PRAYER AND SALT: MY SECOND ANGEL RITUAL

After I had my first big angel experience I wrote about earlier this week, it spurred me on to do rituals and workings more consistently. One summer I was house-sitting for some folks while I was doing coursework for my doctorate. What was nice about that house it is had lots of space. There were plenty of rooms, nooks and crannies for set up altars. As I also said in my last post, I was using a lot of Richard Webster’s books on the archangels. I felt most draw to Archangel Michael, so I knew my first outreach ritual was going to be to him.

It was years back, so I don’t remember all the ritual tools and materia. But I KNOW one thing was salt. The ritual Webster taught in his book to invoke Michael involved performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual, prayers and the use of certain materia like salt. So I had a bowl of salt and whatever else was there.

The two things I thought were absolutely batshit cray cray about that ritual was that, when I began the prayers to Michael, WINDS started to pick up INSIDE the house. It felt like someone had left the patio door open and gusts of wind were whipping through the house. I later learned that this phenomena was very appropriate for Michael to display his presence, as he is a weather spirit! But the winds continued to blow until the ritual was done. The other thing that was crazy to me is that the salt bowl hardened as if the essence of it had been consumed. It was hard as a rock, which makes no sense because it was just salt grains when I poured it out.

Way back then, I did not understand the significances and symbology of some of these things. I just did them and hoped for a verifiable result. Winds blowing in the house was definitely a strong indication that my ritual worked and contact was established! But one thing I want to identify here is there were no expensive magical circles, no rare tools or ingredients. Just prayer and salt. There was also, on my part, faith in the angels, and with that, an expectation that they will respond to my calling out to them.

There is no one way to do angel magic. It is something with many streams of practice and philosophies. Try them all and see what “sticks” to you way!