✨ Cleansing in Witchcraft ✨
Cleansing is a way of removing negative or unwanted energies, spirits, and imprints from an object or a space. There are a number of simple rituals and actions that are done to cleanse. You can do as many or as few as you like, and create your own cleansing methods/rituals.
✨ CLEANSING ONESELF
Brush your hair, morning
Ritual baths
Dancing singing
Visualization
Drinking a tea designed to cleanse
✨ DISCREET METHODS
Brush your hair
Open the windows, let the new air come in and the old air out
Light a candle
Playing a song you associate with cleansing
Ringing wind chimes
Wetting your hands in salt water and flicking the water through the area
Visualize light and colors, and manipulate the energy away
✨ OPEN AREA METHODS
Ring a bell through an area
Smoke cleansing / cense (not smudging)
Waft incense smoke around
Burn herbs, such as sage, rosemary, bay leaf, etc
Spritz lemon-infused water around, or salt water
Light a candle
Sprinkle salt or eggshell pieces in the windows and doorways
Use a besom to clean the negative energies out of the air like cobwebs
Wave a branch of a strong-scented herb through the area, such as mint
Toss a pinch of salt or herbs in the door ways and window
Touch each corner of the room and say a short prayer over each
✨ CLEANSING OBJECTS
bury in a salt bath
if water-compatible (not soluble, won’t react poorly, etc), let sit in a moon or salt water bath
pass through smoke
incense
rainwater, mist, snow, etc
