A house blessing or property/land blessing is a usual practice in many esoteric and magical circles.  A house blessing is typically performed before the new residents move in. House blessings bring positive and loving energy into the house (and entire property) and also clean out any psychic residues left by previous tenants.

Did you know that when you get into an argument with someone that the energy of that argument lingers in the house, whether you intended to affect the sanctity of the house or not? In fact, there is the saying that “your thought is where you last left it.” Roughly translated, this saying means that if you had a negative conversation with your house mate while you were both in the kitchen, the thought forms associated with that conversation will remain in the kitchen. Left unresolved, each time you enter the kitchen and think about the topic of conversation, the last thought that you had about that topic will surface. You simply pick up where you left off unless you intentionally work to change the way you think or feel about the topic.

Now imagine that over the years multiple families or groups of people lived in the house. Without a house blessing to cleanse the house and property of junky energies, the new owners of property will likely find themselves thinking thoughts, feeling emotions, or taking actions that are highly unusual to their normal persona. This is simply the effect of “tuning in” to the psychic energies left by previous residents of the house. The more sensitive a person is to psychic energies, the more likely that person will be to pick up these leftover psychic energy forms.

House and property blessings can be done at the same time, using the same magical tools. With a Fire bowl/incense censer, self-lighting charcoal discs (available in most religious or new age stores), rubbed sage, pine resin, a keyed (or personalized) Chalice, sea salt, and pure spring water, anyone can do a house and property blessing.  Doing this type of blessing before the move-in date prevents one from having to climb up on or wiggle around furniture.  With this kind of blessing, all the negative energies (or energies opposed to the aims of the new residents) will be safely removed and released back into Universe. The house will be “like new” energetically, and the new residents can the intentionally create the type of psychic energy that matches their aims.

Of course, not all house blessings bring about a clearing of psychic residue.  Sometimes, thee is a talisman, like a doll or some other magically charged item, that is left inside the house that is creating the negative psychic signature and causing the incense smoke to not penetrate the walls, but rather repel the smoke!  In such cases, the Magician must resort to banishing rituals and the ritual removing of the object housing the negative energy before the property or home can be freed of all psychic residue.  So, it is essential in a Magician’s skill set to master rituals that aid him/her in the location of the negative source for removal purposes.  In the Golden Dawn system, these skills are taught at the Zelator 1=10 grade level.