I’m taking a few postings off from co-creative gardening to continue my quarterly discussion regarding our project of blessing San Francisco by working in partnership with the spirits of the land to establish energetic harmony and balance. This past weekend my colleagues and I had a lot of work to do, because the person whose house we had been meeting in for several years had just received the keys to her newly purchased home. So we needed to cleanse and attune the new place as well as to move the center of our larger city-wide project from her back yard to a public place. It doesn’t do to leave old magical workings behind in what’s to become somebody else’s back yard!
Since our so-called “temple” doubles as my colleague’s
living room, it obviously isn’t a dedicated space. When we are going to do our
visionary work together, we light a candle and open the 7 Directions, inviting
those inner spirit beings who wish to work with us, and allowing through our
resonant energy only those with harmonious and beneficial intent. We lit our
candle in the soon-to-be “old” house and from it, lit a new candle to take to
the new house. Then we went to the new place with the candle, sage, and water
for cleansing and blessing.
First we saged, starting at the threshold and including all the corners, cupboards, nooks and crannies—even inside the refrigerator!—opening all the windows and turning on the ceiling fans so that the air could carry the old energies out with the smoke. Then we cleansed with the water. Usually this is done with salt as well: the salt, of earth, pulls in energies and the water carries it away. But as we had forgotten to bring salt, we used frankincense for the earth element. (Like a good Girl Scout, I am never without my compass and frankincense.) This worked! It brought a slightly different feel, but it did further cleanse the energies, and blessed the place as well.
Finally, we lit the candle, and my colleague who is moving said a beautiful blessing over it, shifting the energies of the blessing to a second bowl of water, and sprinkling that around as well. The home felt very different when she had finished! Once she gets a new coat of paint on, it will be utterly transformed and ready to be our new meeting place for magical journeying and blessing work.
Next posts I’ll describe what we did in the public arena.
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