Spell to Find a Lost Pet / Spell to Make Your Pet Return

For Help in Finding a Lost Animal Using The Tarot

by Janina Renee, Tarot Spells (Llewellyn's New Age Tarot Series),© 1990

The Tarot doesn't actually have any cards specifically pertaining to animals. However, many decks use animals as symbols in some of the illustrations.

For spells involving animals, we can use these cards, concentrating on the animal in the picture and ignoring the card's conventional meaning. The spells here use the Rider-Waite deck, but if you are using another deck, you will want to look it over to see whether it uses the same animals as Waite, and also whether it has other cards that show animals.

Cards that can be used as significators for animals include the 9 OF PENTACLES, THE STAR, and the ACE OF CUPS for birds; the QUEEN OF WANDS for cats; STRENGTH for domestic cats and big cats like lions and tigers; THE MOON, THE FOOL, and the 10 OF PENTACLES for dogs and wolves; the PAGE OF CUPS and The MOON for fish and aquatic life; THE SUN, the 6 OF WANDS, and all of the KNIGHTS for horses; the KING OF WANDS for lizards and reptiles, the QUEEN OF PENTACLES for rabbits; and THE LOVERS for snakes.

If you don't find the above-mentioned possible significator cards satisfactory, you can also use a picture of the animal or animals in place of a Tarot card to be the significator.

The layout is cross-shaped, as the cross is an ancient symbol of protection appropriate for the protective feelings many of us have toward animals, and especially the concern we feel for lost animals. The 6 OF CUPS, which forms the base of this cross, is a card that rekindles love and renews old ties, acting to draw the lost animal back to its home and to the people who love it. THE MAGICIAN stands for the utilization of resources, and assures that all measures will be taken and all efforts utilized in the search. THE STAR brings luck and hope--elements very necessary to such an undertaking. THE HERMIT reveals where that which is lost may be found. Here, THE HERMIT shines his lamp on the card chosen to represent the lost pet.

If you wish to use accessories for this spell, use pink candles, flowers, crystals, gemstones and cloth, as pink is the color of affectionate love. If possible, also have some pictures of the missing pet laid out. (You can also include pieces of hair, feathers, whiskers or such from the pet in question.) Also, for this particular spell you will need to have a lit candle nearby, whether or not you choose to include lighting candles as part of this ritual.

To perform this spell, you can proceed by laying out the cards and doing the following meditation, visualization, and affirmation.

MEDITATION AND VISUALIZATION

Lay out the cards when you come to the appropriate point in the spell.

Lay the animal's SIGNIFICATOR down first. Visualize the animal, recalling its features and mannerisms to the best of your ability. Picture the missing pet being drawn to the light of the candles--to the light of love. Hold your hands above the candle flames for a few moments. Feel the warmth of the candles, and visualize the light of the candles acting as a beacon to lead the animal home.

Lay down the SIX OF CUPS, and think about all of the good times you and your pet have had together. Try to remember the day you first got your pet, what they were like as a youngster, etc.

As you lay down THE MAGICIAN, consider the various courses of action that may be taken in the search for your pet.

Lay down THE STAR, a card for wishing. Make a wish for your pet to return.

Finally, lay down THE HERMIT, visualizing your pet being found or returned, and how happy you both will be to be reunited.

AFFIRMATION

After you have finished meditating on the cards and visualizations, carefully, and with as much feeling as you can, recite the following affirmation:

"As I set forth these cards in the light of these candles, the small friend for whom I have so much love is drawn home to me!

I do not cease trying to find my friend until he/she returns home.

I call upon all good spirits and all good powers who care about small and helpless creatures to aid me in my search!

My small friend (name of pet) is brought home through the spell which I call forth.

It shines like a beacon that my animal friend can see!

As my will, so mote it be!"

You may consider the spell closed at this point, or you may close the spell as desired.

Protective Blessing for Cats

Protective Blessing for Cats
From Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living by Dorothy Morrison
© 2002 Llewellyn Publications

Bast of beauty and of grace,
Protectress of the feline race,
Shield (name) from all hurt and harm
And keep him/her always safe and warm.
Watch over (name) from day to day
And guide him/her home, if (s)/he should stray.
And grant him/her much happiness
And a good life free of strife and stress.

Protective Blessing for Dogs

Protective Blessings for Dogs
From Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living by Dorothy Morrison © 2002 Llewellyn Publications

Diana, Goddess of the Wild,
Keeper of dogs both fierce and mild,
Hold (name of pet) safely in Your arms
And protect this creature from all harm.
And should the day come that he/she roams
Guide him/her to the path back home.
Bless (name of pet) with a joyful life
Free of hardship, stress, and strife.

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Pet Protection Spell

Pet Protection Spell
From Yasmine Galenorn's Embracing the Moon: A Witch's Guide to Rituals, Spellcraft and Shadow Work
© 2002 Llewellyn Publications

While it is important to work carefully with your totem animals, it is also important to remember your pets. This spell will help protect your animal friends on the physical plane.

