Witchcraft 101: ✨House Cleansing✨
Like warding there are millions of ways to cleanse a house or the people in it, and to cleanse is also to ground as they do go hand in hand to keep you from losing yourself.
Easy ways to ground yourself are, to take a shower and close your eyes, picture yourself and all the grime built up on you just sliding off of you and down the drain.
Other ways to ground are as easy as eating and drinking something, reminding yourself with a timer is a good idea, there’s no problem with taking time between the cleansing to take a small break! Take care of yourself!
To cleanse a home is to push out all the negativity and force out any malicious spirits or just unwanted spirits. Doing will likely be compared to smudging but please keep in mind that smudging is a Native American practice and closed to cultures not of that descent. If that’s the case and you are of the descent, It’s still best to stick with smoke cleansing if you’ve never done a smudging ritual before since it can be easily messed up if you were not taught by a professional.
Smoke cleansing is one of the most common way to cleanse a home, with a bundle of herbs, normally sage (white sage is endangered so if you choose to use white sage please get it from natives) Rosemary, flower petals, and thyme. Of course the plants will vary depending on the person and how immediate in need of a cleansing there is. For this method you should open all the windows and doors in the house and walk along the wall from room to room with the burning bundle and in whatever words you choose, ask everything that you don’t wish to live with in your home to leave.
It is commonly thought to use Paulo santo to cleanse a house if necessary but that is also apart of a closed culture and the trees are becoming endangered as well like the white sage, so instead, there are plenty of other types of wood you can burn and used like -insert cleansing trees- or even cinnamon sticks!
If you’re living in a dorm you can easily make a spray out of water and herbs, and proceed with the smoke cleansing ritual but using the spray instead.
My favorite method of cleansing a home is quite tiresome but worth it in the end, I will often open my windows and doors, turn on music that allows me to project my voice and start to deep clean my house. Giving my space time to get clean physically and spiritually.
