Easy Ways to Clear and Charge Your Energy through Witchy Season and Beyond: Crystals, Rituals, Practices, and more
One of the best practices that you can get into, especially in Witchy Season, is clearing and recharging yours and your home’s energy. Regardless of if you are just beginning to dabble in witchcraft, or you are someone deep into their magical and spiritual journey; energetic hygiene is one of the most necessary practices to develop! So let’s talk about what energetic clearing is and how to use clearing crystals, herbs, practices, and rituals to help you do it.
So what is energetic clearing? Just like when you go out into the physical world where you may pick up germs and dirt while living your everyday life, the same is true for your own personal energy. Energy can build up on you easily. It can be something as simple as someone dumping their life story on you, being in a location that holds strong or heavy emotions (like a hospital or even an antique store), having an interaction with someone who just felt off, or even wallowing in your own bad mood. What’s important to remember is that everyone needs to clear and release energy around them; there should be no stigma or judgement for yourself. You are a human being who is living life and will experience all the ups and downs, and so will your energy.
But maybe you’re like well why is it important? If I haven’t experienced negative side effects from not clearing my energy all these years, maybe it doesn’t affect me. The thing is, you have been clearing your energy since the time you were young; through baths and showers where maybe you feel as though you have “washed the day away”. Maybe you have found that dancing or running helps to clear your mind or make you feel better. You could find yourself drawn to nature; going on hikes in forests or near water to help your body decompress. There are countless ways that we regulate and clear our energy fields, whether we know it or not. However, if you are developing your own practices or stepping deeper into the metaphysical sphere, you may find it's not enough.
Doing shadow work, starting a healing, or even just opening and deepening your connection to your intuition makes you more sensitive to the outside world. You feel things harder and energies may be more attracted to you. If you don’t clear your energy regularly you might find yourself burning out in your practice. Because it is exhausting to keep holding on to not only your daily stressors, but the energy that other people give you to carry, or even the heaviness that comes from social media and world events. So let’s talk about some ways to incorporate regular energy clearing for you and your home so you can relax and feel good!
Cleaning
We briefly touched upon this above, but taking a shower is an excellent way to shift and clear your aura and auric field. Water is an incredibly powerful tool for disrupting and releasing things that we are holding onto (voluntarily or involuntarily). Intention work and the products you use in the shower can enhance this experience. While you’re showering, close your eyes and take a minute to envision the water falling around you. Imagine it running down your back and taking all the stress, emotions, and weight of the day off of your back so you can breathe a little easier.
If there is some particularly heavy energy around you, try using products with ingredients like sea salt, peppermint, rosemary, eucalyptus, or citrus to help add a little energy boost to your ritual. Needing some self love; soaps, lotions, and soaks with rose, berries, honey or vanilla can add in that extra bit of sweetness. You can even use a salt or sugar scrub over your energy centers to disrupt what is stuck there. More of a bath person? While baths can clear, they’re especially great for helping you soak in new energy. Adding epsom salt can help boost clearing properties while you focus on recharging and releasing whatever you need.
The same is true for your home! If the energy is feeling heavy, chaotic, stuck, or even just fussy; it may be time for a declutter and clean. Life gets busy and just like with ourselves, there shouldn’t be any judgement. Tending to your home and house magic are incredibly fun ways to reframe cleaning if it's not your thing right now (that’s a different blog though). Treat tidying and cleaning as a way to disrupt any energy that’s feeling stale. Just like you can use certain scents when cleaning your body, the same is also true when cleaning your home.
Crystals for Clearing & Charging your Energy
There are quite a few different crystals that help to clear and release energy, but these are some of my favorites!
Selenite
There are very few crystals that I think everyone should own, but Selenite is one of them. It helps to clear stuck and stagnant energy off of crystals, out of your home, and out of your energy field. There are so many easy ways to incorporate it into your everyday routines too! You can place a small piece of it over the main entryways into your home. This does double duty by clearing the energy of your guests as they enter your home, but also in clearing yours. Feeling stressed and chaotic as you rush out the door in the morning? Selenite can help take away a little of your frantic energy. And when you come home from a long day at work it can also ease your transition with letting the day go. You will also frequently see bowls and charging plates created out of Selenite. This is to make it easier to clear and charge your jewelry and any stones you work with on a frequent basis. You can also use Selenite in practices like Selenite combing (which you can read about in more depth here!)
