Rituals
The magic bath. Every day brings you all sorts of experiences, and you go through a whole range of emotions. They leave their trace inside you and affect your aura. When you feel low, irritable, tired and drained, it is time to look after your body – including your energy body. Everything pure is associated with water.
Water washes over you and rinses away what the day has left behind. Bathing is a daily ritual: you take a bath and feel much better afterwards. What soothing powers does water have? In itself, it brings a feeling of relaxation and inner calm. No wonder, then, that we came into the world in water, in our mothers’ wombs. It is water that has left us a memory – the memory of what our mothers felt as they awaited our birth.
While you look after your physical body in your daily bath, look after your etheric body too.
Add (ordinary) salt to your bath. Bath salts are fine as well.
It is very simple, yet it can greatly improve how you feel.
The life field is another name for the etheric field of your body. It stores the energy of your thoughts, desires, fears and worries, and it holds both your future and your past. The state of this body affects how you feel. You can greatly improve it by cleansing and healing this energy field every day.
Cleansing your home
When you clean and tidy your home, you bring order to the material world around you. Often, though, despite all your efforts, you still don’t feel entirely comfortable – something isn’t quite as it should be. That is a good time to cleanse the energetic sphere of the emotions that have built up over the week.
The simplest way is to use the smoke of white sage, which Native Americans regard as a sacred herb.
How do you do it?
Buy dried sage – you can find it in esoteric shops. Once your home is clean, light the sage and begin “smudging”, moving from right to left towards the door. The windows must be closed. As you do this, visualise all the bad energies dissolving. Smudge the corners thoroughly, as that is where most of it collects. When you have finished the ritual, air the whole home well. Light a white candle and let it burn right down to the end. A well-performed ritual can be felt quickly, even by people who visit a home that has been ritually cleansed in this way.
Another option is to listen to a CD of the OM mantra. It is a very effective mantra. It may stir up some unease or irritation in you – a sign that your cleansing process is going well.
Breaking up negative energy accumulated in a space by means of sound is very effective and reliable.
To finish this kind of cleansing, you can put on music with the sounds of a waterfall, rain or ocean waves. Such sounds “wash away” any remnants and bring you fresh energy.
Cleansing can prove very relaxing.
The power of candles
Do you love candlelight? Make use of candles’ natural properties.
- White candle – cleanses away every kind of negative (bad) energy.
Use it most often.
Red is used in love magic from 1 to 21 March. This colour is very energising, so energetic people or those feeling on edge should not overuse it. Don’t light it when you are ill.
- Pink – protection in love and friendship. It boosts self-esteem, brings harmony to relationships between people, and improves the atmosphere at home and at work. It attracts positive love vibrations.
- Green – protection for relationships, children and the workplace
- Gold – protection for money and property.
- Purple – used during meditation or visualisation.
Scented candles:
- Cinnamon – attracts money, supports healing and strengthens psychic powers
- Cedar – supports health and cleanses.
- Rose – supports love, reciprocity and passion.
Cleansing yourself of curses
Has someone ever come up to you in the street asking for money, and you didn’t want to give it? Did you hear them muttering curses at you? Sometimes the words can be very harsh. You have every right to refuse and not feel guilty about it. But the ill-wishing of a disgruntled person is a kind of “curse cast upon you”. If you can act quickly, you can protect yourself from such words on the spot by saying in your mind: “I release myself from the power of this.”
Here is a ritual that cleanses you of all kinds of ill “wishes”
The ritual works most powerfully at the New Moon.
What you will need:
– a small white plate on which you can burn paper
Light a candle.
On a piece of paper, write:
“All curses directed at me, conscious and unconscious”
Roll the paper into a little scroll, wind a thread around it and tie it with 7 knots (seven levels). Then hold it to the candle, and when it catches fire, say these words:
“As this paper turns to dust, may every curse be turned to ash. As I forgive everyone, may all be forgiven me too, and may evil be turned to good. So be it.”
Scatter the ashes of the paper into water or to the wind.
