{"id":14664,"date":"2017-08-01T01:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=15194"},"modified":"2017-08-01T04:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:17:29","slug":"spiralled-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/08\/01\/spiralled-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiralled Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spiralled Edge \u2013 Finding the Hearth and Heart<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Once upon a time, the Hearth and Heart of a home would have been the main room with a large fireplace for cooking and heating, where people went about their daily lives. The fireplace would have been the focal point of the room. But many houses don\u2019t have fireplaces these days, or they may be mostly ornamental with a fake fire, and we certainly don\u2019t have huge fireplaces. The focal point in that main room has become a TV set, not a fireplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gradually, the hearth became the cooker. And the heart of a home moved into the kitchen. After all, there\u2019s big heat source with a cooker, even if it might put out heat produced by electricity and there might not be any fire involved at all. This is where the magic of cooking takes place, making it the hearth and possibly the heart of the home. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Not everyone cooks though, and some kitchens are tiny. In my case, I have had a tiny kitchen that was really part of the living room. The hearth in our home over these past 2 years has been the living room. Not quite a kitchen, not quite a lounge (because I have slept here as well), no fireplace, just a bricked up chimney. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The hearth and hearth in today\u2019s modern home, is that room in the house where people most want to gather. For the most part, we aren\u2019t living in one or two room homes with a single large fireplace used for heating and cooking. The heart and hearth may still be the kitchen, it may be another room. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the next week, I will be moving out of a flat into a small house, complete with separate kitchen! And I have found myself wondering, where is the hearth in this new home? Kitchen, living room, back garden? <\/span><\/p>\n

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The kitchen has the cooker, and the boiler used to produce heat for the entire house as well as hot water. The living room has a bricked up fireplace. Outdoors in the garden there is an unused but reasonably put together brick barbecue. Each has potential, but I won\u2019t really know until I have spent time in the house, adding my own energies to the place, until I have cleaned and cleansed it of other people\u2019s energies. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Once I have found the heart and the hearth in our new home, I will be able to work to strengthen that, so that its warmth can spread more easily into the other rooms of the house. I\u2019m not talking about a physical heat here. I\u2019m talking about the warmth that comes from walking into a calm, loving home. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the first few days of August, I will start by giving the currently empty house a thorough clean, top to bottom. This will help to wash away any residual physical signs of previous occupants. Then, I will give the house a thorough energetic cleanse, to remove any residual non-physical signs of previous occupants. Finally, I will take around my own holy water and salt to bless the dwelling and place a layer of protection around it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Then, and only then, I will be ready to move into our new home. Then, I will know where the hearth and heart is. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Where\u2019s the Hearth in your home? Is it the same room as the Heart, or are they in different rooms? Does this make a difference to the energy in your home?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spiralled Edge \u2013 Finding the Hearth and Heart   Once upon a time, the Hearth and Heart of a home would have been the main room with a large fireplace for cooking and heating, where people went about their daily lives. The fireplace would have been the focal point of the room. But many houses don\u2019t have fireplaces these days, or they may be mostly ornamental with a fake fire, and we certainly don\u2019t have huge fireplaces. The focal point in that main room has become a TV set, not a fireplace.     Gradually, the hearth became the cooker. And the heart of a home moved into the kitchen. After all, there\u2019s big heat source with a cooker, even if it might put out heat produced by electricity and there might not be any fire involved at all. This is where the magic of cooking takes place, making it the hearth and possibly the heart of the home.   Not everyone cooks though, and some kitchens are tiny. In my case, I have had a tiny kitchen that was really part of the living room. The hearth in our home over these past 2 years has been the living room. Not quite a kitchen, not quite a lounge (because I have slept here as well), no fireplace, just a bricked up chimney.   The hearth and hearth in today\u2019s modern home, is that room in the house where people most want to gather. For the most part, we aren\u2019t living in one or two room homes with a single large fireplace used for heating and cooking. The heart and hearth may still be the kitchen, it may be another room.   Over the next week, I will be moving out of a flat into a small house, complete with separate kitchen! And I have found myself wondering, where is the hearth in this new home? Kitchen, living room, back garden?   The kitchen has the cooker, and the boiler used to produce heat for the entire house as well as hot water. The living room has a bricked up fireplace. Outdoors in the garden there is an unused but reasonably put together brick barbecue. Each has potential, but I won\u2019t really know until I have spent time in the house, adding my own energies to the place, until I have cleaned and cleansed it of other people\u2019s energies.     Once I have found the heart and the hearth in our new home, I will be able to work to strengthen that, so that its warmth can spread more easily into the other rooms of the house. I\u2019m not talking about a physical heat here. I\u2019m talking about the warmth that comes from walking into a calm, loving home.   Over the first few days of August, I will start by giving the currently empty house a thorough clean, top to bottom. This will help to wash away any residual physical signs of previous occupants. Then, I will give the house a thorough energetic cleanse, to remove any residual non-physical signs of previous occupants. Finally, I will take around my own holy water and salt to bless the dwelling and place a layer of protection around it.   Then, and only then, I will be ready to move into our new home. Then, I will know where the hearth and heart is.   Where\u2019s the Hearth in your home? Is it the same room as the Heart, or are they in different rooms? Does this make a difference to the energy in your home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}