Mundane Magic

[Philosophia]

Okay, I have to admit I'm a little unsure of how magic can be implemented into everyday life (i.e. going beyond the basic levels to actually executing it). I read in the other thread, and others have stated as such in different posts, but I'm not exactly positive on how one does it.

If this isn't advanced paganism, please feel free to move it. _inabox_

[punxzen]

Okay, I have to admit I'm a little unsure of how magic can be implemented into everyday life (i.e. going beyond the basic levels to actually executing it). I read in the other thread, and others have stated as such in different posts, but I'm not exactly positive on how one does it.

If this isn't advanced paganism, please feel free to move it. _inabox_

What aspects of everyday life are you referring to? Eating, sleeping, and the like? Or more like academics and other work?

I guess I'm unsure what exactly you are looking for.

I use certain kinds of glamour magic when dealing with bosses at work, and I use other kinds to keep my mind loose and focused (aka zen).

Have you much experience with creating thought forms (just going for the most basic kinds of lingo here...). Perhaps goetics or something? I have used goetics (in a stripped, more like thought forms sense) in my academic pursuits. Am I shooting in the right direction at least?

[Philosophia]

What aspects of everyday life are you referring to? Eating, sleeping, and the like? Or more like academics and other work?

Overall mundaneship. Housework, academics, working, etc..


I use certain kinds of glamour magic when dealing with bosses at work, and I use other kinds to keep my mind loose and focused (aka zen).

Can you go into more detail about this?


Have you much experience with creating thought forms (just going for the most basic kinds of lingo here...). Perhaps goetics or something? I have used goetics (in a stripped, more like thought forms sense) in my academic pursuits. Am I shooting in the right direction at least?

For me, I've created a thought form but it went out of control. How did you use goetics in your academic pursuits?

[TheWomanMonster]

When I clean my house I'm actively blessing it and cleansing the energies.
Does that count?

Try it next time you sweep or dust and you'll see what I mean.

:)

I remember sweeping sawdust up at my ex's family's house and I was blessing and shielding the two children that lived there (everyone else could be damned for all I cared at that point).

[Philosophia]

When I clean my house I'm actively blessing it and cleansing the energies.
Does that count?

Yep!


Try it next time you sweep or dust and you'll see what I mean. :)

I'll try. 8O


I remember sweeping sawdust up at my ex's family's house and I was blessing and shielding the two children that lived there (everyone else could be damned for all I cared at that point).

I've done something similar before but it left me drained and not really wanting to do it again. How do you do it continuously without feeling drained? Do you ground or do something else?

[TheWomanMonster]

As a second thought, on thought forms:

I've done a lot of work with thought forms and constructs while practicing energy work (it's rather widely known at this point that I'm a psivamp and energy work is a BIG part of that). Often I'll form a self maintaining shield to bubble around the house. I've gone as far as constructing a secondary bubble around the rest of the apartment complex as well. Seems to work alright though I do need to check in on them on occasion.


Any of you work with constructs or guardians?

[TheWomanMonster]

I've done something similar before but it left me drained and not really wanting to do it again. How do you do it continuously without feeling drained? Do you ground or do something else?


Honestly due to my condition I'm perpetually drawing energy from the environment anyways so I couldn't say for sure how it would work for you.
Perhaps use yourself as a conduit for earth energy when you try this next? That way you're not giving too heavily of yourself?
That's sort of what I do but I retain additional energy.

[Philosophia]

As a second thought, on thought forms:

I've done a lot of work with thought forms and constructs while practicing energy work (it's rather widely known at this point that I'm a psivamp and energy work is a BIG part of that). Often I'll form a self maintaining shield to bubble around the house. I've gone as far as constructing a secondary bubble around the rest of the apartment complex as well. Seems to work alright though I do need to check in on them on occasion.


Any of you work with constructs or guardians?

Guardians...yes, but no to constructs.

[punxzen]

Can you go into more detail about this?

