Doorways and Transitions
Doorways, hallways. gates, and thresholds are liminal spaces - the momentary place in between one room and another, between the outside and inside of a building, the passage way across a border from one space to another.
When we go through a door, our brains sense this transition on a subconscious level. Simply moving into a room or building can help to signal to your mind and spirit that you are shifting tasks or modes. This can affect your mood and body rhythms, sometimes drastically. For example, coming home at the end of a long day, and feeling the relief the moment you set foot inside your home or room. Or heading to the kitchen or laundry and finding your focus for everyday chores settle in. Heading to work or school, and settling into work mode when you enter the building.
The transition through a doorway can even affect your memory. Ever walk into a room only to find you've forgotten why you went there in the first place, or what you were saying? If this happens, try going back to the room you were just in — passing back into the previous space can help you to recall what you were thinking about.
Try incorporating doorways into spellwork for transitions, to welcome in new energies or wishes, or to close the door on things that no longer serve you. This might involve performing a spell on a threshold, walking through a doorway, or physically opening or closing a door. Or it could mean paying a little magical attention to the door itself - adding sigils or bindrunes to the doorframe and trim can offer protection or set other intentions. Hanging bells from the doorknob, or wreaths, or other door decor, can offer other opportunities to incorporate specific intentions to your space.
Maybe you can even get creative with specific kinds of doorways - open doorways without doors, double doors, dutch doors, louvered doors, screen doors, closet doors, pocket doors, the list goes on. Each kind of door might serve a different purpose - to shield and protect, to keep private, to block access but not visibility, to allow entrance... it depends on the door. It depends on if you are entering or leaving. While a closed door might represent safety and defense, an open door can be an invitation, or a vulnerability. Maybe you use double doors to encourage a sense of openness and making space for big things coming. Maybe you use storm doors in a spell to shield against turmoil. Maybe you're using a thick solid door as part of protective magic.
Think about your purposes, and use your imagination!
