Deep Cleansing Ritual

To clear stagnant energy from a room, a body or an object.

After illness, argument, house moves, or when a room feels like it is holding something.

MoonMagicx Lunar Method™ phase: Last Quarter.

• Sea salt

• A bowl of water

• Lavender, hyssop or lemon peel

• A bell, bowl or your own voice

• A white candle

Clean physically first — dust, floors, windows. Energetic cleansing works with physical cleaning, never instead of it.

Begin at the furthest point from the front door and work back toward it.

Light the candle in the centre of the room. Say: 'What does not belong here, leave now.'

1. Add salt and the herb to the water. Stir anticlockwise three times.

2. Move around the room clockwise, flicking water lightly into each corner.

3. Clap, ring or hum in each corner until the sound rings clean rather than dull.

4. Repeat room by room, always finishing at the front door.

5. Open the front door and sweep outward three times with a broom, real or imagined.

6. Close the door. Light incense or place a bowl of salt in the room's centre overnight.

'Out of the corners, out of the walls, out of the floor.

This air is clean. This room is mine.

What left does not return.'

Snuff the candle. Discard the salt outside. Say: 'Cleared.'

Change one physical thing in the room afterwards — move a chair, add a plant, open a curtain. Energy needs somewhere new to settle.

If a room refills quickly, ask what is happening in it rather than repeating the cleansing weekly.

• What keeps refilling this space?

• What conversation is living in these walls?

• What would make this room feel like mine?

Ventilate if using smoke. Keep salt water off wooden floors and away from pets.