Ya, I can once I know a good place to start. Or I can just keep shooting from the hip and see what happens. It's really just a matter of giving the right impressions, and honestly, I am hesitant to describe certain of my techniques (they are all extremely personalized, hard to dissect into generalized methods... but I will try :) ). It's sort of like creating astral versions of yourself. Umm.. ya, perhaps I will get back to this one when I've broken it down a little better in my own head first 8O


For me, I've created a thought form but it went out of control. How did you use goetics in your academic pursuits?
:T I totally know that experience :p I've had more than a few do that myself. I've done it two ways. I've created thought forms to act as synchronicity/epiphany amplifiers/attractors, and I've spent countless hours doing certain kinds of breathwork and other yoga in order to form bridges between my conscious mind and the stuff below the surface. Doing so brought me into contact with what are essentially the muses and sources of assorted thought forms which we have turned into subjects of study, such as physics, history, music, linguistics, and chemistry (my particular passions).

Does that kind of open up anything for you? I should add that those epiphany attractors and synchronicity amplifiers were hella effective.. sometimes scarily so

[TheWomanMonster]

Guardians...yes, but no to constructs.

Similar concepts really, you can 'manufacture' a guardian with a well programed construct. It's just sort of like giving it additional intelligence of a kind.

[Darkest Eve]

Similar concepts really, you can 'manufacture' a guardian with a well programed construct. It's just sort of like giving it additional intelligence of a kind.

Kind of like a self-realizing created entity?

Yes, I have created and utilized those...

I do similar things as you - blessing and clearing my home as I clean...

I also actively "sheild" my children - renewing and strengthening these each night to keep them as safe as I can, and keeping that "link" with them open to know if everything is ok.

I sheild my home, typically using a web structure to "catch" any flies that come sniffing around. ;)

I constantly draw and cycle energy, to the point where this is a subconscious effort. (From nature, not people, before ya'll yell at me. :lol: )

I know there are other things that just aren't coming to mind at the moment...

[Philosophia]

Honestly due to my condition I'm perpetually drawing energy from the environment anyways so I couldn't say for sure how it would work for you.
Perhaps use yourself as a conduit for earth energy when you try this next? That way you're not giving too heavily of yourself?
That's sort of what I do but I retain additional energy.

Mmm...I was thinking about doing that. Next time I'll try and do it.


Similar concepts really, you can 'manufacture' a guardian with a well programed construct. It's just sort of like giving it additional intelligence of a kind.

My guardians tend to be like giant statues with minimal intelligence. They shield pretty well but I haven't added anything like constructs with them. Maybe I should try it.

[RubyRose]

Okay I have a bit of a question. I take it by "blessing the house" as you clean, you mean you're saying a little chant right? Just want to get things clear in my head.

New to all this household cleaning magic stuff. :lol: Hell, I'm new to cleaning. I hate it. Maybe this will get me inspired. :)

[Tanya]

I just gotta say....I'm soo proud of ya'll!!!

[MonSno_LeeDra]

One concept that has not been expressed is the energy pool. I find that if I work in an area a lot I create an energy pool that I tap into. I really do not know how I create it but the more time I spend there the bigger it gets for me.

I find that when I mow the grass I usually end up dropping into some little stupid rhyme and song or just humming as I go. The more I get into it the more energy I have and the farther I go. I find the same thing happens when I help in the house, drive's my wife nuts but i'm like the energizer bunny I just keep going and going and going.

Frequently I put mental images of glass shields and energy bands around the house and around the property. About once a week I imagine washing all those mirrors and strumming the energy lines that encass everything. I find I also talk to the tree's and animals around the property and ask for thier help in protecting and watching over my family and the land.

You'd be suprised the number of times I look at a tree or tree line and suddenly will see a tree or group of tree's that seem out of place. A number of times I've gone to the point and discover that someone has or is there that should not be. Sometimes it's shadows that are shown on the walls tha get my attention or even a change in the glare of the sun as a tree branch moves into it.

