Magical intent
Banishing
Magical intentIn 1 Signature1 tradition
Banishing drives out what you don't want in your space or your life: lingering energy, a bad influence, an old pattern. Saturn and Scorpio rule what ends and what is cut away.
Uses
- Clearing a space
- Removing unwanted influence
- Ending a pattern
- Protection after conflict
- Day
- Saturday
- Moon phase
- Waning moon
- Colors
- Black, dark purple
- Herbs and scents
- Rosemary, garlic, cypress
- Stones
- Obsidian, onyx, black tourmaline
Working with it
On a Saturday during the waning moon, open the windows and sweep or smudge from the back of the home toward the front door, saying what must leave. Sprinkle a line of salt across the threshold when you finish, and sweep it out the next morning.
What to work with for Banishing
Herbs
❦ Agrimony❦ Angelica❦ Basil❦ Black Pepper❦ Clove❦ Cumin❦ Garlic❦ Heliotrope⚠❦ Juniper❦ Lilac❦ Mullein❦ Nettle❦ Peony⚠❦ Rue⚠❦ Wormwood⚠❦ Yarrow
Stones
Oils and resins
Candle colors
⚠ marks plants that are poisonous to eat. Use them only in ways that don't involve eating or drinking, and work with the deadly ones (belladonna, mandrake, wolfsbane, yew, henbane) symbolically only.
16 herbs3 stones4 oils and resins1 candle color