Have you heard of the three rings of magical protection? This is a technique I learned when I first began my spiritual path, and it has stuck with me since. I love sharing it because it’s unique and can be easy to do. You don’t need any supplies or items for this protection technique. What you will need is to be able to manipulate energy and visualize or talk yourself through the steps.
I typically teach this technique the way that I do it. It’s the way I am most familiar with, and I’m confident that it works that way. However, I am not you. Please feel free to take this idea and make it your own.
It’s generally easier and more accurate to build this shield while at home. For one, it is easier to manipulate energy in the area that you are in than it is to try and manipulate energy from across town. Being at home also gives you a very good idea of where your property lines are or where you want to specifically shield. If building a shield or manipulating energy is new to you, or you have trouble visualizing, then going outside and looking at your home can also be very helpful.
To begin, visualize (or describe to yourself) a large black bubble completely encasing your home. This black bubble should go all the way around your home, above it, and underneath it. If you live in a building, your shield may likely end up cutting through your neighbor’s ceiling or upper corners. If you live in a freestanding structure like a house or trailer, you don’t have to worry about your energy shield being on someone else’s property. But you still want to make sure that your bubble goes under your home, so it will cut into the ground. This is the first ring of protection.
Under your black shield, envision a brown shield. This will be a second bubble, located underneath and inside of the black bubble. The brown shield is the second ring of protection. The third and final ring of protection is a white bubble inside the brown bubble. All three of these layers sit on top of each other and completely encase your home.
The first ring, the black bubble, is a protective energetic barrier. This ring is going to take the most hits and is going to do the most work. Black is the color we use most often for protection and hiding. The black layer is going to shield and hide your home from unwanted energies. However, it is always possible for something to get through. That is what the other two layers are for.
The second ring, the brown one, is a filter. Brown is a color associated with stability and grounding. If energy works its way through your first ring, when it comes into contact with the brown ring, the brown layer can help ground the energy. The brown ring of protection can, if used properly, send that energy down into the earth where the earth will recycle the energy and put it to use elsewhere. Brown is also associated with transformation. If energy comes through the black ring, the brown ring can also filter and change the energy.
The third ring, the white layer, is there to make sure that negative energy does not make it into your home. Once energy moves past the brown ring where it has been filtered and changed, it comes into contact with the final white ring of protection. White is a color that boasts a lot of associations including protection and blessings. Any energy that makes it to your white ring has been made neutral by the brown ring. If that energy makes it through your white shield to your home, that energy has now been transformed from unwanted, negative, or malicious to at worst neutral energy and at best a positive blessing.
This idea can be used in many ways. Let the three rings of magical protection inspire you to create a unique protection barrier for you and your home.
Emily Guenther is a co-owner of The Broom Closet metaphysical shop. She is a Memphis native, professional tarot reader, ordained Pagan clergy, and dog mom.
