Household Purifications

Elemental Purification

No matter how much you physically clean your house, sometimes you need to purify your home of negative and harmful energies. Every house is subject to these energies that are just a part of being and living around humans.

Negativity can weigh down your home causing increased arguments, strained relationships and accidents. If left for long enough, negative energy can cause health problems and terrible damage to a persons mental and emotional psyche.

Purifying your home monthly will greatly reduce the negativity in your home. If you feel you do not need to purify your home this frequently than every three months is recommended.

The following are some purifying rituals that I use:

First before you begin any purification it is best to open all your windows and doors to allow the negativity to easily vacate your home. It may also help by airing out the home, thereby getting rid of stale that can make anybody feel negative.

As with all magical deeds you must backup your ritual with physical work. Negativity likes chaos, so your need to put your home in order. As you clean visualize the negative energy being washed away with the dirt. Sometimes this is all you need, if not any of the following rituals should do the trick.

The Elemental Purification

This is the one I use most often. This rite uses the four elements to cleanse and purify your home. First you need to assemble the following items and put them on your altar. Most of them are there anyway.

A bowl or dish of salt
An incense burner (censer)
Frankincense (or any other sweet smelling incense you like)
A white candle
A bowl of clean pure water


Light the candle and the incense. Stand before your altar and open yourself to your home. Feel its energies. Really tune in to any impressions you receive. After you feel that you and your home are I sync , put your hands over the assembled tools and say something like:

I charge you tools of the Elements to sweep my house clean of all ill and bane this is my will, So Mote It Be!

Take the dish of salt and moving clockwise around your house sprinkle the salt about saying.

By the Powers of the element of Earth, I cleanse this house.

Make sure you throw the salt everywhere, in cupboards, in the basement just everywhere. Visualize the salt burning away any negativity in your house. Your purification will only be as strong as your visualization.

Put down the salt. Then take the censer, as the incense smokes walk the same route as the salt, visualize the smoke blowing away all negativity and ill feelings saying:

By the Powers of the element of Air, I cleanse this house

Return the censer to the altar. Take the Candle walk the house again , hold the flame to the windows and doors and visualize the light burning away negativity and bringing peace once more saying:

By the Power of the element of Fire, I cleanse this house

Lastly put the candle on the altar and take the water. Again walk the house in the same manner as before. Visualize the water washing away negative feeling and ill thoughts saying:

By the Powers of the element of Water, I cleanse this house.

Set the bowl on the altar and peacefully stand there experince the feeling of your house. It should feel calmer,fresh and clean, if not repeat the ritual

Close the doors and windows and if possible leave the tools on the altar until the candle burns out and the incense is ash. I always give thanks to the Lord and Lady and ask for their blessing. This is also a good time to start preparations for a Protection ritual.

If your are newly moving in to a house do the purification before you move in to remove the previous occupants "marks" on the house.

This spell was one of the first I ever used. I found the spell in Scott Cunningham's The Magical Household. I have altered the spell over the years to make it more confortable for me. I hope his soul is pleased in Summerland. You are missed. Farewell and Blessed Be