Changing the energy of your home

Negative energy is coming at us from all directions just now, and it may be affecting the energy of your home. Here are ways to make your home a place that heals, nourishes, and lifts you up.

Today, I won't be channeling on the energy around you. Instead, I'm going to show you what the stones have taught me about changing the energy of my home. It's a topic that feels particularly important in the present moment.

We all need a place of sanctuary, and our homes should be that for us. But there's a tremendous amount of negative energy in our world just now, and it's coming at us from all directions. It's also seeping into our homes, in ways we may not even realize. I'm going to tell you some stories that will help you think about your home's energy in a new way. I'll also connect you to resources that can help you make your home a place that heals, nourishes, and lifts you up.

PTSD and the magic of rose quartz

My husband is a navy veteran who saw active service in war-torn parts of the world. After retiring, he was perpetually angry, with a hair-trigger temper that seemed wholly unconnected to what was actually happening in the moment. We knew something was wrong, but it wasn't until he entered therapy that we realized there was a word for it: PTSD. It's no picnic, folks. I am grateful to his therapist for helping him find ways to manage his emotions. And indeed, he has come a long, long way.

Yet there was still a residue—an imprint, if you will—of unrest in the energy of our home. It wasn't peaceful. I could feel the dissonance but didn't know what to do about it. And then my guides suggested I grid our house with rose quartz.

While I channel from the stones, I’m not one to keep them in every room and I don’t feel the need to collect every crystal out there. But I decided to try it anyway. I got a number of palm-sized chunks of rose quartz and placed them in the corners of the rooms we spend the most time in. Color me surprised, because things changed almost immediately. My husband was more peaceful and his sleep improved. Our dog began napping exclusively in the areas we gridded. The house felt hopeful again.

(Shortly afterward, the guides underscored the lesson by directing me to grid the home of a friend who lives on a golf course. In this case, the guides said, we needed to clear the energy of the pesticides used to maintain the golf course. The guides suggested celestite, which we placed in the four corners of the house. In the months to follow, even people who don't think of themselves as sensitive to energy noticed a difference. The house felt lighter.)

Beyond gridding: A surprise in the wall

I recently began working with my friend and mentor, Krista Mitchell, to understand how to gauge the quality of energy coming into the house. She helped me connect with the energy and consciousness of our space. (It should come as no surprise to learn that the energy of our home is pink).

We also checked for areas of weakness. Krista led me up to the roof, below the foundation, down the drains, and into the walls. Everything looked pretty good, but as I scanned my office, I felt discord to my right. I turned my head and immediately saw the source: a cable TV connection. I wasn't expecting that! But considering the level of violence in television programming these days, it isn't a stretch to imagine that an imprint of that violent energy is traveling through TV cables.

Krista helped me psychically clear stuck and negative energy, then showed me ways to shield the space going forward.

Healing the residue of oppression and cruelty

18 months ago, my guides plunked down a directive to begin gridding my half-acre yard with quartz. I laughed and said I certainly wasn't going to go buy large quartz specimens just to sit them outside. "That's okay," they said. "Just walk across the path to the culvert." I did, and discovered a treasure trove of large pink granite chunks. The guides told me which piece to grab and where to place them.

Curious, I plotted out the placement on a graph. It was a neat triangle with my back porch at its apex. If you remember your high school geometry, a triangle describes a circle. I sketched the circle and for the next two weeks was obsessed with drawing sacred geometric figures over the circle. I drew a pentagram (the two-dimensional form of the dodecahedron), the seed of life, even Metatron's Cube. Then I put it away and forgot about it.

A few weeks later as I sat on the back porch in meditation, I noticed the spirit of a native American man standing in the woods just over the line of our property. I asked him if there was anything I could do for him. He replied, "You're doing it."

I live in South Carolina, on land that has seen violence and cruelty involving the indigenous, as well as slavery, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and more. And just as trauma infects our own energy, so trauma stays in the land. The land remembers.

Physics tells us that energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another. And that, say the guides, is exactly what I was doing by building sacred geometric forms on my land and anchoring them with stone. I had created a temple that transmuted trauma into light. Today, my back porch remains my favorite place to meditate.

What to do next: Resources to explore

• Want to grid your home with crystals? Here is a short overview, complete with diagrams. The author suggests selenite and black tourmaline, but remember to use your own intuition when choosing stones.

• Ready to master ways to transmute the energy of your home and land? Explore Krista Mitchell's CrystalHeim, a 6-week channeled training that shows you how to work with the memory of crystals, the pulse of the land, and the guidance of Spirit to turn your home into a high-frequency temple. CrystalHeim starts January 31. If you're drawn to this work, I hope to see you there.

• Need a quick workshop on clearing and shielding the energy of your space? Explore Shielded Sanctuary, a masterclass designed to help you transform your living space into a haven of peace.

• Want to learn how sacred geometry and earth energy affect consciousness? Explore the work of Freddy Silva, including his fascinating book, The Divine Blueprint, and its related video, Templemaking.