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How I dispose of herbs after a spiritual bath!
Spiritual baths are a necessary part of my life as a brujx. I take a spiritual bath once a week to set and solidify certain intentions and goals for the next 7 days. I’ve been working on repairing my sense of self and tending to my garden of Self Love in order to bloom into my best self. These spiritual baths of mine also strengthen my protective aura-sphere which reflects unnecessary negativity back into its sender, it welcomes blessings, and invites challenges that will lead me into a better path of thought, action, and being.
This morning, I bathed with rose petals, mint, and sage. I blessed the water with a few prayers to the Orisha and healing oils, then seeped into the bath while meditating and soaking in the vision of what should come of the intentions I advocate.
The water is literally a portal through which spirits can send their messages and their offerings to us. By soaking in this bath, we recieve these messages by soaking them into our bodies and spirits. The water, blessed and enhanced by the metaphysical properties of some of earth’s beautiful creations (herbs beautiful internally and externally), strips us of the dirt of our everyday lives and leaves us cleansed and ready to move through existence, semi-anew.
Meanwhile, the herbs of the bath soak up the blessed water and what the water has taken from us. That dirt and grime becomes part of the herbs... so, what to do with it?
Some witches vouch to burn it. These herbs represent the grime of life that we wish to destroy. The bumps in the road that shall anguish us no longer. The versions of us that we’ve put so much intention into leaving behind as we move toward betterness, clarity, and peace.
Fire is an element with a swift and destructive spirit. It completely annihilates things, reducing them to their most bare, root form (carbon) to be sent back to the earth and turned into something else. There’s a hurried-ness to fire. When we use fire in magick, we look forward to fast results with little work.
Well, I don’t want to shy away from the work, so I don’t burn my post-bath herbs.
My spiritual journey currently consists of a lot of inner work, self reflection, and moving through my personal obstacles rather than around them. I want to face my issues head on, heal them, and go to the next level in my life. So, quick fixes are not my thing and burning the remains of my herbs is neery an option.
Instead, I prefer to gift them back to the earth. From whence they came! As the herbs are being returned to the soil, coming face to face with their source, as are the troubles that I intend to remove from myself. They are no longer part of me, but now I can confront them and see them as they are. I can understand them from a distance rather than being blinded by them when they were all up in my face. I have distanced these things from me and see them from where they sprouted to begin with. I see the source of the issue, I address it, and initiate the healing process, which is backed up by the blessings of the bath itself.
So, in this photo, you can see I have dumped the post-bath herbs in my backyard. (Around some jars I’m collecting rainwater with!) This is the way I dispose of the herbs, my personal preference.
Let me know how this resonates with you or how you chose to dispose of your spiritual bath blend remains.
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