Creating an altar, cleansing your space, and inviting the sacred to dwell within are all powerful ways to support the healthy energy of your home, which will support your healthy energy in turn. The next step is to spiritually protect your sacred home from unwanted and unwell energy and influence. Once we have engaged these key elements of the sacred home, we can start to really make some magic in our lives.

Protecting our home is essential for a number of reasons. Just like we lock our doors, turn on the security alarm, and maybe have guard dog (even if the dog doubles as a cuddly couch potato) we need to have a few spiritual protections in place to keep our sacred home functioning well, and with integrity. Fortunately, spiritual protection is available in a wide variety of forms, all of which are fortified by the same power we’ve been using so far. It all comes back to your sacred intention.

The simplest way to begin spiritually protecting your home is to create a shield of light and anchor it into a physical object, a talisman. You’ve probably seen people place objects near or around the door to the home that serve this function: crosses, blue “evil eye” beads, mezuzahs, and other sacred symbols. You can use whatever you like to be your talisman, but it is more effective if it represents something sacred to you. It could even be a stone you found that you feel a strong resonance with. Mirrors are also commonly used for spiritual protection, as they can reflect away any unwanted influence.

Whatever form your talisman might take, the most important thing is that it evokes a sense of safety, strength, and the sacred.

Once you’ve got your talisman in hand, strongly experience with your inner senses a dome of brilliant light over your home and property. Charge this dome of light with your intention that it protect your home and all within it from harm and unwanted influence. Call on your Higher Power, your guides, and your well ancestors to add an extra layer of blessing and protection to this dome of light (if you aren’t sure about guides and well ancestors, call on you Higher Power, which you may experience simply as the whole energies of love or truth).

Connect this shield, this dome of light, into your talisman. Experience it as an anchor that holds and secures your spiritual protection. You may experience this as lines or strands of light connecting the talisman with your shield, or your talisman may radiate this protection into the shield, or even simply knowing that your protection is in place and anchored to your talisman. You want to feel/experience this a fully as possible, however that happens for you.

The last step then is to place your talisman on, above, or near your front door. You could even have multiple talismans that are placed with the other thresholds, the doors and windows, to your home, but the front door is the most important place. It is, after all, the main entry point from the outside to the inside, the main threshold to our sacred home.

There are many, many other ways to spiritually protect your home and I definitely recommend you look into those for more creative ideas. My personal talisman for my home is a hand carved, wooden plaque of Archangel Michael that I keep by my door. Archangel Michael is known for his divine protection, and his aid is asked for by a wide variety of people around the world.

Talismans aren’t just protective, though. They can also be used to manifest any intention you might have and can be of any shape or form that connects you to your intention.

In my first blog of this series, I briefly mentioned having flowers on my home altar, and fresh flowers in the home is one of my favorite talismans for beauty, peace, and abundance. Again, what empowers a talisman is your sacred intention, so spend some time experiencing what it would be like to have your intention manifest, and then ground that energy into your talisman. If your talisman is something perishable, like the flowers, don’t worry about disposing of it when you need to. Your intention won’t wilt with them, but it is good to dispose or compost them before they get too far along. Just make sure you refresh whatever it is your using or replace it with something else.

Here are a few ideas for talismans that will empower your sacred home to support you and your intentions:

• a heart shaped object placed by your bed as a talisman for love
• a coin jar placed near your desk or in your office as a talisman for prosperity, and every time you add coins, affirm that your wealth increases
• a fountain for flow, health, and harmony
• your favorite book that really inspires you placed on your coffee table, a talisman of motivation and change
• a feather placed on a window sill to support your dreams of new horizons
• candles placed anywhere in the home as talismans of positive energy

To add even more oomph to your talisman, make an altar wherever you intend to place it. Remember, it’s your sacred intention that turns a shelf (or almost anything else) into an altar, along with you respect for that space (keep it clean and don’t put anything that is not part of your sacred intention on it or in that specific area).

I hope you are already enjoying the magic of living in a sacred home, and that it inspires you to get creative with all the ways you can invite more goodness, more abundance, more love, and more of the sacred into your life.

Let me know if I can support you in creating a sacred home and in manifesting your intentions. My Spirited Living programs are designed to guide you through bringing more positive, practical magic into your life, and the sacred home and talismans are definitely a part of that.

Live well, magic-makers!