My Most Useful Ritual

[forestofclarity]

There is one ritual, in particular, that has a nearly 100% success rate for me. 

 

I learned it from a random stranger I came across in the Phoenix Airport. I was on the tram to the airport when he struck up a conversation. He was a real ne'er-do-well, with a pocket full of IDs and a strong Irish accent. He had the confidence and air of a con man. He had a black eye, but I never asked about its origin. While I was walking through the airport with him, I prepared myself for the inevitable favor, request, or money donation I thought he was leading up to. It never came. 

 

For his part, he attempted to arrange for me a nice seat on the flight. He told the ticket teller (I found out later) that I had flight anxiety and would freak out if I couldn't sit up front. They put something on my ticket, but I never used it. 

 

In the interim, he taught me the St. Anthony prayer. It goes like this:

 

St. Anthony, St. Anthony, come around

My _______________ is lost, let it be found.

Repeat 3x. 

 

I have used it many times. My son is constantly amazed. 

 

Anyone else have a high success, very useful ritual?

 

 

[Master Logray]

Do you have Irish or British ancestry?   And it is only for loss things?

 

[forestofclarity]

British--- yes. It should also be noted that I was raised Catholic. 

 

I don't know its limits. According to the person who provided it, he uses it to obtain things that he wants, lost or otherwise. I have mused that I should use it for spiritual purposes, but the occasion has not yet arisen. I do not typically turn to magic unless my ordinary efforts have been exhausted, this is one of my rules. I presume that any such use exhausts some amount of punya or positive karmic results. Finding lost things is rather minor, so I don't fret about it. 

 

10 hours ago, Master Logray said:

Do you have Irish or British ancestry?   And it is only for loss things?

 

 

[Master Logray]

I tried it this afternoon.  It works!   Wondering if it can be used for other losses e.g. loss of health, loss of other intangibles and so on.

 

 

[Nungali]

Now .... where on earth did I leave my keys ?

 

Wait !   I know  .....

 

"St. Anthony, St. Anthony, come around

My car keys  is lost, let it be found. "

 

< looks a bit more >   By gum, there they are !

 

Yep, that 'ritual' worked for me too ! 

 

 

[forestofclarity]

Fair comment. As a rule, I would tend to agree. In order to attribute a win to St. Anthony, the object must truly be lost. As I said, regular efforts must be exhausted. In addition, the effect should be immediate and somewhat startling in its effectiveness. 

 

One example was my whole family looked for an item over a few days one weekend. As a unit, we probably spent at 6-8 hours looking for it. We presumed some one we had loaned it out to some one who forgot about it. 

 

After the prayer, I found the object within 30 seconds. And it wasn't in a place we hadn't looked--- we had carefully combed the exact area many times. It also didn't help that we were given the wrong description of the object. But once St. Anthony was invoked, the finding was immediate and shocking to all involved. This is fairly par for the course-- an exhaustive failed search, a simple invocation, and an immediate and startling reveal. 

 

I suppose it is possible that I tend to stop about 30 seconds too soon.  

 

2 hours ago, Nungali said:

Now .... where on earth did I leave my keys ?

 

Wait !   I know  .....

 

"St. Anthony, St. Anthony, come around

My car keys  is lost, let it be found. "

 

< looks a bit more >   By gum, there they are !

 

Yep, that 'ritual' worked for me too ! 

 

 

 

[forestofclarity]

Still works, I would say about 90-95% of the time. Just used it to locate my son's social security card which was haphazardly misplaced. 

[BigSkyDiamond]

What a great topic for thread!

 

Two come to mind for me, which I have found to be consistently potent and effective.

 

The first one i will list i found to be not only powerful but also unnerving and at the time disturbing.  So be forewarned.   I ran across it about 25 years ago and thought oh that sounds good and carelessly said it a few times.  "I RELEASE THAT WHICH NO LONGER SERVES ME."  The very next day i was "let go" from my job and told the position had been "downsized" and eliminated.  It was totally out of the blue and unexpected.  My boss was overseas on assignment and she was furious this happened in her absence.  At any rate I was dumbfounded and astonished.  On the one hand it was upsetting to suddently have my position eliminated and be unemployed.  At the same time I remember being absolutely in  awe that "holey moley this stuff really works."  

 

I still use that, but have a healthy regard for its potency and far-reaching effects, and since then always brace myself for what may come.

 

The second one that comes to mind which i have found to also be effective, particularly where other methods have not worked, is "REMOVE MY DESIRE FOR THAT WHICH IS NOT GOOD FOR ME."   I have used this for food cravings that i could just not give up or get rid of.  It worked like a charm like flipping a switch.   I decided at one point to stop eating pork and shellfish   (I made a commitment to keeping kosher).    Literally the next day when i thought about those foods or saw them in the market or remembered eating them  (and I cooked wonderful Chinese dishes for many years with pork, or prawns, or lobster sauce, or oyster sauce, you get the idea) i did not feel deprived, there was no struggle.  it was bizarre and no willpower or forcing myself was involved at all.  Later I decided to also stop eating beef and chicken  and used that invocation again and again it worked like flipping a switch.  No craving at all, no feeling deprived, no desire to eat it at all, even the good stuff at the Rabbi's house when I went over there for supper.  I remember having a bite and it just had no appeal whatsoever.  About once every year or two, usually at a barbecue, i will try the meat dishes prepared by the chef, because i wonder if it is still in effect or will bbq beef start tasting yummy again, and every time i find nope, still flat.  really strange.

 

it has also come in handy with people or situations that are shall we say not good for me but i don't have the fortitude or development yet to stay away from, i.e. getting sucked into drama instead of having the skill or tools to stay away from it.  Works great with co-workers and office drama and other sticky interpersonal circumstances or unhealthy attachments to people places things or situations.  Breaks patterns that i am not able to stop otherwise.