There’s a spring clean… and there’s a spring clean. If you’re looking to start the sunny season (please, let it be sunny) with a spring in your step and a positive attitude, look no further than this simple ritual thanks to our pal Gaia Chinniah!
Each season brings with it an opportunity to cleanse and clear away the old and bring about the new. A ‘spring clean’ is always a powerful ritual and a way to leave the cold winter behind us, and move into the summer months renewed. This year, and this change in season in particular, we are being asked to be ruthless with what we want to remove from our lives – with an emphasis on getting rid of material and energetic clutter in our homes that confuses the mind, and to create and allow space for new growth to enter our lives.
So, this calls for a spring clean and cleanse ritual for your energetic home! This cleanse will help you regain a sense of control with the intention set for your physical environment to support you in the creation of newness and opportunity, to clear away any clutter and stagnation created by the winter months, shifting any emotions of loneliness or burden and to allow new beginnings to enter life once again.
Your intention as you clear your home this year could be “I cleanse and clear all energy that does not serve me and bring in all the support I need to grow”.
With this in mind you can begin your ritual repeating the above in your mind or out loud with meaning as you walk through your space.
Spring Cleanse Tool Kit:
You will need:
- Sea salt (pantry is fine) or if you’re near the ocean fill a mason jar with sea water and bring it home.
- White sage, sage incense, dried lavender or dried rosemary branches
OR you are able to visualise this ritual and perform it using your imagination, it is still very powerful.
CLEANSE
- Mix a teaspoon of sea salt/salt water with some pure water in a small bowl or cup and hold it in your hands.
- Energising it with purifying energy from your soul, look into the sea salt and visualise the vastness of the ocean and its ability to wash away the old and bring the new ashore. Pour into it the energy of positivity, clarity, purification and cleansing with your intentions into your salty water solution. Then take your sage or your choice of herb and move to the front door of your home (or imagine this), and stand on the doorstep with your front door shut.
- Leave your sage at the front door and step into your home. Imagine you are seeing your home for the very first time, and using your dominant hand (your five fingers representing the five elements of air, earth, fire, space and water), dip your fingers gently into the salty water and lightly sprinkle the positive energy that you poured into the water in every corner of each room.
- Use the power within you to truly believe that you are cleansing your home of the old and allowing this new salty solution to clear, purify, to bring in positivity into every room of your home. If you are doing this as a visualisation, move from room to room in your home and imagine sprinkling the water solution into every corner.
RENEW
- Now that you have done your cleansing ritual, place the salty water in the centre of your home overnight and tip it outside 24hours later. The salty solution, using its positive ions, will pull in any remaining negativity energetically from your home. Then go to your front door and light your sage or cleansing herb option of choice and watch it catch flame. (If you are visualising this ritual then imagine holding it in your hands and lighting it). Then blow the flame out and watch the embers burn, setting an intention. Sage has been a part of a healing and wisdom ritual for thousands of years and it’s time that you bring the wisdom of your soul into your home, however you may find the other herbs suggested are more available to you and still have powerful cleansing properties.
- Set the intention before stepping into your home with this sacred smoke, of being able to bring your wisdom to showcase all of your talents, for contentment and satisfaction, attracting all the good, all your wishes coming true into your home and knowing that you deserve everything you’re working to plant during springtime to reap the benefits in summer. The smoke of the sage is carrying all of this energy now, as you walk around room by room, allowing the sacred smoke to bring in this soul wisdom.
- When you are done with the smoke part of your ritual, leave it to end its burning somewhere safe and open all of your windows and doors to allow cleansing, fresh air to flow through your front door and windows and out through the back, and if you’re imaging this, feel the cleansing breeze of this new spring cycle move through your home.
Happy spring everyone!
Gaia is an internationally known healer, medium and spiritual coach. She channels messages from spirit guides, uses energy healing and is able to speak to your soul and see your past lives. Gaia has a Masters in Management Studies, is a Reiki Master and has a qualification from Omega Institute New York in Past Life Regression Therapy.
www.soul33.com for her Spiritual Guidance app search ‘Soul33’ on your app store.