I find I use urine many times to mark boundaries and raise barriers. About the immediate area it's sort of like a familiar odor that the animals are used to so it doesn't bother them but it also contains the energy of my family, so it signals what is being protected to them.

[Brigid Rowan]

This is a great thread..~claps~...Im not sure what to add at this point, but for me, the mundane and magickal are kinda conjoined at this point for me.

I had not seen anyone mention using runes yet, for home and work stuff.

[RainInanna]

Personally I do something really simple. When I'm cleaning, I don't need 100% of my brain focused on sweeping or doing dishes. Most people let their mind wander. Instead I take the time to either engage in the "now" (ie. focus on the current moment, work on awareness training), or meditate and do energy work (even just grounding and centering). Once in that space it's easy to just have the intention of cleaning magically as well as mundanely. Everything you can do can be magical as well as mundane if you go into that Sacred mental space and set your intention for magical work. Cleaning is good for that if only because you don't need full attention so it's easy to drop your brain waves to Sacred mental space. That said, any repetitive, simple activity that you don't need 100% attention for can work.

[MonSno_LeeDra]

The concept of freeing the mind as you do work raises an interesting side note.

As a male I find for me it's easiest when I do yard work and chores about the property. Cutting grass, trimming tree's, planting things, even working in a garden.

I usually do the laundry on the weekends so find that that also free's my mind to a degree but the duration is never as long as when outside. I may do the dishes or vacum but that usually gets me agitated and clouds my mind, not because of a male female thing but it just feels wrong to me.

Yet many of the ladies here speak of house work and cooking at the trigger for them. I wonder if that is not a border event for the male and female mysteries and how our conditioning impacts upon the actions that will free oru mind to wander and speculate or initiate things?

[Darkest Eve]

Okay I have a bit of a question. I take it by "blessing the house" as you clean, you mean you're saying a little chant right? Just want to get things clear in my head.

New to all this household cleaning magic stuff. :lol: Hell, I'm new to cleaning. I hate it. Maybe this will get me inspired. :)

That, or imagine sweeping out the negative as you sweep, letting in the positive by opening windows and letting a breeze blow through the house... that sort of thing.

[~Elise~]

Using runes... we employ that here in our household (I know that's a huge stretch!).

I have Guardian dragons that help shield the house, but Rick has multiple thorn garths spinning in all directions around the house.

ThornGarth is Rick's invention...it is 8 Thurisaz shaped like a stop sign--now spin 'em and you have a wicked line of defense. Imagine multiples of 'em...that's one line of defense at our home.

We also have a rune charm hanging on the door. It was a wedding gift to us-wow, almost three years ago. It hangs on the front door of every house we've lived in.

Elise

[Bettie]

Yup, use runes - all my animals have protective runes inscribed on their collars/cage, for example.
Also energy work when I need it, and the use of various herbs and oils around the place.

[Lunacie]

Yep!



I'll try. 8O



I've done something similar before but it left me drained and not really wanting to do it again. How do you do it continuously without feeling drained? Do you ground or do something else?

Someone already mentioned pulling energy from the Earth, you can also pull energy from the Sun or the Cosmos or the Universe in general. The usual suggestion for drawing energy from the Earth is to imagine that you are a garden hose and you send one end down into the earth and either draw the energy into yourself - or let it flow through you to the object or person you want to give energy to.

Once you've gotten familiar with the way the energies feel to you, you can simply open yourself and absorb them like a sponge, then use your projecting hand (usually your dominant hand) to direct the energies to where you want them to go and what you want them to do.

It's usually a good idea to let the energy flow for a few moments to flush out the line, like letting the cool fresh water flush out the warm water that was left in the garden hose, and then use or direct the cool fresh water to doing what you want it to do. This also helps to ensure that none of what you may be feeling (negative emotions or physcial illness) is put into the object or person you are sending energy to.




