Home Blessing and Hearth Ritual

To make a house feel like it holds the people inside it.

After moving in, after a difficult period, or at the start of a season.

MoonMagicx Lunar Method™ phase: Waxing Crescent.

• A white candle

• Bread and salt

• Rosemary or basil

• A bowl of water

• A key

Cook or bake something first if you can. The kitchen sets the tone for this one.

Kitchen table or the room where people actually gather.

Light the candle. Say: 'This is a house that holds us.'

1. Place bread and salt on the table and leave them there for the ritual.

2. Carry the candle slowly through every room, pausing in each doorway.

3. In each room say what that room is for: rest, work, eating, talking.

4. Return to the table and dip the key in the water, then dry it.

5. Break the bread and eat a piece; scatter a pinch of salt at the threshold.

6. Leave the candle to burn safely for an hour with someone present.

'Bread so we are fed. Salt so we are protected.

Light so we can see each other.

This house holds us, and we tend it.'

Snuff the candle. Say: 'Blessed, and lived in.'

Tend one small corner as if it were an altar and keep it that way for the cycle.

Tending the house while neglecting the person living in it is the shadow to watch.

• Do I rest here, or only function here?

• What does this home need that I have been postponing?

• Which corner could be mine?

Never leave candles unattended. Keep salt away from pets.