Protection

Protection is essentially your shield against different energies found in this world and is an important pairing to your cleansing practices to keep unwanted energetic influences from affecting the freshly renewed energy. Protection is an energy that can be placed around anything from your energy, the energy of your space, car, family, spiritual tools, and even things like your name or your relationships through a variety of different types of practices. Similar to cleansing, protection practices give you power against unwanted or intrusive energetic influences like harm/destruction, unlucky circumstances, lingering spirits, other people’s energy, and energetic environments that could be overwhelming especially to those open psychically or empathically. By maintaining strong protections around you and things that are important to you, you are able to deflect the different energies and entities that you do not want to engage with, allowing you to forgo your fears of evil eye and harmful spirits and stand in your spiritual power.

WHEN TO PRACTICE PROTECTION

Protection is a practice that is best done proactively meaning it’s best to not wait until you feel vulnerable or unprotected to practice it. Generally, when you practice cleansing, you’ll want to follow up with protection which is an easy way to ensure you’re refreshing your protections regularly enough to avoid any unwanted or harmful energetic influences. The best part about protection is you can place general protections around yourself ahead of time and refresh them regularly but there are some notable moments where extra protection is important and/or beneficial are:

• Before entering any energetically or spiritual active spaces - Ex. stores, large events, hospitals, nursing homes, cemeteries 

• Before spiritual work - Ex. psychic readings, mediumship, energy healing, spell work, tarot readings

• Before family gatherings or visitations around anyone who may not have your best interest at heart

• Before any major travel

When you place protection around anything, you’re essentially charging a protective energy around your intention. This is the energy that’s used to ward off or protect you from whatever energy you need or want protection from. What you do, where you go, who you’re around and even the highs and lows of those around you will determine how often you’ll need to refresh those protections. If you’re feeling called to refresh your protections or create more, I would suggest for you to trust it because this could very easily be you intuitively picking up on something important. Some other signs it’s time to refresh or amplify your protections are:

• Unexplainably exhausted/drained

• Heightened anxiety/insecurities/fears

• Experiencing intrusive thoughts/energy/spirits (feeling to much empathically)

• Noticeably bad luck/series of unfortunate events (big or small)

PROTECTION PRACTICE

Just like all spiritual practices, there are a variety of different types of protection methods to choose from making it easy to tailor them to your preferences and needs at the time. Even the simplest protection practices are powerful as long as you trust and believe in them and your own power. The more complex rituals and practices just add extra layers of protection which is useful when considering what you’re wanting to protect yourself from and even how long you’d like that protection to last. This is why it can be helpful to layer multiple different protection practices with each other in order to protect yourself more deeply. Here are some commonly used protection practices ranging from simple to complex:

1. VISUALIZATION MEDITATION (SHIELDING)

   The most powerful and accessible tool is always your own power/energy. If for whatever reason you are unable or not wanting to do any physical protections, you can simply sit in meditation and visualize a protective barrier around whatever it is you’re wanting to protect whether that be your own energy field, your home, your family, car, workspace, etc.. There are many guided meditations that can be found on platforms like youtube to teach you or give you an example of what this looks like which you can then tailor to your needs and preferences. 

2. PRAYER/CALLING ON GUIDES

   Another simple protection practice is simply calling on your guides or praying to whatever divine entity you wish to cover you in protection and to ward off any harm, inconvenience, or negative intention sent to you. This can be a good option when in need of an extra layer of protection in a bind or when none of the other options are available to you. Keep in mind that regardless of who you ask for protection from, they are not there to serve you so be sure to express gratitude and provide offerings of thanks in whatever way you can. 

3. PHYSICAL WARDS/PROTECTIONS

   Physical protections are something tangible that is either inherently protective or can be consecrated and charged for protection. These can either be something you can wear, hold, or simply set somewhere and can be created to either absorb or deter unwanted energy depending on the chosen practice, needs, and preferences.

   Physical wards and protections can include:

   1. Pendants/Jewelry/Symbols/Crystals

   2. Protection Jars/Sachets

   3. Veils/Headwraps

   4. Color Magic - black to ward away unwanted energies

   5. Plants - generally planted or placed around or within the home intentionally

• TOOLS & RESOURCES

  Crystals

  1. Obsidian

  2. Black Tourmaline

  3. Smoky Quartz

  4. Shungite

  Plant Material

  1. Nettle

  2. Mullein

  3. Rosemary

  4. Frankincense

  Protective Symbols

  1. Nazaar

  2. Cross

  3. Algiz

  4. Pictures of protective entities

  Misc.

  1. Egg Shells

  2. Florida Water

  3. Salt