Black salt is so good for many different uses and, especially when it comes to magic, it can definitely be a great ingredient for some spiritual work. Let’s see what we need to know about it and what black salt is used for spiritually.
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Black salt, also known as “kala namak,” serves several spiritual purposes.
It is commonly used for protection against negative energy and evil spirits by creating protective barriers around spaces.
Additionally, black salt is used in purification rituals to cleanse altars, tools, or areas before spiritual or magical practices.
It can absorb or banish negativity, remove obstacles, and break hexes or curses.
Some practitioners also employ it to trap malevolent spirits, enhance magical work, and ward off the evil eye.
Black salt’s application may vary depending on cultural and individual beliefs, so it’s important to research its proper use within your specific tradition or belief system before incorporating it into your spiritual practices.
What is black salt used for spiritually?
Black salt is an ancient magic recipe of simple preparation that can eliminate negative energy from your home or business, ward off unwanted guests and prevent them from returning again, and protect you or your home from the influences of third parties such as family or unwanted neighbors.
You can use it to drive away rivals, insufferable coworkers, and all those unpleasant, negative, and even bad people who may be complicating your life.
The old preparation is as follows: dried bay leaf, cumin, black pepper, and sea salt are needed.
In a saucepan, first, burn the dried bay leaf and the cumin until they are ashy.
Once this is mixed with the sea salt, if you have sulfur, put it a little and crush and mix everything.
Spiritual uses of black salt
Purifying of witchy tools
Stones, amulets, talismans, and crystals, when cleaned with the salt of the witches, empowers them with more power in addition to purifying them.
Removes negative energy
Pour a little black salt on the threshold of the main entrance to your house. This prevents negative energy from entering.
If you have unexpected or unwanted visitors, neighbors who disturb the good atmosphere of your house, or unpleasant guests and you want them to not come back, you can sprinkle or throw a little black salt on their backs when they leave. Next, you close the door, pour the salt along the door on the inside, and don’t look back. That person will not bother you again, at least at home.
For protection
This black salt adopts the energies and qualities of the plants used in it; in my case, I make different types of black salt to use in different spells and rituals, but in this case, we are going to focus on the most common salt, which is for protection (the most basic in the arsenal of any witch).
These are some basic ways to use it, but it has hundreds more and they vary according to the herbs used to make it, although, as I have already said, it is a rather protective tool.
Having a small bottle on your nightstand or sprinkling a little under your bed before going to sleep drives away the negative energies that haunt your room or rest area and protects you from bad dreams or nightmares.
Fill a small bottle with this salt and carry it around your neck, in your bag, or in a pocket. It will protect you from envy and all kinds of negative energy and will be a fantastic lucky charm.
To counter negativity, anoint a black candle with this salt and light it in the middle of a circle of protection.
If you have a lot of psychic activity near you, if everything is going negatively lately and you are surrounded by bad energies or envious or harmful people, you do not want people to transmit bad vibrations to you or your home. You can sprinkle the salt along your front door or on the edge of your garden if you have one, so you will be protected from all the negative things around you.
Hiding a bag of black salt in a key place at your work can help you to drive away and absorb everything that is left in the environment, including anger, negativity, states of bad humor, or envy that may come from colleagues or bosses.
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To make or break curses
For those people who are dedicated to high magic who already have the experience, this salt is a great tool because, in addition to the above, it is very useful in rituals to make or break curses, ward off unwanted guests or entities, banish people or entities who are in the wrong place, counter the magic of other witches, and even to send away or hang nasty spirits.
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For spellwork
These are just some basic ideas of how you can implement this salt in your works or spells; you can use it in many of the rituals that you have already have built. In my rituals and on my altar, I use this salt since its powers are more powerful because they have all the properties of the protection herbs and the energies that I have put into it.
Before you start a ritual or spell, put a pinch of black salt in each corner of the room to chase away negative entities.
Replace normal salt with black salt in your spells, using different plants to increase the power of the spell. For example, if you are looking for the abundance you can use cinnamon, fern, cactus, geranium, etc.
