Whether you’re male or female, and whether you have children or you don’t, you have a deep relationship with the Divine Mother, and you powerfully possess her archetype within you. The following rituals have to do with divinely maternal intentions, which include intentions related to parenting but also to healing, family harmony, and living with an open and compassionate heart.
Moon Star Sun Blessing (to Protect a Child)
Calling on the Lord and Lady—specifically the primordial Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine in their roles as mother and father—is an excellent way to protect your child in mind, body, and spirit. (But of course, as always, also take every precaution in the physical world!) This spoken charm will do just that. Remember: as you speak the words, bring their essences and visuals into your mind and intentionally direct them into the energy of your ritual.
Whisper the following outside the door of your child’s room as he or she sleeps, say it in your mind as you hold him, or (if he is not in your vicinity) call him to mind and see yourself whispering or saying this over him:
Mother and Father who watch over all,
Please place a moon on this child’s brow.
May it deflect all that is not love.
May it guard him from all harm.
Mother and Father who watch over all,
Please place a blue star above his head.
May it guide him away from danger.
May it keep him on the path that is safe.
Mother and Father who watch over all,
Please place sunshine in his heart.
May it shine in freedom, may it blaze in courage. May it keep him always in the light of your love.
Thank you.
Divine Mother Charm to Soothe a Child
While holding a crying child, say or think the following words gently while feeling them from your heart and envisioning the essences of what they name:
Divine Mother with heart of rose quartz,
Divine Mother with essence of white feathers,
Divine Mother with womb that heals the world,
Because you are here, this child is soothed.
This child is soothed yesterday.
This child is soothed today.
This child is soothed tomorrow.
Before this child is love, behind this child is love.
To the left and to the right of this child is love.
Above this child is love, below this child is love.
Within this child is love.
A deep calm abides.
A deep trust abides.
A deep happiness abides.
Divine Mother, I thank you.
Divine Mother, I thank you.
Divine Mother, I thank you.
Inner Child Healing Visualization
If you were emotionally wounded as a child and you haven’t done any work on healing your inner child, chances are your relationships and life situation are suffering for it. For example, you might feel unable to trust others, you might experience creative stagnation, or you might find yourself repeatedly making decisions that obviously don’t serve you. Healing the inner child doesn’t happen in one fell swoop, but this ritual can help you make contact and begin to recover the personal power that has been co-opted by the pain of the past. And if you repeat the ritual over time, your inner child can heal, and you can make amazing breakthroughs in numerous areas of your life.
Sit or lie comfortably. Place your left hand on your heart and your right hand on your lower belly. Close your eyes, take some conscious breaths, and allow your body to relax. Now, get a sense of the Divine Mother archetype. The Divine Mother is totally loving and accepting of all her children, including you. Whether or not you had a positive relationship with your earthly mother, your Divine Mother is there for you, totally supporting and cradling you. Many incarnations of the Divine Mother are associated with roses and the sea, so you might hear the sound of the ocean or smell the scent of roses to get in alignment with her energy.
Once you feel that you’ve brought her into your conscious mind, say:
Divine Mother, be with me.
Divine Mother, enter me.
Now feel/sense/imagine the Divine Mother stepping into your physical body, merging with your essence, and awakening her wisdom within you. Now that you feel that you’ve merged with her essence, allow yourself to be open to your inner child. Allow yourself to see or sense your younger self at whatever age you naturally appear.
Then notice what your younger self is feeling and doing. Is she crying? Laughing? Dancing? Hiding? Just like a loving parental figure, interact with her in the way that will most comfort and nourish her. If she’s open to it, ask her what she needs. She might ask for a hug or for you to listen or for you to allow her to play more often. The important thing is that you assure her that you are strong and capable, and that you can take care of her in exactly the way she needs.
When this feels complete, recognize that your inner child is always present within you. Ask the Divine Mother to help you have a healthy relationship with your inner child and support her in every way you can. Then thank the Divine Mother and open your eyes. Now, consider what you’ve learned and see if there are any changes that you can make in your adult life to help make your inner child feel more loved and valuable. For example, perhaps you can set aside a little time every week to dance, play in the garden, watch cartoons, or do crafts.
Create a Healing Environment
If you or someone you know is convalescing, ask archangel Michael to vacuum the healing room of all challenging energies, and then ask archangel Raphael to fill the space with a clean emerald-green crystalline light. Then ask archangel Michael to bless four etheric white quartz points with the energy of purity, protection, and positivity, and mentally place them in the four corners of the room, pointing in. Charge these invisible crystals with the intention to preserve the pure vibration and vibrant healing energy within the space.
