☁ A really simple cleansing ritual for those of us who cannot use smoke! (you know, allergies, rhinitis and stuff) ☁
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You’ll need:
-Boiling water in some sort of pot (be careful!!!). It doesn’t have to be a large quantity, just enough to dip a spoon on it, and it has to be easily (and safely) carried around!
-Purifying/cleansing herbal blend*
-A spoon.
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To prepare your herbal blend:
-I use dried chamomile (peacefullness), ginger (power, good luck and healing), peppermint (exorcism, transforming energies and driving away bad luck) and lemon balm (love, fertility, happiness) in equal parts. If I feel it needs to be particularly strong I can add sage, or use extra peppermint. You can change this recipe, just be careful, and do your research before adding anything!
-Once the water is boiling, put your herbal blend on it, as it you were making tea. Let the water take some color, at least for 10 minutes. The best would be 15.
-Carefully take the pot and go to the center of your house (or the place you want to purify). Dip the spoon on the water once, make sure it doesn’t drip. When you take it out, you’ll see steam coming out of it too. It will last at least 10 seconds. Use it to purify yourself first.
-Then, start moving around the place in a counter-clockwise motion. Spread steam in every corner of every room.
-Everytime you dip the spoon on the water, chant the following:
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“Anything evil that may be here
I cast you back, I have no fear.
With the speed of light, and with all my might,
I make all of your harbourings now take flight.
With the strenght of the sea, and all the power found in me,
I declare as is my will, so mote it be!“
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-At the end, go back to the center, and close with a final incantation.
TIP: you can use steam to cleanse items too! just dip the spoon, put it down, and pass the item through the steam, again, counter-clockwise, while reciting the incantation as many times as you wish!
**You can charge and cleanse your crystals near and/or on top of a Himalayan salt lamp(or whatever crystal lamp- selenite for example)**
-Himalayan salt has purifying and cleansing properties AND it cleans air, which is good for people with allergies or asthma.
-Himalayan salt lamps increase energy levels of the room which the lamp is in. It also neutralizes electromagnetic radiation from electronics, which is good for people who use electronics a lot( also good for tech witches)
-Himalayan salt lamps also improve mood and concentration
Your aura is the energy field that surrounds you. It collects negative energy each day and if you do readings of any kind (like me) and you don’t cleanse your Aura there will be consequences. Keeping your aura clear and bright is very important and here’s how to do it:
Cleansing Aura
You can cleanse your aura in few, simple steps.
Find yourself a room, and 15 minutes of free time, give or take. Make sure no one will disturb you in the next 15 minutes.
Light a candle. The size and the color doesn’t matter. The fact that it is a source of open flame does matter :). When the candle is ready, stand in front of it.
Now, close your eyes and visualize a powerful, bright, spiritual light descending from the above, like a shower, flowing into you, and cleansing your aura of negative energies. Continue such visualization for the next minute.
When you’re done, open your eyes. Now, you’re going to grab the negative energies, and cast them into the fire of the candle. So use your hands, and slope to the front, so you can reach the floor. Then, intend to grab the negative energies with your hands, and grab/comb these energies from the floor up to your head. Then cast the energies into the fire with a proper gesture and intention in your mind. When the energies are cast into the fire, mark an X letter in the air, or a cross, with an intention of cutting yourself off the negative energies you just cast.
When you’re sloping, inhale. When you’re grabbing and combing the energies, exhale. The point is not to inhale the negative energies back into your body.
Continue the process of grabbing the energies around your entire aura. You can go clockwise, or counter-clockwise. Personally, I cleanse the energies from the front, from left, from right, and from the back, and I’m done.
When you’re done with grabbing, pick up the candle. And comb your aura with it, from the bottom to top, all around you. The fire will be an additional method of cleansing aura.
And when you’re done, intend to cut yourself from the negative energies, and from the candle. Then, put out the candle, gently. And you’re done.
When giving advise to beginner practitioners sometimes we forget to stop and explain what it means to even program a crystal. In short, You are infusing it with intention. A Goal, A Desire. You are infusing a crystal to amplify that intention and desire, And to hopefully achieve it.
The way you do this is simple.
1. Cleanse your Crystal – This is the most important step. Cleanse. Your. Crystal. Yourself. Use herb smoke, Energy work, Sunlight, Moonlight, Prayer, What ever works for YOU.
2. Cleanse Yourself – This is equally as important as cleansing your crystal because you want to be in a clear calm state. You don’t want any outside forces influencing your work.
3. Once you are clear with your intention and desire hold your crystal in your hands. Visualize what you want, Speak aloud or in your thoughts. Be Clear. Be repetitive. Feel it.
