Sit in a comfortable position.  Focus on your breathing.  Take a deep cleansing breath.  Release  the breath slowly.  Feel you body relax.  In your mind, go to a place that you feel safe.  Most all of us know a place we allow ourselves to go when we want or need  to feel safe.  Visualize yourself in that  safe place.  Continue breathing. Familiarize yourself with this space.  You will notice that in front of you there are two clay jars.  One you will use now and the second you will use later in the ritual.  Take the first of the two jars in your hands, begin to draw up the pain and anger that is inside you and causing you discomfort.  Feel it welling up from within you.  Let yourself feel the anger knowing that you will not be holding it much longer.  Begin to see the anger leaving you and going into the clay jar.  See the jar filling with as much anger as you are able to let go of.  Do the same with any personal pain you are holding.  Allow that pain to flow freely out of your heart and soul.  Feel the anger and pain draining from your body and pouring into the jar.  Don't be concerned that the jar isn't big enough as it will grow to contain anything you need it to.  When you feel that you are finished filling the jar, take a good look at it.
See how much you've been carrying, making your life heavier than necessary.  When you have wrung the last of the pain and anger you are able to muster or feel comfortable letting go of,  see
the jar sealing with a lid of clay and wax.  Know that the jar is sealed and that this pain and anger will not return to you.  Watch the jar as it shrinks, ever smaller and smaller until it's small enough to hold in the palm of your hand.  See how unimportant it appears now in it's new size and shape.  Now take this shrunken container of formerly immense pain and anger and throw it across the room.  See it smash to tiny bits and scatter to the four winds powerless to effect anyone ever again.
Take a deep cleansing breath.  Let it out slowly.  Feel yourself calming down, your heartbeat and breathing returning to normal after such intense emotional upheaval you just purged yourself of. You now remember there were two jars before you.  Now visualize the second jar sitting in front of you.  It begins to pulse with a small light from within.  Watch as that light grows while healing, loving, peaceful energy pours into it.  Feel the energy wash over you as it flows to the jar.  Let that feeling grow.  The jar has doubled in size and is bright with a healing blue light.  It fills and grows and glows.  You look again and it nearly fills the room.  Reach out and place your hands on the jar of healing light.  Feel the power that fills the receptacle.  As you have your hands on the clay jar you feel the loving energy come into you.  It flows through your hands, up your arms. You feel the warmth as the energy flows through you healing your heart and soul, filling the hole from which all the pain and anger was emptied.  As the healing light flows through you, you notice that the jar has gotten much smaller.  You can now hold it in the palm of your hand.  Look at the jar, you notice that it is sealed with a glowing blue light that warms the soul.  You notice that it now has a clasp ring that can be put onto a thong.  In front of you now is a leather thong that you didn't see before and it is just the right size to fit you perfectly as a necklace.  It is as if the gods made it just for you.  Place the jar of healing energy on the thong.  It is now ready for you to put it on and keep near your heart.  Know that it will be with you always to draw from in any time of pain or anger.  It will never empty, as it is a gift from the Lord and Lady and elements to remind you of their love being always with you.  You now see them, although they have been there all along and you weren't aware they were with you through the entire journey. They embrace you and tell you that they will always be with you, you only need to ask them to come.  You look to them as a child and feel the warmth of their smiles and loving embrace.  Thank them and accept their gift as a token of their love for you.  Hold this close to your heart.  When you look up again they have gone but they are never far.
Come back now to this place when you feel that you are ready. Take a deep breath, release it slowly.  Remember that you have been given a gift of spirit and healing to carry with you always.  When you feel you are ready and able, you may open your eyes and come back physically to this place also.

My thanks to Hawk, who gave me the inspiration to this ritual.  December 31, 1998

Morgaine Windrider