What About Clutter?

We call the energetic work that we do, by removing negative energies, geopathic disturbances, spirits and and other anomalies, "Clearings." Our goal is to clear the living space and sometimes the very personal space of our clients and return to a neutral, benign environment that can then be filled with light, love and harmony. Often, and this seems to be more frequent of late, the homes we visit are very cluttered, some verging on hoarding.  It is an obvious indication that a healthy flow of energy is blocked in many ways.


Feng Shui principles are a part of our practice and the basic goal in Feng Shui is to promote the constant flow of energy throughout the environment.  Blocking the energy with objects that prevent a natural path for the energy results in stagnation and the inability to purge negative energy. It is analogous to blocking an artery or choking the breath.  You see this in homes or businesses that do not have an obvious means of entry, a "hidden door," or an uninviting entrance that is obstructed by walls, furniture or a staircase.

Clutter affects specific areas in different ways.  When a bed is surrounded by boxes and clothing piled around it, or even when one side of the bed is up against a wall, it prevents circulation and movement in your life. Blocking one side prevents you from "sharing the bed" with another. There is no room for a partner in your life. It is best to have a bed in a position that allows easy movement around it. A bed should also always be on a frame that allows air to move beneath it. One of the profound changes that can be brought about is by removing a heavy chest or piece of furniture at the foot of the bed. This simple action allows you to move forward in life, removing an impediment to travel.

When we are called for help in making changes in a space, because the home feels oppressive, dark or just off, we find that what the home needs is a cleaning, more than a clearing, or at least a cleaning and organization first. Then the clearing can be far more effective.  Sometimes we accumulate things and surround ourselves with objects and memories in an attempt to feel grounded.  Instead this is just weighing us down, not connecting us to the earth.

So look around, if you can't find what you are looking for, if you have to walk around something to get where you need to go, open the path, bring in the light and lighten your life.

Aware of Your Surroundings

We recently went to a home just north of Corvallis at the request of a family who had been experiencing a general unease as did their two young children, 18 months and 2 1/2. The two year old seemed particularly unsettled, so much so that he often told his parents that he didn't want to go home. Like most of our clients, they called because they knew that something was out of balance and they felt this most acutely in specific areas of the house and the yard.

As soon as we arrived, got out of the car and walked up the front walk, the three of us immediately felt nauseated.  it stopped us in our tracks and we walked the yard gauging where the feeling was most intense.  After we brought our tools into the  living room, we sat down with the family and discussed their perceptions, experiences and efforts that they had employed to get rid of the sensations.  The mother said that the condition was most acute in the northeast corner of the house, in an upstairs bedroom where she usually sat to nurse or cuddle with the kids.  She had been diligently searching for a possible cure.  Her strongest hunch was EMF, but there were no high power transmission lines or transformers in close proximity. As we walked through the house and yard and examined the electrical system, grounding, etc., it became apparent that EMF levels were normal and this was not the cause.

Earth Energy Grids

In the yard, at the edge of a small backyard patio, below the window of the bedroom, we found a vortex that was especially powerful and the where the strongest feelings of nausea occurred.  The family mentioned that it had been so uncomfortable that they no longer used the patio.  This vortex was at the intersecting lines of the solar grid, which normally would be the site of a benign vortex.

There was, however, a dry fault running directly beneath the vortex which amplified the force.  The line of the grid extended through the house and the front yard along the line where we had first experienced the queasiness.

Earth Acupuncture

When we mentioned the fault line, the parents told us that during the rainy season water flowed over the ground along their north fence line and pooled right where we found the vortex. We dealt with the vortex by reducing and confining it through energy work and construction of thought forms to contain it.  We then used earth acupuncture at three intersection points and enhanced the energy with cinnamon essential oil.

We conducted a thorough spiritual house cleansing to rid the house of negative energies, that in part were residual energies from prior tenants. Following a cleansing with salt and fire, we went throughout the home with healing incense and handheld crystal bowls.

For us, the most unsettling and unusual aspect of the clearing was that we advised them to strongly consider moving.  This is rare for us, perhaps only the second time we have so advised. The family is in no immediate danger, but the conditions of the land and the surroundings was clearly not going to advantageous for their future. In fact, before we left we worked with acupressure techniques to "sedate" and balance their adrenal (triple warmer) meridian. We taught them to do it on each other and the children.  We will soon revisit the home and see how the mitigations hold and how they have enhanced their well-being.

Aware of Your Surroundings

We recently went to a home just north of Corvallis at the request of a family who had been experiencing a general unease as did their two young children, 18 months and 2 1/2. The two year old seemed particularly unsettled, so much so that he often told his parents that he didn't want to go home. Like most of our clients, they called because they knew that something was out of balance and they felt this most acutely in specific areas of the house and the yard.

As soon as we arrived, got out of the car and walked up the front walk, the three of us immediately felt nauseated.  it stopped us in our tracks and we walked the yard gauging where the feeling was most intense.  After we brought our tools into the  living room, we sat down with the family and discussed their perceptions, experiences and efforts that they had employed to get rid of the sensations.  The mother said that the condition was most acute in the northeast corner of the house, in an upstairs bedroom where she usually sat to nurse or cuddle with the kids.  She had been diligently searching for a possible cure.  Her strongest hunch was EMF, but there were no high power transmission lines or transformers in close proximity. As we walked through the house and yard and examined the electrical system, grounding, etc., it became apparent that EMF levels were normal and this was not the cause.

