How can i contact my spirit guide.

[Makario]

Ive tried various methods but have been unable to identify a spirit guide. Ive been practicing witchcraft for a year. Ive tried different types of meditation and I guess I expected some sort of sign or dream but nothing so far.

 

[solxyz]

First, I would call into question the assumption that you (or people more generally) necessarily have a definite, specific "spirit guide." I don't have a problem with the idea. If you want to run with it, that's fine, and I have no doubt you can make that work for you. But I just want to point out that this is just one way of imagining your relationship to the spirit world.

But as for how to do this, there are a huge number of ways. You could, for example, do the Abramelin ritual, or the numerous contact-your-HGA variations that people have created over the past hundred years. Here is how I would do it: start by assuming that your spirit guide is ready and available for communication, and that you just have to build up the channels of that communication.

The first step is to create an altar for your spirit guide. If you have no idea what to put on the altar, I would start with just a piece of unlined paper with the words 'Spirit Guide' on it. Or, if you have any ideas of symbols that your spirit guide might resonate with, or that suggest 'spirit guide' to you, then you can put those on the altar as well. In any case, this altar will evolve as your relationship with your guide develops and changes. But trust your intuition. If there is something that 'feels right' going on the altar, do it. Those subtle cues are the main way that your guide is going to communicate with you.

Second, start a daily (or, better, twice daily) practice of going to the altar, making an offering of some kind (incense, candle, water, or the like), and spending 15 minutes engaging with your spirit guide. This engagement should include a mix of speaking regular prayers that you write or come to through the process of engagement, speaking spontaneous heart communications, attuning your energy with that of the guide, and listening with your heart to the guide.

The art of listening could use some explanation. Basically, you need to start working with your imagination and learning to trust/discern what comes to you through your intuition as projected in your imagination. To start with, think to yourself, "what is my spirit guide like?" And start trying to imagine what they are like. Among other things, they are fucking awesome, so don't hold back in imagining your ideal spirit guide. Let your imagination fill in as many details as it can, and now you have your first impression of your guide. How do they make you feel? What kind of altar accoutrements would resonate well with them? Now, when you go to your altar to engage with them, you can start by coming back to these themes, images, and feelings as a starting point. From there you learn to rest your consciousness in that field and notice any shifts or new directions that the energy is asking you to attune to and explore. In this way, a relationship develops and the guide teaches you about how to engage with them.

 

[Splay31]

I have had success using a pendulum. You can use yes or no questions or letters and have your subconscious spell it out for you.

 

[St. Stephen]

Ive tried various methods but have been unable to identify a spirit guide. Ive been practicing witchcraft for a year. Ive tried different types of meditation and I guess I expected some sort of sign or dream but nothing so far.

What do you define as a sign? Are you assuming they will manifest themselves physically in front of you? Chances are something (maybe not your "guide" necessarily) has probably answered in some way. Meditation alone won't manifest a spirit. You would have to have exceptional clairvoyance to just meditate and start perceiving spirits around you. Look for other signs outside of your immediate sensory system. Did you intuit anything out of the ordinary recently? Have you noticed any strange coincidences or synchronicities since you started? Just some things to think about. Also, the assumption that you have a "guide" out there waiting to be contacted may be a wall in itself to get over. Maybe look into the concept of the "higher self".

 

[diana_i_gusarova]

In the past, you wouldn't have come to any occult practice unless someone initiated you into it. Now, things are different. You've started practicing on your own and can continue doing so. So, don't complicate your path. Just keep doing what you're doing. If an advanced Master decides to help you, they will do so. At the right time.

 

[ModernMagus]

Consistent meditation with no mind, but the intention when you sit down to contact your spirit guide. Then just pay attention to the thoughts that spring forth and drift by your awareness. Eventually, it will make contact.

 

[Beyond Everything]

Any discarnate entity that is going to hang around you for any extended length of time is doing so to your detriment.

A truly helpful being is already going to know your situation without you needing to talk about it or set up an altar and if they decide to help they simply will. Sometimes that can be a nudge in the right direction or a significant , rare sign that you're on the right track. But none of them are hanging around to be a constant shepard or anything at all like that. It's important to get over the state of dependency in order to grow our own innermost potential.

 

[solxyz]

Any discarnate entity that is going to hang around you for any extended length of time is doing so to your detriment.

That is a rather sweeping claim, in contradiction to a huge number of traditions (probably the majority of traditions), and not backed up by anything all.

 

[Beyond Everything]

, in contradiction to a huge number of traditions (probably the majority of traditions), and not backed up by anything all.

It's readily backed up by anyone actually looking at the world squarely. What good are all these millions of 'guides' doing for people? The universe has more predatory elements than most fantasists care to think about. And when we come to ultimate spiritual concerns, very, very, very few humans are liberated from this morass.

How is it North Korea ended up as a complete , nightmare hellhole when people spent centuries there honoring their ancestors, who were supposed to guide and protect them? Sorry, a minute's reflection demolishes naive fantasists beliefs.

I've yet to hear anyone who claims to have the favor of these 'guides' state some startling new spiritual information of fantastic value, either.

 

[solxyz]

It's readily backed up by anyone actually looking at the world squarely. What good are all these millions of 'guides' doing for people? The universe has more predatory elements than most fantasists care to think about. And when we come to ultimate spiritual concerns, very, very, very few humans are liberated from this morass.

How is it North Korea ended up as a complete , nightmare hellhole when people spent centuries there honoring their ancestors, who were supposed to guide and protect them? Sorry, a minute's reflection demolishes naive fantasists beliefs.

I've yet to hear anyone who claims to have the favor of these 'guides' state some startling new spiritual information of fantastic value, either.

Wait, are you saying that the fact that the world is not a paradise is somehow the fault of spirit guides?!? That would be a pretty strange allegation, since spirit guides are not generally held to be omnipotent, and humans generally fail to live up their wisdom.

Are you expecting all the world's problems to clear right up once everyone switches to your rugged individualist approach to magic?

 

[armageddonz1]

cast protection wards where you would prevent access to any tricksters or malicious entity. then do a meditation ritual where you create a mental space. I would advise having an outdoor scene as a mental space. in that mental space, call upon a benevolent spirit who wants to be a guide, or your guardian spirit. There is a high chance you will see a spirit in that mental space whom you can communicate and then can give you a name or something that hints at that name. this was how i obtained by first spirit guide, where i ended up speaking the name of the sephira ruled by him.

 

[Kepler]

If implying self initiating along Crowley HGA physics with witchcraft:
The diagram for Liber XIII gives a helpful example of a climb mapped to the tree of life to glean from

With witchcraft self initiating toward HGA it's helpful to learn tables of correspondences to build your own correspondences through understanding sensoria after meditation.
Expanding to poetics for correspondences with contemporary and pop culture. Interests. Nature. Cosmos. And you.

Dedication to a deity and using correspondences as language during communion, and following then for improving HGA communicating in return. Including Vision of HGA.
The tattva exercises in the Golden Dawn flying scrolls. Let those visions inform pentagram rituals. Increase clairvoyant sensitivity.
Initiate yourself to begin the process before the directions of the universe with ceremony then try to get a real sense of what you're even aiming for with a Vision of Holy Guardian Angel.
Then go as slowly as possible, the process if begun properly will take you along. With self initiating do not declare another grade until there's no denying it. Grades in this method aren't things like titles of authority to wield, but for evaluation of where you've been and are at for correction. While there's a linearity to the ideal in theory, in practice it's a lot of bouncing around the outer order as the tree grows and blossoms.