#negative energy

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Done & Dusted: Cleaning Up & Cutting Ties with Energies & Forces After Magical Works

by Keziah

Everyone everywhere comes in contact with various energies everyday — energies of people around us, energies of the environments we pass through, our own energies, energies of the unseen, and so on. Practitioners of magic and witchcraft, perhaps especially, are aware of or can attract various energies, and some can create or manipulate energies. Indeed, many magical models and methodologies heavily rely on interacting with, drawing down, petitioning, harnessing, and/or controlling energy, but the energies that we create, attract, or magnify whilst performing magical works aren't always something we want hanging around.

Sometimes magical workings can introduce negative energies into our space. This can occur when we're performing spells or workings for other people and are, therefore, exposing ourselves to their energies and/or the spirits around them; when we're performing workings that stir up or stem from particularly strong, painful, or disruptive emotions, such as healing work, baneful work, binding work, and such; or when our work brings us in contact with a negative energy or spirit in another way. Once the spell is concluded, these kinds of energies don't always just evaporate or dissipate. They can linger, both on the worker and within the space they're working in, and that does not serve us. This is why I have a particular way of 'cleaning up' after performing certain types of spells. These are my personal methods for averting potential lingering energy, and for cleaning it up and severing any link between myself and that energy. May this piece and these practices serve any and all in need of them.

Cleaning Up After Working

These are a few short, simple steps that you can take after concluding a magical working or reading that you'd rather not keep the energy from. I sometimes take all of these steps after a work, and sometimes feel the need to only take one or two. It really depends, for me, on the nature of the work I've just done and the feeling I'm left with after.

Cleansing Your Workspace:

After concluding the spell, work, or reading, I cleanse the area I was working in. My preferred method for this is smoke cleansing. This can be done by burning incense, herbal bundles, charcoal, etc. I often opt for incense or herbs to cleanse my space.

One can also use light to cleanse an area, be that sunlight or by lighting a cleansing or protective candle and leaving it to sit in the area. I've also used blessed, cleansing candles on occasion to do this and found that it works quite well for me. I've also used sound can also be used to cleanse a space or room — this can be bells, chimes, horns, voice, the recitation of sacred texts, songs, words, or incantations.

Emptying Drinks, Discarding Foods:

If there were drinks or foods in the room with me whilst performing a particularly icky feeling work, I make sure to get rid of them. Discarding food and drink exposed to especially harmful or potent negative, malicious, or disruptive energies and forces can help prevent you from accidentally inviting some of that nastiness into your person. Wash the dishes, as well.

The same goes for food or water bowls for pets. If any of them were in the area or room in which these kinds of energies gathered or were invoked, it's a good idea to discard the water and/or food and wash the dishes before refilling them with fresh, clean water and/or food.

Washing Up:

Whether it's a quick wash up, ritual hand washing, or taking a full shower or bath, washing your body after working with, calling on, or creating negative, powerful, or harmful forces or energies can be a great, easy way of both symbolically and physically ridding yourself of the energies you've been exposed to during your working. You can incorporate your preferred cleansing elements and oils in your wash up as well.

One can also perform a different form of magical cleansing in addition to or as an alternative to using water and soap. This can be smoke cleansings, sound cleansings, or cleansings using objects, tools, or charms preferred in your particular practice.

Changing Your Clothes & Shoes:

I always do this if I've performed a work for someone else and can feel their energy on me, or if I've done baneful work that involved particularly painful or powerful emotions. If there's anything I've been working with that I really don't want to take with me from there, I change my clothes, taking off all the clothes that I wore during that working and replacing them with fresh, clean clothes. Though I don't wear shoes in the home (which is where I do most of my magical work), if you do and you've worn shoes whilst performing any such work, be sure to change your shoes as well.

You can just toss the clothes in the wash and clean them, and you can either wash the shoes or cleanse them otherwise with magical means.

The same should be done for any jewelry you were wearing if you feel like there might be any energy trapped in it or attached to it. In that case, perform a smoke or light cleansing on the jewelry.

Storing Works:

If you've performed a working or spell that requires holding onto an object or vessel, or that requires upkeep, such as keeping a candle going, keeping a jar, etc. it's always a good idea to keep that within its own, specified area in or around your workspace if it's something that you'll need to revisit, top up, or hold onto. I make sure I have a designated space to house that working, where I can check on it or work on it further if need be, but also where it's not something I'll have to interact with or move around otherwise.

