Find What’s Missing with One of These Effective Rituals for Locating Lost Items
Whether you’re looking for your car keys, your wedding ring, or your Kindle, taking a quick moment to work a little magic can’t hurt. In fact, in my experience, a spell or ritual to find a lost object can definitely help.
If you’re not sure where you left something and you’re starting to suspect it may be in another zip code, try the first spell. If you’ve temporarily misplaced something in your bedroom, home, car, or workplace (or wherever your immediate vicinity happens to be), the second spell will be just the thing. (If you’re not sure, start with spell #2 and then move on to spell #1 if it doesn’t work.)
Lost Object Spell #1 – Spell to Find a Lost Item
Before I let you in on my own personal favorite finding-lost-objects ritual, I want to share this awesome Spell to Find a Lost Item by my good friend, Ellen Dugan (with whom I co-wrote Every Witch Way: Spells and Advice from Two Very Different Witches). Years ago, when she and I were staying together in a hotel for an author event, I realized I had left my Kindle on the plane. After she counseled me to perform this ritual, the airline not only found it (which was awesome enough in its own right), they also mailed it back to me free of charge, even though it was their policy to charge for shipping in such instances. Needless to say, I was sold. This Spell to Find a Lost Item is especially ideal for when you’ve left something somewhere and you suspect it’s unlikely that you will get it back.
Lost Object Spell #2 – Little Man Ritual
On the other hand, The Little Man ritual is the magical practice I use most often to find missing objects, specifically in cases when I know the object in question is around somewhere (usually somewhere in my home, but I’m just not sure exactly where. It’s more of a visualization to find lost objects than a spell. (This ritual for finding lost objects happens to be an excerpt from my book Holistic Energy Magic.)
In the “Little Man” exercise, you’ll be calling upon the part of your mind that knows all and sees all (including where your missing object happens to be), and you will be assigning an inner vision and personality to this part of your mind. For me it is actually a little man, although I have heard of people for whom it is a computer, a tree, a filing clerk, or a fairy princess. Please do not feel limited by the name.
To illustrate how it works, I’ll describe my personal “little man” exercise. When I’m trying to find a temporarily missing object, such as my keys, I stop my frantic rushing around, close my eyes, and take some deep breaths. Then I visualize myself in an elevator, going up, up, up, and up. I watch an old-fashioned little arrow showing me that I’m going to the very top floor, and then I hear a “ding” indicating I’ve arrived. When the doors slide open, I see that I’m in a Plexiglass room at the top of an extremely tall skyscraper in New York City. I push open the swinging door and feel the air whip around me as I walk to the edge of the roof. There, hovering over the city between two skyscrapers, is a meditating little man who is dressed like a genie. I say to him, “Little man, where are my keys (or whatever is lost)?”
He doesn’t say anything, but I know that he’s heard and that he will bring what I need to know into my consciousness. Then I thank him (sometimes mentally burning him incense or offering him flowers, both of which hover in front of him in honor of his help) and turn back toward the elevator. I open my eyes and continue to go about my day without stressing out too much about the lost object, although I may still look for it, just with confident nonchalance rather than panic. Almost invariably I find it within minutes.
To find your little man (or whatever he/she/it is for you), simply close your eyes and relax, setting the intention to see a visual representation of the part of your mind that knows, sees, and remembers everything. Notice the process of approaching this being, and then ask your question. Notice how your version of the little man responds (or doesn’t). Know in your heart that your little man has heard and is now diligently processing your request. Thank your little man, perhaps giving him an offering of gratitude, and then go on your way.
After opening your eyes, see if you can do something other than actively look for the lost object, or at least do so without panic. If the lost object is indeed still in your vicinity, you will almost certainly find it within a few minutes to an hour.
Did you find your lost object with one of these spells? Where was it? In your bedroom? Your car? Somewhere else in the house? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!
Hey Tess, lost my favorite/beloved ring either in a restaurant, back of a car coming home, or in the room I’m staying at (where I thought I took it off with my other rings when I got home). Tried both spells multiple times to no avail. The ring isn’t loose so it doesn’t make sense that it fell off (unless I flung it for no reason), but it’s nowhere to be found in the room after checking a dozen times. Left messages with the club and Uber offering rewards. Trying to be chill but getting anxious as it’s not insured and it’s been a rough year financially with covid. Frustratingly I flew out to take care of an ailing parent and another sick family member, and it’s the last stress I needed… would love to believe the universe would be working with me. Any advice?
Tiffany, I know this might be easier than it sounds, but see if you can let go completely of attachment to outcome and trust that everything is perfectly unfolding and the ring is where it wants to be. Often when you let go of worry about the outcome of your magic and let things be fine as they are, your spell can finally work. It’s like letting go of a letter by dropping it into a mailbox. Otherwise it will never get to its destination.
Hi Tess I it am Roma chavan and I stumbled across this page and I really wanted to find my lost scrunchie that I couldn’t find since months so I decided to try this little man trick and actually it really worked in Like under 1 minute so what happened was that I tried it and Tried it and I sat down so what I thought was that know if I’d just sit down nothing can happen so I decided to go to my mom’s room and asked her for flash light from a phone so i took the flash light and started searching under my bed so far I didn’t found anything so I went back to my mums room and then I gave the phone and then I am just looking around until I saw something behind my bed so I took a look under it and I found my scrunchie, thank you so much <3
actually sorry i took the flashlight and looked under my sofa ………
Great, Roma! Good news.
Tess,
I am have all kinds of things burning, types of sage, candles, palo santo..
I got married to my best friend 9/4/20. Second marriage for both of us. Really excited. The following week we went to Block Island for a few days. I lost my wedding bracelet by the light house. We were taking pictures, it’s in some pictures, then it’s not. I took off some layers..
This happened a few days ago. I am not used to having anything pretty on my wrist. And I had sleeves on most of the time bc it was chilly. I cannot believe we did not even realize it was not on me until we got home to NY.
We actually have someone out there with a metal detector looking right now. He did not sound hopeful.
But that was a few days ago. People visit there. Just like us.
I am devastated.
I am praying to St Anthony, like I said I have candles, sage, bread, olive oil, salt, cloves, my selenite wand, Lemurian quartz crystal…
I did the Little Man meditation and also the silver cord.
I am flipping through a book I have of yours, You Are Magical. Looking for some help.
Please send some positivity.
OK will do, Tara! As much as you can, do your best to release attachment and trust that it’s on its way back to you.
Thank you so much, Tess. That was exactly what I needed to hear. Perfect answer!
Thank you so much for writing back…
Hi Tess,
Iam a very mom.This morning while making my two girls ready of zoom class and a quick 1 hour workout in my gym I realized it Iam not wearing my ring gifted by my hubby.
I ran and drove my car back to my home.Looked around for 10 min and went back to gym to look again.
Unfortunately did not find my ring.
I now realized it this a bit a ring it’s a token of love given by my husband.
Please tell me what should I do.
I did both the spells.
Please give it a little time and see what happens. You can repeat the spells if you want, but remember to stay in a positive mindset afterwards. Here’s a video that might help: https://tesswhitehurst.com/what-to-expect-after-you-do-a-spell/
Hi Tess
I just want to thank you so much for the little man spell i searched high and low for the last two days for a charm that broke off my necklace after doing the little man spell and a trip to the grocery store I found it in my driveway mind you I looked over the driveway several times but thank you so much for sharing this
Lacy, thanks for letting me know! I have had such great luck with the little man spell. I’m glad it worked for you too.