For EACH animal you will need:

• 1 six-inch square piece of black felt fabric paints
• a clipping of hair or stray feathers from your pet
• 2 teaspoons dried cedar
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 teaspoons catnip (even if you have a dog)
• 1 teaspoon comfrey
• 1/4 teaspoon dried garlic
• 1 teaspoon heather
• Protection or Guardian oil (below)
• Cotton
• Needle and thread

On what will be the outside of the charm bag paint your pet's name and these runes: Algiz, Koad; the forest rune; the pentacle and the Goddess rune. Let dry. Fold the felt in half (painted side in) and sew two sides of it, leaving one open. Reverse the bag so the painted side is facing out. Raise energy on the herbs then powder and pour into the pouch. Add the clipping of pet hair, then stuff the rest with cotton to which you have added a few drops of the oil. Finish sewing the pouch.

Cast a circle, invoke the elements and the Lord and Lady.

Say:

O gracious Lord and Lady,
Protector of all creatures who walk upon this earth.
Guard my (pet's species and name) against harm and illness.
Watch over him/her with every step he/she takes.
Help me protect him/her and strengthen the connection of love between us.
Let this charm be blessed, to hold the energy of protection.
Blessed be.

Keep the charm bags in a safe place, perhaps on your altar, where the animal can't get to it. Renew this charm every six months.

Remember: the best protection for your animals is to keep them inside, to keep their vaccinations current, and to give them plenty of love, food, and clean water.
 

Protection Oil:

This is a good oil to select for your candle of protection when you are concerned with physical, as opposed to psychic attack. It can also be used to anoint yourself before you leave on a journey or undertake a potentially hazardous situation.

• 1/2 ounce olive oil
• 6 drops rose geranium oil
• 15 drops lemon oil
• 4 drops citronella oil
• 8 drops lavender oil
• flower: lavender
• drops cajupet oil (did not specify how many)
• gem: clear quartz

Guardian Oil:

• 1/2 ounce olive oil
• 5 drops pennyroyal oil
• 15 drops lemon oil
• 10 drops rosewood oil
• 10 drops clove oil
• flower: rose
• 15 drops patchouli oil
• Gems: carnelian, citrine

Spell for Shelter Animals

Spell for Shelter Animals - by Cerridwen Iris Shea

Here is something you can do when you can’t adopt all the animals in a shelter. First, place your hands close to each other, palms almost touching. Focus your loving, healing energy in that space. Let the ball of loving energy grow and pulsate until it is about the size of a large beach ball. Release it upward and outward, imagining it filling the entire building with loving energy. When you get home, light a white candle anointed with attraction oil, and say a prayer that all of the animals will find homes soon.

Spell for Healing a Pet

Spell for Healing a Pet
You will need:

• Lavender oil
• Camphor Oil
• Rosemary Oil
• Base Oil (Apricot Kernal, Jojoba, Grapeseed, or Olive Oil are good)
• A Black Candle
• A Red Candle
• A Brown Candle
• Several stones or crystals

Mix some healing oil, using:

• 6 drops Lavender oil
• 6 drops Camphor oil
• 6 drops Rosemary oil
• 1/2 ounce base oil (apricot kernel, jojoba, grapeseed, even olive oil)

Anoint a black candle, a red candle and a brown candle with this healing oil. The black is for absorption of the negativity (the illness), the red is for strength and health, and the brown is an "astral" or "significator" candle for the animal. Place the brown candle between the black and red candles, and make a ring of stones around the set-up, using stones or crystals that you associate with healing (amethyst, quartz, agate...you choose whichever type or combination of types). Place some of the oil in your hands, and begin to rub them together, generating heat and energy. When you feel that you've built a small "bundle" of healing energy, place your hands on your pet, stroking it and giving it the healing energy you've built, making sure to concentrate on any areas where you feel or sense the illness. Focus on the candles, continuing to maintain contact with your pet, and visualize the strength from the red candle pouring into the brown candle, and pushing all the sickness into the black candle. Attune with the Goddess, and when you've got a good grip on the visualizations above (and the animal!), say:

"Goddess, with your healing touch
Bless this animal we love so much.
God, with beasts as your domain,
Remove the sickness, heal the pain.
So mote it be!"

Continue the stroking and energy flow until you feel that the spell is done, then allow the animal plenty of time to rest and heal. Obviously, if you wish to perform this spell in a cast circle, that's your choice. If you wish to continue the spell for a number of days (I'd suggest at least 3 days), and your pet has a special place where it rests or "lives" (such as a cage, etc.), ring this area, if possible, with the stones, place a red candle on one side of the area and a black candle on the other (anointed with the healing oil); focus on the red candle and project its energy into area with your pet, visualizing the illness being pushed out the other side, since there's no room for it, and into the black candle. Rub the oil onto your hands and stroke it into/onto the animal's body as often as you feel necessary.