“Basket of Blessings” – a superstition based ritual process of selecting various items to bring into your new home first, as a means of encouraging various sympathetic magic results, such as luck, wealth, abundance, health, and so on.
I’ve covered this topic before here and here on Patreon. That post is great and covers a lot more of the in-depth ideas, including practical things to move in first as well as what to NOT move in. This list is simple, but fast with explanations on why the stuff is on the list.
This is a common concept in other cultures. I don’t know what this entire concept is called, but I’ve decided to called this “Basket of Blessings”. Yes, I’m coining the term for this concept. You heard it here first. The idea is that the first thing you’re carrying in is a collection of items intended to bring good luck, prosperity, blessings, abundance, and other assorted good vibes.
A few examples: A student might carrying in books, blank paper, and pens to encourage a scholarly pursuits. A person moving into their first apartment might want to bring things to encourage luck, such as a four leaf clover, and comfort, such as a favorite blanket. You get the idea. It’s intended to say “this is what I want my home to be like”.
It has a secondary goal of being something to keep the home occupied when you aren’t there. For someone who might be moving in over a duration (like moving a storage unit over a week or having to travel hours to the new house from the old house), these items will let the house feel not so cold and lonely.
(Crafting a house guardian will also help in this endeavor, but that’s a whole different post.)
Pick any choose whatever you want / need off the list. Remember, this is what YOU want for YOUR home, so get creative in personalizing this process.
- Drinking water – so you’ll always have clean water
- Purified water, blessed water, moon water, holy water, etc – for blessings and magical cleansing
- Coins, paper money, cash – for abundance and wealth
- Silver (coins, jewelry, dishes, etc) – for abundance and wealth
- Gold (coins, jewelry, etc) – for abundance and wealth
- Crystals, jewels, and gemstones (jewelry, loose crystals) – for abundance and wealth – double check correspondences for gemstones
- Steel (spoons, plates, etc. No knives) – for stability and protection
- Cast iron (pots, charms, etc) – protection
- Bread – so you’ll never go hungry
- Rice – so you’ll never go hungry
- Fresh fruits and berries – so you’ll never go hungry
- Fresh herbs – so you’ll never go hungry
- Oranges – for luck, health and to never go hungry
- Basil – luck and money
- Rosemary – health
- Sugar – for sweetness, money, and food
- Honey – sweetness and food
- Chocolate – sweetness, treats, food, wealth
- Coffee and/or tea – for welcoming guests, abundance, productivity, wealth, food, etc.
- Salt – cleansing, money
- Alcohol, wine, alcoholic offering, non-alcoholic beverage offering
- Fresh cut flowers – beauty
- House plant, money plant, potted herbs, potted fruit trees
- Books – for knowledge, religious purposes, cookbook, divination, a gain a certain sort of lifestyle or energy, etc
- LED candle, lamp – so there’s always a light on to welcome you home
- Blanket – for warmth
- Picture of the household members – for family happiness
- New broom – for a fresh start
- Bells – for cleansing
- Luck charms and other magical charms – for luck and assorted purposes
Put things together. If you’re bringing in fresh cut flowers and fresh sprigs of herbs, put them in the same vase. All the food and drinks can go in a box to be snacked on during the move or be easily used in the morning. Put together a witch jar with all of your crystals, coins, luck charms, and so on so it’s all contained for right now. You can dismantle the jar (or box or whatever) at a later date.
You can also just shove it all in a tote bag and call it a day. It doesn’t have to be fancy if you don’t have the energy for it.
If you’re running out of boxes, toss all the stuff in the blanket, wrap it up, and bring it in just like that. Use this first box to keep bottled water so you and your movers know where the water is (just don’t keep the money there too, yeah?)
When gathering these things, I like to put them in a basket or a box and “present” them to the house. Sometimes having two boxes is better. One with all the expensive stuff that can be tucked in a closet or cupboard during the moving process and another for the more household stuff or plants.
Again, this topic has a related post here and here on Patreon. It was public first as early access over on my Patreon. Link for that post is here.
Patreon | thiscrookedcrown.com
This Crooked Crown 