Have you ever been to a witch’s home--or their room? If you have and you’re sensitive in any way you feel a difference. You might feel safe, or like there’s a lot of happy zippy energy, or deeply calm. In fact the moment you so much as glance at the front of their house or door you feel the magic. There’s just something...DIFFERENT.
I’ve experienced it myself! I was bringing a child I nannied to their newest guitar instructor who taught from her home. She lived in a tiny condo where home looked like the next. But over her front patio, where the gate was, was a whimsical arbor on which grew ivy. Hanging baskets full of flowers hung over the windows, a small wall mounted water fountain gurgled merrily, wind chimes danced, and prisms tied here and there twirled about and created little rainbows on the ground. Before I even stepped foot into it I KNEW it was a witch’s home. It felt magical and like life was different there--gentler, kinder, safe.
So how does one do that? How do you inject that magical feeling into your own witchy home (or room)? I’m here to show you! I’ll be breaking it down here and on my pagan blog (linked below) in a series for how to make each part of your home more magical! And no, you don’t need to hang massive pentagrams all over the place. Nor do you need draw strange sigils in white paint on your driveway (I mean, you can, but you don’t have to--and I certainly can’t stop you!). To kick us off let’s start with where all homes (and rooms) begin: The front of your house!
Doors are magical things, with all sorts of lore that I won’t even attempt to go into here on a tumblr post (but I’ll some on my blog post!). Needless to say doors are powerful. They keep negativity out, bring positivity in, and can help establish what sort of energy and person lives in the home. Purple is the color used to say ‘a witch lives here.’ It’s a color that implies magic, wisdom, and knowledge. I don’t know about you, but I’d love some of that energy to be constantly attracted to my door and home, wouldn’t you?! Of course you can choose whatever color you wish, and which makes you happy, but some other good choices are yellow, green, and blue (more details in my blog). If you can’t paint your door, consider hanging a poster or wall scroll with the colors in them!
Magical Plants. For those of you who don’t have a green thumb, cactus are great plants to put outside your front door (or in your room) as their spiky energy repels negative energy. But if you’re like me and you love gardening and planting, some great plants to put outside your door in containers are chamomile, rue, basil, mint, ferns, bamboo, and artichokes (they’re a thistle and ‘spiky’ so keep negativity away). There’s honestly SO many plants that protect your home that can also be grown together in pots for a pleasing display (if say, you live in an apartment/flat with doors that aren’t in indoor hallways). Not only can you use these plants to protect you from all sorts of things, you can use many of them for teas, tinctures, offerings, and spells! Planting red geraniums was once used to silently inform other witches that a witch lived there!
Charms, sigils, and runes are a great way to keep your house safe, draw good things to you, and further helps fellow pagans realize they’re not alone in the world! There are so very many things you can do to protect your house that it’d take dozens of posts to list them all. But here are some simple and easy ideas: carve the Nordic rune symbol of Algiz and hang it on or next to your door, create a sigil (you can paint it on the ground or a piece of paper) for protection or whatever intent you want--such as to keep spirits or thieves out--and place it under your doormat. You can also line brick dust or black salt along your door to keep bad spirits and negative people from darkening your door (or at least from staying very long).
If you live in a home where witchcraft isn’t tolerated I know things can be tricky--I lived in such a home. Just know that magic isn’t in having magical tools you buy from a pagan store. Our ancestors didn’t have such stores. They relied on nature, their ability to tune into both the earth and spirit world, and used nature to protect them. Having cactus in your room, or herbs, doing spellwork, creating protective sigils on your doors and windows in oil--all of that can be done and be invisible at the same time, or look mundane to any passerby.
The front of your home says who you are. It can ward off the bad, invite the good, and bring relief and safety to you when you’ve had a bad day! As a last note, I think having wind chimes is a must, as the sound breaks up energy and keeps it from getting stagnant at your door, but I’m an air sign so I might be biased about that!
In the next post we’ll discuss the next big room: The living room!
If you have information or crafts or spells you’d like to share on how to make the front of your house more magical please let us know in the comments below! And of course, I have a more in depth blog post up on my blog, The Rooted Cottage! ( <-- click the title to go to blog!)
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