A witch’s relationship with their familiar is an important one. You can journey to find your familiar, if you don’t already know yours, or have one. In the following paragraphs, is one way you can journey to find your familiar, as author Raven Grimassi has written. As a quick side note, if you can, pick up the book “The Witch’s Familiar”  by Grimassi, as it has much more information than I could hope to share here with you.

“The Journey Quest” is a guided deep meditation to find your familiar. It can be done a couple of ways. You could ask a trusted friend to read it to you and guide you with the words written, or if you have access to a personal tape recorder, you can read the journey aloud and play it back to journey alone. You will want to do this when you have plenty of time and no distractions. Remember to keep an open mind, but focused at the same time. The best way to start is to get into a deep meditative state. If you do decide to journey alone, make sure to have an alarm clock set for an hour to go off next to you, so that you come out of your trance state. It is also a good idea to locate a cave or some other opening into the earth in your area, if you cant, then a painting or picture of a cave will do, you need this so that you have a starting and exiting point for your journey. You will also need a power stone, a quartz crystal is best. When you are ready to journey, have your friend read slowly or listen to the recorded tape and make sure that you have read to it slowly, in a monotone voice, with a short pause where there are three (3) periods and a slightly longer pause where there are six (6). When you are ready to begin, hold the quartz in your left hand here is the script as written by Raven Grimassi

Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Take in a deep breath… hold it… and let it out. Again, take in a deep breath… hold it… and let it out. One last time, take in a deep breath… hold it… and let it out.  You’re feeling lighter… and you feel yourself gently floating up… up and away… out of this place and time.

Now you’re drifting… you’re passing over buildings…… you’re passing over fields……you can see this all below you……you’re moving off into the distance.

Below you is a meadow…and you begin to feel your self becoming heavier……now you begin to gently descend…down…getting lower…down…and now you’re softly landing on the ground in the meadow.

You see before you, in the distance , a large hill……and you rise and walk toward it……you can see that the hill is covered with deep green moss……you continue to walk toward the hill, ……now you can see an opening in the hill, it is a cave.

The opening to the cave is large and round. You can see that the entrance goes deep…but you cannot see the back of the tunnel wall…now you begin to notice that the cave is dimly lighted by a magical glow coming from the walls……and you can make out the path into the cave.

You begin to walk into the tunnel……you can feel the walls of  the cave all around you……as you continue to walk, you notice that the tunnel begins to turn to the left……you follow it as it curves…

You continue to walk deeper, and deeper, into the cave. Now you notice that the tunnel ends a few feet in front of you…you walk up to the wall and touch it with your hand. You realize that the wall is not solid…… and so you step forward and pass through it…

You are now in a small clearing within a forest…you appear to somehow be outside even though you are inside…… the clearing is magically lighted, and the place is peaceful…in the center you see a deep pool of water……beside it is a rock, large enough to sit upon……you sit on the rock and look around.

You are surrounded by the thickness of trees all around……and behind the trees there is only darkness……and now you hear a stirring in the woods……a rustling sound moves toward you in the trees.

From out of the trees in front of you, something emerges from the trees……you sit quietly and look at it……now it begins to move toward you in a friendly manner……it draws nearer…and now is only a few feet away…and it comes to a rest.

You extend your left hand outward, palm facing up. Suddenly a stone appears in your hand, bearing a symbol on its surface…you look at the symbol……and now you look back at the creature in front of you.

You ask the creature what its name is, and you listen for a reply……now the creature looks over at the pool of water…and you turn and look behind you into the water……

You look back at the creature, and it begins to leave now…you watch it withdraw back into the trees…back into the darkness……and now it is gone from sight.

It is time now to leave this place…time to return and so you rise and walk back over to the wall through which you entered this place……you find again that the wall is not solid, and so you pass through it, and back into the cave again.

You begin to follow the tunnel out of the cave…walking back along the path……and now you notice that the tunnel begins to turn to the right……you continue to move through the tunnel…you can feel the walls round you…and you continue back toward the entrance.

You can see light up ahead…it is the opening of the cave…and you move toward it…getting closer…and now you pass through the opening and back into the field outside.

You walk now back across the meadow…back to where you first landed……and now you come to the spot…and you sit down. Take in a deep breath …hold it…and let it out. Again, take in a deep breath…hold it…and let it out. One last time, take in a deep breath…hold it…and let it out.

You’re feeling lighter…and you feel yourself gently floating up…up and away…out of this place and time.

Now you’re drifting…you’re passing over fields…you’re passing over buildings…….you can see this all below you……you’re moving off into the distance.

Below you is the familiar setting from which you began this journey…and you begin to feel yourself becoming heavier……now you begin to gently descend…down…getting lower…down…and now you’re softly landing on the ground.

Take in a deep breath…hold it…and let it out. Again, take in a deep breath…hold it. And let it out. One last time, take in a deep breath … hold it…and let it out. Become aware of the surface beneath you, feel it, and rock back and forth a little. Place your palms on the ground, press down, and feel the physical presence…you have now returned to the present, to this time and place from which you started.

Once you have finished your journey, it is a very good idea to have a drink and a small snack to replace the energy used and it will also help to ground you and your senses.  If you were successful in your journey, you will have met your familiar and found out it’s name. If you were for some reason, not successful, don’t worry about it. Just take a rest, and try again in a few days, making sure that there are absolutely  no distractions. Turn of your phone ringer, or shut off your cell phone, perhaps light drumming in the background to help you concentrate.  Now that you have found your familiar, you may like it or you may not, but it has important lessons to teach, and it is the right familiar for you at this point in your life, or it could be your life time familiar. Treat it with respect, and you will gain the same from it.

(Journey and preparations taken from “The Witch’s Familiar” by Raven Grimassi pages 16-21)

Gentle Breezes

~NightWolf