Cleansing/Consecrating items ...

[RubyRose]

Now when you cleanse a tool or a peice of jewellery, I know the elements have to come into play, right!?

Air = incense smoke
Fire = incense or candle flame
Water = water
Earth = earth or salt

Now, can I use a lit incense stick and pass it over the object for the representations, of Air and Fire (as I think passing it through a candle may be a little dangerous)
And, can I use Salt Water/Holy Water for the elements of Water and Earth?

Blessed Be,
RubyRose )0(

[nighstar]

more than one book i've read has suggested that method and i think it's ok... o.o it's what i'd do anyway. ^^;

[Jenett]

Depends on the material, but usually I do some form of passing it through the incense (air and fire) or through incense and a candle flame (if it won't burn or be damaged by a quick pass, like a knife blade) and then touch it with salt water.

For stones, you can (for most stones, anyway: a few, like opals, are very fragile in water once they're cut) leave them in a bed of salt or in a cup/glass of salt water to cleanse them. Or out in the sun or moonlight.

Some people bury objects for a certain period of time (earth) or use herbs or herbal oils as part of their cleansing and consecration.

There's also a stone, called selenite, which is often held to have very powerful cleansing properties. It's generally a long flat stone, cut into a sort of panel that you cna easily set things on.

In the US, it's pretty cheap, especially at gem and mineral shows (the last one I was at had pieces that were 12" by 3" by maybe half an inch wide for $10 or so...)

[Domestic Goddess]

As long as it's water friendly I wash in salt water otherwise I usually bury it for 7 days before the full moon.

[Yasmine Galenorn]

Now when you cleanse a tool or a peice of jewellery, I know the elements have to come into play, right!?

Air = incense smoke
Fire = incense or candle flame
Water = water
Earth = earth or salt

Now, can I use a lit incense stick and pass it over the object for the representations, of Air and Fire (as I think passing it through a candle may be a little dangerous)
And, can I use Salt Water/Holy Water for the elements of Water and Earth?

Blessed Be,
RubyRose )0(

I usually cleanse my tools or jewelry by placing them on my amethyst (gotta big piece of amythest) for a few days. Or I will smudge them with sage smoke. To consecrate an item, I do call in the four elements and I use incense for air, candle flame for fire, a chalice of water (usually Moon water) for water, and salt for earth.

But you have to find out what works best for you. I also regularly cleanse the energy in my house with salt water bowls--leave a bowl of heavy salt water (1 cup water to 1 cup salt) in each room over night, then pour it down the drain or into running water (do not pour it into a septic tank), then I smudge the room and then sweep the air with a broom.

Yasmine

[kblackthorne]

I agree with what others have said, and have yet one more variation:

As our group lights a candle at each Quarter as that Quarter is called, we usually pass an object through the area above each quarter-candle, as the element is seen to be "gathered" there to a certain extent.

I've seen objects (jewelery comes to mind) that the group has fully consecrated in each element (incense smoke wafted with a feather, dipped in flame, dipped in water, covered in salt) passed in this manner by their owners before being taken back. :) You'd think, after the full-blown, it wouldn't need the "extra", but we all do it.

For me, there's just something symetrical about it, if that makes sense. ~shrug~

Our typical method is the four candles with incense smoke (air/fire) and salt water (water/earth).

[RubyRose]

Thanks. I'm a bit wary of flames myself, as I'd rather not set anything in my room on fire by accident. That's why I like the idea of Incense ...

[Yasmine Galenorn]

Thanks. I'm a bit wary of flames myself, as I'd rather not set anything in my room on fire by accident. That's why I like the idea of Incense ...

At times, I've used citrine or carnelian to represent fire--letting the object sit on a crystal/stone of it first since those stones represent fire to me and embody a lot of the properties. I suppose you could use obsidian too, since it's volcanic glass, or a piece of pahoehoe or a'a lava rock from a volcano, or volcanic sand. It's all about finding out what works for you.

Yasmine

[Lucius]

I also regularly cleanse the energy in my house with salt water bowls--leave a bowl of heavy salt water (1 cup water to 1 cup salt) in each room over night, then pour it down the drain or into running water (do not pour it into a septic tank), then I smudge the room and then sweep the air with a broom.
Very cool idea....thanks for sharing. I like it a lot.


But you have to find out what works best for you.
This is very true.

[BrightStar]

Hi all!
I generally use the 4 elements.
But,with stones,I sit them under the New Moon for cleansing and the Full Moon for charging.
But it depends on the person,like folks have said here.After you do it awhile,you figure out what works for ya.
Peace and Love
BrightStar

[RubyRose]

Thanks for the help.