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"Tess Whitehurst shows us that cleaning can be a powerful tool for personal transformation. Magical Housekeeping is a blending of New Age techniques that incorporates the metaphysical topics of mantras, angels, faeries, crystals and plant and animal allies/Get your brooms ready...housekeeping will never be the same again."―Ellen Dugan author of Cottage Witchery, Natural Witchery and Garden Witch's Herbal "This is a magical book! It will change the way you think about even the most mundane housekeeping concerns! Infinitely useful and fun while full of exciting and accessible tips, this book reminds us that even the seemingly simplest things in your life are inroads to the most profound, and that everything is connected outside and inside: environment and psyche, style & substance, house and heavens. If you are ready for positive change you can't do better than this! It makes us smile every time we think of this book and of the joy it will bring into people's lives."―Ana Brett & Ravi Singh, yoga teachers to the stars "Filled with valuable information and ancient wisdom to activate sparkling energy and create true sacred space in your home. I recommend it!"―Denise Linn, author of Sacred Space
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About the Author
Tess Whitehurst is an intuitive counselor, energy worker, feng shui consultant, and speaker, and the author of Magical Housekeeping. She has appeared on the Bravo TV show Flipping Out and her writing has been featured in Writers Digest, Whole Life Times Magazine, and online at Lemondrop.com. She lives in Boulder, CO. Visit Tess online at tesswhitehurst.com.
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Product details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1 edition (June 8, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0738719854
ISBN-13: 978-0738719856
Product Dimensions:
5 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
144 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#155,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
After reading some of the reviews, I thought I might want to return this kindle book as too fluffy-bunny, cloyingly sweet and just too silly for me, but as a sister-witch, and despite the low star ratings from some, but taking them into consideration, I thought I would see if it offered me anything and gave it a try. I'm not returning it.Like others, my main problem with the book was the ridiculous and unnecessary cost of the cleaning and ritual ingredients. I have already written about low-cost non-toxic ingredients at length in a comment response to one of the two star ratings, but essentially you can clean just about anything in your house with just a few inexpensive and completely non-toxic ingredients. I use these daily (or whenever I get the energy up to do mind numbing chores) and have done for years. They clean as well and usually better than the chemical cleaners on the store shelves.These are: Baking soda (bicarbonate of soda), common salt (sodium chloride) or sea salt for the purists (sodium chloride with minerals), common white vinegar, lemon and olive oil. See my comment to LLIMom in the two star ratings for information on how to use them and where to get them. You just don't need a lot of money to bring energy and cleanliness into your home. And they are and safe for children and pets.My point is that It is the INTENT of the user of ritual Magick that matters, not the ingredients. I'm still an econo-witch, despite the fact that I don't have to be now. I feel the Goddess is blessed by the fewest ingredients and the most plentiful and available, since the cleaning solution is, after all, discarded, and not by a hodgepodge of things not easily found or afforded. The Magick is in your own mind and will, not in ingredients. You need something, after all, to aid your cleaning, and non-toxic to boot, so use the simplest and cheapest that will work effectively.----------------------Possible spoiler alert---------Don't go past this point if a discussion of the book's points of interest would ruin the experience for you-------------------------------------------------What I liked about the book: She has a cheerful spirit; the tone is uplifting and joy and gratitude are constant themes. Some of the spells are delightful. Keep in mind that spells are directed energy - the power emanates from you as a conduit, not from the petals and candles. Having some simple herbs on hand to aid your purpose is a good idea and some of the spell ingredients can be adapted and modified to suit your budget. More on that in a bit. Buying a few small bottles of the less expensive essential oils might be something that will help enormously if you can manage it. It took me years to build my supply, but you only need a few, and can get by with none at all.I also liked the section on candle magick. If you cannot afford essential oils to dress your candles try making your own infused oils (my favourite is infused rosemary) recipes are abundant on the net, and these are cheap and useful for many household cleaning purposes as well, or just use olive oil. I prefer natural beeswax to soy, it has a rich honey smell and the bees won't miss it when they are done with it. Beekeeping by the way is a wonderful way to preserve the bees and as a result, the planet. I make my own beeswax tealights and votives, but these can be purchased locally or online as can soy candles.Many of the house spells and rituals in the last quarter of the book are useful and interesting, but would have to