The concept of freeing the mind as you do work raises an interesting side note.

As a male I find for me it's easiest when I do yard work and chores about the property. Cutting grass, trimming tree's, planting things, even working in a garden.

I usually do the laundry on the weekends so find that that also free's my mind to a degree but the duration is never as long as when outside. I may do the dishes or vacum but that usually gets me agitated and clouds my mind, not because of a male female thing but it just feels wrong to me.

Yet many of the ladies here speak of house work and cooking at the trigger for them. I wonder if that is not a border event for the male and female mysteries and how our conditioning impacts upon the actions that will free oru mind to wander and speculate or initiate things?

Mowing the yard has always been the best way for me to concentrate one part of my mind on doing something repetitive while freeing another part of it for meditation or stream of consciousness thinking. Washing dishes or taking a shower is probably the second best way for me, although taking a shower doesn't take nearly long enough. ;) Mopping works well unless I'm mopping a floor with square tiles and then I find myself counting the tiles (ADD brain!).

So going by my experience, you can't divide cultural 'duties' for male and female, but maybe that's only true for me.

[Windsmith]

Okay, I have to admit I'm a little unsure of how magic can be implemented into everyday life (i.e. going beyond the basic levels to actually executing it). I read in the other thread, and others have stated as such in different posts, but I'm not exactly positive on how one does it.I have 2 different ways of incorporating it. One is to take mundane activities, like cooking and cleaning and going to the store, and incorporate magic into it. The other is to take a sort of "blank" space - like my morning commute - and to use it as a time for magical work.

The former has been fairly well covered - reciting magical chants while mopping the floor, naming magical associations for dinner ingredients as they go into the pot, etc.

The latter, for me, is the ultimate in "multi-tasking." With cooking or cleaning magic, I'm integrating the magic into the task. But during my commute, for instance, or during my morning work-out, what I'm working on magically has nothing to do with what the rest of me is doing. It's not "commute magic"; it's my morning sun ritual, or my day-end refocusing working. Yes, those are related to the time of day that my commute happens, but they'd be happening whether I was commuting by car, or by train, or if I stayed home from work today and am just slothing on the couch. Does that make sense?

[TuathaSidhe]

I guess you could say Im in with the housecleaning magic crowd, lol.

I wouldnt say I do any kinds of chants when I clean. I just let my mind go and do things naturally I guess. Like others have said, its easier (for me at least) to let my mind find the more, erm, spirtual or magical side of things.

For some reason I find it easy to be in the here and now. Maybe because I use to work closely with dogs. Dogs dont think about whats going to happen tomorrow, or what happened an hour ago. They live in the moment.

Cleaning for me brings on alot of positive energy in the household and keeps out the negitive energies. For me and my household it tends to keep things in balance and keeps out more evil things that would otherwise want to come in.

Whats more attractive to an evil spirit...a clean, well balanced happy home, or a dirty, unbalanced, negitive energy ridden, arguing home?

Granted I think that there could always be that something stronger to come in if it really wanted to, but I think, keeping things clean and happy tends to ward off other, er, smaller things because its not so easy to get in I guess.

I dunno, I just find it easy to see things here and now and focus on what is there and see the more magical side of it I guess. I was watching my 3 month old sleep in his crib last night and just got this sence of peace and tranquility and happiness. He was surrounded by such positive and protective energies that he slept for a good 7 house....woohoo!




Did any of that make any sence whatsoever?

[Solya]

I just make sure the magic is there through preserving a childlike sense of wonder about the world. A day is only a failure if nothing has surprised me, astonished me, made me smile or made me love my current position in life. I maintain a positive and clear stance in life and find that many good things come to me because of it.

As for magical workings in particular... I add something to the wards a friend of mine and I put up at my workplace every month... frequently walk out into the garden and just talk with the herbs and small tree we bought a while ago... make sure my room stays decluttered and renew the wards on it once a month as well... and I frequently work with crystals, so that's always one of the most magical things that happen in my daily life.

