Making Your Home a Sacred Space
How do you make your home a sacred space? Ultimately, it depends on you and the type of energy that best supports your daily life. Here are a few tips and tricks that will make your home the best place for a green witch to live. These tips will help you keep positive energy flowing through your home.
Look at your décor. How we decorate our home says a lot about us. However, we become used to how things look and sometimes miss the fact that the living room has been the same color for fifteen years or the family room hasn’t been rearranged since before our first child was born. Look at your home with fresh and critical eyes. Do the colors of the walls still reflect who you are? What does the furniture say about you? Walk through each room. Are there places you have to struggle to get to? If you don’t want to go there because it’s too difficult (either physically or otherwise), then chances are good that the energy flow through that area gets dammed up or otherwise slowed down. Think about rearranging the positions of furniture, pictures, and knickknacks.
Remove what’s outdated. If you aren’t using it, throw it out. Otherwise, it’s just occupying space and blocking energy. Sell it, pass it along to a friend, take it to a secondhand shop, or find another use for it somewhere else.
Examine your iconography. Your paintings and photographs have a deep psychological effect on you. Take a look at the colors that dominate them, the people in them. How do they make you feel? Are they appropriate for the space they’re in? As much as you love your print of Munsch’s The Scream, it may not be the best piece of art to hang in a place where you like to relax.
Think about the purpose of each room in your home. When you decide what the theme or purpose of each room truly is, you can focus on removing the elements that disrupt the energy, and encourage the desired energy to remain. For example, if your living room holds your desk or home office, stores your home workout equipment, and is the repository for children’s toys, you can see that there’s a lot of conflicting energy there. None of it is bad, it’s just confused. Try to keep each room clearly set apart for its designated purpose, and you’ll find that the energy is a lot clearer. If a room serves a double purpose, maintain two separate areas and keep things in their proper places.
Keep it clean. Energy can seem dusty and muddy, the same way your physical home gets dirty. It’s also an unfortunate fact that energy turns stale and can go bad in an environment that isn’t physically clean. Housework isn’t exactly the most thrilling of pastimes, but it helps keep the energy of your home bright and smooth. Make sure everything has a place, and keep it there. Keep surfaces free of dust and clutter as best you can.
Purify regularly. The spiritual equivalent to physical cleaning, purification is an excellent way to maintain a good energy vibe in your home. It’s also a good way to get rid of the bad feelings left over from an argument or the chaotic energy left after a party, and it removes the stray drifts of dead energy that pile up in corners or get trapped in badly laid out rooms.
Sometimes we look around our homes and wonder how on earth we can make them a haven of tranquility and joy. Starting off with a good spring cleaning (even if it’s fall!) is always a good idea. If addressing your whole house at once is overwhelming (and believe me, I sympathize), do it room by room. To begin, you can choose one room to serve as a spiritual sanctuary and refuge for yourself. You can also start from the heart of your home and work outwards.
Your sanctuary doesn’t have to be solely devoted to you and your path; in fact, so few of us have that option that if you can pull it off, I bow to you. Most of us have to share space with members of our family and make do with carving out a little corner where we can. Even that little corner can be important for your spiritual health, however. Don’t underestimate the power of a chair covered with your favorite throw next to an end table set with a candle and a small potted plant, or a window seat with pillows covered in soft or textured fabrics in colors that soothe you. If it’s your space, you have a place where you can sit and close your eyes, draw that tranquility into your aura, and find balance.
The heart of your home, on the other hand, can be easier to identify. Do people tend to end up in your kitchen when they come over? Does your family congregate in one specific room, even if another room was designed to be the family room? Where people gather is likely the true heart of your home. It’s not necessarily a tranquil space and usually sees a lot of comings and goings, a lot of communication and sharing. It’s the place everyone wants to be. Starting your home purification here benefits everyone who uses the space.
The Way Of The Green Witch: Rituals, Spells, And Practices to Bring You Back to Nature
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Witches Of The Craft® 