Gypsie Travel Stone

It’s that time of year again.ROADTRIP!!!!!

I’m an Urban magick practitioner - but I was trained quite young in traditional Gypsie magick.

Gypsies travel - a LOT. So when I travel I get back to the basics. Here is a little something to keep both you and your home safe from the people that were always on the road.

Traditional Gypsie magick most often relies on simple found objects and ritual acts. (Don’t get me wrong btw - Gypsie magick too has its pomp circumstance big rituals - but they are mostly used for big stuff. The simple things I find are often best left to simple works.) This ensures your safe return home and if bound, keeps your home a safe place until your return.

Gather a small stone that will fit in your palm from near the door that you usually use as your main entrance / exit from the house. This does not have to be the "front" door or grand entrance. It simply needs to be the one that YOU use on a day to day basis. The driveway door - side door - garage door - what ever YOU use daily. Somewhere around the outside of that door find a small pebble or stone. Pick it up dirt & all and take it inside with you.

Take the stone to your alter table or sacred space. (Hey being an Urban magicks person that scared space for me is sometimes a TV top "shrine".) Ask whatever energies or deities you use, to protect your home in your absence and return you to it safely. Take a small amount of black thread and "bind" your home. Three times round and tie a knot so the thread will not slip off. Put it in your pocket (or purse) and take it with you. (I sometimes end up squeezing my stone on rough take off & landings - but lol I can be on the strange side occasionally.)

Once you reach you destination take the stone and place it in a half-full glass or small bowl of water on a window sill where you are staying. (A clear glass or undecorated bowl is best. Hey go Urban - a clear plastic cup works too.) Preferably it should be placed in a window facing your home, but any window will do in a pinch. You have created a mini alter with a piece of "your" earth. The stone is the earth - water is water - air in the glass air - and the sun thru the window is fire. Each day ask your energies or deities to continue their protection of you and your home.

On the day that you leave, take the stone out of the water and pour the water outside returning them to the earth. (I usually pour the water on a plant - better karma) You are now ready to travel again. Place the stone back in your pocket or purse. When you get home unbind it and return it to your door thanking your energies or deities for their protection.

Veritatem dies aperit.

LA. Judge / nodecaf

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