Many people have written me over the years to ask how they can clear a dwelling of negative energy, either in terms of entities or the residual energies of previous occupants, and how to perform a blessing on their home. Following is a very simple house clearing and blessing ritual.

Of course, it's not the specific words or actions that are magical; it's the energy and intention and focus that are put into it. The energies that are to be cleared are "non-physical," and can be affected through the similarly intangible energies of thought and will. A ritual is a symbolic process that serves as a vehicle through which to channel our desires and intentions. I urge you to be creative and allow for your own inner guidance to lead you through impulse and inspiration.

This kind of energetic ritual really does work! Some great women friends of mine and I performed a similar ritual on my own house, and over the years, nearly everyone who has stepped inside has remarked on the great energy there. My plants thrive, my children are jolly, healthy and happy, and a sense of clarity and peace suffuses the atmosphere.

It's best to have more than one person performing the clearing and blessing, for the synergy makes the process exponentially more powerful. You'll no doubt have lots of friends about over the holidays, so ask if they would help you to prepare your house for the new year! This ritual is best undertaken when moving into a new dwelling, or in an existing dwelling if such a ritual was never undertaken when you moved in. Over time, your own energy will naturally charge the things and places that you are in continued contact with.

The more adept your friends or partners are at working with energy, the better. The women who helped me, for instance, were artists, healers and spiritual counselors. They wove powerful magic! If you don't know anyone who would be good for the job, you might try calling up an energy worker or healer and ask if they provide this kind of service.

Begin by sitting in a circle and discussing your intentions. Talk about what you desire to achieve, and how you plan to go about it. (Read through the ritual and make sure everyone knows the plan!) Establish a sense of cooperation, love and harmony.

Take white rags, natural brooms, or anything else that you feel drawn to as a symbolic cleansing "tool," and walk all through the house, chanting or singing about how you are clearing away the old. Visualize this old energy returning to the earth or to the sun to be recycled. You can prepare something to read in advance about this, or you can simply allow everyone to contribute as they feel moved. It might sound something like this:

"We clear this home of all that has gone before..."

"We clear away the old, we wash away all that lingers here..."

"It is blank, and clear, and rich with potential..." etc...

You can have one person drumming a beat as you go along, and everyone singing or chanting or talking out loud to get the team focused on the same intention in a powerful way. Move through the house, pretending to "clean" the energy, and then after you've gone all through the house, go to a door and pretend to sweep out all you've collected, and to shake out your rags and otherwise "cleanse" your tools. Wipe your hands, and affirm that now the space is clear and clean, it is done.

Walk through the house a second time celebrating the clean energy, appreciating how clear your home now is. Feel the difference, and affirm it. Imagine this clarity and pure potential expanding out past the four walls, into the yard, and to the edges of the property. Imagine bright white or iridescent light filling the property, and breathe deep of this pure potential with gratitude and satisfaction.

Now walk through the home a third time singing a song of love, joy and appreciation. You can make up your own song as you go along, or sing a song such as "Amazing Grace" or any other uplifting and inspiring song. Sing or chant of all the things you wish in your home: of abundance, love, good friends, good health, warmth, and comfort. Do not focus on protecting your home or on anything you don't want. Simply establish that this is a safe, warm, secure home, and only those people or influences in harmony with this love and joy will enter, and they will enter abundantly. Sing, dance, and celebrate this overflowing positive energy as it swells and fills the dwelling. You can tone, dance or drum to raise more energy to feed this fire. The point is to get everyone powerfully focused upon and feeling this joyful energy.

When this part of the ritual naturally dies down, gives thanks, celebrate, break bread, drink wine or pure water, and smile with the knowing that your home is newly invigorated with beautiful and joyful energy.

Julia Melges-Jablonski has been working professionally as a medium/clairvoyant for more than ten years. She is an ordained minister in the Spiritualist tradition, a published metaphysical author, editor of the acclaimed weekly Psychic Journal, and webmistress of MuseNet.  


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