✨ Cleansing in Witchcraft ✨
Cleansing is a way of removing negative or unwanted energies, spirits, and imprints from an object or a space. There are a number of simple rituals and actions that are done to cleanse. You can do as many or as few as you like, and create your own cleansing methods/rituals.

✨ CLEANSING ONESELF
- Brush your hair, morning
- Ritual baths
- Dancing singing
- Visualization
- Drinking a tea designed to cleanse
✨ DISCREET METHODS
- Brush your hair
- Open the windows, let the new
air come in and the old air out
- Light a candle
- Playing a song you associate
with cleansing
- Ringing wind chimes
- Wetting your hands in salt
water and flicking the water through the area
- Visualize light and colors, and manipulate the energy away
✨ OPEN AREA METHODS
- Ring a bell through an area
- Smoke cleansing / cense (not smudging)
- Waft incense smoke around
- Burn herbs, such as sage, rosemary, bay leaf, etc
- Spritz lemon-infused water around, or salt water
- Light a candle
- Sprinkle salt or eggshell pieces in the windows and doorways
- Use a besom to clean the negative energies out of the air like cobwebs
- Wave a branch of a strong-scented herb through the area, such as mint
- Toss a pinch of salt or herbs in the door ways and window
- Touch each corner of the room and say a short prayer over each
✨ CLEANSING OBJECTS
- bury in a salt bath
- if water-compatible (not soluble, won’t react poorly, etc), let sit in a moon or salt water bath
- pass through smoke
- incense
- rainwater, mist, snow, etc
This is a wonderful post with great cleansing tips!
On Monday I am going to try cleansing for the first time. Since I don’t have much money or supplies I think I will do the following:
1: Clean my home from top to bottom and in every nook and cranny.
2: Meditate for as long as it takes to clear my spirit of negative energy. I am going to visualise it as a sort of tar seeping away from me. And then I will do the same for my home.
3: Fill a spray bottle, which I will have bought beforehand, and fill it with water and sprinkle in some sage and sea salt.
4: Next I will gently mist the corners of my home and all possible entrances.
5: Finally, I am going to sit and meditate. I will be visualise my inner light and magick. I am going to focus on my breathing and try to feel as connected as possibly with every cell in my body. Once I feel connected and whole, I will focus all of my good intentions and push them out of me and into my home. I can visualise it now as a sea of colours and light with waves crashing against the walls of my home.
Can’t wait to do this!