The act of reiving is to psychically and physically "clear" a place of unwanted entities. Reiving can be accompanied by banishing, or simply used to clear out the "psychic clutter" of past inhabitants of a house. You will need consecrated water, incense (and censer), your athame, and a candle for each room. A vacuum is also handy. It is best to work alone or with a partner, but not while the current occupants are home, that is, ask the "owners" to leave while you perform the
cleansing. Use the vacuum to clean up the "psychic grime" from the floor, as this is where it tends to go. The most important thing is to vacuum with intent; that is with the idea of cleaning up all the muck in mind the whole time. Then set up a candle in each room, light it, and
close the doors, if there be any. Start the charcoal, or whatever medium used to burn the incense, and take a shower "with the intent
of purification". Walk around each room with your dagger, incense, then the water, embracing, rather than 'enclosing', the room. As you walk around with
each, hold the instrument up to the four quarters/directions, and call on their powers of protection and harmony. After you have done this in a room , extinguish the candle with your fingers, and leave the door open.When you are finished, take your things and leave without speaking to anyone
Banishing
Banishing is the act of getting rid of a "thing".Before you even begin the banishing, the inhabitants must understand that they are not to fight, or engage in any type of dispute in the home for ONE FULL CYCLE OF THE MOON after your work. To pollute the space with bitter or hateful emotions could have been the cause of the entity in the first place, and bringing those feeling back in would one tarnish the habitat again. "Things" are attracted to strong
emotions just as much as they are to psychic activity. Keep this in mind in all of your magical workings, and take proper measures to
protect yourself.Banishing is "irrespective", the "getting rid of" part means not only energies, but it extends to living persons. Banishing requires a full
reiving of the property, encirclement of its boundaries, and placing "pentagramic seals" in the proper places.Before you go near the place to banish, you must firstly "seal off" all orifices, the psychic ones as well as the actual, on your body. A man has 12, a woman 13. These include:
the eyes , nostrils, ears, mouth, nipples, belly button (umbilicus) , anus
These are 11 which both men and women possess. For men the penis makes 12, and for women, the vagina, and urethra make 13.
Secondly, you must bring your boline, for self-defense. The process is the same as reiving, only you seal each portal/doorway of the house with a banishing pentagram of the Earth. Keep the intent of banishing foremost in your mind at all times, whether you use words or not. Work form the center of the house to the outer perimeters of the property. Finish your banishing by encircling the entire property and lay seals on the ground at all entrances and exits.
Warding
Warding is the keeping out of unwanted influences.Warding is a bit trickier than reiving or banishing, and should not be attempted by beginners.You will had to have collected certain talismans, such as bird feathers, bones, and skulls, spiders' webs, "bits" of dead animals, certain stone and wood entities, specific shells, and symbolic amulets. These things will "call to you", and you will feel the need to collect them. These things are like familiars, except their powers
lie dormant until they are formed as wards. You will also need sealing wax.Before you ward, reive, as you would were you about to perform a
banishing. Choose which "talisman" you will require to create the ward. "A ward is an intelligent, elemental entity". A ward is to return to you, always!, as it is to be left to perform its duty for a limited time (about one [1] lunar month). No one is to be told of you work, as the ward must remain undisturbed.Bless and consecrate everything that is to make up the ward (keep it simple, you don't need much). Wrap the bits in cloth, and seal the opening with the sealing wax. The ward will remain active until YOU break the seal.You also need a small bit of meat to bury on the property. The ward will remain active while he meat decomposes, as this is to 'feed' the ward as it works.Make sure your scent is on the meat and the package/ward. Rubbing them with your hands before you leave them will do the trick.Create the ward beforehand at home, within a cast circle. On the night of the warding, "cleanse with intent of purification, and seal
your orifices with consecrated water, as well as salt". You will also need a hand trowel or a small shovel.Go once around the property/area casting a circle of protection. Repeat the encircling with consecrated water, and with salt. (This means going around three times).Focus and intent are key. Be absolutely clear about what you want to keep out!Summon the entity, that is the powers of the things within the ward, to come into the area of protection. Ly De Angeles state "These entities, once released, are never small, I warn you, but they are lovely; they are your creatures!"After summoning, bury the ward very well, and very secretively, putting a rock over the spot to prevent it being dug up by passing animals. Bury its food (the meat) close by, and place a rock over this as well.Cut a "zone" in the circle with your athame to allow those who are "in alliance" with the person who you are warding for, but seal it with the banishing pentagram of Earth.Once finished, leave. Tell the person you are assisting that you have set up protections for a certain duration only, and that you will
return when time is up to remove them. They are to understand and agree with this condition. They must also do whatever they have to
to "prevent further dysfunction".When the allotted time is up, return to the site and dig up the ward, summoning the entity back to you. Return home, break the seal and put the bits and pieces back into the usual spots, where they will remain dormant, which is their natural state.If the person you are assisting is still in danger after the ward is removed, fith-fath the aggressor if you still want to be involved in this persons problems.
