New Year Cleansing

I spent the day clearing out the most important room in my house; my bed room. Next to the kitchen, I spend most of my time there. That's where I keep all of my books, ingredients, and spell needs. During the holidays, I put off cleaning my room for as long as I could. Last night, when I came home from being with friends I tripped over everything. It was definitely time to clean. 

After my morning cup of coffee and a quick pick up of my kitchen, I was ready to get started. It was about 11 in the morning, but it's never too late to start the year off in a positive mood. I thought about the best way to cleans my room of all the negative feelings it's accumulated over the year when I saw it was snowing. Fresh snow is the best. So I took a small cooking pot and went out side. I took the cleanest snow off my porch and filled the pot. Back inside I pulled out my favorite oils.

Sweet Orange

Spearmint

Lemon

I also pulled out two of my favorite herbs that I grew last year.

Basil

Oregano

With everything out, I put the snow on the stove to melt and boil. I had to go back outside a few times to get a decent amount of water after melting. Once I was happy, I started putting my ingredients in and chanting my spell. 

With the first snow

of the new year,

I empower you

to clear.

Sweet sharp orange,

clear my mind.

Home grown basil,

happiness to find.

Pure oregano,

a chance to grow.

Lush spearmint,

A new life to show.

Lemon sweet,

and equally fine.

Show my love,

That he is mine.

After adding all the ingredients, I stirred the water with my wooden spoon (the only spoon I use for magic) and repeated the spell. Once I felt it was strong enough I put it outside in the snow and finished the spell.

 Let fresh snow,

grant my blessing.

So it is,

So mote it be.

I had wanted to say bright sun grant my blessing, but it was still snowing. 

With my cleansing water energized, I went to work in my room. The first thing I cleaned with the water were my stones. I took my time cleaning everything that held magical importance to me, and even got my boyfriend to fix my book case for me. I wiped every surface down with fresh snow and burned lavender incense.

After everything was where I wanted it, I placed one final spell in my chalice. The following ingridents correspond with the following spell.

Sugar

Lavender

Spearmint

Domiana

Star Anise

Sandalwood

Fennel

Bless us,

with a sweet year.

Bless us,

 with a calm year.

Bless us,

with a wealthy year.

Bless us,

with a passionate year.

Bless us,

with a healthy year.

Bless us,

with protection this year.

Bless us,

with an abundant year.

So it is,

So mote it be.

The new year has a nice start to it, and there will be more magic waiting for me in the future.