[Zephyrstorm]

Okay, I have to admit I'm a little unsure of how magic can be implemented into everyday life (i.e. going beyond the basic levels to actually executing it). I read in the other thread, and others have stated as such in different posts, but I'm not exactly positive on how one does it.

If this isn't advanced paganism, please feel free to move it. _inabox_

I'm so going to love this new forum. :thumbsup:

I'm another of the house-cleaning crowd. I also do cleansing, grounding and centering during my shower. I incorporate protective and healing magic into my cooking. I also sometimes use handwashing as an opportunity to remind myself to pay attention to the hear and now.

[Sequoia]

There is a book I adore, with ideas as to how to include worship and energy work in your daily life, spirituality - it's called The Circle Within (http://www.amazon.com/Circle-Within-Creating-Spiritual-Tradition/dp/0738703486/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213330867&sr=8-1) by Dianne Sylvan.

Come to think of it, I need to re-read that book sometime soon. Been a little lax in my everyday efforts. Haven't gotten much past grounding and centering. But then again, I am "tuning my radio" so to speak - working on getting back in the groove of things.

[alwaysfallingup]

I think that for me, incorporating magick into my mundane life centers around cultivating mindfulness, wonder, and a thankful heart and finding the magick and simple beauties in the things that seem so very boring and every day.

I also try to incorporate magickal acts into every day acts...singing to bless my garden as I weed, mixing magickal oils into my cleaning products, soothing my pets with healing energy when they're nervous or feeling bad. I guess my goal is to weave my life into one harmonious, continuous spell with the intent of health, happiness, and wholeness in my home and heart.

[kaosxmage]

My favorite everyday type of Magick is to attach sigils to pennies. The intent is usually the same. Increase awereness of "supernatural" entities to the owner, create visions, lucid dreams, urges to create something, the sense the magick is real, weird feelings, creepy sensations, ....you get the idea. I toss them into public fountains, parks, mall floors, or anywhere I think they'll be seen or picked up.

I have no idea if the intent occurs or not, but I do enjoy the thought it might take hold once in a while. I'm just doing my duty to weaken the chains of consensual reality. I like more people in a magick mindstate.

[Windsmith]

My favorite everyday type of Magick is to attach sigils to pennies. The intent is usually the same. Increase awereness of "supernatural" entities to the owner, create visions, lucid dreams, urges to create something, the sense the magick is real, weird feelings, creepy sensations, ....you get the idea. I toss them into public fountains, parks, mall floors, or anywhere I think they'll be seen or picked up.Are these visible sigils or invisible? Would the person who picked up your penny know it had been magicked up, or is it doing its work subversively, unknown, in dark, lint-filled pocket corners?

'Cause that'd be cool. :thumbsup:

[Ladybug1258]

Mudane Magicks. hmmm....a bit of a misnomer in my opinion. If magic is involved, then there's simply nothing mundane about it. The task extends beyond its boundaries to be much more than its whole, it's now rejoiced for its parts.

Cleaning is the best way to make something ordinary extraordinary and it works best in our house to protect it from the darker aspects of one particular resident who doesn't seem to understand or care that their attitude affects everyone negatively. Only negatively. There's no redeeming feature at all. When they leave for any type of errand, I run through a cleansing to rid the negativity from the home's atmosphere. Others feel lighter upon arriving home, particularly if the "dark one" is not home yet. It's just a happier place. I use incense for these cleansings and purges.

Gardening, too, helps me to focus energies on what must be done, what I want to do, and what is purely secondary to my day's needs. It give me peace as well as something wonderful to enjoy aesthetically or for use in some other aspect. The act of gardening gives me the creative outlet that is vital to a fulfilling life. I use herbs extensively - for tinctures, soaps, lotions, for burning to cleanse or banish, or just to spice up a meal.

So, there's no such thing as mundane magicks in my personal lexicon, only the extraordinary and useful.

