Sage isn't enough

When you cleanse your house each season (or more often if you prefer), you may use sage to do so. Burning sage is an excellent way of removing negative and scattered energy. Is it the cure all? No. People hear things that go bump in the night and think that burning sage will make it stop. Not necessarily. Burning sage can do absolutely nothing and actually make things worse if you don't know what you are doing.

When we do a house cleansing, burning sage in every nook and cranny, is simply step one. I use the sage burning with a combination of a ritual wording I was given years ago, and reiki. That is simply step one. When there are strong negative spirits in the house we sometimes have to concentrate on them and give them a little "push". There are a few ways to do that, and to be successful you have to know what you are dealing with. They were people once. Are they happy, sad, old , young, mentally unstable, ill ??? It will all effect how you ask, coerce, or entice them out.


Positive, good spirits CANNOT be removed with sage. Sometimes they will then feel unwanted and leave anyway, and sometimes they just ignore you. They are not all lost and confused, some are just comfortable in that space and mean no harm. When spirits are lost and / or confused there is an easy way to cross them over. I recently encountered a mentally handicapped spirit that needed help and I had to use a simple process to getting him help to cross.

Then there is the non human stuff. Please do not equate non human with "demonic" or evil.  A prime example is angels. They were never human and cannot become human. They are positive beings of course that you most likely won't want to chase from your home, but they have opposites. Half formed looking creatures are an example. Some black shadow people are another example (some forms of black shadow people are simply spirits that cannot or do not want to manifest to a recognizable degree). Sometimes the "spirit" is a construct, a thought form, an animal, or many other things! There aren't just dead people and demons lurking around people's closets.

These beings need more force and there are methods to that, which include sage, but sage is a very small part of the process. The process may need to be repeated (one fellow light worker likened them to ants in your kitchen every rainy season). There is dark energy that can accumulate in homes from people living there who are bad, mentally ill, or frequently under the extreme influence of drugs or alcohol. People who live in clutter frequently have "negative" energy accumulate in all those little hiding places. It is comfortable for that energy. When you can, clean the house first (or have your client clean and unclutter their home).

Then there are the demons. I doubt you will ever run across one. Sometimes the answer to that little issue is to let it be. Sometimes there is no way to remove them without the person who welcomed them in being part of the process. Once you get to that level, all bets are off, and it is complicated, difficult, time consuming, and sometimes dangerous.make sure that you know what you are doing.

People sage and wonder why things like footsteps still continue. It is because Aunt Harriet can't understand why you keep stinking up the house, not because a powerful demon lives there. Sage is a nice step one, but it is not always the answer.

You also must consider (and this is another reason why you need to know what you are doing), if you know what kind of "spirit person" is in the house. If an atheist died there are you march around yelling "in the name of God", he is just going to laugh at you. There is no set of magic words or process for cleansing. None. You need to make sure that you have a person with a good grasp of the metaphysical world, and all the beings in it. You need a person with more than one process and an understanding of the way to deal with each type of "haunting". You need a thorough knowledge of what is there from a psychic or medium. Just burning sage may backfire on you and actually make things worse.

Use people with knowledge, experience and skill. They won't miss anything the first time, and they will always make sure that they help until there is no option left, except maybe to move. That VERY rarely happens no matter what you see on TV.

Most of us, especially those working in fields where they frequently come in contact with disturbed, angry, confused, or ill people, should use sage regularly, and crystals to guard their home. Those working in the metaphysical should always have protection set up around them (and permanent protection is easy...it is already in place to a degree, but there are ways of increasing that protection). Make sure that you use salt to block areas except for one for "escape" of the negative energy and then seal that opening at the end.Remember that a person can bring that negativity into the house on a daily basis, so just because it is cleansed once, it may not be cleansed forever! That is why it is important for those who work in fields where they come in contact with that energy daily, use a process from carrying jet or obsidian, to "brushing off" before entering the house.

On the flip side.

NEVER go to a place and just cleanse it becasue you want to. Never go to a place and set up your ways or belief system around it. That is taking away the free will of the place and the WORST thing that you can do. We had a friend who was in a reiki class with us. He and another person always went around "chasing away" spirits. He took it upon himself to cleanse and set up angels everywhere he went. This is a HUGE energetic and metaphysical WRONG. Say for example you are at a Native American burial area. You may not even realize you are. Do you really think setting up angels is a good idea? It is not. You may think you are doing good, but forcing your version of spirituality and dogma on a spirit, is totally out of bounds. Never do anything that takes free will away , not even if you think it is "good".

My place, and the place of other light workers, is not to force our version of "good" and "right" on the world. The Christian view doesn't work for many. There are millions of souls out there who were not Christians. There are plenty of places out there that are non Christian. They aren't "bad" or "evil" either. They may be Native American, Jewish, Islamic, Taoist, Buddhist or even an atheist place, and we are remiss when we set up our version of spirituality . They may have held a place of worship that wasn't bad nor Christian. A group of people who were neither bad, nor Christian, etc.

So, the only cleansing you need to do is your own space and a space you are asked to cleanse. Be aware that cleansing does not mean that you then need to set up anything at all for that space. 

 When things get to the point of needing powerful work (like leaving guardians), see if you can find out the beliefs of the homeowners (and be aware they if they don't believe it, it won't work, conflicting energy will be set up making things worse), or the place itself. Was it an Indian village, a Jewish temple, a Celtic altar? Then keep the angels and saints out of things. There is no reason to call in anything for a simple cleansing.

Be mindful also of the sage you use. Many "sage" products are not actual sage. They are called "sage" as they look like it, and smell close to it, but it isn't sage. We actually grow our own sage to keep from having low quality, or misrepresented sage in use when cleansing a place.

Everyone doing the cleansing should have a positive mind set and be aware of what is going on around them. They should be able to find problem areas, and spirits.

It is a good idea to cleanse at least once a season, and if you do not like the smell of sage, use this Asian method. Leave a large bowl of water with orange peels in it in the house over night.
The next day take that bowl outside and slowly pour it into Mother Earth asking her to please transmute and negativity. This will not work on powerful spirits, etc., but it will work on negativity and will cleanse the energy of the house. It smells good too.

Time for summer solstice cleansing! be ready , and enjoy!


Peshaui Wequashimese





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