For example, earlier this year I worked some baneful magic that I poured a lot of powerful feelings into, and I wanted to hold onto this work so I could reenergize it as needed and whatnot. I made sure the physical item this work is kept in had its own place to be stored before I started the working. It sits on its own small shelf on the wall near one of my main workspaces, where I can tend that work as needed but where it's also out of the way and I wouldn't have to handle it if I didn't want or need to.

That's what I mean by having a designated space for storing these kinds of spells or work. It's not that it's a danger to keep them or have them around, but if you just feel that there is any lingering negativity attached to that work, or even if it's not necessarily negative but, rather, disruptive, then it's a good idea to give that space a home of its own.

Protecting Yourself Whilst Working

As well as cleaning up after workings, I incorporate a few simple methods of protecting myself from negative energies whilst performing magical works, as an added layer of protection that I feel lessens the likelihood of allowing attachment from any potentially disruptive, harmful, or negative energies, forces, or the like that I may be required to call on, work with, or come in contact with. These are very simple methods that anyone from any practice or background can incorporate into their craft.

Covering & Veiling:

I cover my head and hair with scarves while performing magical workings, but I wear scarves of particular colors when I know the work I'll be performing could expose me to someone else's energy, to spikes in energy caused by painful, powerful, or difficult emotions, or energies and/or forces that simply wouldn't serve me if they lingered on me.

Within my personal and ancestral traditions, the colors I prefer for this purpose are white to repel negative forces or black, blue, or red to protect. You should use whatever colors or symbols have protective or cleansing associations in your particular practice, or, if you don't have anything like that in your practice and beliefs, you should wear what makes you feel good.

Why do I cover my hair and head? In some traditions within my craft (and the crafts of many others), it's believed that the head left exposed could leave one vulnerable to negative forces or energies, or even psychic attacks or malicious magic sent one's way. Hair, as well, is believed in many traditions to hold energies, as in they can sort of get stuck or tangled there, if you will. Many practitioners from various magical traditions and paths use covering and veiling. Some veil every day, some only when they leave the home, and some only when they're working magic or divining.

One can also wear a hat or some other form of covering instead of a scarf, and some traditions even call for specific styles of headwear, particularly for those who are practicing a craft with strong ancestral and regional ties. How you cover and how much you cover is entirely up to you, and if you feel like you'd only want to cover while doing specific types of magic, that's entirely your choice. This is just one method I use to deter negative forces from sticking to me.

Using Protective Amulets, Sigils, & Charms:

One can also wear or keep an amulet, sigil, or charm on their person, crafted specifically for warding off, destroying, or protecting from negative energies and forces. While I can't share the specific amulets and symbols I use due to the personal nature of their design and the closed and ancestral practices from which they hail, I still would like to encourage anyone interested in incorporating such a work in their practice to do so. Crafting personal amulets and sigils or using personalized charms can often provide stronger, specialized protection.

These are just a few really quick, easy steps that I take to ensure that I'm not bringing any energy, feelings, or forces with me from a working that I don't want hanging around. Anyone can add these precautions and steps to their workings and should feel free to do so, or perhaps you'll take inspiration from this piece to come up with steps of your own. Either way, best of luck to you and your work.

SOURCES:

This piece was written purely based off of the personal experience of the writer and expresses the writer's personal opinion, along with advice coming directly from their own craft. Readers are welcome to conduct their own research into such matters and come to their own conclusions.

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"Those who have harmed me" Return to Sender/Karma Spell

A return to sender spell, to all who have harmed you, whether you know it or not.

Paper or bay leaf

Black candle

Pins or needles

Cayenne pepper

Optional:

Justice Tarot (I used Consequences from my Cat Tarot Deck)

Bay leaf with evil eye drawn on

Bay leaf with "return to sender" written on it

Light your candle. Add cayenne pepper around it and pins.

On the paper or leaf, write "Those who harm me". Fold it away from you 3 times, then burn in the candles flame. Release the ashes to the wind. Let the candle burn out.

Discard the pins and pepper away from your home.

Watch who falls ill or has sudden bad luck around you.

Optional:

Draw the evil eye on a bay leaf and burn it as well. I also wrote "return to sender" on another bay leaf and burnt it with the rest. Release to the wind with the paper ashes.

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I'm back

I changed my image again

Changed my story....

I was hurt by my most trusted friend....Not only does she want me to accept his partiality, she wants me to accept that she cares more about her new friend than about me as an old friend now

I may not be able to update this series. It was originally from my friends, but they all left me in the end

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Done