Other uses
| Spiritual Use | Description |
|---|---|
| Protection | Sprinkling black salt around doorways, windowsills, or the perimeter of a space to create a protective barrier and ward off negative energies. |
| Purification | Using black salt in cleansing rituals to remove energetic impurities from objects, spaces, or even oneself. |
| Banishing | Incorporating black salt in spells or rituals aimed at banishing or repelling negative influences, entities, or harmful energies. |
| Breaking Hexes | Black salt can be employed in rituals to break curses, hexes, or negative spellwork that may be affecting someone’s energy or well-being. |
| Absorbing Negativity | Placing a small bowl or dish of black salt in an area to absorb and neutralize negative energies, emotions, or psychic residue. |
Full moon spell bath with black salt
Recharge spiritually and feel brand new with this full moon spell bath with black salt!
This is appropriate for when we need a change in our life. In this case, make a bath on the night of the full moon, adding seven handfuls of black salt to the warm water and relaxing in that bath for 20 minutes.
Throughout the next month, you will feel that you have removed the barriers that prevented you from achieving your goals.
The full moon is the perfect time to leave the past behind, cleanse your aura spiritually from negativity and obstacles, and get ready to set brand new intentions for the next phase of your life.
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If you don’t have a bathtub, the way to do this would be by rubbing your entire body with this salt and leaving it on for a few minutes (it’s best if you can do 20 minutes), and then rinse your entire body with plenty of water, feeling that all the obstacles you have in your life are going away.
Repeat this ritual when you feel you need a spiritual boost!
Dawn’s Thoughts on The Black Salt
Black salt is a common term that is applied to two different salt-related products. Black lava salt, and Himalayan black salt.
Black Lava Salt
Black Lava Salt is sea salt combined with activated charcoal. Black lava salt is used in magick to absorb and trap negative energies. Salt is used by many to absorb energy, and charcoal is well known to absorb toxins, so the two make a natural pairing.
You can make your own black salt by powdering chunks of food-grade activated charcoal (Amazon) with your mortar and pestle and then mixing that with coarse sea salt crystals (non-iodized). The charcoal will coat the salt crystals and you can blow away the excess.
Black Lava Salt for Healing
Black Lava Salt is used medicinally to absorb and flush toxins from the body.
Black Lava Salt for Magick
Magickally, black lava salt can be scattered around an area to absorb toxic energies. It must be swept up and discarded afterward in order to dispose of the absorbed energies.
There are several additional recipes for black salt available online, some suggest using dye, the scrapings from the bottom of your cauldron or other cast iron pan, especially one used over an open fire, ashes from your fire pit, and lampblack. Any of these recipes are suitable if and only if you will not be using your black salt internally.
Ashes that result from the burning of particular herbs can give your black salt particular qualities. Uncrossing herbs are often burned to create black salt for removing spells.
A mixture of equal parts salt and ground black pepper is also used as “black salt” in some recipes, but this combination has more of a warding action versus the absorbing action of the charcoal/salt combination and I have seen many recipes that call for black salt and black pepper used this way. Toss this salt/pepper combination in the path of an enemy, or sprinkle it into his footprints to encourage him to go away and never return.
To rid your home of unwanted energies, sprinkle black salt around your house and then sweep it out the door.
Do this right after someone you don’t want returning walks out the door, to ensure he never comes back.
Black salt is an ingredient in a variety of curses, especially mixed with black pepper, graveyard dirt or added to war water, most usually to cause an enemy to leave, move away, quit a job, etc.
Black Lava Salt for Cooking
Black salt is usually added at the table, rather than during cooking. Different types of charcoal are used. For example, Hawaiian Black Lava Salt (Amazon) is made from charcoal from burning coconut shells. This is said to add a bit of a smokey flavor to the salt.
Himalayan Black Salt
Himalayan black salt or Kala Namak(Amazon) is a sulfur and iron-rich rock salt used in Southern Asian cooking. Himalayan black salt is actually brownish pink to purple in color when whole.
Ground Himalayan black salt is pale pink or purple in color, not black at all. The salt is mined in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, combined with charcoal and various herbs, heated and aged to produce its characteristic pungent fragrance and flavor. It is possible to manufacture raw Himalayan black salt synthetically and this is a common practice today.
Cooking with Himalayan Black Salt
Kala Namak is a popular seasoning for Southern Asian cuisine and is used by vegans to give an egg-like flavor to egg substitutes.
Healing with Himalayan Black Salt
In Ayurvedic medicine, it is considered a cooling spice and is used for digestive problems, including heartburn, constipation, and flatulence.
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