Empathy's Book of Shadows


 
Salt Water Purification

Fill a cup (preferably your chalice) with water. With your athame, add three mounds of salt and stir widdershins.
Sit with the cup on your lap. Let all your fears, worries, doubts, hatreds and disappointments come to the surface. See them as a muddy stream that flows out of you as your breathe and is dissolved in the salt water. Allow yourself time to feel deeply cleansed.
Now hold the cup. Breathe deeply, and feel yourself drawing up the power of the Earth. Let the power flow into the salt water, until you can visualize it growing with light.
Sip the water. As you feel it on your tongue, know that you have taken in the power of cleansing and healing. Fear and unhappiness have been transformed.
Empty the leftover water into a running stream (or, down the drain if need be.)

Tool Cleansing

Need: White candle, bowl of water, bowl of soil, frankincens