[kaosxmage]

I've worked on this visible and invisible. The intention is always unknown to the recipinet. I just want it charged and released with the act of being picked up. I've considered attaching a servitor to the copper delights ...that could be a little more interesting.

[RainInanna]

There is a book I adore, with ideas as to how to include worship and energy work in your daily life, spirituality - it's called The Circle Within (http://www.amazon.com/Circle-Within-Creating-Spiritual-Tradition/dp/0738703486/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213330867&sr=8-1) by Dianne Sylvan.

After reading your post I went to find my copy and re-read it as well but can't find the darn thing *grumble*grumble*

[BlackLili]

The oils I use as perfumes are all charged with intent - drawing prosperity in general, as I put them on getting ready for work.

I also have a mix-CD of prosperity-drawing music on it (everything from Pink Floyd's "Money", to Puffy's "All About the Benjamins," to Taco's "Puttin' On the Ritz" and Lady Saw's dancehall version of "If I Was a Rich Girl") that I play on my way to work when I need to find my motivation to submit myself to The Machine.

Cooking is my other major magic(k). Stir clockwise to add energy, stir counter-clockwise to create a dish that helps pull energies out. (Word to the wise, when creating a dish meant to purge someone of negativity, beware that it can actually cause a literal "purge" depending on ingredients, timing, and what else you've done.) Herbs and other ingredients get added to everything, and each one tends to have a significance attached.

I don't do much cleaning, and what I do usually consists of putting away laundry and swiffer-ing the tiny bathroom and kitchen. Even that's spotty at best. DH is much better at keeping the house (hence, why I have him stay home. ;) )

I light candles on my permenant altars thanking for everything good in my life, and asking the Cosmos to help my friends just about every morning before I scoot off to my day...does that count?

[MonSno_LeeDra]

I have come to the conclusion that the term "Magic" has become as much an umbrella term as Paganism. It seem's that no two people have the same or even nearly the same defination of what "Magic" is.

I see magic as the creation of a though that is feed to the Super Ego or even the ID. The though is created and defined and perhaps re-defined as I think about and narrow the limits and actions I wish to cause to occur.

As I write it or enscribe it upon something the Ego places the desire before both the Super Ego and ID. For discussion I identify the ID as that which is my true inner self and the Super Ego as the Astral or Higher level thinking part of myself.

By enscribing or writing I also charge the image in my minds eye and give it a sense of timelyness and or urgency. The energy I place into it causes it to take shape in one spot and be re-created or begun in another until it has manifested within my mundane world.

I may allow it to simply manifest as it occurs or I may take a proactive stance and speed up the process by assisting the ID and Super Ego in the importance and urgenty of the need. By taking steps to re-enforce the need, ie trying to find it or out looking for it or even just doing htings that support the goal.

However, I probally differ in that I also think we can undermine our desire by constant re-designing of our goal. If I create a energy desire it begins to form, then I re-design it so the created is undone to re-create the new concept, then undone again as I change my desire once again, so on and so on until no force is actually increased only a desire that is constantly started then stopped then re-started.

When I enscribe or write the "Spell" I tell myself I have reached the final design and now want all energy infused into this and there will be no more changes as I evalute and re-evaluate what it is I trully desired to begin with.

[RainInanna]

I really like that explanation, MonSno_LeeDra. There is a time for imprinting the intention into the macrocosm/astral/non-physical as well as the microcosm/local/physical. It puts me in mind of Hermetic concepts and the Kybalion along with metu netjer.

[~Belladonna~]

Even my daily bath has become part of my Magick. It's not just cleaning and cleansing of the physical anymore, but it's become and cleaning and cleansing of my astral self too. As I let the plug out and see the water run down the drain I envision all that astral gunk go down with it. Just little things like this really. Things I would have never gave a second thought to a couple of years ago have now become like second nature to me. So yes, the mundane and the magickal and now conjoined for me.

