My girlfriend circa 1998-2001 was a little witchy. No, witchy is not a placeholder for a word that might insult women — she was and is lovely — she was a little bit of a witch, including Tarot and all of that good stuff.
One thing I love about her is that she honored everything with rites, rituals, and ceremonies, including the clearing, cleaning, and blessing of our home. One of the things we did to clear the apartment was by burning white sage.
Anyway, my friend Sara sent me along an article on New York Daily News called The Clearings: Space healers use the spirit real to cleanse apartments. Here’s her note:
What the article says about clearing spaces is true. I don’t have the same ways as Sandra but I’ve cleared a space before with Carolyn and it’s been remarkably lighter afterward inside. We cleared a studio/performance center in Soho before a concert once and even people who had no idea that we had been there early or that we are sensitive to energy remarked that the space felt better than it had the night before at rehearsal.
Check it out and give it a read and consider honoring your home and your space with a little healing of your space to help make it your own.
What this required was buying a white sage wand — often called a smudge stick — and lighting it up like you would a punk, let it catch fire a little bit, and then blow it out until it starts emitting a trail of smoke. Walk the wand through all of the rooms of your house or apartment . . . and I think that’s about it. You’re clear, as far as I can tell. I also think it is pretty important to do this more than once — make a habit of it. It doesn’t smell bad at all, that’s for sure. Good luck!
