Spell To Call Your Soul Self Home To Your Body


Personal Note

I found this on the web a long time ago... long before a personal need arose. With global instability and income inequality, every "ordinary" individual in the world is being subjected to the same conditions all over the world, it seems. People fight to be free of tyrant rulers, tyrannical governments, or fanatical partisan politicians and their followers.

Austerity is being forced on just about every country in one form or another - either inside their government or from power brokers outside their governments. Ordinary individuals are being ripped apart just trying to make it from one day to the next, while watching their monies flow to the bankers and corporate money men.

Now, more than ever, I think this spell strikes a chord, for we are all being torn from our souls, little by little, every day we live under this form of oppression and domination.

Many cultures recognize a condition called "soul loss", which can occur when traumatic events have fragmented a person's sense of being to the point of depression, fatigue, confusion and a loss of center.

People in our society can suffer from a form of soul loss too, and it doesn't necessarily take a specific event or trauma to precipitate it. The unstable and dehumanizing conditions of many aspects of modern life causes the soul to be separated in degrees. A lifetime of compromise and hardship can also bring about this state of alienation.

If this theory has resonance for you, you should be taking whatever steps you can to get yourself into a better environment, and realign your soul and body. This is often called Soul Retrieval as well. The following rite can help you attain this.

Gather candles, as many as you can get your hands on: old, new, partially used, of every shape, size, color and fragrance. In addition to these candles, be sure to include one in "your color" ; that is whatever color you feel best expresses your personal essence.

Beg candles from friends, explaining your need for them. The art of begging for candles is a Mexican Tradition, and adds an important quality to the magick that isn't easily explained. I believe it has to do with the fact that other people contribute to the construction of one's sense of self, so other people can have the power to help repair the self. Always remember to return this favor if it is asked of you.

Rite

When you have an evening of quiet, assemble the candles, then anoint them with a fragrant oil. Then, with an instrument, inscribe your name, many times over, on the surface of each candle. If you would like to add other symbols, such as runes, you may.

Next, light all the candles except for your special essence or "astral" candle, which you will reserve as your focus. You can arrange them in any manner as you wish though I have found it is effective to place one in every corner keeping with the idea of calling your lost bits of soul and self home from the far corners of the astral world.

Now, set your focal candle in some central place and light it as you say the following incantation:

I call myself back to myself,
wandering soul, and wandering selves,
and missing fragments of soul and self.

I bid you to return to me now, soul, and self, and spirit,
Unite with me - heart , mind and body.
I call you through corridors of time and space and being.
Fly swiftly home through days and years and seasons and cycles past.
Drawn in, gathered in, invited back, home to warmth, and home to love,
and home to light and comfort.

Rejoin me now, be one with me,
whole in self and soul and spirit!
So it is, and so it shall be.

Then allow all of the candles to burn for a time as you resume your normal activities. You can relight the candles every evening and on dark mornings. It is not necessary to repeat this ceremony, you can just wait until all the candles burn down and you feel you have achieved your goal.