Emil Lukas, Clearing #1393, 2015,
Paint and ink on canvas over wood panel,
35 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 2 1/2 in (90.2 x 59.7 x 6.3 cm)
Courtesy: Hosfeld Gallery
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In the heart of winter's breath,
Where frosty whispers dance,
Stands a lone tree, bared and bare,
In the shadows of circumstance.
Tall pines pierce the fog's embrace,
Their boughs a somber shroud,
While silence reigns in this hushed space,
Where solitude is endowed.
A path of snow, a winding thread,
Through the secrets of the wood,
Each step a journey, fears unsaid,
In the quiet where thoughts brood.
Muted light, a clouded sky,
Casts shadows deep and long,
In this realm where dreams may lie,
Amidst nature's timeless song.
Oh, how the heart does ache and yearn,
In this realm of quiet grace,
Where the soul may wander, and hearts may learn,
In nature's silent embrace.
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How I Cleanse
Hermit-Wizard's Custom Craft Series Pt. 3
First off, I physically clean & organize. Messy or dirty spaces capture energy & allow it to stagnate. Everything in it's place. Tidy, scrubbed. It's a high-investment work.
While cleansing, I visualize stale or negative energy as the actual grime itself - I'm breaking it up & removing that grime.
I also highly recommend blasting positive music for this. And I don't mean meditation, energy reiki YouTube shit. I don't mean Bach. I mean songs that make you sing along & make you wanna dance. Personally, I have a playlist... And there's a lot of Panic! at The Disco on there.
The music actually acts as sound cleansing, which vibrates stagnant energy, shakes off the cobwebs, and breaks up the weird "sticky blobs" I get in low-traffic areas like my guest room or the corners by the ceiling. Like jiggling ice until it shatters.
Open the windows, let in the light and fresh air. Turn on the fans. Shake out the sheets. Get a flow going, to move in new energy and let the old energy see it's way out.
If there's a particularly bad vibe - I tell it to do it's job & fuck up a pedophile. I personally believe there is an equal balance of positive & negative energy in the world, so I can't "fix" it. I simply give it a more meaningful purpose
Dance. Sing. Get wiggly. Prance through the space like a very happy deer. Ideally with some sort of smoke or sprinkling cleanse.
Burn herbs or use a blessed spray. I've used dried rosemary I've grown myself in the past, and dried/aged Pine twigs. Some folks use bay leaves. Personally, incense does the trick & but so does Febreeze in a pinch. Use what you have access to.
I even know folks who make infusions of herbs & blessed liquid, then put them into a small cosmetics spray bottle. Witch Hazel, with a pinch of salt & a bay leaf in it. Fully charged by the moon? Perfect.
Fan around the smoke, the smell, fling the water everywhere, spray your spritzer bottle. Let the music get all those vibes moving again. And SPEAK.
Speak aloud about what you want to see out the door, what you want to invite in, give it purpose & reason. Set the tone for what energies are welcome.
Then close the doors, keep the music bopping, and keep charging those energies. Get wiggly. Cook. Dance. Chat. Make art. And keep a lit candle by the front door to make the cleansing last longer.
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Caroline Walker (British, 1982), Clearing, 2014. Oil on linen, 145.3 x 190.2 cm.
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In the shadow of the trees on the far side of the clearing something was moving.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis
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