The Eighth Ray Shield of the Elements Anointing Ritual is a powerful self-protection ritual that works with the four elemental forces: earth, water, air, fire and the quintessence.
When you carry out this simple, yet potent ritual the elemental forces confer their blessings upon you, creating a shield of magickal protection around you.
Why Might You Need a Shield of Magickal Protection?
This magickal protection ritual is designed to give you a sense of safety, belonging and sure-footedness, feeling protected by the elemental forces of nature.
On those mornings when you are feeling less grounded, more easily rattled, then this is a great ritual to perform.
It is also a really effective way to reset your day. There are some days when we just want to start over and have a fresh start.
Connecting in with the elemental forces through this Eighth Ray Shield of the Elements Anointing Ritual© is an easy, quick and magickally effective way to start your day again – helping you to feel supported, protected and safe in the world.
Conducting this ritual will help to increase your levels of magickal protection as you go about your day. It will also help you link in to bring more balance and harmony into your daily life through balancing the elemental forces within you.
You can carry out the Eighth Ray Shield of the Elements Anointing Ritual© daily and as often as you want to, This ritual will continue to bless and protect you the more you work with it.
Ritual Steps
Eighth Ray Shield of the Elements Anointing Ritual©
Before you Begin:
On your altar place the Porta Alchémica® magickal formulations that correspond to the four elements and the quintessence:
- Earth Ritual Anointing Oil
- Water Ritual Anointing Oil
- Air Ritual Anointing Oil
- Fire Ritual Anointing Oil
- Quintessence Ritual Anointing Oil
- Five small dishes to contain the drops of anointing oil. Line them up from left to right.
- If you have space, you can place the dishes in the five pointed star shape as pictured above.
You will be anointing your body in five places. You will need to ensure you have access to your feet and hands. The correlation between the elements and the parts of the body are as follows:
- Elemental earth – right foot
- Elemental water – left hand
- Elemental air – right hand
- Elemental fire – left foot
- Quintessence – centre of forehead
The ritual is ideally carried out in eight steps but can be carried out in the seven step process. For the full eight step ritual, please see page 254 of the book, Eighth Ray Magic, the Magic of the Goddess, the Magic of Co-creation.
Step 1:
prepare ritual anointing oils
Place each of the five bottles of Porta Alchémica® ritual anointing oils behind each one of the five dishes. Put three drops of each ritual anointing oil in each dedicated dish. Then say:
“Earth, water, air and fire
The pillars of creation that hold aloft the starry vault of heaven”
Step 2:
Working with the Porta Alchémica® elemental earth anointing oil, use your left index finger to anoint the symbol of elemental earth on the top of your right foot. Say as you do so:
“The mark of earth confers the blessing of elemental earth.”
Step 3:
Working with the Porta Alchémica® elemental water anointing oil, use your right index finger to anoint the symbol of elemental water on the back of your left hand. Say as you do so:
“The mark of water confers the blessing of elemental water.”
Step 4:
Working with the Porta Alchémica® elemental air anointing oil, use your left index finger to anoint the symbol of elemental air of the back of your right hand. Say as you do so:
“The mark of air confers the blessing of elemental air.”
Step 5:
Working with the Porta Alchémica® elemental fire anointing oil, use your right index finger to anoint the symbol of elemental fire on the top of your left foot. Say as you do so:
“The mark of fire confers the blessing of elemental fire.”
Step 6:
Using the Porta Alchémica® quintessence anointing oil use your right index finger to anoint the symbol of the quintessence in the centre of your forehead. Say as you do so:
“With this mark of the quintessence the elemental star that is the
shield of the elements blazes forth with the pure light of spirit.”
Step 7:
Then finish by saying:
“I am anointed with the Shield of the Elements!”
Summary of Everything You Need for This Ritual
- view detailed instructions for how to create a ritual altar here
- Five small dishes to contain the drops of anointing oil
- Aura mist (optional)
- Crystal wand (optional)
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