It Came From Outer Space…

I find it interesting the different levels that people consider their pets in relation to their family. On a parenting forum that I frequent one of the members was saying that she didn’t want to use the picture that was taken of her family at Thanksgiving as the Christmas portrait because it didn’t have their pets in it, and I’ve tended not to know what to make of people who refer to their pets as their children, and call themselves “Mum” and “Dad” to the animals. We had some friends who would refer to my husband and I as their pets Aunt and Uncle and we asked them not to do that any more because it just felt strange. Perhaps because we weren’t as close to them as that, and to me it just felt odd.

I suppose it depends on your kinship with the people and their animals, really. I consider Nimue to be a companion, a familiar but yet I do not call her my daughter, and do not refer to myself as her Mom. Maybe if I didn’t have a child it would be different, I did call Tori, the cat I had two before Nimue my kitty-baby some times, and when I had Anakin I would occasionally buy him presents and wrap them under the tree around this time of year. I would send other friends dog supplies and cat treats for their various menageries also. For Nimue and the other felines in our house I have bought some wet cat food as a special treat, and some cat treats as a thank you for their guardian ship of their home, but I don’t know that I’ll do much else with it this year.

The animals have acted in a few rituals that we’ve done, and often times they’re very interested to sit on the tarot cloths or altar cloths while we’ll read tarot. The energy is very attractive for them. I know when I was living at home with my parents still I couldn’t lay out the altar in my room because Anakin would lie in the middle of it and knock everything over. As with anything learning how to successfully incorporate animals with your spell workings takes practice, patience, and compromise. I don’t look for rituals that have specific parts for our animals, but I will leave certain portions open if they’re actually active in the area while they’re going on. I don’t believe in forcing the issue, just as I’m not going to force my son to participate in anything if he doesn’t want to. It’s entirely up to him if he wants to work with the rituals. So far his participation has only been in the blowing out candles capacity.

We’ve been talking about putting protective sigils into the paintwork on the house; but finding an appropriate type of paint has been tricky. At first we thought we might put a phosphorescent on there, but then found that the glow-in-the-dark factor doesn’t last long enough to make the surcharge with it. Then we wondered about just getting a contrasting latex, or getting a metallic finish, we’re still debating on that one but leaning towards a metallic.

Then comes the issue of how exactly we’ll get the paint on. Some people advocate the use of air tools, others suggest just getting straight spray paint, where as others talk about using stencils; given it’s a personal design that we’ve come up with there aren’t going to be any stencils we’d have to make them, or just draw the designs free hand. In the mean time we need to get some more of the base house color because the amount we had to use to just do a quarter of the front of the house we’re going to need at least three more cans to finish the job.

I found a couple of spells on some note paper today which are supposed to help for banishing negative imprints, particularly those of entities or someone else’s energy that’s having a bad influence on your life.

Be confused. All is well. Now you are blessed.
You have life to nurture and nurture you.
Be calm. Be easy. Be comforted. You are blessed.

Alternately if you can identify the cause of the imprint as a previous resident speak directly to them in the most affected room.

It is time to leave here. All is well.
There is nothing here for you. You must be gone.
Go now go. Complete your passing.
Go and with our blessing and farewell.
Farewell!

Make sure nothing has been left behind that carries the energy field of the previous resident, in particular old writings and photographs. If they’re causing issue.

If you wish to keep something of theirs that is imprinted with a previous energy field purify it with salt; if you suspect furniture use incense to purify it.

With this I purify you of the past.
Of hurts and memories, keeping only love.

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.