HOME BLESSINGS
A home blessing meditation for charging a room:
Sit Straight with palms on lap, take deep breaths, relax, and move into a mental
space where you activate your intuitive senses. Imagine a cord of energy from
your spine connecting you to the Earth, and channel energy from the Earth
through it. Silently ask for divine protection, guidance, and blessing.
Direct your psychic sensing outward, and feel lines of force coming out of your
aura. Note where the strongest energy is (check out the floor, ceiling,
directions, etc.). Note spots that feel empty or dead, note places that feel
full alive, focus on where you are sitting and how you feel at that particular
spot.
Imagine a sphere of light and love energy at your heart, feel it pulsing outward
with every breath. Feel the radiance increase with every breath, feel your self
as a star, continue to breathe deeply and send out the energy, letting it
pulsate in the room. When ready, start making power sounds representing the love
and light you are channeling; use it to amplify the light you are weaving; and
fill the room with the energy. Then shift focus to sending a probe out into the
room, and note the differences in the quality of energy and how you feel about
it. Repeat if necessary, When done, feel the completeness of the work.
A room blessing involving elemental quarter invocations:
Face each direction (with arms out in appropriate elemental invoking gesture),
and say, while channeling and visualizing elemental power: - Powers of (say
direction), - Powers of (say corresponding element), - We great you, we honor
you, we welcome you here! - Watch over and bless and protect this place. After
each invocation, shape the energy into columns of light by sweeping ones arms
together until they are parallel and sweeping them up and down while channeling
and shaping the energy. When the energy is properly shaped, say so "mote it be."
After you have done all four quarters, channel in spirit energy.
To return the energy to a more mellow state while energizing yourself, put your
hands out and take in a bit of the energy into your self from each direction,
going widdershins, hold hands to your heart and take in the energy (techniques
also exist for bringing it into a stone and retrieving it when needed).
HOME BLESSING MAGICK
A home blessing meditation for charging a room:
* Sit Straight with palms on lap, take deep breaths, relax, and move into a
mental space where you activate your intuitive senses
* Imagine a cord of energy from your spine connecting you to the Earth, and
channel energy from the Earth through it
* Silently ask for divine protection, guidance, and blessing
* Direct your psychic sensing outward, and feel lines of force coming out of
your aura
* Note where the strongest energy is (check out the floor,ceiling,
directions, etc) Note spots that feel empty or dead, note places that feel
full alive, focus on where you are sitting and how you feel at that
particular spot
* Imagine a sphere of light and love energy at your heart, feel it pulsing
outward with every breath
* Feel the radiance increase with every breath, feel your self as a star,
continue to breathe deeply and send out the energy, letting it pulsate in
the room
* When ready, start making power sounds representing the love and light you
are channeling; use it to amplify the light you are weaving; and fill the
room with the energy
* Then shift focus to sending a probe out into the room, and note the
differences in the quality of energy and how you feel about it. Repeat if
necessary
* When done, feel the completeness of the work
A room blessing involving elemental quarter invocations:
* Face each direction (with arms out in appropriate elemental invoking
gesture), and say, while channeling and visualizing elemental power:
- Powers of (say direction),
- Powers of (say corresponding element),
- We great you, we honor you, we welcome you here!
- Watch over and bless and protect this place.
* After each invocation, shape the energy into columns of light by sweeping
ones arms together until they are parallel and sweeping them up and down
while channeling and shaping the energy
* When the energy is properly shaped, say so "mote it be."
* After you have done all four quarters, channel in spirit energy
To return the energy to a more mellow state while energizing yourself, put your
hands out and take in a bit of the energy into your self from each direction,
going widdershins, hold hands to your heart and take in the energy (techniques
also exist for bringing it into a stone and retrieving it when needed).
HOUSE BLESSING
I just helped with a house blessing this weekend. My girlfriend is a rather new
pagan, and wanted my help as resident expert, or how to put the ritual. Here is
basically what I told her:
There are two ways (well, more or less) to do this - one is taking a new
place, that has not got your mark on it at all yet, and consecrating it, and
then filling it with yourself. The other is taking a place that you have lived
in a while and never consecrated. That, one assumes, is full of you already, but
may also contain things that are not you and that you do not want, as well.
Her place was the second type. This is my advice for the second type:
First - clean it. Not mystically, just good old ammonia, hot water, comet, etc.
