Post by Brandybuck on Jun 27, 2006 17:53:42 GMT -5
Excerpted from "Italian Witchcraft" by Raven Grimassi
Grow your familiar
Begin with a seed, young sprout or plant. Choose a new pot or a secluded area of ground. Choose a power stone or quartz crystal. Bury it at least 3 inches deep in the soil. Plant the seed or plant on top of the crystal or stone. Lay a circle of stones around the plant site at each of the four quarters of the circle, place a crystal of the same type as the one you buried.
If you planted a seed, wait seven days after a sprout appears to proceed with the following steps. If you started with a young plant, wait seven days after planting.
Remove the stones between the quarter stones and plant a seed at each point. These seeds may be of the same type as the plant within the circle or may be assorted.
Draw Down Your Power
Next, bury the quarter stones where they lay at least an inch deep. Each day, place both palms upon the ground within the circle, forming a triangle with your fingertips (index fingers and thumbs touching). The stem of the plant will be in the open center of the triangle. Using your imagination and visualization, sense your power flowing out through your arms and into the soil.
Love Your Familiar
You must also talk to your plant and send it visuals, communicating your needs and desires through mental pictures.
You must take good care of the plant, watering, fertilizing, and protecting it from damage.
If you need to use the physical properties of the plant for spells, potions, or whatever, use only the circle plants (never the center). The center plant is the familiar, the other plants are simply extensions.
Establish Rapport
The final step in creating this plant familiar is to establish your linking and rapport. To do this, you must sit comfortably before the plant at the North quarter facing South. Stare at the plant and allow your vision to blur slightly. In this state, observe the general shape of the plant, trying to leave your mind blank. The plant will send you a mental image as you gaze. You will receive this "formed thought" as a distortion of the plant. In other words, its shape will resemble something else. This could be an animal, insect, or some other creature. Whatever shape is revealed to you will be the familiar spirit.
This familiar can give you extra power in magickal work whenever you summon it. Houseplants can become protective entities for your home through the technique. Plants given as gifts can be very useful for magickal purposes as well.
Summon Your Familiar
To summon your familiar, simply imagine your plant in its setting, and visualize it becoming the image of the spirit familiar. Mentally draw it to yourself, and allow it to merge with your thoughts.
Experience the entity form, imagining that you are the creature. See yourself as the entity form, be the form, act like the form. This is how it becomes a familiar spirit. Once you can perform this successfully, then you truly possess the familiar.
Grow your familiar
Begin with a seed, young sprout or plant. Choose a new pot or a secluded area of ground. Choose a power stone or quartz crystal. Bury it at least 3 inches deep in the soil. Plant the seed or plant on top of the crystal or stone. Lay a circle of stones around the plant site at each of the four quarters of the circle, place a crystal of the same type as the one you buried.
If you planted a seed, wait seven days after a sprout appears to proceed with the following steps. If you started with a young plant, wait seven days after planting.
Remove the stones between the quarter stones and plant a seed at each point. These seeds may be of the same type as the plant within the circle or may be assorted.
Draw Down Your Power
Next, bury the quarter stones where they lay at least an inch deep. Each day, place both palms upon the ground within the circle, forming a triangle with your fingertips (index fingers and thumbs touching). The stem of the plant will be in the open center of the triangle. Using your imagination and visualization, sense your power flowing out through your arms and into the soil.
Love Your Familiar
You must also talk to your plant and send it visuals, communicating your needs and desires through mental pictures.
You must take good care of the plant, watering, fertilizing, and protecting it from damage.
If you need to use the physical properties of the plant for spells, potions, or whatever, use only the circle plants (never the center). The center plant is the familiar, the other plants are simply extensions.
Establish Rapport
The final step in creating this plant familiar is to establish your linking and rapport. To do this, you must sit comfortably before the plant at the North quarter facing South. Stare at the plant and allow your vision to blur slightly. In this state, observe the general shape of the plant, trying to leave your mind blank. The plant will send you a mental image as you gaze. You will receive this "formed thought" as a distortion of the plant. In other words, its shape will resemble something else. This could be an animal, insect, or some other creature. Whatever shape is revealed to you will be the familiar spirit.
This familiar can give you extra power in magickal work whenever you summon it. Houseplants can become protective entities for your home through the technique. Plants given as gifts can be very useful for magickal purposes as well.
Summon Your Familiar
To summon your familiar, simply imagine your plant in its setting, and visualize it becoming the image of the spirit familiar. Mentally draw it to yourself, and allow it to merge with your thoughts.
Experience the entity form, imagining that you are the creature. See yourself as the entity form, be the form, act like the form. This is how it becomes a familiar spirit. Once you can perform this successfully, then you truly possess the familiar.
