Post by bluefedish on Feb 5, 2008 0:20:01 GMT -5
Energy: Receptive
Element: Earth
Deity: Aphrodite
Associated Herb: Ki or Ti (Cordyline terminalis)
Powers: Purification, Protection, Grounding, Money
Magickal/Ritural Lore: Salt has lone been a sacred substance. Mined in the earth or evaporated from ocean water in shallow basins, it's intimately connected with life & death, creation & destruction, and the feminine aspect of Earth energies.
Salt is a mineral of crystalline structure. Look a salt through a microscope, it's composed of regular, six-sided cubes. This square structure relates salt to the Earth.
Its used in religion spans that ages. Salt was frequently offered to deities, being deemed acceptable because of its scarcity and purity. In some parts of the world, such as ancient Rome and Abyssinia, salt was used as currency.
Salt is necessary for life and yet an overabundance of it causes death. Similarly, sowing salt in fields destroys their fertility. It's sterilizing, purifying and cleansing.
Related to the element of Earth (as well as to seawater, which is a combination of 2 elements), salt is a powerful magickal tool. Salt water is sometimes used as a magickal substitute for blood where called for in old rituals. (Note: any blood substitutes, such as apple cider or freshly laid, fertilized eggs, can be used in rituals of this nature. Opening veins is a needless, hazardous magickal practice, and sacrificing any life forms is useless and plays hell with your karma. Besides, would you want to be sacrificed for another's magickal ritual? The only exception to this is menstrual blood, which is utilized in contemporary female magick and mysteries as it was in the past.)
In contemporary Hawaii many still follow the old ritual of mixing alae salt (rock salt covered with iron-rich red earth) with water. This is sprinkled with a ki, or ti, leaf on persons, structures and building sites for purificatory purposes.
Those Mexicans still attuned with magick often hang in their homes and businesses a large wreath composed of garlic or aloe vera, to which small packets of salt are attached to spread protection and to draw money.
Magick Uses: Salt is a fine grounding and cleansing material. To purify gemstones, place them in a bowl of salt and leave for a week or so.
Add some salt to your bath water. This creates an alchemical change - you've converted a solid (the salt) into a liquid. Bathe in this mixture to create a similar change in you. Visualize your doubts, worries, illness (if any) and all negative energies which plague you as leaving your body and entering into the water, where they are neutralized.
If you prefer showers, place a small amount of rock salt and a half-handful of hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) in a washcloth and scrub your body.
To protect a home, sprinkle empowered salt in the corners of each room, visualizing it sterilized and burning away negativity.
Pour salt in a circle around you on the floor, visualizing the salt's energies spreading down into the earth and up above you to form a protective sphere of brilliant white light. Within this circle is a perfect environment to perform protective or defensive magick.
Tasting salt brings you firmly down to Earth. It closes off your psychic centers (if working to awaken your psychic mind, avoid salt in your diet). It's also a protective and purificatory act.
If you feel the need to focus your energies and attention, to take a "tunnel-vision" approach to life for a while, carry a bit of salt in a green bag. This especially important for those who tend to concentrate solely on the spiritual and neglect physical necessities.
Selected Source:
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic by: Scott Cunningham
www.gascoals.net
www.mii.org
Element: Earth
Deity: Aphrodite
Associated Herb: Ki or Ti (Cordyline terminalis)
Powers: Purification, Protection, Grounding, Money
Magickal/Ritural Lore: Salt has lone been a sacred substance. Mined in the earth or evaporated from ocean water in shallow basins, it's intimately connected with life & death, creation & destruction, and the feminine aspect of Earth energies.
Salt is a mineral of crystalline structure. Look a salt through a microscope, it's composed of regular, six-sided cubes. This square structure relates salt to the Earth.
Its used in religion spans that ages. Salt was frequently offered to deities, being deemed acceptable because of its scarcity and purity. In some parts of the world, such as ancient Rome and Abyssinia, salt was used as currency.
Salt is necessary for life and yet an overabundance of it causes death. Similarly, sowing salt in fields destroys their fertility. It's sterilizing, purifying and cleansing.
Related to the element of Earth (as well as to seawater, which is a combination of 2 elements), salt is a powerful magickal tool. Salt water is sometimes used as a magickal substitute for blood where called for in old rituals. (Note: any blood substitutes, such as apple cider or freshly laid, fertilized eggs, can be used in rituals of this nature. Opening veins is a needless, hazardous magickal practice, and sacrificing any life forms is useless and plays hell with your karma. Besides, would you want to be sacrificed for another's magickal ritual? The only exception to this is menstrual blood, which is utilized in contemporary female magick and mysteries as it was in the past.)
In contemporary Hawaii many still follow the old ritual of mixing alae salt (rock salt covered with iron-rich red earth) with water. This is sprinkled with a ki, or ti, leaf on persons, structures and building sites for purificatory purposes.
Those Mexicans still attuned with magick often hang in their homes and businesses a large wreath composed of garlic or aloe vera, to which small packets of salt are attached to spread protection and to draw money.
Magick Uses: Salt is a fine grounding and cleansing material. To purify gemstones, place them in a bowl of salt and leave for a week or so.
Add some salt to your bath water. This creates an alchemical change - you've converted a solid (the salt) into a liquid. Bathe in this mixture to create a similar change in you. Visualize your doubts, worries, illness (if any) and all negative energies which plague you as leaving your body and entering into the water, where they are neutralized.
If you prefer showers, place a small amount of rock salt and a half-handful of hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) in a washcloth and scrub your body.
To protect a home, sprinkle empowered salt in the corners of each room, visualizing it sterilized and burning away negativity.
Pour salt in a circle around you on the floor, visualizing the salt's energies spreading down into the earth and up above you to form a protective sphere of brilliant white light. Within this circle is a perfect environment to perform protective or defensive magick.
Tasting salt brings you firmly down to Earth. It closes off your psychic centers (if working to awaken your psychic mind, avoid salt in your diet). It's also a protective and purificatory act.
If you feel the need to focus your energies and attention, to take a "tunnel-vision" approach to life for a while, carry a bit of salt in a green bag. This especially important for those who tend to concentrate solely on the spiritual and neglect physical necessities.
Selected Source:
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic by: Scott Cunningham
www.gascoals.net
www.mii.org
