Spell for Healing the Self or a Loved One
Intention: To heal something specific for yourself or for a loved one.
Ethical Notes: This is a form of sympathetic magick. Ask permission from the person you are healing to do this. This spell is, of course, not a substitute for medical treatment or advice.
Materials: A small basket, a poppet (doll that will stand in for the person needing healing), an herb (in whatever form you prefer: fresh, dried, oil, tincture, balm, etc) you would call healing. Use your own intuition and knowledge to find the right herb for the right ailment. Google is a sound resource.
Process:
Discern a laser-focused intention for what you want. Do not simply call in “healing” with a spell. Your intention should be specific enough that you know when the spell has worked. What exactly do you want to see healed, and what does that healing look like?
With your materials close, cast a circle. You might use this method or another that’s in your practice:
Face the North. Call your loving ancestors of the north, past and future, to come closer to your circle and witness you. To the north, to my healer ancestors, to the sacred energies of the Earth, I say welcome.
Face the East. Call your loving ancestors of the east, past and future, to come closer to your circle and witness you. To the east, to my healer ancestors, to the sacred energies of the Air, I say welcome.
Face the South. Call your loving ancestors of the south, past and future, to come closer to your circle and witness you. To the south, to my healer ancestors, to the sacred energies of the Fire, I say welcome.
Face the West. Call your loving ancestors of the west, past and future, to come closer to your circle and witness you. To the west, to my healer ancestors, to the sacred energies of the waters, I say welcome.
Place your hands over your poppet, over the place most in need of healing. Envision your loving healer ancestors standing with you and mirroring you. Invoke their wisdom. Sense and feel a light emanating from your palms and fingertips. Feel it healing what needs to be healed. Trust that it is so.
Begin to chant “the inner light is now revealed. [Name of person or “I”] is/am whole and healed.”
Stay with this until you feel a change, usually twenty minutes or longer.
Let your chant go quiet then and build a bed for your poppet out of the basket, anointing it with oil in the place you offered healing.
Open the circle by offering gratitude to the ancestors and elements from West, to South, to East, to North.
Place your hands on the ground. Breathe from low in the belly. Place your poppet and bed on your altar then try to go outside and “get some wind on your face” for as long as you were in your circle.
Let it be.