Our homes are sacred spaces too, just as we use the guardians, watchtowers or elements to protect our circles many witches and pagans will use wards to protect their homes. These wards are used to protect from outside forces but the problem with this is that in this modern time of electronics and closer social connections and communication we end up inviting so much negativity into our homes and make it welcome negating any protection our wards could provide.
As a witch I am very attuned to the energy of my home may be more so then some as I write from home spend nearly everyday of the week sitting at my desk or I move 3 feet and sit on the sofa my whole world is contained inside my home (BTW I do go out shopping or to eat or spend time with friends). I have always insured my home as a positive flow of energy not sure if it feng shui but I know what feels right and I have often had friends remark about how welcoming and relaxed my home is.
Now I know that since I am very in tune with my environment my environment is also in tune with me so when I get hacked off or sad or ill or any negative emotions my home takes on that energy. Once my mood has change and positivist begins to flow once more.
Now I am not the sort of person who likes clean line and everything in it place I am more pile of books notes and plenty of knick-knacks around sort of person my home is a home not a museum it to be lived in and shared. I have a routine every Sabbat I clean the house, top to bottom in preparation for my rituals and to renew my wards.
But for nearly six months I have had a well of negativity surround me many of my friends have been going through financial difficulties, their has also been a large number of people how has passed away and a few more on their way, my self like everyone else has their own daily trials and tribulations.
Now I said I sit at my desk most of the time either to write, check out what mates are up to on facebook, email my friends and respond to them and chat on the phone I often joke that when I die they will have to bury me in a chair shaped coffin as I spend so much time here.
Now with all the negativity around me I would be on the phone having my friends tell me that their life was going to hell or blar blar has just passed, Watching friends fight and break up on facebook my desk area was becoming a negative energy dump which I was not aware of.
As this energy began to build slowly the changes I began to feel where very slight so much so they where accepted as normal everyday negative feeling and was not bothered by them. I only noticed the negative energy after I started to feel very unwell and decided that I needed some time away. So I basically got up checked email and stats and would take myself off out after a few days of taking sometime to myself I was happy to return back to writing and facebook but as I sat down I could feel a heaviness I began to focus on the negativity it was like a swirling grey slowly moving tornado centred over the area I would sit in.
I did the normal thing and got the smudge stick out and cleansed my desk did a few chants and blessed my working area that worked for about a week and then it came back. Slowly at first the bang it was back to fall force and I needed time away from PC once more.
I was sitting watching the energy from the sofa and decided that I had to do something I had to work out what it was I new it was a negative force but what was feeding it. I had to work out first if it was fixed in place or connected to something so I moved the room around placing the desk in the window. Now with everything in its new place I checked to see if the energy vortex moved to.
The energy vortex remained in its same place ok so it a fixed one I could now deal with that I smudged once more and then did a cleansing ritual and it was gone.
A few months later it came back once more over my desk so I saved time and moved desk again and smudged and cleansed space again. But this got me thinking what had caused the issues to arise once more.
Fearing it was something to do with my feeling about writing or my PC I did a working that Hermes was the focus of. It all suddenly fell into place through the telephone, PC and TV I gave a root for unwanted energies to enter but not dissipate
That became contained a small local energy vortex which was being feed by out side communication.
There was no way I could kill off all negative communication since there is so much negativity about. I could see that this was going to become an issue now the desk has been moved once more I know that to insure a happy environment some things has to be done.
I have sat and though about this issue and realised that with out creating a circle physically I had created one on a mental level. My PC is on a cheap desk with printer and phone and Munch the gerbil in the corner of my living room but I refer to it as the OFFICE making it separate from the rest of the room (a world within a world). I can be so dumb sometimes that I did not see that I had created a sacred space where my main focus is to write about living a pagan life and share some of my insights and knowledge in a non formal way. Of course a shield would have been created just on a mental level which over time would have been made solid. Which was then being filled with the negative feelings of friends, the news, Facebook etc
This made it easy to solve! Each day start the day with an open of my workspace and when finished close the workspace and dissipate the energy nothing to formal just “time to start work” and “done finished that enough for today” is enough.
This has now got me thinking of how many other circles have been created around my home that I have been unaware of.
Now I know that many people may have the same feelings when it comes to sitting at a PC and I also know that from psychology That PC can help create social exclusion as more people communicate digitally rather than in person, leaving some feeling isolated and depressed. I am sure that much of those feelings are due to the fact that we spend so much time in front of PC and Laptops that we create our own personal bubbles that we fill with our feelings that encompasses the cyber world we just need to remember to release the energies we store.
After reading this you may realise that there are spaces that get you down it may be your work place if you do see if you have by mistake or without knowing created a bubble that’s containing your and others negativity the disperse it and see if things start to improve!
Originally posted 2010-10-26 12:22:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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