Magically, cinnamon is associated with success, action, healing, protection, energy, love, prosperity, and purification.

Now try to pour that feeling into the cleaning product. Visualize the feeling welling up from your heart and flowing down your arms and out through your hands; see the product absorbing that energy.

Look at your home with fresh and critical eyes. Do the colors of the walls still reflect who you are? What does the furniture say about you? Walk through each room. Are there places you have to struggle to get to? If you don’t want to go there because it’s too difficult (either physically or otherwise), then chances are good that the energy flow

The first is enhancing physical cleaning products with a bit of natural magic.

Don’t underestimate the power of a chair covered with your favorite throw next to an end table set with a candle and a small potted plant, or a window seat with pillows

Of those ten plants, which are indigenous to your area and which were imported? When were they imported and by whom? • What trees are most commonly found in your neighborhood? Again, which are indigenous and which were deliberately introduced? When and by whom? • What wildlife is native to your area? • Is the water that’s channeled to your tap hard

Your home is a place of strength for you, and a place to which you should be able to return in safety to recharge your batteries. If your home is disorganized and has jarring energy, you lack that base of strength from which you must operate.

When you clean, you can further visualize the energy you are calling into the space. Visualizing while you clean also helps take away the boredom and resentment we associate with removing the dust and dirt that will just build up again anyway. Think of it as green witch maintenance of your personal space.

INTERACTION EXERCISES When observation is done with intent, you will discover more about your neighborhood. For this exercise, first choose a stone or a plant that you’re familiar with. Allow yourself to experience it again as if for the first time. Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your green witch journal. • What does this