How to Clear Stagnant Energy to keep your Home Peaceful and Sweet
Seasonal thresholds bring about shifts in energy. We feel them around us in the weather, and naturally we feel them internally because we are connected to Mother Earth. We sense that she’s letting go one stage of the year and welcoming in the next.
On the Animistic spiritual path we understand that everything is alive and everything has a soul - this includes your home. Just as you cleanse and maintain your own energy, it’s important to tend to your home in the same way by ensuring you clear out stagnant energy to make space for the new.
There are many rituals to cleanse your home. Some are straight forward like Spring cleaning, decluttering, and simply shifting around the furniture. Others are more complex and require a Practitioner to come to your home for energy clearing, divination, and/or geomancy.
I created this simple Threshold Cleansing Ritual many years ago and have found that when it’s done regularly - say every 6-8 weeks - it’s a really efficient and powerful reset for my home’s (and office) energy. I also love to place intentions at the threshold space as a way of letting my Helping Spirits know what my heart would like to call into my home. Overall I have found that this ritual really keeps the energy of my home remaining protected, refined, and sweet.
The doorways of your home are sacred thresholds. They are the boundary between your public life and your private life. They’re also a symbolic threshold between your outer and inner worlds. As you and other people come and go across this threshold so do energies from thoughts, emotions, and worries. Over time, these can accumulate creating stagnancy in your home. Ensuring this space is fresh and bright is a key ingredient to the overall energy of your home.
I always precede this ritual by giving an offering / gift to acknowledge the Land Ancestors and the First Nations peoples on whose unceded territory I live as an uninvited guest. I highly encourage you to do this as well. It’s a way of sharing your gratitude for the beauty and peace you’re surrounded by, as well as the abundance you live in every day. Offerings can include anything that sings to your heart and you might offer to a good friend. Flowers are usually my go-to, but I also love bird seed, rice and honey.
The video below shows how to do the Threshold Cleansing Ritual and everything you need is listed below that. Remember that with all ritual, your intention - in other words your sincere and heartfelt reason for doing the ritual - is the most important ingredient because this is the vibration that drives the ritual.
What You’ll Need:
BROOM AND BRUSH to sweep the threshold around the door, and to brush the whole doorway.
HERBS to burn so the smoke can cleanse stagnant energy. I love to use the herbs grown in my garden. My favorite is Rosemary because it connects me with my Ancestors, but I have also cleansed with Juniper, Lemon Balm, and Lavender. Find what works best for you. If you don’t grow any in your garden and you need to purchase, be mindful that they have been ethically harvested and you’re not appropriating from Indigenous peoples.
HERBS AND RAINWATER or water form a stream. Make a little broom of your herbs and dip them in the rainwater and cleanse the whole doorway. The reason I use rainwater and fresh herbs is because they bring an energy of freshness straight from Mother Earth and this helps to brighten the energy of the space.
SALT is such an amazing purifier and has been used for protection all around the world. Sprinkle some of the sat along the threshold and around the outside of the doorway while holding the intention that your home is protected by your Spiritual Helpers. Call on the connections you have whether it be Mother Earth, God, Goddess, helping Ancestors, Animal Allies or Angels. Trust in your relationships.
SPRITZ: Now that we have cleansed and protected, it’s time to bring in more refined energy. Aromatherapy spritzes can be amazing for this. Lemon spritz is particularly good to cutting dense energy and resetting, but you may also like to try Lavender or Orange Blossom.
AGUA DE FLORIDA or Florida Water started as an American answer to Europe’s popular Eau du Cologne in 1808. Its fresh citrus-spice scent was used across sexes as a refreshing, light perfume and became known as a healing tonic. Over time Agua de Florida made its way to Peru and became integrated into the spiritual healing practices of the Curanderas and Curanderos. It’s used to carry prayers and intentions, open and clear energies, uplift spirits, calm anxiety and also as a fire starter for Despacho ceremony. I have found Agua de Florida to be especially proficient in sealing in healing and refined vibrations.
SINGING BOWL, bells or chimes: Sound is a powerful way of transmuting energy and the high vibrations of a singing bowl or chimes to complete your Threshold Cleansing Ritual is a wonderful way to seal it all in.
Many blessings for 2022. There’s a lot going on at this time in the world - it’s not easy! I find that keeping things simple helps us to stay grounded and remain connected to ourselves and one another. I hope this Threshold Cleansing Ritual can do just that and is a practical way to bring the sacred into your home and your life.
In heartfelt connection
LittleBird