Spring Cleaning Your Energetic Field

Santa Ana winds and some equinox magic.

It’s technically still winter, but here in Los Angeles it’s hot. Like 90 degrees hot.

The Santa Ana winds were blowing last week. Maybe that’s why I've been feeling unsettled and a bit bleak.

I’ve felt a kind of paralysis move in, likely the result of the general overwhelm of having thirteen thousand things to do every day which never all get done. Things are feeling stagnant when they need to be moving forward.

I think I might need an energetic clearing.

And with the equinox coming up next week, it feels like the perfect time. You spring clean your house, so why not your energetic field?

Let’s do it together.

Some cleansing items.

First things first. Deep clean your physical space.

If your home is dirty or cluttered, you will be surrounded by stagnant energy. As above, so below — so get that shit moving.

My porch and front doorway had a bunch of cobwebs all over the place because I was out of town for so long. No wonder I’ve been feeling stuck.

If you have a car, clean that too (inside and out.)

Once everything’s clean, make a simple witchy floor wash by pouring a little hot water over some hyssop and lavender, let it steep like a tea, then dilute it. You can add some lemon peel if you like. Now, mop your floors with it.

Open all your windows and doors. Light some palo santo (or sage or copal) and smudge your house going counterclockwise. Get in all of the corners and dark spaces.

You can envision the smoke loosening up any stuck energy and pushing it out the doors and windows.

The plate I am definitely fixing this week.

Purge.

Get rid of anything broken (unless you will realistically fix it within the next couple of weeks.) I’ve been hanging on to this broken plate that I want to kintsugi (can that be a verb?) so I will make myself do that this week.

Pick one item of clothing that represents a self you have grown beyond. If it can be useful to someone else, give it away. If it’s in tatters or holds heavy energy of a traumatic time, get rid of it.

Take a bath.

Toss some sea salt and lavender into the water. When you’re in the bath, imagine the water absorbing anything stagnant or negative in your energetic body.

Relax. You will know when it’s time to get out.

Once you’re finished, drain the tub and visualize all of the negativity leaving with the bathwater.

If you don’t have a bathtub, you can use a body scrub and do the same thing in the shower.

If anyone has any other rituals they do for spring cleaning their energetic fields, I’d love to hear about them. Let me know in the comments.

Until next time,

Tara