How to work magic into everyday life.

House cleansing - saging/saining (Gaelic Polytheists) / censing 

This is done with sage, lavender, incense to rid the place of negative energies. 

How: There are many different ways. What I do…

Good to do when first moving into a new place and nice to do when you move out. 

• First, have some sort of sage ( or palo santo) or dried cleansing herb to light, usually lit in an abalone shell, censor, or fire safe dish. Have a feather available to waft the smoke as you move around the area.  Always practice fire safety!

Use this at every door and window as a way of protection. Visualize negative energy being transported out and it being a one way portal for that purpose. Move in a counterclockwise direction around the area (house, room or anything being cleansed). [If you are invoking positive energy after a cleansing I would move in a clockwise direction.]

• Open all closets, drawers, and any other things that can be opened. Sage all areas speaking aloud what you want removed [or want to invite in]

If the sage goes out on its own at any point during then some say the act is done and that’s all that was needed. OR that area is done. 

Another way to do the same thing is with similar intent which is to actually CLEAN everything you can or feel needs to be cleansed all the while keeping your intentions clear and saying what they are as you go. I have also read where people make sure to open all doors and windows to leave an easy space for the negative energies to escape. You could do this with just one entryway if preferred [like one window or one door. If you have a chimney then focus the energy out that route]. Afterwards some people like to leave salt in each opening in order to keep particularly bad energies away or out.

Cooking

Tea is a good example. 

Stirring deosil (attracting or increasing) or widdershins (banishing or decreasing) according to intention

Using certain herbs and ingredients

Office

Place pictures that suit the directions around your area if possible (that can be family who are strewn across the states or world or actual places you’ve been or want to go)

Bring a stone or amulet with you to represent pretty much any aspect you want (like a small jar or things to represent the elements, or a protection sachet to hold on your person, crystals are always good to have)

Daily ins and outs - what you do during the day to incorporate magic all day

Wardrobe/jewelry 

colors, gems, styles, patterns

Casting glamors into makeup

Chants/mantras

Chanting “Hocus Pocus Focus” to get the brain focused again

Affirmations, daily ones, writing on your mirror, writing one and keeping it with you throughout the day, example: “N. E. S. W. May this day be truly blessed”

Journaling 

Sometimes done with an Oracle/Tarot pull

sometimes done by art or collage work

Meditation/Grounding

Meditating on deity (either a specific God/dess or on the aspects you want to manifest that day)

Can use tools like scrying into a mirror, candle flame or crystal ball even, breath work by focusing on the in and out of your breathing (for example; counting each full breath (inhale plus exhale as 1) or count one on the inhale and 2 on the exhale, focus on different feelings in your body starting from the head down, breathing calmly all the while

Research

Daily looking into spells and religion 

Looking into individual aspects of magic such as an herb, stone, recipes and color of the day (pick one for each day not necessarily all of them at the same time)

Hygiene

 Positivity spell on toothbrush, drawing sigils with perfume or cologne 

 Hair styles, facial shaving, hair style shaving

Travel (vehicle)

Visualization of protection bubble, traffic patterns, parking spaces 

Sachets filled with protection herbs, sigils

Adding in nature

Spending time with houseplants is a possibility 

gardening 

Obviously going to a natural place 

going to specific places that represent a particular element you want to focus on (Air/cliffs, hills or windswept meadows, Fire/desert, campfire, anywhere to be in the sun, Water/waterfalls, rivers, lakes, beach, streams or rain, Earth/woods, caves, garden, Spirit/Portals, in between places, sunset, sunrise), 

Times of year are also good to incorporate (Air/Spring, Fire/summer, West/fall, North/winter, Spirit/equinoxes, solstices)

Miscellaneous

Body Art Piercings placement on the body for significance, tattoos designs and symbols such a sigils, Henna

How do you work with deities without it feeling religious?

Talking with them conversationally

Take the deities attributes and apply them into the things you do- cooking(use an herb associated or something that has a color that is its’ association), cleaning (use a feather envisioning Freya’s cloak for example)

Decorate your house with symbols and colors of the deity

Dreaming with the deity - make sachet with representative items close to the deity (herbs, stones, oils)

IChing

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Here we have K’uei which is Opposition. When things naturally diverge it is hard to get enough together to make big changes, so at this time make little changes. Focus not on what has passed, nor what may come, but only the things that you have power over in the here and now. Opposition is not a bad thing, it’s part of what helps us keep our individuality when we talk to others. Things will not be peachy though. You may feel isolated and left alone, but your people are out there. Whether that’s a current friend or friends, or one(s) you haven’t met yet is hard to tell, regardless everything will come out well in the end.

This hexagram changes to Ta Ch’u, The Taming Power of the Great. Use Opposition as a time of inner reflection, because once the time of Opposition finishes, it will be time for big projects and great things. In this time you should reach deep for in being who you are you will find a lot of strength. It would be wise to turn that strength to serving others though. That is the only caveat to this outcome, don’t work for yourself on your big endeavor, serve others and you will find success.

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