Can my cat be useful when dealing with spirits?

[Mulberry]

Wards are like fences around your house, where you sleep, eat, your magickal space and you. Wards on you are called shields.

“Good fences make good neighbours”, and boundaries really matter. In life and in spirits: as above so below is not just a cute phrase.

Read this: the 1st link is a personal shield tutorial, 2nd link down is a ward tutorial, the last post is a basic and easy cleansing.

Unofficial Tutorials: Spiritual Hygiene & Defense Collection

Assumed to be so basic no one talks about it until beginners get a problem and wonder why, and six people say “cleanse and banish, set up wards, take care of your spiritual hygiene”. This megathread collects our favourite cleaning, banishing and self protection preventative techniques. Some are fix and forget/maintain occasionally, like wards, some are for on the spot emergency use. My top book recommendation for this work has to be Robert Bruce’s The Practical Psychic Self-Defense Handbook: …

Post about ideas for wards:

Wards and Shields - List your Favorite Types!

Ward: Circle: White light circle drawn clockwise Pheonix Suit, making use of the four elements and spirit. Vine suit - earth Whirlwind eye - Air Tidal Wave - Water Fire - Fire Rebirth - Spirit Shield: Mirror Suit Blue Light Bubble Aery Bubble

I couldn’t find my instructions for my house ward, so I rewrote them here:

@Mulberry

Ashes and warding herbs strewn in a circle outside around the house

Walk the perimeter around your house drawing an astral circle of protection. You can scatter ashes, flour if you like. I don’t recommend scattering salt outside as it harms plants and pisses off the fae, ime.

What I do for a house ward:

• I save the ashes from my charcoal disks from all my rituals, and place them in a vessel. They build up over time, and they are imbued with my energy and the residual energy of my work, a sort of calling card.
• When I have a cup or so, I add sand/earth from the garden which adds a solidity, strength and recruits the fae and energy of the land into th working.
• Then I add asafoetida, chili powder, wormwood which are repellent to most spirits, (actually, whatever I like at the time) and mix with intention that this concoction is repellent to “the uninvited”. I now have a pint (1/2 liter) of grainy powery material that it’s kinda stinky.
• Now I take that bowl in my non dominant hand, and “walk my land”, with full intention focused on drawing an energetic circle (wobbly oval probably), around my entire property.
• I see that barrier rising as I pass, from my above and into the ground. It connects so the whole house will be in a huge energy bubble, like a biodome.
  As I go I reinforce that energy barrier by scattering the ash concoction along the same line, using my right hand. I walk widdershins so I am inside the circle.
• Every time I step I scatter the ashes, notice the shield growing and expanding and thickening. Optionally, I say out loud my intentions. Something like “none may pass this ward without my permission”.
• I time it so the last of the ashes connect with the first, and I keep going in an overlap until all the ashes are gone.
• Then I stand for a few more minutes observing the energy shield, watch it interacting with the environment, see what the plants and fae think of it, see if it changes color or wavers or thickens more, and intentionally perform adjustments as needed. This is all in my minds eye.
• When I am comfortable that it is well established I walk back and forth in and out of it to observe how the ambience of the garden changes within and without: I do not usually want nature affected, although mice and mosquitoes might be included in the ward as uninvited. I check it’s not overkill, I check it’s got slight substance that can be felt by humans.
• At this point I’m probably done. I can always come back and inker more with it, top it up, reinforce it.
• When the next bowl of ash is ready I will repeat to strengthen it, which may be months away.