Madame Takata’s Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen

The symbol of connection. Madame Takata has written ‘absent healing’ under the jumon (sacred phrase or mantra) The illustration above is written in her own hand.

When you use Reiki symbols, they can be drawn with a finger or a hand in the sword mudra. They can be drawn in the air or on the body. However they are used, they must be drawn correctly, each line in a particular order. Which is why each stroke of the pen has a number in the above drawing.

Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen can be abbreviated as HSZSN. It’s a long name and an intricate symbol to draw. HSZSN is used to send energy (Reiki) across a distance. A distance of time as well as space. Distant healing can be sent in real time across the world. Healing can also be sent to a time in the past or the future. For this reason, HSZSN can be used for ancestral healing as well as emotional healing for traumatic events that occurred in the past.

Only the Power Symbol, Cho Ku Rei, can be used alone. All of the symbols can be used together to channel Reiki for a particular purpose. As part of my Reiki II course, one assignment was to send distant healing to more than one person. The feedback from my case studies was positive. It all sounds a bit mysterious until you try it. Past and future events cannot be changed, but we can send healing to help us get through a difficult time as it happens.

The final symbol is Dai Ko Myo or Master Symbol. This will be the subject of my next post.