You can do a protection spell for your home in Winter, particularly if you have experienced any grief, relationship disturbances or other sadness during the last year.
For the protection ritual, you will need a white-candle and a bowl of salted water. You may also wish to prepare some herbs to place at doorways and windows for protection. Fennel or a sprig of St. John’s wort, saved from your Midsummer’s Eve gathering, can be hung over the entrance doors, and a bunch of fennel may be used to splash salt water around the house and to sprinkle the water around each door and window to cleanse the space. Other herbs, such as camphor or caraway, could also be used in the water.
Place your candle and matches at your front door along with your bundles of herbs. tie your bundles with a piece of red-coloured string. Taking your bowl of salted water(with or without herbs), walk slowly around the outside of your house and splash water around its perimeter. It is important to follow in the motion of the sun, walking around your house in a clockwise motion in the Northern Hemisphere or anti-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Keeping the appropriate motion, enter the house and light the candle at the entrance.
Move through the house from room to room, concentration on the candle and keeping any eye on where you are going. In each room splash some of the salted water at the door and at all the windows. If appropriate, take your basket of herbs and place one bundle above each door and window.
If you work with needle and thread, you may consider this other spell to protect your house. Each time you finish with a bit of thread and there is some left over, put the leftover thread into a small jar with the words “protect this house from hardship and harm”. Eventually the jar will fill up and can be sealed with a protective herb and stored in the highest place in the house.
To anchor these spells, you could also plant basil or dill in a window box or herb graden to keep bringing you protection and good fortune, or plant a tree such as the rowan or mountain ash to watch over your house and family.