It Came From Outer Space…

I’ve been doing our home cleansing since we first came in. I started on the Wednesday before closing by putting the purification crystal in here, and then on Friday I went around with the smudge stick after using the “negativity absorption candle”.

What I do when I’m starting with things like this is get a black candle and get in the closest to the center of the house that I can, and ask that all the negative energy in the house be absorbed into the candle. I visualize the candle acting like a black hole sucking in the negativity, and light it. After the candle has burned long enough for me to feel a strong difference in the energy I take the candle outside and bury it in the yard asking that the Earth will absorb and heal the negative energy and convert it into something useful.

Then I come back inside lighting the smudge stick (bundled sage) and take that into each room of the house swinging the bundle so that the smoke from it goes around the whole house from top to bottom. In each room I will say something along the lines of:

From North, to East, to South, to West, bless and cleanse this room so that all who are in her will have peace

I might change it up a little, like in the dining room I’d say “make sure everyone who eats here is always satisfied” and in the bedrooms that “everyone will rest peacefully and comfortably and be re-energized” different things like that whichever I feel is necessary.

Then once that is done I let the house rest for the night before the next day lighting the candles in the protection totem in sequence, and calling each of the guardians to protect the house and the family who live there, and to keep us safe from outside invaders and the like.

The craziness with the phone has begun. We were supposed to get the phone turned on Christmas Eve at 10 a.m. I’m not sure when it actually got turned on that day. At 11 a.m. I was on the phone with the phone company arguing with them about the fact they were telling me they couldn’t tell me WHEN someone as going to show up to actually turn the phone on.

In the end we established that I didn’t actually have to be here while they did it so I was safe to go over to our relatives house for our family celebration and wasn’t going to be chained to the house all day.

We got back at 1 a.m. and found a note tacked on the door knob telling us the phone was connected. We spent all the next day out at relatives as well. Today at 9:15 a.m. I started getting phone calls. All telemarketers. 2/3 of them were for a couple called “Karen and Brian” who apparently used to have our phone number. The others were either offering credit card machines or imprinted promotional products of one kind or another. I know people have to work…just some times I would sincerely like to be able to do what I’m wanting to do and not constantly be interrupted for phone calls that I get excited about and wind up being crushingly disappointed because this person seems to think the fact that I use PayPal is not good enough and I should be super hyped because they want to offer me some horrible machine that will steal half of my credit card transaction in fees and rental anyway.

This is what came to me yesterday when I was cleansing the crystal and disposing of the salt that I had cleansed it with.

Mother Earth, this salt is purification
We return it to the ground, your ground
With this ring we set the boundaries
Walls to keep this house hold safe

We thank you for the bountiful garden
Which surrounds this home, our keep
We thank you for your guidance always
And your protection while we sleep.

Well, Phase 1 is complete. Now we’re waiting on inspections and closing costs and so on so that we can hopefully move in. The reading that I did on Friday after we made the second offer seemed to indicate that things would be favorable. Now it’s just finishing up the less fun part of moving, which is packing and moving.

I wrote out a little bit of a ritual last night which I thought I would share. It’s to use with a protection totem, or with a candle set like I’ve made with the green, yellow, blue, red and white candles in a stand pointing to the appropriate directions and center.

(light North) Guardian North, we welcome you to our home, care for us and nurture us.
(light East) Guardian Air, we welcome you to our home, may we always act smartly.
(light South) Guardian Fire, we welcome you to our home, may we be safe and warm in your embrace.
(light West) Guardian Water, we welcome you to our home, may we be cleansed and bend but not break.

(light Center) Mother we welcome you to our home, may our light shine in your stead.

As it was and shall be. Blessed are we.