This spell is for getting rid of crap vibrations, hostile incoming energy, stagnant or blocked energy, and is even useful for breaking a hexed condition in one’s living space (as in removing leftover bad vibes from previous tenants or purging the residues of hauntings or acts of violence). A cleansed, calm ‘energy-environment’ is important for all Beings, not just Witches and other Magick-workers, and this is an amusing, easy way to ‘mop up’ what you don’t want hanging around.
Step 1: Go to the store and buy a bunch of kitchen sponges in a multitude of colors.
Step 2: Draw a simple outline of a turtle on each of the sponges, and then trim the sponges into turtle-shapes with scissors.
Step 3: Put 2 or 3 tablespoons of salt into a bowl that is big enough to accomodate all the trimmed sponges. Fill the bowl with water, and stir to dissolve the salt. Put all the sponges in the water, and squeeze them vigorously, until you feel that they are completely cleaned by the brine solution. Then take each sponge out, and squeeze the excess water out of it. Dump the brine down the drain.
Step 4: Turn on the tap, and run each sponge under the water, squeezing repeatedly. Then wring the excess water out until the sponges are just damp.
Step 5: Sprinkle a scant pinch of salt (I like to use sea salt for this step) on the middle of the ’shell’ of each turtle.
Step 6: Using medium-sized plates (saucers or dessert-plates), make little ‘turtle stacks’ in the same way that you’d stack up cookies on a platter. You can also use a dinner-plate to make a bigger stack if you’ve got a lot of crud to deal with. On the small plates, I usually stack 3 turtles, and if I use a large plate, I stack anywhere from 5 to 9 turtles.
Step 7: Holding the plate in both hands, speak a small ‘dedication’ over the turtles, and tell them what it is you want them to do for you. Example: ‘I conjure you, in the Name of the Goddess, to cleanse and purify this place. Absorb and neutralize all negativity and evil intention, and let only healing, peace and abundance remain. So Mote It Be.’
Step 8: Place the plates in areas where you need bad vibes soaked up or neutralized. I keep small stacks in my living room and my bedroom, and a good-sized stack in my home-office space, right by my computer.
Step 9: Set the sponges out and leave them be for a week. They will dry out, and this is okay. At the end of the week, do the whole ‘wash in brine, wash in tap-water, pinch of salt’ thing again to refresh the sponges and get rid of the energy residues they collect.
I know this may sound like a kind of simpleton, silly thing to do, but it really does work. Feel free to adapt the basic spell as needed– I could see using an herbal preparation as part of the soak for the sponges, or decorating the turtle-plates with flowers, etc. There is no reason to put up with crappy vibes or stale energy, and a few ’sponge-terrapins’ can really mop up a lot of garbage with no muss and no fuss. I have had very good results using a ‘Plate-O-Turtles’ to deal with incoming hostile/aggressive energy, and I have also found that it does a number on the free-floating wraith-energy (the low-vibe, ’still wanting to be attached to the body’ stuff) that accompanies some haunting activity.
Happy Hexing!
Akkarri
June 13, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Hi, Akkarri I’m pleased I’ve found your blog, which was via Heart’s carnival. I do space clearing to rid my environment of unwanted energies and I just love your turtle spell that I will add to my repertoire. It sounds as though we are on a similar journey
June 13, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Yeah, the sponges work really well! The idea for them initially came from a little book by Echo Bodine, a woman who does ‘psychic-training’. She recommended using a sponge in this fashion to keep the energy clear in one’s meditation-space.
The idea really resonated with me, as I have been engaged in a running energy-battle over the last year with wraith-energy that was left behind in my house after my husband passed away suddenly in 2004. I had been trying to figure out some way to control and corral it in the back bedroom (the room in which he died) so that I could finish cleaning out the piles of stuff he had collected and stored there. Every time I would go in the room, I’d get hit with major physical energy drain, as the wraith-energy was clinging to the piles and was/is bitterly resentful that I was/am moving things around and donating stuff. Every time I’d go into the room I’d get zapped, but upon leaving, I’d feel perfectly fine, so I knew I needed to cleanse the space with more than a bowl of salt and a smudge, as the energy has been both obnoxiouly impervious to these things as well as aggressively attached to my husband’s books and other personal possessions that are in that room.
When I ran across the sponge-idea, I checked it out with my Turtle Spirits, and they were the ones who told me to make bunches of them cut into turtle-shapes for every room in the house. There is something about the water and the salt in the sponges that works better than anything else I have ever tried with regard to cleansing negative vibes. I wash them out and refresh them once a week, and the change in the energy– especially in the back bedroom– has been dramatic. As a result of using the sponges, I no longer feel tired at all when I enter the room, plus I have been able to get a bunch of stuff cleared out and donated, which further weakens the wraith-vibe.
I use plates of three or four sponges in all the rooms of my house, except for the back bedroom, where my Turtles told me to use at least 12 sponges on a large platter. They look very jolly, as I bought a bunch of those multicolored kitchen sponges to make the shapes out of.
I would also imagine that one could cut the sponges into whatever shapes are most in tune with one’s personal energies– like making cat-shapes instead of turtles if one was more ‘kitty-oriented’, and so on. Anyway, it just blew me away that something as goofy and simplistic as a plate of rainbow, turtle-shaped kitchen sponges worked when all the ’standard’ space-clearing stuff like sage-smudges, birch-whisks, and rock-salt had no effect whatsoever. I think it is the playfulness of it that tickles me the most.
My husband was an interesting fellow, but could be very stubborn (Sun in Taurus, with a Virgo ascendant), and the wraith-energy he threw off when he passed has clung to his belongings like the proverbial limpet. It has seemed to feed on the smudge-smoke rather than be dispelled by it, but the sponges are doing both a literal and Magickal ‘mop-up’ with no trouble at all.
I would be interested in getting feedback on this spell, as I suspect that it might work very well in a variety of circumstances where rotten energy needs to be dispersed. Anyway, use it and/or amend it as you see fit!
Akkarri