be modified for folk who don't have an extensive essential oil cabinet, a crystal collection or herb collection - fresh or dried. You can, however, get some dried herbs at your supermarket and at ethnic stores. Some come in bulk and in no-name bags. Look for ginger, cinnamon sticks, rosemary, sage and look for vanilla essence too, as well as oranges, lemons, bottled lemon juice, olive oil - you might even have all or most of these in your cupboard.To get cheap or free herbs for your home, Try doing a weed walk for dandelion root, leaves and blossoms at the appropriate life cycle, chickweed practically all year round, red clover, comfrey leaf, mint, alfalfa and my favourite cleansing herb mugwort which dwells in abandoned sites and places. Make absolutely certain you know what you are doing and /or go with an experienced herbalist; never use weeds from roads with cars emitting gas fumes, and never if the ground has been treated with chemicals. Never take more than one third of any plant, less if possible. You can get useful herbs absolutely free all year round. You can do this even if you live in a big city. Check the web for places and ideas.Even in winter you can get pine needles and cedar clippings. One year I was in an apartment so asked a friend if I could dig up the dandelions in his yard. He nearly fainted with gratitude. If a friend has an elderberry or juniper bush, if you want the flowers and berries, ask if you can have them if she's not using them. Offer to pick up dropped rose petals from the ground at a friend's yard etc. or ask for the dropped and discarded ones from a florist. Dry them in paper bags or a dehydrator if you have one, or hang them up if you have the space. I got lidded glass jars from the dollar store to keep the herbs in and they look lovely on a shelf.So ritual herbs don't need to cost you anything but time. Which is a big deal to many. But there's deep satisfaction from savouring the experience of collecting your own ritual herbs and from connection with the Mother. Econo magick - the Goddess would be proud.Tess did inspire (remind) me to clear the junk off my front porch, so I liked that. I left the spiders and webs alone since they eat the flies, mosquitoes and annoying bugs and add ambiance :)Imbolg or Imolc (February 01) is the perfect time to do a ritual house clearing and all-out cleaning, for witches anyway, or you can wait until the weather warms in spring to do your 'spring cleaning'. I did get a doormat I love, though, as she suggests, with a black cat surrounded by purple light and wearing a pentacle on its collar. It gives me immeasurable pleasure to open the front door and see it.She also inspired me to clean my stove more often and thoroughly. I liked her take on that - but - I draw the line at covering up my bedroom mirrors at night - or putting a mirror above my stove that I would have to clean every five minutes for food splatter; at least that bit made me laugh. Good for the spirit a good hearty laugh.For the oatmeal cookies, can we not just use granny's recipe with a few simple old-fashioned ingredients - or for those who are cookery challenged, how about a plain old cookie mix? I got tired just thinking about walking the aisles of a health food store to get all those hard-to-find ingredients, never mind the expense. A word: Canola oil is not good for you unless it's raw, unprocessed and freshly cold pressed. The stuff in the supermarket is extracted at high heat and often using chemicals, and is toxic to the body. Butter is better choice since it can take higher temperatures before becoming rancid, or virgin coconut oil, which is my personal choice. The cookies are nice for a Mabon ritual when the grain is ripe and harvested though. I also liked what she said about the satisfying and uplifting experience of watching others delight in the food you made - it's good for the soul.As for the Feng Shui bit about the front door, i.e., adding stained glass, gems or colored paint - many people live in apartment buildings and aren't allowed to paint the door. Hang a wreath or a sprig of herb.I'm also not about to chop down the ancient cedar by my front walk - it removes toxins and smells nice. The birds nest and chirp in it. The trees and bushes near my front entrance are my guardians since they clear and disinfect the air, and I'm not about to cut them down or hack away at them. Unrealistic advice. But my disapproving neighbour across the street would like me to take and implement it. There's an entity for whom I needs a containing spell, around my home not hers, for as Tess points out, bad Karma can manifest from banishing spellwork and is usually unethical.Now we get to the sticky stuff - we'll start with the bedroom ritual. Are you mad??? Get a grip here Tess old girl. Forty fresh white roses? How about the petals of one white rose - as I said, the magick is in the intent and directed will of the individual performing it. As such, a single rose will do to get the energy across. If you have a lot of money to throw around, by all means get forty roses and pick the petals off. The bed will smell nice and so will the air, but it just not necessary for the directed energy to work.By the time I got to this bit of the book, I got weary and tired just thinking about all that housework and all that Feng shui-ing. My mood plummeted. No matter how you dress it up, it is, after all, mind numbing housework. Even reading about it is a downer. I bought the book to see if it could help with that, and it did have a few rituals to help out, but I'm not an eager beaver now as a result of reading