After Shadow Work Healing Ritual

This spell is written as a bathtub spell because that’s where I do most of my healing work. If that’s not your jam, feel free to adapt it. Please remember not to use salts if bathing in nature.

You’ll need:

• A small cauldron
• A black candle with eucalyptus oil to dress. If you can’t handle the smell of that, tie a leaf on the front with a bit of string.
• A green or blue candle and lavender to dress.
• Black or brown paper, cut or torn into small pieces. (Black to bind or brown to bury and decompose.) You’ll want one piece for each issue or part thereof you stirred up in your shadow work.  So if, for example, you’re addressing internalised homophobia you might write the horrible things your internal voice/ random dickheads say, like “pick a side,” “unnatural,” and “confused.”
• An offering (Frankincense on a charcoal disk, a song, whatever feels right).
• Banishing bath salts (put it in an old stocking to keep your tub clean).
• A piece of malachite.

1) Cleanse the area, then cast circle while you fill the tub. Throw in your banishing salts, knowing that as you soak all the negativity is being absorbed.

2) Get into the tub. Come to centre and state your intent.

“There are parts of me I no-longer need, I am free from my history.
The patterns of my past can’t bind, I sever the cords; beneath I find
clean blood running out the gash, fresh growth sprouting through the ash,
Be with me now as I reveal myself, reforged anew in spiritual health.”

3) Dress both candles, starting with the black one. Which you will light in front of you in your workspace.
Place the green one at the other end of the tub and light it. It will be behind you for most of this ritual.

4) Light your charcoal block and sprinkle on some of your offering.

5) In your mind’s eye, see the water growing murky with your emotional gunk.

6) Dry your hands, and one by one write the pieces of your baggage onto the paper. Hold the malachite in your other hand. Breathe on the paper, if you like. Talk to it. Soak it with each issue until all the gunk is embedded on the paper instead of in you. Touch the paper to the black candle, then let each piece burn out in the cauldron. These problems are gone. Transformed. Destroyed. They will return to the earth to be remade into something lush and good.

7) Give another offering, then turn away toward the green candle. Meditate on your future growth. The steps you will take and where you’ll go from here.

8) When you’re done, pray or thank the universe/ spirits/ invisible friends, close circle, and then have a shower. I love Bush Medijina’s soaps for after ritual refreshing, and no, I’m not being sponsored in any way. https://bushmedijina.com.au/collections

Happy cleansing! The future is bright xx