BATH PROTECTION & SPIRITUAL‏ by kim

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QUICK AND EASY SPIRITUAL CLEANSING OIL

 MIX:  Lemongrass Oil, Hyssop Oil, and Camphor Oil.

ADD: A pinch of dried Lemongrass Leaves and a pinch of dried Hyssop Leaves.

BLEND: Shake well before using. If you let the mixture "work" together for at least one week, it will improve; a full month will bring out the best fragrance.

 

 QUICK AND EASY LOVING OIL

 MIX: Rose Oil, Rose Geranium Oil, and Musk Oil.

ADD: A pinch of dried Rose Petals and a pinch of dried Lovage Root Chips.

BLEND: Shake well before using. If you let the mixture "work" together for at least one week, it will improve; a full month will bring out the best fragrance.

 

QUICK AND EASY MONEY AND BUSINESS OIL

MIX: Cinnamon Oil, Bayberry Oil, and Mint Oil.

ADD: A pinch of dried Cinnamon Chips, a pinch of dried Mint Leaves, and a pinch of crushed Pyrite Gravel crystals.

BLEND: Shake well before using. If you let the mixture "work" together for at least one week, it will improve; a full month will bring out the best fragrance.

 

Spiritual baths are of major importance in many spiritual traditions and it’s a very important component of old-style HooDoo.

In India it is customary to bathe in the sacred water of a ghat (temple pool) or in the Ganges river before entering a shrine. Washing one’s face and hands after entering a synagogue, or washing in a mikve (a pool of rain water) is common in the Jewish tradition. And while sweat lodges are sacred spaces for the Native Americans, in HooDoo bathing before starting a major magickal undertaking is a key ritual that came from the African roots of this tradition.

 

Bathing is important not only for spiritual cleansing, but also for aligning your energy and purpose with the magickal intent of the work at hand. If you are planning on working a money spell, for instance, the prescribed spiritual bath would include herbs, minerals and/or oils that are aligned with the energy of your purpose. After taking such bath, you will be not only more focused on your spiritual intent and removed from the daily clatter that happens in our heads, but you will actually be aligned with the purpose of your work due to the magickal properties of the herbal and mineral essences that permeated the cells of your physical body as your were bathing yourself.

 

Sometimes a bath would be enough — if the purpose of the work is cleansing oneself of a “sin” like after performing a coercive spell  — but most often a spiritual bath would be performed as a beginning of a magickal rite.

 

In HooDoo it is common to spiritually bathe before dawn. Some of the bath water is kept to be disposed before or at sunrise, at specific locations deemed to be magickal. The crossroads, for example, is a notorious place for the disposal of bath water (and other ritual remains). One would be encouraged to throw their bath water Eastwards, the direction of the rising sun.

 

There are three types of spiritual baths:

(1)    Herbal — containing roots, herbs, barks, etc.

(2)    Mineral — composed of sea salt, Epsom salt, Laundry Bluing, etc.  

(3)    Combination — made up of herbs and minerals.

 

Making a Herbal Bath requires first steeping the herbs and roots in boiling water, just like you would steep tea. Then straining the steeped liquid; and adding it to your regular bath water, or washing yourself directly with the tea-bath liquid. The amount of time for steeping Herbal Baths depends on the amount of herbs used in a tea-bath. , Mineral Baths, on the other hand, require melting the salts in hot water — whether in a regular tub or in a basin — and then pouring it over yourself.

Combinations require both, steeping herbs and melting salts.

 

Appropriate oils and colognes can be also added to spiritual baths to augment the magickal effect of the work.

 

HOW TO PERFORM A SPIRITUAL BATH? 

Well, now that you steeped your tea-bath and added some oils, what to do next? Though seating in a tub filled with hot water, Epsom salts and aromatic herbal essences is pleasant and relaxing, it’s only the effect of a spiritual bath and not its purpose.

 

Performing a spiritual bath depends on the reason of our magick — are we trying to bring something beneficial onto ourselves (i.e. wisdom, wealth, love, etc.) or are we trying to take something malefic away (like crossed conditions, the evil eye, bad habits, and so on…)?

If we are trying to bring positive effects onto ourselves, we will bathe our bodies with upward strokes. On the other hand, to remove negative properties would require bathing with downward strokes.

 

Lets say that my magickal intention is to find a new job and I am planning to take bath and then work a white candle

In this case I would take some water in a small pot or basin and pour it over myself. I would  repeat this at least 7 times, which is the amount of herbs / components .

After pouring each tim.e, I would caress my body from the tips of my toes to my head, while repeating a prayer or mantra. For instance I would say: “New and successful work comes to me.” Or I would repeat SHRIM — a seed-syllable mantra that invokes the goddess Lakshmi. The 23rd Psalm of David could also be very effective in this case.

 

Now if I need to remove crossed conditions from myself I would bathe with downwards strokes — meaning I would caress my body from my head to my toes after pouring the water each time, while saying something like: “Remove this condition from me,” or repeating KRIM, KALI’s sacred seed-syllable mantra. Again, the amount of times I would repeat this will depend on the amount of components used in the spiritual bath.

 

It is important to note that in HooDoo it is custom to air-dry or drip-dry, and wear clean clothes after taking a spiritual bath. It is not advised to towel yourself after such rite because it will signal Spirit that you are removing your spiritual intention.

 

Finally, here is a little recipe for a 3-ingredient Cleansing Mineral Bath:

1/2 cup Kosher Salt

1/2 cup Epsom Salt

Some Florida Cologne 

I hope this information would be useful and helpful in your spiritual work.

Happy hoodooing y’all!

With Bright Blessings,

Miss Nadezda Karuna

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How to Make a Cleansing Bath

Baths are a great way to relax in solitude, but if you add some liquid sage you can also get a nice cleanse out of it. This self cleansing bath will help to nullify all the negativity you've built up over the past week.

Fill the tub with hot water and mix in two cups of sea salt. Add one teaspoon of sage oil to it. If you don't have any, sprinkle regular sage into the water, but make sure to wash it all off before you leave the tub.

Step 2

If you have oil of rosemary and tea tree as well, add four drops of each oil to your bath.

Step 3

Lower yourself into the water and visualize it cleansing you of all negativity. Feel the negativity in your entire physical, mental and spiritual self being to be released into the water as you bathe.

Step 4

Take a loofah and scrub away all the tension in your body.

Step 5

When you feel ready, release the drain, allowing the negatively charged water to flow out of the tub. Repeat the following as it drains three times:
"Thank you Water Elements of the West for cleansing my body, mind and spirit of negativity."

Step 6

Rinse yourself off with cool water and dry off.

 

Make your herbal bath

Using the mortar and pestle, grind the sea salts, nettle, cinnamon and vervain individually. As you grind each place it in a wooden bowl.

 

Once you have finished grinding each ingredient, and have placed it in the bowl, mix the herbs and salt together by hand. As you mix them together imbue them with protective and positive energies. Envision a white, protective light that will encircle you each time you use the bath salts and remain with you afterwards.

 

After you have mixed the herbs and salts, place them in the glass jar and affix the lid.

 

If you wish, label the jar with the type and date of bath salts

Other herbs which can be used: Angelica, Comfrey, Rosemary, Basil and Rue

Adjust herb amounts to suit.

If you are planning to store bath salts for future use, add 1/8 cup of baking soda. (For increased amounts of salts increase amount of baking soda to 1/4 cup.)

Store the bath salts away from moisture and direct sunlight.

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