The very best way to prepare for this brand new year is an energetic decluttering. In order to do any ritual work, you must clear the clutter that can create blocks. Banish the old, bad energy from your house by following this spell. Make a tea from one part dried lavender and one part dried mint. Draw fresh water and boil, and then steep a teaspoon of each herb for five minutes. Once it cools, dip your finger in the tea and sprinkle it throughout your home. If you feel the need to clear out any remaining cloud of psychic clutter, add diluted lavender mint tea water to your cleanser when you wash floors or surfaces. Make your energy-clearing tea by bringing 4 cups of water to a full rolling boil; remove from heat and add in 4 sprigs of fresh lavender and 4 sprigs of fresh mint. If it is winter and there is no access to the fresh herbs, one tablespoon each of dried lavender and dried mint will do nicely. Steep the herbal tea for at least 4 minutes and as long as ten minutes if there is a lot of energetic clutter. The scent of calm and clarity will lift the spirits of all who enter your space. The purpose of incense is to release energy into the ritual space, not to create billows of smoke that can cause respiratory problems in the circle. If you or someone else finds incense smoke irritating or worrisome, consider using another symbol of air instead, such as potpourri, fresh flowers, feathers, or a fan.
At this point in the year, the money accumulated under via the Pagan savings challenge is building up at a significant clip, a hundred dollars being added about every three weeks.
Pat yourself on the back, friend Pagan; you are raising energy. You are saving money. Stay the course, we are almost there.
My posts in 2014 are finally going to start focusing on one of the most important money topics, debt. However, before we talk about what we owe, I'd like readers to join me in expanding what we save. I'm laying down the gauntlet: can you raise as much energy as I?
Fans of the internet may be familiar with this post's graphic, which I believe originates here. This is a simple, elegant way to save money, and one that should work well for Pagans. If you're the sort that includes magic as part of, or in conjunction with, your worship, then as I said, it's simply raising energy so you can work your spell. If your Pagan path has no truck with that sort of thing, pick an appropriate deity, force, or cause, and make this an offering. I will continue to refer to it as raising energy, because you can just as easily use this energy for an offering as for magical work.
I'm intrigued with the thought of deepening my spiritual understanding of money and finance and had already decided that 2014 woul
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