The Book of Shadows of a Broom Closet Dweller *EDITING*

Cleanse a Space Ritual

Adapted from a forum post on www.spellsofmagic.com at www.spellsofmagic.com/read_post.html?post=218905

(I've added that link as the External Link for this part)

You can cleanse a space by many means; smoke, visualisation or the use of sea salt in water and asperse the water across the area that is going to be used. The one thing I have noticed with the Correllian way of doing a cleansing is the use of the water, salt and visualisation. A very good method as many use more than one, combining them to amplify the energy being used to purify the area.

Step 1: Take a bowl of salt, and a bowl of water and place them before you. At this point the space that is going to be used has either been marked out, or you know exactly the amount of space in an area that is going to be used. 

Step 2: Take your casting hand over the salt and place it a few inches above the bowl. In a circular motion going tuthail or counterclockwise three times, imagine a yellowish-white light pouring out, and filling the bowl of salt and removing all negative energy. At this time you can say something to the extent of "I exorcise you, O creature of Earth, casting out from you any impurities which may lie within".

Step 3: Now, you will go clockwise or deosil, three times, and can say something to the extent of "I do bless and consecrate you to this work ". At this point imagine a Bluish white light consuming and filling the salt, see the light until it shines as brightly as if there were a blue-white sun within it.

Step 4: Do the same with the water. Take your casting hand and place it a few inches above the bowl of water. Three times in a circular motion going tuthail (counter clockwise), see the yellowish-white light again pouring into the water, filling the water with purifying light to remove all negativity. You can say something like "I exorcise you, Oh creature of water casting out from you any impurities which may lie within."

Step 5: Go deosil (clockwise), three times, and bless the water. "I do bless and consecrate you to this work." Visualise a bluish white light consuming and filling the water, see the light until it shines as brightly as if there were a blue-white sun within it. At this point you can say something to the like of "Behold the salt is pure, the water is pure, Purity into purity, and purity be blessed."

Step 6: Take three pinches of the salt and put it into the water. Then go Deosil around the circle aspersing the water lightly. While doing so, imagine the area being flooded with yellow light. Let the yellow light spread in all directions. If you so choose, you can say something to the effect of "Behold I cleanse and purify this space."

Step 7: Once you've gone around the circle, see it filled with a clear blue-white light, so it is wholly filled in all directions.

Congratulations, you have now blessed and cleansed a ritual/sacred space.