#NATRON SALT HOW TO#

They can see your light and shadow they already know you’re a package deal and they still want to work with you, anyway! I hope all of the above helps to dispel some of the now obsolete, puritanical programming we’ve inherited over many generations. The netjeru or ancient Egyptian deities are very likely to already know who you are, even when you reach out to them for the very first time, because they have already been reaching out to you. The more you are aware of it, the more you nurture it and respect it, the stronger of a conductor you will become.

This is your divine spiritual birthright, not only as a Kemetic practitioner but as a human being, so use heka wisely! I’ll talk more about magic in an upcoming post but for now, just remember that you are a conductor of heka.

The action of performing ritual purity, along with your spoken words and intention is an act of heka, or sacred magic. In your own approach to ritual purity, it may help to remember that performing ritual purity is a ritual in itself. In decades past, we called these practices cleansing and psychic protection and it really is that simple!

These concepts can be transposed to the psychic realm and applied to modern Kemetic practice, as well as other forms of neo-paganism. COVID-19 has taught the public a lot about the need for hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE) and maintaining boundaries. If we don’t do anything to break the chain of infection, we can get sick. Likewise, we can’t see negative energies without the aid of clairvoyance or psychic vision but unfortunately, the world is crawling with negative energies, and it’s not a pretty picture. We can’t see microbes without the aid of a microscope, yet we know the world is crawling with them. When we perform ritual purification, it extends beyond ourselves to include the space we are working in, as well as the tools we use in ritual. Natron is one of the best sacred substances we can use to achieve that. Some of those energies we want to bring along to the ritual and some of them we don’t, hence why we perform ritual purification. It’s not you or your past deeds that are the problem, it’s the fact that life is messy and just as we live in a mishmash of microbes, we also live in a mishmash of energy. Why do you suppose a nurse washes their hands? Is it because there’s something deeply, fundamentally wrong with the nurse as a human being, and they need to wash all their imperfections away, or is it because of what might be on their hands that’s a cause for concern? It’s the same issue with ritual purity. Let’s use the analogy of a nurse washing their hands before they touch their patient, which we call hand hygiene. You don’t need the track record of a saint to achieve ritual purity! Think of ritual purity as spiritual hygiene.

#NATRON SALT HOW TO#

In this week’s post, we’ll look at how to make and use natron in modern Kemetic practice, along with some practical advice on ritual purity.įirst, let’s clear up some common misconceptions about ritual purity, as our concept of purity has become somewhat stigmatised in modern times. The ancient Egyptians had a variety of uses for natron, which included the mummification process, making ceramics, combined with oil it was used as an early form of soap and it was also used in ritual purification. In pagan practice today, we use home-made natron to establish a state of w’abthat is, a state of cleanliness and ritual purity. Natron is a naturally occurring mixture of salts found in dried up salt lake beds.

Natron salt