The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home (House Witchcraft, Magic, & Spells Series)

by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Hearthcraft is a spiritual path rooted in the belief that the home is a place of beauty, power, and protection, a place where people are nurtured and nourished on a spiritual basis as well as a physical and emotional basis.

Honoring the hearth means honoring your origins, where you come from each day, and where you return each night.

an intuitive ceremony or something set apart from everyday action by mindfulness and conscious intent. Also, the word magic means the conscious and directed attempt to effect change by combining and directing energy toward a positive goal.

Hearthcraft functions on a very basic truth: Living your life is a spiritual act.

What constitutes a spiritual experience for you? • What are the characteristics of a sacred object? • What elements of an action render it spiritual?

Maintaining healthy spirituality means keeping yourself relaxed, focused, and practicing something.

It isn’t the addition of something that is necessary, so much as a recognition and acknowledgment of something that is already there.

In essence, magic is the art of clearly focusing your will to help create a change or transition of some kind.

The more control you have over the energy and function of your home environment, the more likely you and your family are to be relaxed and happy.

we are blessed by interacting with what we consider sacred. This is one of the most important precepts of home-based spirituality: by caring for and maintaining your home, you simultaneously enhance its sanctity while it touches and blesses you.

Colors • Red: life, passion, action, energy, fire • Pink: affection, friendship, caring • Orange: success, speed, career, action, joy • Yellow: intellectual matters, communication • Light green: healing, wishes • Dark green: prosperity, money, nature • Light blue: truth, spirituality, tranquility, peace • Dark blue: healing, justice • Violet: mysticism, meditation, spirituality • Purple: occult power, spirituality • Black: protection, fertility, mystery, meditation, rebirth • Brown: stability, home, career • White: purity, psychic development, blessing • Gray: calm, spirit work, gentle closure, neutralizing energy or situations