Gardenia Distance Healing
Gardenia blossoms possess a very purifying, loving, healing vibration. As such, to send healing energy from a distance to someone in need, surround him or her, in your mind’s eye, with a giant gardenia blossom. Also visualize a halo of smaller gardenia blossoms completely surrounding the patient, remembering to visualize the scent as well as the image. Once this is clear in your mind, let it go. Then, whenever this person or animal happens to pop into your mind throughout the day, refresh the visualization. Continue until he or she is healed or at least sufficiently on the road to recovery.
Hands-On Healing
Many hands-on healing modalities, such as Reiki and craniosacral therapy, require no physical tools. Similarly, you can send healing energy through your hands—to yourself or another—in the following way.
Visualize your connection with the earth. Send roots deep into the core, and draw golden-white earth energy up from below. Then visualize your connection with the cosmos. Send branches far out into outer space, and draw sparkling rainbow light down from above. See these energies merge at your heart center and flow out your arms and through the palms of your hands. Place your hands on or near the person who needs healing, wherever you feel drawn to place them (obviously without violating their personal space against their will). Feel yourself directing this golden-white/rainbow light into the person’s body and energy field. Know and trust that this light knows exactly what to do: what to clear, what to bolster, and what to shift. Move your hands as you feel guided, and continue until you feel that the healing session is complete.
You can also do this to parts of your own body that need healing.
Sacred Grove Charm for Family Harmony
A thriving grove of trees is a strong metaphor for a happy and harmonious family. Prepare for this ritual by clearing yourself, clearing each member of the family or household, and clearing the energy of your home. Then, from a relaxed and grounded place, holding every family member in your heart with love and without judgment, say:
A sacred grove, our roots go deep,
As the wheel turns, our love doth keep.
Vital one and vital all,
Though we may bend, we’ll never fall.
As peace and joy both circle round,
Our sacred grove is sacred bound.
Quan Yin Alignment for Sensitive Souls
Sensitive, compassionate, empathic people sometimes feel overwhelmed by turning on the news or simply contemplating any aspect of the cruelty, sadness, and struggle perpetuated and experienced by our fellow earthlings. Indeed, sometimes it seems the more conscious and energetically open we get, the more open we are to the waves of heartbreak that appear to characterize this life experience. This can be especially confusing because, at the same time, our sensitivity allows us to see that the more positivity and joy we can muster, the more healing we will bring to the world.
This practice aligns us with the Quan Yin Consciousness, a grid of energy that constantly surrounds the earth with compassion and love. (Some call it the Christ Consciousness and prefer to associate it with Jesus Christ, but it also may be accurately named after any purely compassionate ascended master with whom you resonate, such as Saint Francis, Mary Magdalene, or Krishna.) This can be a great blessing to those of us who have chosen to be open-hearted warriors: beings who witness horror and injustice while also being beacons and cheerleaders of love, forgiveness, and positivity in order to help shift things for the better.
I suggest performing this alignment every day as needed, just before bed, first thing in the morning, or as a part of your daily meditation. But first, relax and envision very bright pinkish-white light bathing, repairing, restructuring, and strengthening your heart, and then expanding throughout your entire body and aura.
With your eyes closed and your hands resting open on your knees or thighs, index fingers and thumb tips lightly touching, inhale deeply and think:
Consciousness, expand to the Quan Yin Consciousness.
Then, with pursed lips, exhale, sending your awareness and energy field to connect with the Quan Yin Consciousness, which you may perceive in your mind’s eye as a geometrical grid of pinkish-white light that surrounds and hovers above the earth from the level of the heart (about three to four feet off the ground) to about the level of a four-story building.
Now that you’re plugged into this energy, consider the deep meaning of Quan Yin’s moniker, “The Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion.” As a being who chooses to stay present on earth until all beings realize enlightenment and know peace, she is an excellent spiritual ally for times when we feel overwhelmed by the human challenges and heartbreak of the planet, as she reminds us to be loving and compassionate with ourselves and also with every other single being on earth.
Take a moment to request that Quan Yin support your efforts to keep your heart open while also bringing courage, blessings, love, healing, and vibrant positivity to the planet. Request the ability to relentlessly love everyone and everything fully, unconditionally, and with deep compassion. Then notice the grid of light encircling the earth remaining as an identical grid splits off from it and begins to shrink in size while retaining its full potency. Keep your awareness on this shrinking grid until it reaches the size of a large grapefruit and resides around your heart, protecting and bolstering it while allowing it to stay open, receptive, and compassionate.