Find a place for everything, throw out everything you don't want anymore, or
give it away, or something. This does not mean the place has to be spotless. It
is YOUR place. Make it the way YOU want it.
Second - consider the arrangement of the house. Is everything set out the way
you want it? Are those curtains the ones you really LIKE in this room? Are your
pictures and thing up, and are they in pleasing places? If not, move them. Make
the place look as much like the image of the way home SHOULD look as possible.
Third - gather the stuff for a ritual cleansing. For this ritual, you need: a
blue candle, enough candles for every candleholder in the house, as many white
candles as your altar requires, your favorite incense, your favorite essential
oil(s), olive oil or
almond oil, a jar, a white handkerchief, four rocks, a stick (birch, or whatever
wood you happen to like), and flowers. The only part requiring preparing ahead
is filling the jar with the oil, adding a few drops of the essential oil(s),
closing the jar, and leaving it for a week to set.
Third - all this being done, it is time for the ritual cleansing. There are a
number of ways to do this, but the one Rachel preferred when I told her her
options was to make a broom out of flowers and a birch stick (blossom end down),
and sweep out the entire house, stem to stern, dusting off anything stressful
especially carefully. Carry the broom out the back door and toss the flowers
out, along with everything they are carrying away.
Fourth - on your way in, light the dark blue candle (you had grabbed it and
stuck it in your back pocket on your way out), and walk the perimeter of your
space. If you own the whole house, walk the boundaries of the property. If your
place is an apartment, follow the edges of the rooms. But you are drawing a ring
of fire around your boundaries, so that your cleaned house will stay clean. When
you have completed the circle, set the candle on a white handkerchief by the
front door to keep watch. Weight the corners of the handkerchief with four rocks
(one for each
corner) taken from someplace nearby.
Fifth - now the place is clean, and guarded. Now it is time to mark it as YOURS.
Light your favorite incense. Doesn't matter WHAT your favorite incense is. What
matters is that YOU like it. Or if you prefer a potpourri burner, go with that.
Then light all the candles you bought for all the candleholders in the house,
and put on some music. (What music? Ask yourself? What have you got that feels
sacred or just
very YOU. If that happens to be aerosmith, well, it's YOUR ritual.) Now that
you've done that, take the scented oil and mark every corner in the house, as
well as any place or object that it seems to you OUGHT to be marked.
Sixth: Recreate (or create) your altar. Anoint it with the scented oil, wave
incense over it, put everything on it in its place.
Seventh: Call whatever deities, wigits, watchtowers, elements, etc., that you
want watching over your house or present in it. Since you are erecting a temple
and setting up protections, you don't dismiss them afterward, just offer them
food, drink, whatever they like.
Eight: Go eat & drink something yourself.
Ninth: It's your house now. Now you have to live in it.
-ailsa
HOUSE BLESSING
My husband and I did a variation of this and Chris agrees that it worked so well
that people like to visit our house. It makes for a warm, happy, well protected
Pagan home. Enjoy.
Assemble:
1. Salt & Water
2. Incense (fire and air)
3. Milk & Honey
4. Oil (for anointing)
5. Wine (for offering)
6. Bells, Pots, Pans, Whistles, etc.
Cast a circle in the main room (living room) and after casting, visualize the
circle expanding to include the entire house. Call upon the spirits and energies
living in the house (or apartment).
Invite those who will be harmonious with the new household and its energies to
remain. Invite/ask those who will be happier elsewhere to depart. Release all
"energies" not compatible with the new household. (This may be expressed as a
"release" in order to unbind anything that may be stuck.)
Then call upon, greet, and invite ancestors, patron deities, and all harmonious
spirits and energies to dwell in the house as they please.
Gather up the pots, pans, and all the noise-makers. Go to each door and window,
not forgetting the fire-place and dog-door, making as much racket as humanly
possible--to shoo out anything unwanted. (This is hysterical fun, and also
raises lots of energy for the next important step.)
Go again throughout the house and at each portal (door, window, etc.) Sprinkle
salt-water and cense, saying:
"By the Elements I purify and charge this portal."
Then anoint the portal with milk and honey, saying:
"By Milk and Honey I ensure prosperity and peace within this place."
Finally, anoint the portal with oil, saying:
"With Oil I seal this portal and protect all within."
