Blessing our Home

Adelaide and I did a blessing on our home, inspired by Tami Kent and the book Wild Feminine. I had an appointment with Tami last month, and she reccomended that I do this blessing for myself, my family and our home anytime there was too much negitive energy or if things weren't feeling right. I decided to try it, and I have to say, just the act of the blessing itself really raised my spirits. We are so lucky to have so many beautiful smelling and healing plants growing in our own yard, and Adelaide could not have had more fun. We started by walking around the yard and choosing the plants we wanted to use. We would walk up to the plant and ask it's permission to use it to bless ourselves and our home, and then thanking the plant once we picked it's leaves. I read in the book Sastun that the Mayans believed that in order to have the plant spirit come along to help you, you must first get it's permission or say a prayer to the plant. It only took Adelaide a second to catch on, and soon she was running all over the yard with her cute little voice saying "is it okay, plant, if I use you to bless myself and bless my home?.....Thank you!" I should have recorded it. We even got her her own little bowl to collect the leaves in.

We then put some water into our bowl and squished the leaves up with our hands, making a delicious smelling tea water. I could feel the beautiful and blessed energy all around us, we were so happy and it smelled so good! Once we had the plants broken up and the water was brewing in the sun we let it sit for about an hour outside.

As our bowl sat in the sun I watched as our beautiful Cherry Tree was raining down her blossoms. Several times I saw a delicate cherry blossom leaf fall into our bowl as well, as if the cherry tree wanted us to be sure to recieve her blessings too. I felt Mother Nature talking to me.

We then took the leaves out of the water and splashed it all over ourselves and Emmylou, saying little blessings. Adelaide blessed me, I blessed her and Lua, and then we came into the house and blessed every corner, every doorway, Adelaide got excited and wanted to bless every toy, her bed, the toilet, anything she laid eyes on. She loved splashing the water around and blessing everything. And we saved some of the water and even blessed Daddy when he got home from work. If nothing else, we had fun, got to talk to our plants, and our home was filled with the wonderful smell of lavender, Sage, rosemary, dandilions and cherryblossoms. Try it sometime! Let me know if you feel blessed!