BANISHING RITUAL


Begin with a purification bath. Light the twin candles on the altar and burn a 
protective candle or cleansing incense. Fill your chalice with fresh water (be 
sure to consecrate it) and blessed salt. Kneel or assume the Goddess position as 
you say:
 
Naked come I into this sanctuary
With love and faith
From those who have gone before.
Innocent am I in understanding
Holy and pure in my love of all good and blessed things.
Supreme Goddess, ruler of light, Lord of all
Hear my prayer.
Help me now to dispel this thing of unholiness
This creature of darkness
Who dooms itself to shame and unhappiness.
Save him if it is thy will to do so.
Send him to the light.
Mercy is the song I sing
Forgiveness the word most precious.
In thy everlasting grace I say this.
In humility I ask this.
So Mote It Be.
 
Take up the chalice of salt-water, face the east wall, dip your fingers into the 
water. Raise you hand and say:
 
Powers of the east
Powers of the day star rising
And all fresh beginnings
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship, warmth and love.
 
Then sprinkle some extra water and proceed to the south. Say:
 
Powers of the south
Powers of the summer sun
Which warms our bodies and our minds
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship, warmth and love.
 
Repeat in the west:
 
Powers of the west
Powers of the purifying and cleansing waters
From which all life comes.
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship, warmth and love.
 
Say in the north:
 
Powers of the north
Powers of the earth
The ground on which we stand.
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship, warmth and love.
 
Then proceed around the room, sprinkling water over all the thresholds, windows 
and doorways, and in all corners. REPEAT IN EVERY ROOM.
 
Add more incense to the burner, take up and do the same thing, using the same 
verses, substituting "fire and air" in place of "salt and water". As before, 
proceed around the room censing all the thresholds, windows, doorways and in all 
corners. REPEAT IN EVERY ROOM.
 
Take the fire candle (or a candle for this purpose) and you athame and starting 
at the door entrance, walk slowly CLOCKWISE through the house, through each 
room, pausing at each door, window and mirror and moving the candle across it. 
Also pentagramming each window, doorway and mirror with the athame. Proceed room 
by room spiraling clockwise. All the while chant the following:
 
By the one power
I hereby consecrate this space to the Goddess and God
According to free will
And for the good of all
I hereby release
In all time and all space
Any negative cause, effect, manifestation, form or essence
Any negative event, thought, energy, idea or vibration
And transform it to
And replace it with
Only positive, joyous good
In keeping with the universal harmonies
Of the Goddess and God.
This space is divinely protected
This space is perfectly safe.
Nothing and no one can enter this space
Unless I (or my loved ones) allow them to.
This space is sacred
Consecrated and dedicated to positive living 
For myself and my loved ones
And for the work of positive magick
No harm can come to this space or anyone in it.
 
As you draw each pentagram, say:
 
Only good can enter here
No negatives can enter
All harm is sealed out.
 
When you are back at the entry point, conclude:
 
Love lives here
Health lives here
Abundance lives here
(Name self and loved ones) live here
We claim this space for ourselves
For the mutual good
And So Mote It Be!