Green Witch Broom Purification
This basic purification with a broom can be done almost anytime and anywhere. Do not use a plastic or nylon-bristled broom. Find one with real straw bristles. Craft shops and farms open to the public sometimes sell handmade brooms. Keep the broom you use for purification for that purpose alone. Don’t use your regular housecleaning broom to purify, or use your purification broom to sweep up the sugar you spill in the kitchen.
1. Stand in the middle of the room you intend to purify. Hold the broom in your hands.
2. Take three deep, slow breaths to calm yourself.
3. Begin to make a sweeping motion, sweeping the broom from your right to your left. Don’t actually touch the floor with the broom, but swing the broom an inch or so above it. It’s energy you’re sweeping, not the floor itself.
4. Turning to your left, slowly turn in place. This is a counterclockwise direction, which is traditionally associated with breaking up and banishing negative energy. Walk in a counterclockwise spiral around the room, sweeping just above the floor as you go. As you walk and sweep, visualize the energy of the room being stirred up by the motion of your broom, and any heavy spots being broken up and restored to the regular flow. See the energy being transformed from murky to bright and sparkling.
5. Sweep the entire room, gradually widening your counterclockwise spiral until you end at the door.
6. If you wish, you may end the purification with a short statement, such as:
Bright and strong flows the
energy through my home.
This room is purified.
The Way Of The Green Witch: Rituals, Spells, And Practices to Bring You Back to Nature
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Witches Of The Craft® 