The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home - Arin Murphy-Hiscock 2018

Introduction

Your home is a place of refuge, renewal, and creativity, where you begin and end each day. It is also the primary root of your energy and spirituality. The house witch works to honor and strengthen that sacred space, making it as simple, peaceful, and nourishing as possible.

Unlike green witches who focus on nature-based practices and kitchen witches who concentrate on food and cooking, the house witch explores and uses the magic of the home. While other spiritual paths often look beyond the home to focus on the natural world, the house witch creates a solid and supportive place to work from—a literal (and magical) home base.

In The House Witch, you’ll explore the energies of hearth and home and learn how you can create a spiritual haven for yourself and your loved ones in today’s busy world. Inside these pages you’ll learn how to:

✵ Locate and enhance your home’s spiritual hearth

✵ Perform rituals to protect and cleanse your home

✵ Build a kitchen shrine

✵ Prepare recipes that blend magic and food

✵ Master the secrets of the cauldron and the sacred flame

✵ Bring the ancient house witch practices into modern times

✵ Produce hearth-based arts and crafts

In essence, the role of the house witch is to serve as a facilitator for the spiritual well-being of herself, her family, and her welcomed guests. Her home is her temple, which she tends in order to keep energy flowing smoothly and freely, as well as to honor the principles she upholds. She seeks to support and nurture her family (and extended community) in both a spiritual and physical fashion. So if you are ready to explore the magic that may be found or created in your home and use it to better your life, then let’s get started.