Pink Halite
Pink Halite is a rare and unique mineral that forms in and around salt lakes. It carries a beautiful combination of energy clearing and heart healing properties, almost like a mix of Rose Quartz and Selenite. Pink Halite helps you to release heavy energy in the heart like guilt, self doubt, low self-esteem, and lack of worth. As a form of salt, this mineral can clear energy from crystals and your body. Try keeping it near your bed or in a place you practice self care like meditation or prayer. It can help you open up to new ideas surrounding the way you love and care for yourself.
Lemon Calcite
Lemon Calcite is an incredible stone for helping clear out your mental fields and reset your opinions about yourself and your abilities. If you have struggled with doubt and self criticism, especially relating to school, learning, or work, Lemon Calcite helps dissolve that and clear your heart and mind to create new possibilities. This is incredibly helpful as you move through healing journeys/shadow work around worth and confidence, so that you can embrace a new foundation for your thinking.
Clear Quartz
If you are feeling like your energy is depleted, Clear Quartz is wonderful at giving recharging and amplifying energy. While it doesn’t release energy from your body, it gives you the boost you need to reinvigorate and find clarity surrounding your path and next steps. After you have cleared your energy, try playing with clear quartz by resting it against your various energy centers or chakras. See what sensations you feel or even what pops into your mind with each. You can also use Clear Quartz to amplify the energy of other crystals that you are working with, allowing you to connect with their properties more easily.
Clearing with Herbs and Incense
One of the most popular ways to clear energy is through smoke by burning herbs, wood, and incense. The smoke helps to lift and carry old, heavy, or negative energy out of a space, while also allowing you to refill the space with new intentions and possibilities. Let’s break down some of the most popular burning ingredients!
Palo Santo
Palo Santo acts like an energy neutralizer, clearing out any energy that is in a space or around you. This works incredibly well for truly heavy, stuck, or stagnant energy that has not been cleared recently or that has been affecting you strongly. It’s like a kick in the butt, especially if other herbs like sage or juniper haven’t worked in the past. Since it is a neutralizer, it’s helpful to go in after with another herb, clearing blend, or incense to refill the space with the intentions you want to bring in.
Sage
There are so many different types of sage to use when burning and clearing energy that each have their own properties for clearing and releasing energy. At its core, Sage is used to clear and reset the energy at the same time. So while you are walking around a space you can ask for what you want to be released, as well as what you want to bring in. For example: I want to release any heaviness and stuck energy in this space. I want to call in joy, peace, and good luck.” Blue Sage is particularly known for its calming benefits, while Black Sage can help you amplify and work with your intuition.
Rosemary
Rosemary is an excellent herb to burn when you are looking for a big life refresh. It helps to reinvigorate the space, allowing for you to see the bigger picture and create new possibilities for your future. It’s also an excellent herb to help ground and protect your space.
Incense
Incense is another great tool for clearing and filling a space with energy. There are so many different brands and ingredients that you can use it for almost any purpose. Incense that has ingredients like palo santo, sandalwood, rosemary, sage, and juniper do an excellent job in clearing the energy in a space or around a person. Other scents of incense can bring in new and direct focus to your energy. Cinnamon and Orange can be helpful to bring in abundance and joy. Dragon’s Blood and Frankincense are wonderful for protection, while Rose and Patchouli set the space for self love or romance.
Sound & Movement
Another easy way to clear your energy and your space’s energy is with sound and your body. Think about how your energy shifts and changes when you listen to music. Songs can lift your mood, help you experience and hold space for anger, grief, or any other shadowy emotion, and even clear and unblock your energy centers. If you are looking for music specifically supporting you with this, try looking up healing frequencies on Youtube or whatever music app that you use. They use frequency sound healing to help connect to different chakras, allowing you to release what has been pent up in the body. You can also use sound healing instruments like singing bowls, tuning forks, and chimes to help disrupt and clear energy from a space and your body.
Clapping and snapping is another way of using sound to disrupt and disperse heavy or stuck energy. While you may not want to do it around an entire room, if you find yourself feeling overwhelmed or just needing to change how you are feeling quickly, these are great practices.
The last technique to clear and shift your energy is through movement. Shaking your body, dancing or even using techniques of somatic can help you to shift and release pent up energy and emotions from your body. You can find different specific somatic techniques like tapping online, but putting on music and letting yourself move your body is a great release on its own.
One of the biggest lessons I hope you can remember when it comes to clearing your energy is that it's one of the most potent forms of self love and care. You are choosing to take care of yourself and your home, and in turn pouring back into your cup.
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