As a magical tool, the
broom was born of the practical magic of sweeping the ritual area clean before
and after casting a spell. With focus and intention, you can dispel negative
influences and bad spirits from the area and prepare a space for ritual work.
In bygone days, pagan marriages and Beltane trysts took place with a leap over
the broom, an old traditional element of handfasting, or pagan wedding. While
this happens more rarely now, the broom has grabbed the popular imagination as
the archetypal symbol of witches.
Your broom is an
essential tool for energy management. Obtain a handmade broom from a craft
fair, not a machine-made plastic affair from the supermarket. A broom made of
wood and woven from straw will be imbued with the inherent energies of those
natural materials. Also, do not use your ritual broom for housework, as
this would mix up energies in your home and sacred space. Many of you may well
consider your home to be sacred space in its entirety. Keep your regular
household implements separated from your ritual tools nonetheless.. If you
treat your ritual tools with the utmost respect, they will serve you well. Over
time they will become deeply imbued with magical energy through exclusive use
in your workings. The Wiccan tradition holds brooms in high regard, and some
witches have an impressive collection of brooms, each named to distinguish
between their roles as “familiars,” or kindred spirits.
Sweeping Change Spell
Say this chant aloud as
you harness the power of your magical broom:
Sweep out all the bad, sweep out all ill,
Where I do the Lady’s will.
Besom, besom, Lady’s Broom
Sweep out darkness, sweep out doom.
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