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.Protecting A Home

Reproduced with Permission from - Open, Sesame © 1997 Eileen Holland

Making a safe place for yourself and your family is one of the most important things a witch does. Experience teaches us that none of us is ever really safe anywhere, but a little magic certainly can't hurt. Here are some ways to protect the house:

Start by mixing water and salt, two elements of magic. Consecrate them. Use garlic salt and add powdered rosemary if you need to clear out ghosts or spirits. Begin at the main entrance of the house or apartment. Sprinkle some of the consecrated water by dipping your fingers in it and making the sign of the pentacle. Say: Evil shall leave but not enter. Use a firm voice. Make it a commandment, with all of your power behind it. Proceed counterclockwise through the house, repeating the procedure in every corner of each room, at all the windows, doors and mirrors. Don't forget telephones, computers with active modems, fax machines, intercoms, and televisions that are connected to the Internet. It doesn't hurt to do the mailbox, too. Make the downward pentacle, with your left hand, if this feels right to you. Or the upward pentacle with your right hand. Either will work. Repeat the spell annually, or whenever you feel in need of it. It is important to perform a spell like this one on a new home before you move into it.

 

Spell For A New Home

This spell can be used while consecrating the salt and water:

 

" O Great Mother

in your name we purify

with water and with salt

cleanse this place of evil

and fill it with your Love

O Great Mother

make this cave a safe space

a warm and dry place

and shelter us from harm

O great Mother

make this house our home "

 

• Put a picture of Anubis over the door.
• Get a familiar, an animal with whom you establish a special psychic/magical relationship.
• Egyptians dip their right hands in paint and make palm prints on the outside walls of their houses to ward off the evil eye.
• In the East the names of deities who protect doors, gates, arches, etc. are written on them: Janus on both sides of a door, Usnisa and Sambharaja on an elevator, Wei Ch'eng on a back door, Patadharini on a doorway, and so on. This is said to work even if you write the names and then paint over them.