Earth Energy Grids

In the yard, at the edge of a small backyard patio, below the window of the bedroom, we found a vortex that was especially powerful and the where the strongest feelings of nausea occurred.  The family mentioned that it had been so uncomfortable that they no longer used the patio.  This vortex was at the intersecting lines of the solar grid, which normally would be the site of a benign vortex.

There was, however, a dry fault running directly beneath the vortex which amplified the force.  The line of the grid extended through the house and the front yard along the line where we had first experienced the queasiness.

Earth Acupuncture

When we mentioned the fault line, the parents told us that during the rainy season water flowed over the ground along their north fence line and pooled right where we found the vortex. We dealt with the vortex by reducing and confining it through energy work and construction of thought forms to contain it.  We then used earth acupuncture at three intersection points and enhanced the energy with cinnamon essential oil.

We conducted a thorough spiritual house cleansing to rid the house of negative energies, that in part were residual energies from prior tenants. Following a cleansing with salt and fire, we went throughout the home with healing incense and handheld crystal bowls.

For us, the most unsettling and unusual aspect of the clearing was that we advised them to strongly consider moving.  This is rare for us, perhaps only the second time we have so advised. The family is in no immediate danger, but the conditions of the land and the surroundings was clearly not going to advantageous for their future. In fact, before we left we worked with acupressure techniques to "sedate" and balance their adrenal (triple warmer) meridian. We taught them to do it on each other and the children.  We will soon revisit the home and see how the mitigations hold and how they have enhanced their well-being.

Magical Uses of Salt

The Magical Properties Of Salt

Without exception, every civilization on Earth has very similar ideas about the magical properties of salt - namely that it absorbs psychic and negative energy and binds it into its own structure.

My Mother and Grandmother taught me the use of salt to cleanse a home at an early age. During spring cleaning we would walk through the house and toss salt into all the corners of the rooms, leave it for 24 hours and then sweep it up and toss in down the toilet. When we moved to a new home as we did often as we were in the military my mom would toss salt into the moving van several hours before we began putting boxes in.
From the Roman Catholic rite of preparing holy water, which contains both water and salt to the Indian custom of using salt on wounds to draw away unhealthy spirits, and with evidence that salt has been used in just that way for as long as humans have employed magic, there is clearly a strong consensus and that tends to be simply based on truth, fact and experience.

Protection Against Psychic Phenomena

Salt has always been used as protection against psychic attacks, and to disable unwanted psychic phenomena.

Ordinary salt may be sprinkled across thresholds and around the perimeter of dwellings, inside and out;

Salt mixed with sand is used for forming magic circles;

Rock salt crystals can be added to "medicine pouches", carried in pockets or worn in a small bag about the neck.

Sprinkling salt around someone's bed protects from unwanted nighttime visitors and reduces the likelihood of unwanted spontaneous Orbs.

Please note: Salt dampens/draws ALL psychic energy forms - it doesn't distinguish between "good" or "bad" psychic energies. For active magicians and priests, it is therefore to be handled with care so that it doesn't inadvertently dampen their abilities and disturb their magical works. On the other hand, salt can be very successfully used to counteract overactive psychic emissions, such as in very young gifted children who are experiencing unwanted psychic phenomena, teenagers and women in menopause *temporarily*.

A Simple Example Of A Salt Spell - Spiritual House Clearing

This simple magic ritual demonstrates some of the main points of using salt. It is easy to do for anyone, and makes a big difference to a home, and its occupants, but most of all to the magician who performs this spell.

1. Find a beautiful glass bowl of any size. In psychic workings, the physical size of an object really does not matter - a huge bowl won't do any more than a small one. Psychic energy absorption is not like filling a suitcase!

2. Fill the glass bowl with salt - simple cooking salt or pretty rock salt, it matters not.

3. Place the bowl with the salt near the hearth of the home - the center of the home. In some houses, that is in the kitchen; in other homes, it can be the sitting room, or perhaps a den where everyone gathers. You know where your hearth is.

4. Leave it there for three days.

5. On the third day, take the bowl and the salt somewhere where you can release both the physical salt as well as the psychic attachments it has absorbed. You can throw this salt into a river, or a fire, or simply into a sink with the tap running. As you empty the bowl (you can do this a handful at a time), tell the salt about your worries and troubles and your fears, your negative thoughts. It will take those as well and while you're there.

6. Re-fill the bowl and replace it near the hearth.

7. From now on, empty the salt bowl once a week to keep your home free of harmful energy under normal circumstances; or more often if there is extra stress, as you feel is right.

You will notice a distinct improvement in the atmosphere of your home within a few days.

Salt For Purification

With salt's extreme ability to draw away remnants of psychic energy, including "ghost manifestations" of many different kinds, salt has always been used for psychic clearing and for purification.

Magicians and priests routinely prepare for ceremonies by taking a bath, which contains salt as one of the main ingredients;

Magical objects and crystals are cleansed by immersing them in salt water;

Bowls of salt may be placed into a room to absorb negative energy or psychic energy disturbances;

Throwing salt is generally regarded as a device to clear the aura of a person or an environment of leftover psychic energy.

A box containing salt can be used to purify anything that is placed upon it;

Crystals placed on a bed of salt or on a saltbox require less, or no clearing at all.

It is easy to make your own scrubs for cleansing and I use them all the time when I come home from doing a house clearing. Here's the recipe I use.