Open Sesame Third Eye Spell

This is a joyful spell, so if you feel moved to dance, chant, whirl, or sing while casting it, by all means please do so. If you are new to magick or to psychic work, or find that your psychic abilities aren't as sharp as they once were, this is a good spell for you.

Your third eye is the center of your psychic self. Your sixth chakra, it rules every aspect of your sixth sense: intuition, insight, clairvoyance, precognition, telepathy, and all other psychic abilities. Your third eye helps you to see the unseen, and to perceive more than is possible with your ordinary senses.

Opening your third eye (or activating your sixth chakra, if you prefer that term) is an important prelude to psychic work. This includes everything from meditation, divination, visualization, scrying, crystallomancy, and fire-gazing to distance healing, past-life work, dream work, remote viewing, astral projection, and so on.

This spell may be cast at any time, but it is best cast on a moonlit night. You will need:

sandalwood incense a purple candle

sesame oil (You can find edible sesame oil where Asian food products are sold, and scented sesame oil is sold with skin care products.)

Tiger Balm (This is a liniment that is used for headaches and muscle pain. Packaged in tiny jars, it can be found in health food shops, at some pharmacies, and in stores that sell Asian products. Tiger Balm contains ingredients that make the skin tingle, such as menthol. Its use in this spell is to make you more aware of your third eye, so you could substitute anything that will make your skin tingle, such as another commercial liniment, essential oil of peppermint, or whatever your ingenuity devises. Use anything you like, but be sure it's something that seems magickal to you and to which your skin is not allergic.)

Optional: music, ritual garb, or whatever helps you to get into a magickal mood. (You could use any music that appeals to you, but if you are fortunate enough to own a recording of the late great Egyptian diva Om Kalsoum singing “Alfy Layla wa Layla” [A Thousand and One Nights], that would make an especially powerful accompaniment.)

Preparation

Some traditions consider the third eye to be located between the eyebrows, while others consider it located in the middle of the forehead. We are all different, so only you can determine the location of your third eye. If you aren't sure, get a small crystal and place it between your eyebrows. Does it tingle, in a psychic way? If not, place the crystal in the center of your forehead. How does that feel? It may take repeated tries if you are new to all of this, but you will eventually find a spot on your forehead that responds to the presence of the crystal. When you do, that is the location of your third eye.

Dress the candle with the sesame oil, by using the forefinger of your projective hand to rub the candle with it.

Wash your hands.

The Spell

Open the jar of Tiger Balm, and put it on your altar or other working surface with the candle and the incense. Get into a magickal mood, and create sacred space. Darken the room. Light the candle, then light the incense from the candle. Anoint your third eye with the Tiger Balm, again using the forefinger of your projective hand. Raise power.

Focus on the way that your third eye is responding to the Tiger Balm and to the warmth of the candle. Concentrate on opening your third eye. Do this by visualizing it unfolding as a flower does when it blooms. Gaze at the candle until you feel ready, then say:

Alfy layla wa layla,¹

Alfy layla wa layla . . .

By the Moon, on Arabian nights,

By the silence of ancient sites,

By the secrets of arcane rites, By the flicker of candle lights . . .

Ifta, ya simsim!

Open sesame!

Open my third eye, open my mind's eye, Release my sixth sense.

Help me to see the unseen.

Let me Be as I have never been,

Let me See as I have never seen. Open my third eye, open my mind's eye, Open my Self to understanding.

alfy layla wa layla alfy layla wa layla . . .

By the power of moonlight, By the power of clear sight, Ifta, ya simsim! Open sesame!

Concentrate on your third eye, now wide open. Envision stars pouring from the chakra, or light pouring into it, or whatever image feels right to you. If you have been blocked for a long time, or if you raised a lot of power for this spell, a tremendous amount of energy may be released. Don't be frightened if this causes a physical manifestation, such as the candle flame suddenly leaping up. Don't be concerned if your body begins to vibrate or if the energy affects you in some other physical way. Dance, if this happens and you feel that you need to work the energy off.

Gaze into the flame of the candle. Concentrate on how you feel and on the possibilities that the spell has released. Do this until you feel your body adjust itself to the now open chakra, then begin to ground the power that you raised. Monitor the candle until it has burned down entirely. You should feel calm, grounded, and centered by then. Ground any residual power, and clean up. Have something to eat and drink if you have trouble returning to ordinary consciousness.

Afterward

You will be changed after you cast this spell. It will affect different people differently. You may find that you are more imaginative, that your perception is keener, your meditations deeper, or your insight sharper. You might find visualization easier or begin to get more accurate answers from your runes, pendulum, tarot cards, or whatever divination tool you regularly use.

Opening your third eye can also affect your body. You may find yourself sleeping better, feeling less anxious, less confused, or less fearful. You might begin to experience fewer or less severe headaches. You could also feel less tension in your neck, or have eye, hormone, or skin problems finally clear up.

However this spell affects you, it will be a positive change. Some will cast it once and have their third eye forever opened. Others will find it helpful to cast the spell periodically in order to keep their third eye open.