Simple Home Magic

As with all magic, intention is truly the only necessity to create tangible results. The use of elements allows us to focus our energy. This gives our physical body something as real as we are, to direct that flow upon. Magic is around us all the time. These are some simple tips that may help you. Please let me know if they do!

Staples around my house growing up: cinnamon, bay leaves, and salt. These weren’t just for cooking, as my mama always had a ‘smoke pot’ close at hand. You may recognize this as smudging/sage. She would usually toss herbs into the fireplace, saying it helped cleanse the air. Almost daily she walked through the house or had it burn for a bit in the kitchen. We now know sage smoke does filtrate and cleanse the air of pathogens, virus, and other airborne ills. Something the indigenous peoples around the world have known, and practiced, for centuries. This is what healers do, use the earth to heal. Smudge, the ancient air purifier.

Salt, cinnamon, and bay leaves hold special energies, inherent to their nature. Here are 3 easy spells, when used with intention, that will bring results. Plus, it’s just FUN! I believe that playing with earth gives us a deeper connection and appreciation for all that is around us. I have many times sped through life without noticing anything, much less the beautiful sky or fresh air. So when adding little things like these spells, it heals us. It heals Mother Earth.

Salt across your door opening will cleanse bad energies and keep the negative from crossing your threshold.

Salt was a great offering to the Goddess/God, as it meant you were pure of heart. When offered, the return would be great prosperity and divine protection. It became associated with financial abundance and stability. It heals and brings back vitality, therefore was added to food and water for ritual and manifestation. Burned, poured, diluted, or any other use, added to the potency of any spell.

Logically(So move past if you wanna just hang onto the mystical magic):

Salt purifies and cures meat. It also deters bugs when put across window and door openings. Those pesky evil spirits. It  aids the body with absorbing minerals, restoring vitality. It cleans and speeds healing of wounds and lessens pain. Whenever we would get a sore throat as kids, Dad would make us gargle strong warm salt water. UGH so gross! AND it helped dull the pain (and it sure felt like it sped up the healing). We use saline to restore hydration. These aren’t the only incredible things salt does, but hopefully now you see why it is also used in magic. It does all of the same things using different verbiage.

Blowing cinnamon into your door will usher forth much prosperity.

I love cinnamon! Once one of the most valuable spices, cinnamon was a sign of great wealth and prosperity. Those who traveled with it were said to have always been divinely protected. When shared with others, it brought much luck, as all felt sweetened by it. It was used as a gift to the fairy folk, so they would not enter the body and wreak havoc! It connects us with spirit, enhancing psychic abilities. Burned, it purifies and spices the air. It is used as a powerful manifestation aid, speeding up divine timing with gentleness. Carried on your person, sprinkled in with your cash, burned in a smoke pot, or drank as a tea, cinnamon has a powerful history. With that much energy behind it, no wonder it is considered a magical spice.

Logically:

The spice trade made many wealthy. Through trade routes, it was used to ensure safe passage/as payment. SO yes, it does bring luck, prosperity, and protection.

It also protects in other ways. It heals inflammation, balances blood sugar, is antimicrobial, and aids in digestion. Protecting us from those fairies!

When ingested in concentrated quantity, it is a hallucinogenic. There it goes, increasing psychic abilities.

Seeing a pattern here?

Writing your wish on a bay leaf and burning it will bring it into fruition.

The Laurel Tree is of great strength. It has the courage to grow in the densest forests stretching its bushy bay fingers towards the filtered sunlight. Nothing will hinder its ability to seek out the light, courageously through the dark. A victory laurel is still used today. Placing the wreath upon the victors head warded off evil, purified thoughts, created visions, and made clear intentions for future success. Also used as a reminder to not rest on ones laurels. Added to soups, it revels in healing of movement forward. Wearing a sachet, offerings to the beings beyond, bathing in its tea all bring the properties of this divine herb.

Logically:

Bay leaves are very well researched for clearing joint pain and inflammation. Its uses for relieving gas pain and bloat, are well documented (helping move forward, physically). It’s also known to clear up dandruff, clearing evil spirits. Ingested or bathed in, it will reduce anxiety and muscle pain. The scent is said to clear the mind, much like peppermint or rosemary. So bundle it up, burn it with a wish, keep as a house plant, victory and success are yours when we implore the qualities of the Laurel Tree.

So use one or all of these and let me know how the MAGIC shows up in your life.