I believe my apartment building is a magnet for people who are really struggling with life. Everyone who lives here seems to be suffering a great deal, and many of us are deeply depressed – some suicidal. This place just feels really depressing, and my neighbors and I tend to avoid contact with each other because we just bring each other down. I am desperate to get out, and am working and praying on it. In the mean time, I am wondering if you think a place can be bad for us on a psychic or emotional level, and if so, how we can keep our sanity while we’re in the process of moving on. Every day when I come home, I start to get upset and agitated. When I first moved in, I tried to make friends and be helpful, but that didn’t work out well – in fact, it put me in some very unpleasant situations. I can’t wait to hear your advice!
Dreamchaser:
I do believe that there are places on earth that are vortexes, conduits or keepers of negative energy. On the flip side, I also believe that there are places that are vortexes, conduits and keepers of positive energy.
I think all of this has to do with ley lines. A ley line is a straight fault line in the earth’s tectonic plates. This is something, by the way, that science fully supports. The part that science will not admit is that magnetic energy is released through these cracks in the earth’s tectonic plates.
Many people claim to feel this magnetic energy surge up in their bodies when they are close to ley lines. In fact, people have built entire communities on ley lines. It has long been thought that Sedona, Arizona, and other spiritual places like Stonehenge were built where they were because of the ley lines. Some even claim that ley lines cause strange phenomena like the Bermuda Triangle and crop circles, to name a few.
I have traveled extensively and have always found it fascinating to feel the energy coming from different places on Earth. Your body can actually FEEL the differences. I think your body is reacting to the negative energy of the ley lines where your building is geographically located.
I also believe that buildings hold energy from the people who live there. It has been scientifically proven that our thoughts can create things around us. Quantum physics is exploring lots of fascinating ideas related to this truth.
So if there is a whole building of really sad, negative and depressed people, it will be like a smoke cloud moving down the halls. Imagine if you had an actual smoke cloud pouring out your apartment door. Other people would walk through this “smoke cloud” and smell like smoke, and they’d have trouble breathing while walking through it. The negative energy you describe is very much like that smoke cloud.
You will be able to move out as soon as YOU believe you can. In the mean time, I need for you to buy some sage bundles and sage YOUR place. Start on one end and sage every single corner, every closet, every wall and every space. Do not forget shower stalls and the kitchen.
Light the sage, get it burning really well, and then blow out the flame so that the end of the sage is smoldering, then use the smoke to clear out the negativity. Also, pour a line of either regular table salt or white chalk outside your front door across the outside of the doorstep.
I would also suggest you buy some obsidian stones, for obsidian absorbs negative energy. Place them around your house and carry a small piece of obsidian with you wherever you go.
I wish you tranquility.
Astrea:
Not long ago, Dream and I had a letter from a woman whose daughter was in school in Germany and living in a dormitory that had been a Nazi hospital during WWII. Of course she didn’t know this prior to moving into her dorm room, but when she went to the cafeteria in that building, she read a plaque on the wall that proudly stated the purpose for which that old building had been built. (Hitler slept here – hooray!?)
Soon she began to see illness, depression and negativity all around her. She couldn’t study well there. She began to flunk her courses, as did her roommate and some of the other girls staying there. Her mother asked what she could do to make the space livable until she could get out of there.
I think probably the best thing is to ask St. Uncumber to “clear” that building, or at least the apartment where you live. The story of St. Uncumber goes like this:
In the fifteenth century there was a beautiful princess named Uncumber who was to be married to an ugly old man. While wanting to obey her parents’ wishes, she just couldn’t get into the right mindset to spend the rest of her life with that stinky old guy.
The night before her wedding, she prayed God would do something so that she wouldn’t have to marry him, and when she woke up the next morning, she had grown a FULL BEARD! Needless to say, the wedding was called off. Since then, her ritual has been used to get rid of everything from sadistic boyfriends to sugar ants, and I’ve never heard of it failing.
First, draw a picture of a girl on a white sheet of paper and add a full beard. Roll it into a tube and tie it with a black ribbon bow. Light a white candle and singe the ends of the paper roll while you say, “St. Uncumber, lift the dark vibrations from this place. Clear the negative energy from my space and let us all live in peace. Send the dark energy to the dark place forever.”
Pass the tube over the candle in three clockwise circles, then put it away in a dark place, at the back of a drawer or closet that is rarely used. You can also fill a baggie with water and freeze the paper in that. Either way, it will block out some or all of that energy until you can move to another home.
Repeat this at least once a month while you’re living there, and when you move, leave that paper behind you in the apartment, for it may have some residual protection for the next occupant.
You’re right that this building draws negativity to it. It could be doing that for many different reasons, but it does bring out the worst in people’s hearts, minds and spirits.
Do what you can to make it livable, but get out of there as soon as you can!