Great thread, btw :thumbsup:

[tellmethetruth]

Another "magic housekeeper" here. Cleaning house just seems like the natural time to practice magic.

Today, I did a mundane spell to protect the home and family. I made beautiful suncatchers using wire pentagrams (the pentagrams are inside of regular stars so 'regular people' won't notice what they are and get scared), circular wire decorations, and prisms backed with mirrors. I put one in each door and window, with the mirrored side facing out and the prism side facing in the house. I washed the windows and then placed the suncatchers and as I hung them I said "Reflect ill will, repel negativity, welcome blessings, welcome sunshine, bless this home, harm come to none." My home feels protected now. Next I need to do something for the cars and the yard, field, etc.

I also like to light a candle in each room as I finish cleaning it, to bless the room, and to light a sage and sweetgrass smudge stick or some sage incense and smudge every corner in the house, either starting with the rooms furthest from the doors and working my way out the door or opening the windows in each room and working my way from the corners toward the windows. As I do this I visualize cleansing the negative energies from the room.

When I know my son's driving, I like to visualize a bubble of protection around his car.

When I touch my husband I visualize us living into our mid-90s as productive, healthy, happy people.

This is my idea of "mundane magic" - as opposed to "not mundane" magic like casting money-drawing spells or healing spells.

[Shosha]

How about this? I do this stuff all the time. Works for me.

Use the energies between the full and dark moons to mow your lawn, since it helps it grown slower and allows more time between mowings.

Clean your house widdershins to "banish" dirt.

Give it a once-over deosil to draw "clean" to the house.

Been having arguments in the home lately? chant "peace and harmony" while you cook.


Making a special dinner for someone? chant "I love you" while you cook.


There's lots of ways you can use majik every day.

[Lunacie]

How about this? I do this stuff all the time. Works for me.

Use the energies between the full and dark moons to mow your lawn, since it helps it grown slower and allows more time between mowings.

Clean your house widdershins to "banish" dirt.

Give it a once-over deosil to draw "clean" to the house.

Been having arguments in the home lately? chant "peace and harmony" while you cook.


Making a special dinner for someone? chant "I love you" while you cook.


There's lots of ways you can use majik every day.

I wish I could use that tip about mowing the grass (I do use it for timing my haircupts!), but as wet as our summer has been here I've had to mow more often than that... waaaaaay more often.

[Teresa]

Lets see here. When I get up I take the vase of water near the head of my bed to the toilet and flush it. I replace it with a fresh vase of water after I rinse the vase out. ( Helps one to sleep better) Then I take my shower which has become a ritual of cleansing all the negative stuff away and recharging myself preparing for the day ahead. Then I dress and use various lotions, and oils appropiate for where ever I will be going. I then go to my Ancestor Altar and my Altar to Ogun and ask that I may have a good and safe successful day. I freshen up the offerings as needed.

Then I go upstairs and prepare a breakfast infused with healing and health and happiness. I prepare any lunches that will be taken to school or work in the same fashion infusing positive healing and healthy energies into them. When I clean the kitchen I place a pinch of salt on the floor and make sure to sweep that out the door with any negative energies. I redo the cocoa butter crosses on the doorways as needed and have guardians outside on the front porch and at the back patio door. There are also things marking the lines of the property that keep us protected.

I am a firm believer in spiritual cleansing and will often buy a bunch of fresh basil to dip into blessed water and sprinkle around the house. I let the widows open to air out the house and let all the negativity exit from the house.

When we come home we generally take a shower and change clothes to prevent carrying around any extra negativity carried home from work or school. I use things in the drains to cleanse them. Smudging when needed, I do things when washing the laundry to rid the clothes of negativity. I place things under the beds so the kids can sleep better. The walls of the rooms are marked to keep out astral intruders and unwanted spirits as well as the windows and door ways being sealed off from them . There is more than I do as regular routine towards mundane chores this is just to give you ideas to get started.