House Cleansing

HOUSE CLEANSING

When you move into a new place or when you move out of an old one, you might want to do a cleansing. Imprints stay in a place. Old arguments, old depressions and these need to be swept away. There are dozens of methods. Even the simple tradition of New Year’s Eve – opening the back door and beating on pots and pans to usher out the old and stale and opening the front door (or windows if your house or apartment is entrance-challenged) and welcoming in the new is a house cleansing of the instant kind. Light a candle to celebrate the new light growing in the dark corners (of your mind and your abode). So be it. You are done with the cleansing. But sometimes you need more.

One way to do a house cleansing is to clean it physically. When it is clean and done up the way you want it with everything in order – or what passes for order in your nest – then take water and charge it. Cold water, remember, holds the imprint you give it. Charge this water with good vibrations. Speak the words aloud – love, honesty, balance and wisdom. Give these into the water. Symbolically clean the already clean surfaces with this charged water.

Again, take water. Cast out from it all that might hinder your wishes. Infuse it with healing and balance and wisdom. Simply ask these to be present in the water. You have not because you ask not.  Now take salt and ask the earth spirit to embody that salt with whatever is pure and whatever is holy and whatever will help you in the walk you seek to follow. Put three measures of the salt into the water. Take this and sprinkle into the corners of your new home. (Or your old one if it needs cleansing).

Take your birch broom if you have one. Symbolically clean the space. Say aloud (if possible):

 “Harm is not welcome here. In all your forms, you must leave. Illness, angers to no avail, false dreams and worries, your aim will fail. All  which seeks to hinder me, to this token now you’ll cleave. As I will, so mote it be.”

If this broom is one made for this occasion and not to be used again, you can then toss it out your back door if this is possible where you live. The elements will cleanse it and the earth and sun renew it. If you can’t dispose of it this way, you must wrap this broom (plain black garbage bag will do) and take it somewhere else to dispose of – off your property is good, but at least out of your abode. It must be somewhere no one else will find it. It is best to break up the broom if you toss it. Some people use birch only for the staff and use flowers for the broom part. Then toss the flowers. Flowers themselves will purify the energies in them. You can use storebought flowers for this.

If the broom is one you keep and use often, then you must cleanse it instead of discarding it. You can light sage and hold the broom above the smoke, saying; “Creature of fire and air, take this hindrance I place here, drift your smoke and cleanse this broom of every ill and harm and gloom and to the birch purity cling and to my home purity bring.”

One word about cleansings. You might want to find what is there before you do this cleansing. How badly is a cleansing needed? Who lived there before? Some people prefer not to get rid of every nuance of the past inhabitants. This is up to you. If you find yourself tired for no reason or with disturbing dreams that simply don’t seem to belong to you – CLEANSE the space. You can add a… clause (for want of a better word), and simply cast out only those harmful energies and make special welcomes to house ghosts and faeries and whoever or whatever else you might want to hang around with. It’s YOUR house. Don’t forget that part.

One time when a house cleansing might be needed is after a particularly odious visitor – odious on the psychic level not necessarily physically stinky. Also in case you’ve seen a disturbing news item on tv or watched a movie that brought something in. They do that. Right on the airwaves and into your home. So cleanse if this is needed.

Music will help you cleanse on a regular basis. When the energy gets stagnant, I put on music by Krisna Dass or Lisa Theil. One particularly helpful CD is my copy of Layne Redmonds CHANTING THE CHAKRAS. I have cured my headaches with that music. But whatever works for you. Play that music which lifts you.

Light a candle and a bit of incense. I like to simmer cinnamon (an incense which calls to Venus and the Mother Goddess and which brings memories of warm kitchens and my own Goddess Mom.)

Fill the house with YOU. Laugh. Laughter will cleanse your aura. Expand your good nature into the house. Open windows. Bring in air. Do you see how you are using the elements to cleanse your space?

You can use the elements to cleanse a dream space. Do you have old house dreams? Do you ever dream you are in a place where things are murky and depressing? You can go back into that dream and throw open the windows and doors and light a fire on the hearth (no hearth? It’s your dream – you can MAKE one), imagine rain hitting the roof and sending cleansing vibes all through the murk and that murkiness will dissipate and drift away out the open window and be gone forever. Now open the door and step onto earth.

I did this whole thing. Your dream will be different,  but you will find the right way to take care of this. Let your drifting twilight mind call on the tools you’ve learned to use in daylight and cleanse this dream. You will be taking care of a LOT of problems when you do this dreamwork. This too is house cleansing.


Author: Keldarune
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