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Bless This Home Spiritual Salt
Spanish name: Sal Espiritual Bendice Este Hogar
For blessing a new home, room by room, before the boxes come in
- Item
- SL-002
- Size
- 1.5 oz (42 g) bag
- Intention
- Peace & Home, Protection & Cleansing
Note. For spiritual use and sold as a curio and novelty only. No specific result is claimed or guaranteed.
Ingredients: Sea Salt, Lavender, Fragrance, FD&C Blue No. 1.
Colored and scented; not a food. Keep out of reach of children. Keep dry.
About this salt
Bless This Home salt is for a new start at home. People pick it up the day they get the keys to a new place, when a baby is coming home, or after a hard season under one roof: a loss, a divorce, months of arguing. It is used to ask God's blessing on the house and on everyone who will live there.
The old way is to bless a house while it is still empty. Before the furniture comes in, a little salt goes in the four corners of every room, starting at the back of the house and ending at the front door. A thin line goes across the threshold the first night, and many keep a pinch under the doormat from then on. When others lived in the house first, families often mop the floors with a pinch of salt in the water before they unpack, from the back of the house out the front door.
After a week, the corners are swept out the front door, and the pinch under the doormat is changed once a month. Many Catholic families renew the blessing every year at Epiphany, January 6, when the doorway is marked with blessed chalk, and that is a good day to put down fresh salt. Its candles are white and blue, the blue of the Virgin's mantle.
Ways to use
- The empty house
- Before you move in, sprinkle a little in the four corners of each room, back of the house first, front door last.
- The first night
- Sprinkle a thin line across the front door and light a white or blue candle in the main room.
- Under the doormat
- Keep a pinch under the front doormat. Change it once a month, and on January 6 when you renew the blessing.
- Mopping the floors
- In a house where others lived first, add a pinch to the mop water. Mop from the back to the front door and throw the water out to the street.
Goes with
When a house has been through something heavy, add Cleansing to the mop water first, then lay the salt and light a white candle with a few drops of Bless This Home oil. Full Protection goes on the door frame, and Peace at Home keeps the calm once the family settles in.
