~~Before I get into this subject, never ever ever depend on only one form of protection if you are in danger from someone. I don’t care who it is. If you fear for your life or think you are in danger, always depend on every form of protection that you think you need. If you have an abusive ex or a stalker or someone is trying to murder you go to the police. They may not be able to do everything so don’t just depend on them either; tell your family so they know. Get some personal protection, including your magick. Magick is a way of life and a wonderfully powerful tool to help in these situations. Just don’t make it the only failsafe that you have.~~
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Whether you need to ward or charm your spell crafting area, property, home or apartment, wards and charms can come in handy and can be done in so many different ways. Wards and charms are put into place in order to help protect you from both magical and mundane problems and/or evils. There are legitimately thousands of ways to ward or protect your home. There is however not a thing more powerful than something that you believe in. Personally I take the slightly paranoid approach. I use a combination of energy wards (sigil warding), witches ladders, spirit traps, a few witches bottles, a variety of charms and of course old fashioned salt lines.
Energy wards can be put basically anywhere, but I tend to put those across windows, doors and mirrors. You can use anything that you need in order to put them there. Sometimes I just use my incense to draw my sigils, sometimes I use herb paste and other times I’ll use white chalk. I use these physical devices to help create a visual focus point for my spells. Not everybody needs these or wants to use these visual aspects, and that is okay.
When using crystals, use the ones that have protection properties and luck properties (everyone needs a little luck). You can use hematite (also spelled haematite) to absorb ground and protect Tigers eye to block and shield, Quartz in order to amplify other crystal properties or absorb energy, and selenite to cleanse all of the other crystals while they are actively working. With this you can create crystal grids across windowsills or you can make one on a table or shelf. Anywhere that it won’t be disturbed until you wish it to be. (If anyone wants help with crystal grids, let me know.)
With all of your other protective charms or creations, place them by or buried near entrances. With witches bottles of you have property burry on your property line. If you have an apartment with a balcony, on the balcony burry your witches bottle within a potted plant.
Salt lines are just that lines of salt powered with intent, you can also use crystals for this. I tend to use this to assist in visualizing my circle of protection and power.
If you have a door mat, this is a wonderful place to put sigils. I recommend white or black paint, but, you can also use your favorite color. Using your favorite color for things like protecting your home is like enforcing the fact that it’s your space. This is because that color can be a representation or extension of you. This is why I said that the strongest forms of protection are going to come from things that you believe in.
On that note with any of your wards, charms or other magical workings you can make them as visible or invisible as you wish. I will always recommend invisible or unnoticeable if you live in a shared living space or apartment building. Only because you never know what someone believes. (Especially in the bible belt)
Don’t forget to recharge and/or (depending on what it is) replace your magical wards and charms as needed.
As always if you need any help or advice on your knowledge journey, either leave me a comment or email me at [email protected]
This post was originally posted on my blog DreamExploreWitch.blogspot.com on 3/15/2016