to signal the end of the ritual.

*Remember: If you have a lot of emotional baggage, you can perform this ritual to get rid of all of it! Just don't try and get rid of everything in one ritual. One ritual per negative experience.

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