RITUAL FOR CALLING FORTH PAST LIVES

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Components: Mirror, preferable full length.
Tower candle (color of your choice, I suggest white)
Incense
Athame
Dark room

Place candle on the floor, approximately a foot or so from the
mirror.
You want to first establish 'sacred space'. Light incense, turn off
lights. This goes by several names depending on your tradition and
style, but I will give you the basic form. If you are comfortable
enough with it, I recommend sky clad (nude) as clothes provide too
much sensory distraction.

Start from the east. In the air before you, using the Athame, you
draw a five pointed star (pentagram). Imagine blue fire flowing from
the point. Start at the lower left hip, draw up to a point around head
level, down to the lower right hip, then slightly past the left
shoulder, then to slightly past the right shoulder, then back down to
the left hip. This is the Banishing pentagram of Earth (the elemental
earth) and is used to clear out the astral garbage. You will start in
the east, then south, then west, then north. After you do each
direction, move the blade at chest level. the idea is a 'hoop'
connecting the four fiery blue pentagrams. For visual, the pentagram
is drawn:
2

4 5

1 3

(Draw pentagram, then speak:)

I invoke thee, and I name thee Paralda.
With your aid, may my Mind be firm.
Come to me, Father Wind,
Bless my search this night.

(turn to the south, blade at chest level, draw pentagram, then speak:)

I invoke thee, and I name thee Djinn.
With your aid, may my Will be pure.
Come to me, Father Fire,
Bless my search this night.

(turn to the west, blade at chest level, draw pentagram, then speak:)

I invoke thee, and I name thee Necksa.
With your aid, may my Emotions be true.
Come to me, Mother Water,
Bless my search this Night.

(turn to the north, blade at chest level, draw pentagram, then speak:)

I invoke thee, and I name thee Ghob.
With your aid, may my Body be strong.
Come to me, Mother Earth,
Bless my search this Night.

(turn back east, completing the circle and speak:)

Four about me flame the pentagrams and in the center column SHINES
this star of the goddess! Bless my search into my lives now past!

Now for the actual getting to your past selves:
Kneel in front of the mirror, candle between you and it. Toes pointed
back so that the bottoms of your feet touch the legs, as opposed to
toes forward. This is an 'Asana', or 'position in Yoga known as The
Dragon. Place hands palm down on knees, spread legs slightly to form a
triangle (if you were looking down from above). Focus on the eyes of
your reflection. Still your mind of thoughts or expectations. As you
stare, you start to become aware of things. Try to blink as little as
possible. After a few minutes, you may start to see... things.. at the
edge of your vision via the mirror. they are just past of your
unconscious mind and are not anything that can affect you. By now, you
will see your face in the mirror seem to shift or flow. This is when
you start to see faces of who you were, male or female. With this
comes a sort of instinctive 'knowing' of what they were about. Do not
press to hard... let the information come. Stay calm. If you get
excited, it fades. At some point, you may start to see a very
frightening face... an old, old person... it's a little un-nerving. If
you stay with it, it fades too, and you are left with a void with only
your eyes. At this point you can do some very powerful divination as
well. Once you are done, rise, and open the circle back up:

(facing east, point blade into center of pentagram and speak:)

I thank thee Paralda.
With your aid, my Mind found knowledge.
Depart in peace, Father Wind,
You have blessed me search this night.

(holding blade at arms length, rotate south and speak:)

I thank thee Djinn.
With your aid, my Will has found power.
Depart in peace, Father Fire,
You have blessed my search this night.

(holding blade at arms length, rotate west and speak:)

I thank thee Necksa.
With your aid, my Emotions is true.
Depart in peace, Mother Water,
You have blessed my search this night.

(holding blade at arms length, rotate north and speak:)

I thank thee Ghob.
With your aid, may my Body is strong.
Depart in peace, Mother Earth,
You have blessed my search this night.

(rotate east again and speak:)

May the sacred space remain apart from the world, and now my Working
is done.
Thus it is spoken, so mote it be.