Category: Spirit Whispers

Space Clearing for a Fresh Start & How to Make Your Own Smudge Spray

I’m a firm believer in the idea that your home should be a sacred sanctuary that nurtures your Spirit. It’s important to me to be able to enjoy my home and to feel that my space supports me spiritually. I love having spaciousness, Nature and sacred spaces to encounter Spirit in my home. From time to time, when the energy in your space becomes stagnant, de-cluttering and clearing out stagnant or negative energies is an important part of making a fresh start and getting things to flow again. What better time to do some space clearing than at the outset of this New Year?

Smudge bundles work wonders, however my husband seemed to be affected by the smoke when I burn them. So sometimes I use smudge sprays. Clearing sprays are easy to make and I seem to sense a so much loving light and angelic essence filling my space when I work with them. I love using a combination of essential oils, crystals, salts and plant allies. It’s great to imbue the spray bottle with sparkling white light to Reiki energy as well.

The great thing about smudge sprays is that you can mix it up and tailor-make it according to your needs.

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How to Make Your Own Smudge Spray

 

You will need:

  • 1 50ml glass bottle (I prefer glass bottles, but plastic ones will also do)
  •  Essential oils (preferably sage, and one other of your choice)
  • Spring water or Filtered water
  • Crystal stones
  • A pinch of Himalayan Rock Salt or Sea Salt
  • Alcohol

 

I’ve seen many people using amber or cobalt glass bottles. I prefer a clear bottle because I like the sense of clearness and light that I get from it. I personally avoid plastic, but if you would like to use a plastic bottle then feel free to do so.

To make the smudge spray, fill ¾ of the bottle with spring/filtered water.

Add 4 to 8 drops of sage essential oil. Sage is a wonderful plant ally that is known for its powerful sacred clearing medicine and spiritual healing properties. (To my understanding, it is not advisable for pregnant women to use sage essential oil. So avoid if you’re pregnant and investigate other options.) In addition to the sage essential oil, you can also add 2 to 4 drops of another essential oil of your choice, especially if you’d like to give your spray a nice scent. Try cedar or lemon together with the sage oil to enhance the sacred clearing properties of the spray or something like lavender or geranium for a pleasant scent. I often I work with the healing energies of flowers, so I add a few drops of rose essential oil. I then apply a little Flower Essence Reiki to charge the spray with white rose energy. White roses help purify negative energy in your space and your aura. Sometimes, I add a fresh sage leaf and a few white rose petals into the bottle too. This further activates the clearing medicine of these beautiful plant allies.  

Add a dash of alcohol. You can use spraying alcohol which is usually available at most craft stores or a dash of a clear spirit such as vodka. Alcohol helps to preserve the spray, but you don’t have to use it if you don’t like having alcohol in your products. Avoid if you have sensitive skin that reacts to alcohol.  

Put a pinch of Himalayan Rock Salt or Sea Salt into the bottle. This amplifies the sacred clearing properties of the spray.

Next, draw on the healing power of crystals by either putting a small quartz crystal inside of the bottle or placing a few large crystals around the bottle and letting it stand so that it becomes charged with the crystal energy.

Finally, take a moment to be present with your smudge spray. Charge it with cleansing white light or Reiki energy. Call on your angels to imbue it with healing angelic light and love. Archangel Michael and Archangel Jophiel are wonderful Too give the spray a Goddess touch, I often let my bottle outside on a full-moon to charge under the moonlight.

And then you are good to go. Happy Space Clearing!

 

      

Floating Freely: Meditating on the Spirit of Water

Don’t you love those moments that remind you that Spirit is everywhere?

Yesterday, when my husband and I spent the afternoon swimming to cool off from the summer heat, I ended up doing a meditation.

I lay floating on my back in the water. Looking up at the sky, the clouds drifted slowly. My thoughts drifted with them, evaporating, until eventually my mind was empty. Attuning to the movement of the water around me and the clouds overhead felt so liberating. Allowing my body to glide freely, I listened to the sounds of the water, its music resonating gently in my submerged ears. There were moments when it was as if the sky and the water became one, and I was moving leisurely in a spacious fluffy void.

The soothing feminine energies of water bodies are therapeutic. They feel familiar, safe and natural somehow. Perhaps it is linked to our subconscious memories of the womb or perhaps it is something to do with a cosmic consciousness traced far back to our origins in the ocean of creation at the beginning of time. Perhaps it is simply the mermaid soul in me.

Whatever it is, it makes me strongly aware of the responsive energy embodied within this aqueous medium.

 

“I believe that water is a living consciousness that has been with us since the beginning of time. It flows through us connecting us to it and each other.” ~ Louise Tarrier

 

It flows, cleanses, soothes, shifts, heals and teaches. It holds memory of both the present and ancient long forgotten times.

It captures the essence of the ebb and flow of our own energy, moods and emotions.  

It is alive with Spirit, with consciousness and the Goddess.

So by floating and allowing myself to be, I was mindful of Spirit around me in the water. I was mindful of that fact that Spirit is everywhere, without and within. And Spirit felt like fluid, free, light, graceful and unrestrained.   

What reminds you that Spirit exists in and around all things? How do you find ways to feel connected to all that is?

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Releasing 2013 and Making Room for New Miracles in 2014

Have you been finding ways to release the past year? 

The Waning Moon has set the perfect ambiance to release 2013. Its energy brings not only the opportunity to release, but also to pause and reflect before a new cycle begins to flow again. The days after Christmas and between New Year have been quiet, peaceful and pensive ones.  It is also a good time for smudge out any stagnant energy.

What do you want to manifest in the year to come?

2014 is bound to get off to an incredible start. The New Moon falls on the 1st of January. Since the New Moon energy is all about focusing intentions and planting new seeds for all the beautiful things that you want to manifest in your life, this is nothing less than perfect timing.

I have such a good feeling about the year to come. In 2013, us Earth Angels, Lightworkers and Starseeds have gone through so many energy shifts. We have broken through barriers and dropped into our shadows. We have been tested in so many ways, forced to draw on our inner resources and discovered just how strong we actually are by overcoming the challenges we faced. There may have been intense moments that left some of us discombobulated. But that aside, we’ve also experienced profound spiritual epiphanies, downloads and saw miracles take place in our lives.

As always, there are yet more changes and shifts to come. Something tells me that there are also even bigger blessings and miraculous experiences in the works too.

I am looking forward to it. But that will happen when the time arrives. For now, the present moment is just as juicy. Soaking in to what Marissa of Moondaughter calls the ‘ebb energy’ of the waning moon, I am content, feeling grounded, connected to the calming energy of the Great Mother and enjoying having a rest before things pick up again.   

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