HOUSE BLESSING

Assemble:
1.  Salt & Water
2.  Incense (fire and air)
3.  Milk & Honey
4.  Oil (for anointing)
5.  Wine (for offering)
6.  Bells, Pots, Pans, Whistles, etc.

Cast a circle in the main room (livingroom) and after casting, visualize the circle
expanding to include the entire house. Call upon the spirits and energies living in
the house (or apartment). Invite those who will be harmonious with the new
household and its energies to remain. Invite/ask those who will be happier
elsewhere to depart.  Release all "energies" not compatible with the new
household.  (This may be expressed as a "release" in order to unbind anything
that may be stuck.)

Then call upon, greet, and invite ancestors, patron deities, and all harmonious
spirits and energies to dwell in the house as they please.

Gather up the pots, pans, and all the noise-makers.  Go to each door and
window, not forgetting the fireplace and dog-door, making as much racket as
humanly possible--to shoo out anything unwanted.  (This is hysterical fun, and
also raises lots of energy for the next important step.) Go again throughout the
house and at each portal (door, window, etc.) sprinkle salt-water and cense,
saying: "By the Elements I purify and charge this portal."  Then anoint the portal
with milk and honey, saying: "By Milk and Honey I ensure prosperity and peace
within this place."  Finally, anoint the portal with oil, saying: "With Oil I seal this
portal and protect all within."  At the front door a special prayer is said, asking the
guardian deities (God & Goddess) to freely grant entry to all friends and loved
ones, and to prevent passage (turn aside) to any who would do harm." Then, if
it's a house--pour wine across the width of the threshold; if it's an apartment
anoint the threshold with light touches of wine.

The house-holders then each take a sip of wine, leaving some as an offering to
the Gods, and the Circle should be closed.  The remaining wine, milk, and honey
should be offered to the Gods.  (In our case to the fruit tree and the oak tree in
our yard.)

Addenda: This is very effective if done as part of a house-warming party,
followed by much  feasting.  It has also been done very effectively by two people.  
It only takes about 30 minutes to do a large house.  You _can_ take the time.

Do make certain to "ground" afterward, by closing the circle and by eating.  This
ritual can "stir" up everybody and make the house feel full of "buzzy" energy.