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