Heartlight Blessing for Mother Earth and All Her Inhabitants
Consider that a single strand of DNA contains the blueprint to the organism in its entirety. Similarly, one single human heart, when ignited with love, possesses the key to restoring love and wholeness to the entire planet. Indeed, those of us who are spiritually tuned in usually feel an emptiness or an excess of ungrounded energy when we do not take at least a little bit of time each day to bless and send love to our Mother Earth and all her inhabitants.
Consider performing this daily at a time that works for you: for example, you might get in the habit of doing it after yoga, before dinner, as a part of your daily attunement practice, or just before bed. The light at your heart is very powerful, so making this a regular habit will bring great benefits to the world. As an added bonus, it will help increase your personal vitality, happiness, and abundance.
Sit comfortably, with your spine straight. Close your eyes, relax, and take some deep breaths. Place your right hand over your heart, and your left hand over right hand. Envision very bright pink light at your heart as you bring to mind the animals of the world, perhaps starting with one or two animals that you have a personal, loving relationship with. Think or say:
I send love to all animals. All animals that fly, all animals that crawl, all animals that swim, all animals that walk. I send love to animals who are imprisoned and animals who are free.
Open your palms outward and send the pink light throughout the globe to all animals.
Place your hands on your heart again, and envision very bright white light as you bring to mind the humans of the world, letting one or two humans that you particularly love float into your mind first in order to open your heart as fully as possible. Think or say:
I send love to all humans: humans who are young, humans who are middle aged, and humans who are old. Humans of every nationality and on every continent. Humans who have much, humans who have little, and everyone in between.
Open your palms outward and send the white light throughout the globe to all humans.
Place your hands on your heart again. Envision very bright blue light at your heart as you bring to mind a wild location particularly near and dear to your heart, and then the rocks, soil, water, and air of the entire world. Think or say:
I send love to the ball of soil and rock that is the planet, and the water that runs through it, as well as the atmosphere that surrounds it. I send love to the deserts, mountains, forests, meadows, oceans, rivers, lakes, and ponds. I send love to the earth on which I sit and the air that I breathe.
Open your palms outward and send the blue light throughout the globe to the globe itself.
Place your hands on your heart again. Envision very bright emerald-green light as you bring to mind a tree or plant that you particularly feel aligned with, and then the green and growing things of the world. Think or say:
I send love to all the green and growing things. I send love to the plants that grow underwater and the plants that grow in open air. I send love to cultivated plants and wild ones. I send love to plants that live indoors and plants that live outdoors. I send love to all the flowers, weeds, trees, herbs, and shrubs of the world.
Open your palms outward and send the green light throughout the globe to all plants.
Place your hands on your heart again. Visualize emerald- green light once more as you bring to mind your own heart center, the heart of the planet, and the heart of every living being. Think or say:
I send love to my own heart. I send love to the heart of the planet. I send love to the hearts of all people and animals on the planet. May we all be blessed with health, happiness, vitality, and abundance. Thank you.
Portal of Light Visualization
to Support a Transitioning Loved One
We live in a culture that seems to feel really great about the transition of energy known as birth but really terrible about the transition of energy known as death, although just like birth, everyone is destined to experience it. Also, just like birth, although the actual transition may be painful and scary, it is a natural and beautiful shift from one form of consciousness to another.
As someone who has chosen to deeply tune into the energetic reality of this life experience, you have the rare ability to be someone who can stay present with a transitioning loved one, rather than succumbing to the all-too-common practice of avoiding or denying the situation in any number of ways. And staying present with a transitioning loved one—human or otherwise—is such a gift! It’s a gift to the loved one, as they feel your courage and love with them until the very end of this current life experience, but it’s also a gift to you. Being open and awake with someone as they round the bend and move beyond the veil is a transcendent experience, and one that reminds us of both the fleeting preciousness of life and the eternal nature of our souls.
If you have the ability to be present when the actual transition occurs, relax and stay as grounded, brave, and open as possible. Just before, during, and after, visualize a portal of very bright white light encompassing the loved one. Send visualized sweetgrass smoke throughout this portal, further opening up the veil between the worlds and urging your loved one to ascend and move out of this physical dimension in the best and most pleasant of ways. See your loved one on the soul level, completely dissolving into light.
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