Often, I begin and perform a Ritual before I am aware of the meaning within it. Every Rituals that has full and deep meaning for the participant will result in a transformation of personality and will feel like magic. A Ritual can be as simple as lighting a candle or filling a vase with flowers or thinking a special thought. In the Ritual you create a small event in order to reflect bigger events in your life. A grief Ritual will allow you to move energy and experience a transformation of your relationship to the lost one.
All Rituals contain a preparatory phase, and experiencing phase, and an ending, or closing, phase.
Each phase has symbols and meanings that are relevant to that phase, to the subsequent phases, and to the outcome you desire. The way in which Rituals work for us is that we are making use of energy in a variety of ways. They help us to clarify aspects of our lives that may not be clear to us. When we create a Ritual, we are acting out either in imagination or in actuality the microcosm of what we wish for in the macrocosm. It is helpful to suspend judgment when we do our Rituals because we need to give our whole attention to the process of the Ritual, and to its precise aspects.