What’s The Atmosphere In Your Home?

In homes that aren’t brand new, the feeling tone is something that has built up over a period of months or years. If the people who live in the house are predominately happy, we feel it. If tragedies have happened in the house, we feel that, too. Houses, like people, feelings you pick up when you walk inside a house and through its rooms. It’s almost as if the walls hold secrets, the floors whisper tales, and the porches laugh or weep.

Even new houses have a certain feeling tone. You can sense that everyone from the architects to the tradespeople has left his or her imprint on the rooms. Houses, apartments, duplexes— all of them speak to us. Even hotels have voices. The Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s classic The Shining has absorbed decades of emotions from the guests who have stayed there, and that emotional residue has taken on a life of its own. In a sense, that hotel is very much alive.

The same is true in Shirley Jackson’s book The Haunting of Hill House, in Richard Matheson’s novel A Stir of Echoes, and in every similar story ever written or filmed. The difference between fiction and life, however, is that the energy that imbues a place isn’t always bad. It’s often uplifting, buoyant, and optimistic. It might even make us feel on top of the world as soon as we cross the threshold.

What is the feeling tone of the place where you live Use the following “Brainstorming” exercise to find out:

1. Describe your home.

2. Describe how you feel about your home.

3. What would you change about where you live, and why

4. Describe how you feel most of the time when you’re at home.

5. Is your home spacious enough to accommodate everyone who lives in it comfortably?

6. Are the rooms cluttered?

7. Which areas or items in your home don’t work or need attention? Think about your attic, basement, roof, doors, floors, walls, carpets, sinks and faucets, electrical outlets and so on.

8. How do most people react to visiting your home?

9. Do you like your neighborhood? Why or why not?

10. Describe your dream house?

11. Why did you rent/ lease/ buy this place?

12. Overall, how would you describe your experiences in this house? Have you been predominantly happy, sad, or indifferent?

Analyzing Your Home

Question 7 is especially important because it helps identify possible challenges and problems in your life right now. Look at the various listings as a metaphor. Let’s say your garage door is stuck. It won’t go up. If we look at the metaphor for what a garage door represents, perhaps you have trouble admitting new people and experiences into your life. Maybe you feel trapped. Maybe you don’t know how to open a door to opportunity.

The answers to 8 and 12 might be similar. If your experiences in your home are predominately positive, that is probably what other people will feel. The reverse is also true. This doesn’t mean that the feeling tones of a place are confined to either/ or, good or bad, black or white. Quite often, we live in shades of gray. We walk the middle. We don’t experience extremes. Our homes also absorb that.

With spells, you can protect, energize, and calm your home. You can cleanse it of negative energy, boost its positive energy, ward off potential enemies or problems, and create atmospheres of success and happiness within its walls. You can make your home easier to sell and you can cast spells to find the home of your dreams. In short, you can do for your home and living space what you do for yourself. The same rules apply. It’s all about belief, intent, and desire.

Reference:

The Only Book of Wiccan Spells You’ll Ever Need (The Only Book You’ll Ever Need) Singer, Marian; MacGregor, Trish.