Valley Wands

There are many ways to protect the home or workplace but again it is good housekeeping to cleanse the energies from time to time. It is not always practical to perform a ritual in the workplace so there are more discrete ways of cleansing energies.

A piece of Amethyst will absorb negative energies and minor background radiation which is given out by electrical equipment. So place a piece near your computer (it also looks pretty). Don’t forget to wash the crystal under running water (the tap in the bathroom is quite sufficient) occasionally.

If you have a pot plant on your desk bring in the odd small bottle of prepared sacred water and use it to water the plant. Not only will the plant love it, it will behave just the same in the soil as a small pot of water would, in that it absorbs negativity in and around you.

You can obtain sacred water from certain wells that still exist, but it is much easier to make your own. The process is very simple using an old Celtic remedy. Just for interest the Celts called quartz crystal ‘star stones’ as they believed they were frozen stars.

• Find nine small quartz crystals lying naturally in a stream or on a seashore and rinse them well in pure running water to remove pollution.

• Place the crystals in a litre of spring water and bring to the boil, and then allow it to cool. The water is said to have healing properties and so is very powerful for absorbing negativity. This will last for nine days.

Of course another well known way of cleansing anything is using natural sunlight, and to this end a desk by the window will be a far more pleasant environment than one in a dark corner.

The simplest and easiest form of protection in an office environment is to visualise for a few minutes each day a square of reflective mirrors surrounding your desk. The reflective side should be facing out. The mirrors will deflect any negative energy away from you.

The home is always easier to deal with, as in general you have more privacy there and a much freer hand at what you are able to do. Although there can be many ill feelings and cross words at a workplace, we tend to be harsher on those we love. Our homes are a breeding ground for a build up of negativity. Just think of all the mutterings, the sighs and even the arguments that can build up over such small things. Not just between partners but children and even other close relatives and visitors.

If you are able, it is always a good idea to smudge the whole house from top to bottom at least twice a year. As you move around the house (deosil) ask that all negativity or dark energy be removed. When you have completed the smudging then visualise white positive light, pull it down from above your head, and hold it, as it builds up release it and visualise it bouncing into every far corner of the house, replacing all those voids left by the removal of the dark energy.

Energies

Perhaps after reading this far you are a little confused as to the nature of energy, and it is something I feel needs a little clarification.

There is in the universe a finite amount of energy (scientific fact). You can’t make energy or destroy it (scientific fact), but what you can do is change it:

1. Wind energy can be used to make electricity

2. Electricity can be used to power a fire and create heat

3. Heat can be used to warm a Greenhouse and grow plants

4. Plants can be used as food and eaten giving us energy

All of these stages are energy being transformed. All energy can be used for both good and bad purposes. There is a very old saying:

‘A witch who can’t hex, can’t heal’

Think about this statement for a moment and its meaning will become clear. We all like to think that we will only work in the light, that we will only do what is good, right and just, but until we are put in the situation of choice we have no way of knowing what we are capable of. The only thing that prevents us from using energy for the wrong purpose is that of our conscience, so next time you are tempted to try doing any sort of workings whilst you are angry or not feeling well, or for any reason ‘not at your best’ – just stop and think.

And so we go back to protection. We have previously discussed ‘Bubbles of white light’ and indeed these bubbles can be as large as you wish. They can be large enough just to surround you, or your car, or the room or indeed the house. In fact, when you consider it, all a ‘bubble’ is when made larger, is a circle…even one big enough to hold many people in and perform a ritual. We will look at circles in more detail later, but for the moment I do not want to get too involved here.

Pyramids

The pyramid is another shape very often associated with psychic protection. It has obvious historical links to ancient Egypt, but what is so special about the pyramid?

The mathematically perfect 3, 4, 5 triangle that we all remember so fondly from our geometry class at school, is more than just a three sided shape. When created in the third dimension (i.e. a pyramid) it has some remarkable properties.

Organic matter placed in the centre of a mathematically perfect pyramid will not decay. That is quite a statement, but when you see the evidence found in the Great Pyramid of Cheops it is awe inspiring. Seeds that were placed in the Great Pyramid 6000 years ago when the tomb was first sealed, were removed and grown! There were jars containing foods such as breads and meats, which were still preserved and recognisable (albeit not edible) – I wish my loaf from Tesco’s would last as long!

The sarcophagus was always placed in a chamber of which the floor was exactly one third of the way up the height of the pyramid, and at the centre of the energies. In these chambers there are many tales of visions of spirits ‘flying’ around the chamber. Are they real visions? Or just maybe men suffering the effects of the hot sun, fear and expectations? You have to decide that, but the ancient Egyptians believed that this area was the safest place for the soul of the departed. A place of protection where the spirits and the Gods would care for and attend the departed on their journeys.

If you make a frame of a 3, 4, 5 pyramid and place it on a grass lawn, the grass inside will grow much better than outside. It has also been proven scientifically that the magnetic field directly above such a pyramid is very different to that of the area prior to the placement of the pyramid and the surrounding area.

So what makes the energies in the pyramid so different? – If we knew that we’d know the answer to the age old question of ‘Life, the Universe and everything’ but suffice to say that the evidence points to it being a very positive energy. You may see pictures of people with pyramid frames, using them to meditate in, and they are said to promote a great feeling of peace, tranquillity and good health. How much of that is wishful thinking? – I don’t know, but those seeds did grow after 6000 years.

And so, the pyramid is very often a shape that is used to invoke a shield of protection around a person or an object, and indeed many see it as being much stronger than that of the circle or bubble, personally I see it as purely a matter of personal preference.

Try using a pyramid visualisation to clear and protect your home.

Sit quietly and visualise a beam of light coming down through the centre of the house, now visualise this beam snapping out hinged way above the house to form a pyramid, so that the whole house is encased in the pyramid. As the pyramid opens it removes any negativity pushing it outwards and leaving a clear space within it’s form. With practise this should be able to be done in seconds, and can be done at any time and without anyone else needing to know what you are doing.

I’ll leave it there for now, next time I’ll talk about protective Amulets and Talismans.

BB

Sian