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!
Many years ago I bought a brand new pair of dainty crystal earrings. I wore them as I went about running errands. Later I noticed only one side was on. I panicked and tried to remember where in the city it could be. Cars and crowds were passing and it almost felt hopeless. Until I heard a tiny voice “ I’m here, several streets away”. I closed my eyes and saw spinning , gravel, roads and familiar buildings. It was dizzying. I tried again and this time I saw the earring fall out of a tire groove back onto the gravely side of a road across of a hotel. I heard “hurry, before I get lost further again”. I ran to the location I saw in my mind’s eye and stopped to search in the gravel laden area. It was like searching in a haystack. I heard the voice again urging me towards it’s direction. I finally found it! I cradled the earring and saw in my mind’s eye it’s journey of falling off my ear onto the concrete, being picked up by the rolling wheels of a random car slowly driving around the city, arriving back a 15 minutes away from the original location. The strangest thing was that I never went to that area that day. I got it repaired and put earring stoppers on the ends of all my earrings. My husband smiled at me and said how odd I was. Together we went on our merry way.
Wow! You used your gift. 😊
WOW! I did the little man one, or a little cat in my case. I had lost my little bluetooth earbuds in their case (as I always do lol) and literally a minute later I found them! I have been looking for these for like a week, and I looked under my couch and there they were! I am personally related to a woman named Brijtha who was beheaded and burned after accusations of witchcraft, so I love using witchcraft to connect with my ancestor, as well as honor her and the many who died with her. Much love from Sweden!
Agnes, glad you found your earbuds! And that’s so interesting about your ancestor.
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I lost something that could have cost me my job, and was frantic. Completed the second ritual and spent some extra time in meditation. Woke up, did my morning routine, dropped off the kids at school, and looked down in my car (that I had searched and searched and searched) and there it was.
Brooke, I’m so glad you found whatever it was! Phew!!!
This is insane. I spent a week looking. Turned the whole house over, looked in the car, called every single shop or friend I had visited in one week… nothing.
With your spell, the item turned up within minutes.
I’m blown away and I really need to thank you heaps!
Phoenix, I am just so happy to hear it! Amazing, right? Thanks for letting me know about your success. 😊
Thank you SO MUCH. The first spell was not working and I could feel that I wasn’t connecting with it so I tried the second. In less than 24 hours – in the front pocket of a bag I had looked in at least a dozen times, there it was right where I thought I had put it. I think maybe with the first spell the problem was that I was envisioning looking out across the horizon and it was above my head – on the second floor of my house!
Yay, Laurel! I’m so glad you found it. Thanks for letting me know.
I had lost my earbuds during a rush to get my little boy to the hospital. I swear I had packed them and took them with me to use. I figured that I lost them in the hospital and someone who cleans got a nice set of earbuds to keep them company.
Anyhow I had looked everywhere and had given up. Something told me to look up a spell and that led to your website. 5 minutes after I finished the rhyme I got an image of how I would find them but I was still working so it had to wait. As soon as I was able I went to the hall closet and put my hand in my pocket of my favorite heavy coat, just as I had seen in my mind. There they were!
Thank you for your help!! I will keep this little spell always!
Yay, Sabrina! It brings me so much joy to hear these stories, since these spells work this way for me again and again. Thank you for sharing. Glad you found them.
The second spell is the one I used. My “little man” was a tree that was higher than than all of the city. I envisioned it reaching down and holding my cell phone in its hand.
The Tracking devices located on my property. However, the address was slightly off. I decided to ping it outside, it was underneath the seat in my car!
Thank u.
I’m so happy you found it. Thanks for sharing. I like the similarities between our little men, as mine is also above a city. 😊