House Blessing
Materials Needed:
1. Salt & Water
2. Incense (fire and air)
3. Milk & Honey
4. Oil (for anointing)
5. Wine (for offering)
6. Bells, Pots, Pans, Whistles, etc.
Ritual
Cast a circle in the main room (livingroom) and after casting, visualize the circle expanding to include the entire house.
Invocations:
(for all Watchtowers, say:)
Powers of (say direction),
Ancient Ones of (say corresponding element),
We greet you, we honor you, we welcome you here!
Watch over and bless and protect this place.
As we will it, so mote it be!
Call upon the spirits and energies living in the house (or apartment). Invite those who will be harmonious with the new household and its energies to remain. Invite/ask those who will be happier elsewhere to depart. Release all "energies" not compatible with the new household. Then call upon, greet, and invite ancestors, patron deities, and all harmonious spirits and energies to dwell in the house as they please.
Gather up the pots, pans, and all the noise-makers. Go to each door and window, not forgetting the fire-place and dog-door, making as much racket as humanly possible--to shoo out anything unwanted. (This is hysterical fun, and also raises lots of energy for the next important step.)
Go again throughout the house and at each portal (door, window, etc.) sprinkle salt-water and cense, saying: "By the Elements I purify and charge this portal."
Then anoint the portal with milk and honey, saying: "By Milk and Honey I ensure prosperity and peace within this place."
Finally, anoint the portal with oil, saying: "With Oil I seal this portal and protect all within."
At the front door a special prayer is said, asking the guardian deities (God & Goddess) to freely grant entry to all friends and loved ones, and to prevent passage to any who would do harm. Then, pour wine across the width of the threshold, or anoint it with light touches of wine.
The house-holders then each take a sip of wine, leaving some as an offering to the Gods, and the Circle should be closed. The remaining wine, milk, and honey should be offered to the Gods.
Be certain to "ground" afterward, by closing the circle and by eating. This ritual can "stir" up everybody and make the house feel full of "buzzy" energy.