Moving Sacred Space from the Old Temple to the New Temple

Phoenix and I spent years creating a home filled with sacred space. Our home is a temple to all sorts of magick. But what happens if you move and want to take the magick with you?

Suppose you have a ritual room, temple space, or other magickal space in your home, and you must relocate it.

In that case, you can quite literally collect the magick you’ve created and take it to your new location, especially if you plan on building another temple or sacred space in the new spot.
Phoenix and I encountered this situation when we left our old home and moved into our new home. Here’s the ritual we created.

Moving The Temple: The Set Up

Here’s the stuff we used in this ritual.

Supplies: A large quartz crystal, black fabric large enough to wrap around the crystal, a small box large enough to hold the crystal, and your wand.

Set Up: Perform this ritual immediately after packing up the physical objects in the room, including removing any artwork from the walls. Place the black fabric down and open it with the crystal in the centre of the room. Hold your wand in your hand.

Ritual: Starting in the north, use your wand to gather all the energy in the room. Hold your wand in your dominant hand and make a stirring motion, gathering the energy and directing it into the crystal. Move in a widdershins direction, stirring up the energy and directing it into the crystal while you say:

"I’m gathering up the power of this space
I’m gathering up the flow
May all the magick that’s been created here"

Get ready to be on the go
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Repeat this process three times. Check-in and see if any residual energy is stuck in the room. If so, use your wand to gather it up, shifting it from the room to the wand to the crystal.

When you feel complete, carefully wrap the crystal in the black fabric and place it in the box. This box needs to be moved delicately to your new location—don’t leave the box unattended at any point.

When your new temple space is completely set up at the new location, place the box in the center of the room. Remove the fabric from the box and set it in the center of the room.

Unfold the fabric:

Use your wand to shift the energy from the crystal to the room. Visualise pulling the energy of your temple space out of the crystal-like pop-up tent. As you do, say this:

"I’m releasing the power of this space
I’m releasing the flow
May this place absorb this magick of mine
As of now, let it be so"

Working in The New Temple

We set about working in our new temple space right away. We both had rituals in mind, ones we practised together and individually. Getting about making magick in this space almost directly after performing this ritual gave a sense of continuity to our workings.

There’s something lovely about working “old” magick, familiar magick, in a new location. It’s the same and different. Familiar touched with a bit of the unknown.

Live Deliciously, Witches!
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Gwion Raven



Originally published at Patheos Pagan