Merrie Meet
Welcome to this latest blog post about creating a home that is Fit For A Wytch
A special way of adding magick to your home is to set up an altar. Be as
discreet or as elaborate as you like and your lifestyle allows.
Find a table top surface, a shelf or a bookcase, etc. where
you can position your altar. Preferably, it should be out of reach of pets and
small children (unless you actually want to make it a pets or childrens’
altar).
I would suggest that you create an altar that will represent
the four elements: earth, air, fire, water.
However you could set up an altar to honour your gods and goddesses, or
create a meditation space by adding stones, crystals, seashells, feathers, and
herbs to the altar.
You could also place pictures of angels, deities, ancestors,
etc. on you altar along with candles, incense burners, oil diffusers, and more.
The choices are endless!
Growing native plants around your home invites mother nature
to take up residence. The positive energies will translate to positive energy
inside your home, as well.
But, don’t worry if you don’t have a garden. You could grow
plants in pots on a balcony, a patio, or even in a sunny window! Herbs will do
well in pots, and so do many flowers.
What magical home would be complete without a garden?
It is about putting in the time and effort, and eventually
you will learn what grows well in your climate and what does not?
You can buy or grow plants that are native to your area then
you will have plants that are accustomed to the land where you live and therefore
easy to grow. Such plants will also
attract and supply food or shelter for essential wildlife such as bees, butterflies,
rabbits, birds and the like.
Wytch like Decorating Ideas
This is the fun part!
Depending on the objects themselves and where you put them,
the following elements will draw in abundance, health, love, peace, success,
etc.
Add Fire & Air
The best decorating ideas centre around the four elements.
By hanging wind chimes in your doorways and around your
house, you are adding gentle, whimsical sounds and thus you are invoking the
air element.
One of my favourite suggestions for enchanting a home is to
use candles.
Generally we have candles burning in most rooms every day. As you light them you can see your home’s
ambiance change from the mundane to the truly magickal!
By doing this simple action you are calling on the element
of fire.
Add Earth & Water
Houseplants draw in the earth energy.
African violets, succulents, and ivies are often favourites
but i would invite you to experiment with different houseplants to find what
you like best.
Be careful which plants you use though because some are
toxic to pets and children. Place plants all around your home to bring in these
earthy, healing energies.
Rose quartz, amethyst, and selenite are great for the home.
Small water fountains and vessels of water honour the water element in your
magickal home.
Cleansing Your Magickal Home
A spiritual home cleansing removes any negative energy that
has either
invaded or built up over time.
I think that the most powerful way to cleanse a home of
negative energy is to perform a smudging ritual using some of the most powerful
herbs such as: white sage, rosemary, and palo santo.
Research how to carry out a smudging ritual and then cleanse
your home.
Make sure that you open the
windows or doors to allow the negative energy to escape. This is crucial!
To create a sacred space means to cleanse and prepare an area
for divine connection, much like the “sanctuary” in a church.
You can make your entire home into sacred space. The first
step in making your home a magical home is to envision it as one big magical
circle.
There is plenty of information about that will help you to learn
how to make a magical home with cleansing, protection, gardening, and other
wytch styling and decorating ideas.
Magickal Protection
And finally a word about Magickal Protection.
We all know that our homes protect us from the outside world
and they also provide us with privacy. But when we make our homes magical that
is not quite enough, we also need to think about spiritual protection.
If you have never energetically cleansed your home, this
will be your first step to making your home magical. This is also something to
repeat once a month (preferably on the new or waning moon) or whenever you feel
the need.
After following you cleansing you need to establish a
magickal barrier by
blessing the doorways, windows and entrances into your
home. Using olive oil, essential oils or
any kind of oil, draw a protective symbol on each window and door, such as a
pentacle, a cross, or runic symbols. The
same blessing can also be carried out with the use of moon water
You can then add other protective elements if you so wish,
such as herb bags; salt in the windows and thresholds; dreamcatchers; iron
horseshoes above doorways and lastly you could use a sprinkling of red brick
dust over the thresholds.
So there we have a few ideas about how you can make your
home fit for a wytch to inhabit. I hope
that you have fun and that you will live in peace, happiness and prosperity.
Love, Light and
Blessed Be!
Merlin
