The etsy seller of the Hekate idol I purchased hasn’t responded in nearly 2 months since I’ve paid. I had to open a claim and request a refund.

I’m so pissed! This is the second time I’ve run into a seller whom neglected their shop. The first time I attempted to purchase a sweet Dragonball grinder for my hubbz off ebay. It was supposed to be a Xmas gift! D:

Anyway. I have a proper cauldron now so at least I was able to continue working on building my altar. I still won’t be satisfied until I’ve hung up the shrines on the walls tho.

Lighter note, a fellow witch of mine recently bought the SAME IDOL. I know we both worked with Hekate but this was a cool coincidence. I say that because it looks like there aren’t a lot of different idols of Her out there. The same one or two repeatedly. That’s okay I don’t mind. I just wanted the one where she had her puppers with her.

Maybe I’ll be able to find one when I return to Greece this September.

Still no real progress on the smog in the bedroom but I do have the tools needed for a “Cut and Cleanse” improv spell. I just need to find the time when hubbz isn’t home because he doesn’t appreciate incense and sage like I do! Lol He would need to be away for the entire day. My spirit fam must be so annoyed with me by now… x_x

Updated Whole House Cleansing and Bubble Ward

So this is something I did to test my first homemade wand and I based it off that fun thing you can do with a rainbow parachute! It’s a circular cloth that kids all hold the edges of, and they lift it up to catch the air and bring it down to create a large, colorful bubble. This spell is kinda big, so make sure you have at least an hour or more to do it, and that no one will bother you during casting.
I recommend using this spell if there’s lots of nasty energy stuck in places that are hard to get rid of, or if something majorly bad happened in or near the home recently.

Things you’ll need:
1. Your best cleansing tools. This could be a sage stick, rosemary bundle, cleansing spray, or whatever you use to cleanse with. But your best one!
2. Your best protection wand. If you don’t have one specific for that purpose, any wand will do. You can also use your finger, or your whole body!
3. Vervain and salt.
4. At least 1 hour or more; you may need more or less time to perform this depending on the size of your home.

Instructions:
(Make sure you cleanse yourself before you start, and before you re-enter your house.)

1. Start inside the house, and cleanse from the back door to the front door. Making sure the front door is last, cleanse every nook and cranny, and each possible entry way. This means windows, garage doors, and fireplaces too. Open drawers, closets, anywhere you suspect negativity to be hiding. You may pray or chant cleaning/banishing spells while doing so. Don’t forget attics and basements too!
2. After cleansing each doorway, window and fire place lay down a line of salt to protect and keep out unwanted negative energies and entities. If you have little helpers created/set up already, make sure to include them in your spells/prayers to let them pass through. Otherwise you’ll be keeping out your own magical buddies! D: (If you don’t want the salt to be noticeable, you can use salt water instead, but beware that it could peel paints or furnishing if you’re not careful.)
3. Time to go outside! When you finished cleansing indoors and reached the front door, take note of the corner of your place that’s outside to the right. That’s where you start. First make sure you cleanse the front entry way.
4. Take your vervain (a finger-fold is enough) and bury it in the ground, at that corner of the house. You can recite your protective spells or prayers if you wish. Ask the vervain to keep your house safe, and keep out all unwanted things or people. Continue this at each corner going clockwise.
5. Once you’ve finished, go back inside and sit in the center of the house. Have your wand ready. If you’re using your finger or your whole body, stand instead.
6. Close your eyes and visualize a physical manifestation of your work. Imagine all the cleansing and warding has left little ribbons floating skyward, up past the roof of your house. See ribbons coming up from all salted entry ways, from each corner of vervain.
7. Once you’ve got a solid visual, take your want and point it at the ceiling. Extend your wand with your energy right through the ceiling, just like all the ribbons. Move your wand clockwise in circles, imaging catching all those ribbons and winding it around your house.
8. Once you’ve wrapped your house with energy ribbons, bring your wand and ribbons wrapped around it straight down to the floor. Tie it off in the earth below.
9. As you do so, visualize the air catching those ribbons and poofing the energy of your ward up, much like the air would poof up a parachute when you pull the edges down to the ground.
*This is the bubble part of the ward. It is not necessary for the spell to work, however I find it can help contain and protect even the air above your house if you do right.

Your house should be sufficiently cleansed and protected from pretty much anything now. But you can always beef it up or tone it down by using a different herbs instead of vervain. I just like it because it’s pretty strong.

Note: For those living in flats/apartments, instead of burying the vervain outside, you can hang up/place little sachets of the herb in each corner of your home. Sprinkling salt in each corner would work as well, but not as strongly.

Disclaimer: Please do not use salt OUTSIDE as this could get into the soil and prevent any plant growth. I also recommend using anything but White Sage as it may not be actually endangered at this time, but it is being extremely overused.

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