At the front door a special prayer is said, asking the guardian deities (God &
Goddess) "to freely grant entry to all friends and loved ones, and to prevent
passage (turn aside) to any who would do harm." Then, if it's a house--pour
wine across the width of the threshold; if it's an apartment anoint the
threshold with light touches of wine.
The house-holders then each take a sip of wine, leaving some as an offering to
the Gods, and the Circle should be closed. The remaining wine, milk, and honey
should be offered to the Gods. (In our case to the fruit tree and the oak tree
in our yard.)
Addenda: This is very effective if done as part of a house-warming party,
followed by much feasting. It has also been done very effectively by two
people. It only takes about 30 minutes to do a large house.
Do make certain to "ground" afterward, by closing the circle and by eating.
This ritual can "stir" up everybody and make the house feel full of "buzzy"
energy.
House Blessing
In the spirit of house blessings, and because I'm basically a kitchen witch at
heart, and like little projects over serious ritual, I offer some selections
gleaned from Cunningham's The Magical Household. I'm typing these without
permission but with the hope that they'll inspire you to pick up the Cunningham
book, because it's wonderful stuph... :>
For the doorway:
Suspend over the door a fresh sprig of dill, tied with a blue cord (or red, if
you prefer), to prevent those who mean you harm from entering.
Cross two needles, and stick into or tie onto a corner of your doormat, to
prevent evil from entering.
Grind Dragon's Blood herb into a powder and sprinkle it on door and window
sills, to protect your house from harm.
"Witch Bottles"
Powder some more Dragon's Blood herb with a small quantity of sugar and salt,
and place in a small corked or screw-lidded bottle. Shake and seal with red wax,
then place it where it won't be found (or at least not easily seen). This will
ensure harmony and peace within the house.
Place three new needles, three new pins, and three new nails in a glass jar.
Fill with salt and shake vigorously nine times. Seal with white wax and place in
kitchen cupboard where it will not be seen. This protects your food from
contamination.
Gather rosemary, along with several needles and pins, into a small glass jar
with a tight-fitting lid or cork. When full, pour in red wine and shake. Seal
with black or red wax, and place in an inconspicuous place in the apartment. If
you own your own house, bury this at the furthestmost corner of your property.
The book also adds this:
As you're filling the jar, say these words...
"Pins, needles, rosemary, wine,
In this witch's bottle of mine;
Guard against harm and enmity;
This is my will; so Mote it Be!"
Personally, I'm not hip on anything but, "Hey, Gods? It's me again", but I know,
I'm CONSIDERABLY less formal than most!
An Anti-Theft Sachet
Mix caraway, rosemary, juniper berries, and elder leaves or mistletoe, and place
into white square of cloth. Tie with white yarn and hang prominently. I'd assume
either at the place you think thieves are most likely to enter--this being an
anti-theft sachet--or at every entrance and doorway. This will require more
cloth and more herbs, but most of the above are fairly inexpensive.
Finally, on Moving Day itself:
Bring two things into the house first: a small amount of salt, half to be
scattered upon crossing the threshhold, and a small loaf of bread. Break the
bread into as many pieces as you have people moving in, with one extra piece for
the gods' portion. Sprinkle a dash of salt on each piece; share, when you have a
moment. (I'd say have water on hand as well--at the very least, to clear the
salt!) Next, bring in an apple and do the same thing--Cunningham recommends a
fruit and cheese basket--I'd stick with just the apple and maybe a few slices of
cheddar, or something. Lastly, bring in a sturdy chair and place it either near
the apple and bread bits, or facing the door. This ensures that you will never
know poverty, for there is bread and salt, hunger, for there is fruit (and
cheese), and instability (for there's your stable chair guarding the door. After
that, heave and lift until you're moved in!
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A Note: I think ritual is very important, and I do admire rituals I've picked up
here and those I've found on my own. In the long run, though, I know myself well
enough to think that if I have to wait for a certain day and have a certain robe
on, or need a special tool or altar lay-out, it'll never happen. But I can put
my hands on needles, pins, wine and spices at virtually any time, and can easily
make up witch's bottles for the shelves and cupboards, sachets for the windows,
and incenses for household protection and cleansing. These simple items can have
just as much power as just about any major ritual, and are sometimes easier to
"whip up" for the busy pagan... :>
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Ravinessa23 Community Member 
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