4. Feel the energy and warmth leaving your hands, And entering the crystal. Make it yours, And fill it with your desire.
5. Continue these steps until you feel the crystal has fully absorbed all the vibrational energy.
That’s all! The crystal will now hold your intention, And will amplify your attract your desire.
(To reverse this process, Do the same steps with intention of cleansing and release the energy.)
It is crucial (if you want to have good results) to prep before spellwork. Here are some ways to make sure you reach full magic badassery when doing a spell:
1. Spend time being positive. Thinking positively will get you in the right mindset to perform a ritual. This is especially helpful when doing self love and healing spells. For a large ritual start improving your mood as soon as a week prior to the spell. If you are doing something simple, modify your train of thought an hour or so before you begin casting.
2. Meditate. This is also one way you can achieve method 1. Meditating helps clear the mind of negativity and aids in focusing. Light a candle, silence any technology, turn off the lights, and breathe. With every breath you breathe out envision negativity exiting your body. With the intake of air envision breathing in positivity and universal energy.
3. Get clean. One of the best ways to make sure no negativity makes its way into your spell is to simply take a shower/bath. Not only will you be physically clean and refreshed, but you can use some simple cleansing energy to get rid of anything unwanted. Use a shower scrub (extra points if it has herbs with magical properties !) and scrub away all of the nasty blocking energy all the way from your head to your toes. It helps me to envision the energy leaving my body as black or dark grey liquid pouring down the drain. Next, stand under the water and let it rain down on you. Imagine it as golden liquid light; surrounding you and charging your spirit. If you are in a bath, immerse yourself in the water and do the same.
4. Prepare. Gather all of the supplies you are going to use. Place them in your space and make sure you won’t be bothered. One thing that I also like to do is pick out some witchy/comfortable clothing. Our clothes change the way we feel, so make sure you feel powerful and comfortable. You can also even enchant these beforehand.
5. Don’t doubt! Never doubt your own power. You are the key to your own success! Take a moment and remind yourself that you are a badass magical bitch and you get stuff done.
You are now ready to get out there and perform your ritual! ✨
Okay so if you’re like me and bought a small copper cauldron for your witchy endeavors and then found that, after using it in spells and rituals, it’s become discolored FEAR NOT because you can make it look brand spanking new with the simplest of ingredients.
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of distilled white vinegar
½ a cup (I was eyeballing it) of all purpose flour
Dissolve the salt in the vinegar and then add the flour to create a paste (you may need to add more because, like I said, I was eyeballing it). Rub the paste onto your copper and let it sit for fifteen minutes. Afterwards, run it under warm water and scrub like you would a normal pan. This works on all types of copper, so don’t feel like you have to use it on a cauldron exclusively. Happy witching!
we all know the scenario. you’re bored and want to something, anything, witchy. not quite casting a spell, but not quite sitting there and meditating. now what?
•Gardening. Tending to a garden, from growing herbs to making a terrarium.
•Scrying with mundane objects. Look into the clouds or even the floorboards.
•Physically clean a space. This can be associated with spiritual cleaning.
•Give yourself a witchy manicure. Paint sigils on your nails.
just cuz not all of us have the mental energy and the money for ritual work. And not all of us take magic extremely seriously.
– every time you close a door, add will to your entrance being locked and protected by things that mean you ill
– while you put on make up imagine how this will change how someone will perceive you. Add a veil of glamour for whatever purpose you need (intimidation, beauty, other-worldly, etc.)
– whenever you wash your hair, it’s a cleansing. When your wring your hair, imagine all miasma washing off you.
– adding sigils to things when you don’t have the energy to add the notion yourself since the sigils are a representation of what you want anyway.
– ringing loud bells over your workplace to cleanse it/banish something
– glaring at someone and pushing all your angry thoughts at them when they piss you off
*~ lazy magic ~*
Can I just throw out there that over time, little things like this will eventually build up into a great big field of energy, every bit as powerful as a “not lazy” spell? Even lazy spells are spells. Keep rocking that lazy magic.~
Being outside on a windy day is a good way to cleanse yourself. Visualize the wind passing through you and carrying away any negative energy clinging to you.
• cleanse your space
• tend your garden
• collect storm/rain/snow water
• meditate!
• pick herbs/plants
• charge materials
• walk in nature
• top up your supplies
• light a candle
• make a fruit offering to the wild
• practice divination
• read a book on craft
• plant a plant
• clean and collect jars
• go shopping
• read a prayer
• put a wandering bug or a spider friend back outside
• curl up with a cup of tea and scroll through witchy blogs
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