Watch Her Radiance in the Room
The witch's broom - or in my case an apartment-sized Bissell canister vacuum cleaner - is by far one of the most powerful magickal tools you own. Trust me. I've learned this from personal experience. Using your broom, and some sponges and any other cleaning implements you have around, you can free your home of harmful or unwanted energy and completely transform the space in which you live, love, worship, be.
Transformation has been a big theme for me over the past year or so. My life has changed in lots of ways, I've done a lot of shadow work, I had a significant birthday, and there have been signs coming at me from every direction that now is my big chance to move into another, more fulfilling, happier stage of my life. As all good witches know, there's rarely room for new unless we banish the old. Emotionally, I'd done a lot of that work, but I decided it was time to add a physical component, to cleanse my home of a great deal of energy - most of it generated by me - that not only was no longer serving me but was standing in the way of my own progress. So I decided to use the last of the Waning Moon before the auspicious New Moon in Taurus arrived to give my apartment a good cleansing.
At it's basic level, the point of a cleanse like this is to sweep all of the energy that no longer serves - that hinders you in your work, that keeps you from moving on to the next phase of your life, that simply feels wrong - out of your home along with the dust and detritus that accumulates through the daily acts of living life. As we sweep the floors and dust the shelves and scour the sinks, we are, by virtue of the work we're doing, ridding our home of the unwanted energy that has stuck there as well. With focused intention, this part of the work is even more powerful. Imagine literally wiping away the energy like gunk that has been clinging to the surfaces in your home and happily escorting it out as you set the rubbish on the curb for collection and removal. (I'm an urban witch, so this is what I do. If you live a rural or country area where burning rubbish is permitted, so much the better.) When we perform this kind of cleanse for ourselves, we create space for new, more useful and desired energy to enter our lives, along with other, more concrete things that we hope to manifest.
As I was working, mostly it was a simple act of cleaning my apartment, but my intention was so strong that when I was done, the magick I had worked was unmistakable. Everything was in its place, nothing had changed, but everything was different. My home felt different. I felt different.
You are making your way for the Divine to inhabit the space that you inhabit, and keeping your temple a fitting space for the miraculous.- Dianne Sylvan
After doing a thorough physical cleanse of their space, many witches also choose to perform a ritual to seal the deal, so to speak, with smudging and other spiritual and psychic forms of cleansing. Once this ritual cleanse is complete, it's often advisable to do some warding and protection magick to make sure that your newly cleansed space is safe from any unwelcome energy that might try to make it's way into the space you just opened up. A friend of mine with a bit more experience in this area than I have is going to help me perform the final cleansing ritual and protection magick some time next week when we can tap into some appropriate lunar energy.
Many, if not most, books on magick and Wicca will at least refer to the magickal cleansing of one's household. The Circle Within
I only wait a little longer,
And watch her radiance in the room;
Here making light a little stronger,
And there obliterating gloom
from The Secret, Cosmo Monkhouse
Posted by Angela-Eloise at 4:50 PM