it. Instead of buying forty roses, I thought about hiring a cleaner for a day. Now that lifts my mood.Some of us just aren't cut out for it all, and some of us - such as enthusiastic Suzy Homemakers - just love it. I get weary just imagining them dancing around the room with mop in one hand and duster in the other singing Happy Happy Joy Joy. She mentioned beer.Which brings us to an important part of any ritual: Beer is indeed good for grounding. The old standby was 'cakes and ale',and where I come from, cakes means oatcakes or some other bread like soda bread. The point is that although veggies and nuts are good for you, they take too long to digest and energize instead of ground. In my opinion, the old ones were right - carbs are best for grounding; they will take you down fast - but too much will put you to sleep after a ritual - and that's all right too.For those who complained about the mixing of traditions and cultures, I don't see what the problem is. In fact, I'm in favour of it. Whatever works and gets you there - and the job done, is fine with me. Restricting oneself to only one immovable path can be rigid and limiting, not to mention ineffective.About the Archangels and fairies, whatever works for you. I saw nothing about the evil and dangerous trickster a reviewer mentioned, and hidden entities can take whatever form you like best. I prefer to think of them as inter-dimensional entities.As for the TV vs the fireplace - I'm with Tess. I wish I did have a fireplace - we had one when I was a child in Scotland; It was the focus of the family room, heated the home and we even did some cooking on it - and it was all the more special for it. We got around to buying a TV in 1963 but I never liked it much even then and banished it from my home years ago. But, it has been replaced by the computer, which I spend more time on than the TV I used to have and the EMF radiation cannot be good. The fireplace generates and replenishes energy, but relaxes at the same time, and the computer and other electronics drain it. Now I do my fire rituals in my mini cast iron cauldron lined with sand or salt.Finally, she is spot on about the sheets. It's expensive to get hemp or organic cotton sheets but if it's in your budget get pure wool blankets and natural fiber sheets. Silk actually nourishes your skin and is cool in summer and warm in winter. On a tight budget, an all-cotton t-shirt and cotton panties will do as well. Don't forget linen as a strong natural fiber.So, to wrap up, I think Tess has tried her best to inspire us, and she has. The whole point of this review is that I liked some things about the book very much as I've explained, especially the author's natural vitality, eagerness to help and the rituals and the directed energy work; but, as some have mentioned, cleaning and energizing your home should be available to everyone and not just those with a lot of disposable income.
Love this book--the author even applies her recommendations to diet and advises an animal-friendly vegan lifestyle, which makes me really trust the author has their heart and mind in the right place. I really found the first chapter on how to part with clutter helpful. In fact, there are a lot of practical rituals and habits offered to make life just happier and less chaotic. I did find some of the chapters a bit repetitive and unnecessarily detailed, such as the one on crystals. Although I am an atheist and there is a lot of woowoo in the book, you just have to take it with a grain of salt and remember the importance of ritual, meditation, and good headspace for improving anxiety and wellbeing.
Magical Housekeeping: Simple Charms and Practical Tips for Creating a Harmonious HomeDid you know that the clutter in your home is the clutter in your mind? The gifts that you hated, but would not throw away. Photographs from a long ended relationship still hanging on your living room wall. A vacuum tube, T.V. console from the 1980s that has been broken for years. Clothes that you can no longer fit and will never wear again, or the old mildew-smelling items in your closet, basement, or garage. Clutter can act like a ships ancor, holding you in the past, preventing you from moving on. This book helps you to rid yourself of the clutter in your home that not only makes you into an... "anachronism," but also draws in negetive energy, spirits and entities like a magnet. It is well written and gives plenty of examples and easy to follow instructions on how to clear your home. I already followed the authors advice, and you won't believe the results. It was as if a weight was taken off my soul, and the feeling of "sweet" relief rushed in like a mild summer breeze. My home now has an atmosphere of peace and positivity. If you need help in ridding your home of old negetive vibrations, then this is the book for you.
The charms and tips in this book combine Feng Shui and urges us to declutter our lives (who doesn't love the thought of only being surrounded by love?) and gives tips on changing negative outlooks to positive. It is a guidebook for enriching lives and speaks in such clear language. There's no mystery to her writing which makes it such a joy to read. I'd checked the book out several times from the local library before finally having to buy it (the library was getting tired of prying it from my fingers). A personal perk? Although it has nothing to do with the publisher's version, I bought mine second hand and the previous owner kept it near sage. It smells wonderful and was definitely my best purchase yet.
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