Keeping your home spiritually clean and protected is an important practice in African American hoodoo folk magic traditions. Over time, negative energies, spiritual residues, and unwanted influences can build up, making it necessary to regularly cleanse your living space. Here are five traditional and simple hoodoo methods to spiritually cleanse your home.
“Taking the time to cleanse our homes, to re-establish our physical energies, and to refresh our spiritual lives, can only bring renewed benefits into our lives, and a return of true health.”
― Runa Pigden
1. Sweeping
One of the most basic yet powerful cleansing techniques is to sweep or vacuum your floors with the intention of removing evil and misfortunate stagnate energies. Hoodoo practitioners often follow a specific sweeping pattern, starting from the top floor and working downwards in a counter-clockwise (widdershins) direction, sweeping from the back of each room towards the front door. As well as sweeping AWAY from your body, not criss-cross, as you don’t wat to “cross yourself up” To add extra cleansing power, you can sprinkle spiritual powders on the floors before sweeping, such as:
- Grains such as Barley and Oatmeal (to soak up hostile and chaotic energy)
- Salt + Hyssop (for total purification)
- Crown of Success or Fast Money powder (for prosperity and abundance)
Alternatively, you can always use common household spices like cinnamon, black pepper, or plain table salt as a simple yet effective conjure sweep.
2. Floor Washes
Floor washes are a quintessential hoodoo practice for spiritually cleansing your home, as well as blessing it. To make a basic hoodoo floor wash recipe, mix water with a few drops of ammonia, along with herbs like cedar, lemon, or pine. Starting at the top floor, mop each room with the floor wash solution, working in a counter-clockwise direction. As you mop, you ought to utilize your preferred cleansing prayers to remove evil and banish negativity such as Psalm 23, Psalm 91, Psalm 121, so on and so forth!
3. Smoke Cleansing
Burning cleansing herbs and allowing the smoke to permeate your home is another traditional hoodoo method. Suitable herbs for smoke cleansing include cedar, pine, Three Kings Incense: frankincense, Benzoin, and myrrh resins. Light the herbs or put them on a burning coal and walk through your home, allowing the smoke to reach every corner and crevice. Open windows and doors to let the smoke circulate and carry away any negative energies. You can also use the smoke to focus on specific areas that feel particularly heavy or ‘off’.
4. Banishing Candle Work
Burning a blessed black candle is a simple yet powerful way to cleanse a space of crossed conditions, jinxes, or other negative influences. You can anoint the candle with cleansing oils like hyssop, uncrossing, or van van before lighting it. Use your breath on the candle while praying your petition over the candle and walk the candle through your home, allowing the light to reach every room and corner. Let the candle burn out completely to fully spiritually cleanse your home. You can then take the was remnants, put them in a paper bag, with salt and some coins, pass it over yourself to remove any lingering attachments on your person and throw it out at a dumpster away from your home!
5. ‘Nailing It Down’
A unique hoodoo practice is to “nail down” the possession your home to maintain possession of it AND keep out evil by driving nails into the corners of the property boundaries. Traditionally, square-cut or railroad spike nails are used for this purpose. You should bless the nails (The old school way is with urine, but for the squeamish, you can use rum and fire) and anoint them with blessed oil while reciting psalm 91 to protect the home.
By incorporating these traditional hoodoo cleansing methods into your spiritual practice, you can help maintain a clean, harmonious, and protected living space. Remember, is ti s recommended to spiritually cleanse your home at least seasonally, as spiritual residues can build up over time through everyday living. We come into contact with negative energy every day that we interact with the outside world, and there is nothing worse than bringing back home energies that have tried to hitch a ride home with us! Afterward, don’t forget to cleanse yourself too!
Until next time,
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