What Is an Egg Cleanse Ritual? How to Release Negative Energy (Updated for 2024)

Life is much more challenging when negative energy invades your personal space. Try an egg cleanse ritual if you don’t know where it’s coming from but want it gone. The historical practice has helped people for centuries and is easy to do at home.

What Is an Egg Cleanse Ritual?

Egg cleanses are rituals performed to release negative energy from your life. People perform egg cleanses to gain clarity and peace of mind when struggling with bad luck or negativity in relationships.

Egg cleanses originated in ancient Greece, but they are also believed to have been practiced in Scotland. The practice was often used as a form of divination. People would use eggs to predict the gender of unborn babies, learn about their future spouses or detect evil spirits.

In modern ages, egg rituals have shifted to energy cleansing, to release negative energy from ones’ life.

How to Perform This Cleanse

You can try an egg cleanse ritual at home by following these steps. All the supplies are likely already in your kitchen, but you can get everything at your local grocery store if you need to restock.

1. Wash the Egg in Salt Water

First, fill a bowl with warm water and mix a splash of salt into it. The salt water will be the cleansing part of your ceremony.

Next, get an egg from your fridge. Before starting your ritual, you should rinse it in your sink. Egg shells could carry the salmonella bacteria if they touched chicken droppings. You can rinse the surface and wash it with soap before proceeding with your ceremony.

After removing your egg from its carton in your fridge and washing it off, lay it in the salt water bowl. You should rub it with the salt water for up to a minute to purify its energies.

2. Set Your Intentions

Center yourself by reducing your amygdala’s activity with slower, calmer thoughts. Set your ritual intentions when your stream of consciousness is comfortable and anxiety-free.

Focus on directing any negative energy clinging to you into the egg. It should draw them from your mind so you can dwell in positivity. Visualize yourself locking them inside the egg’s yolk — this step is important as it will lend insight when it is time to read your results.

3. Add the Egg to Room Temperature Water

When you intuitively feel free of negativity, fill a glass halfway with room-temperature water. You’ll crack your egg open into the water and let it settle for at least five minutes. The goal is to keep the yolk in one piece.

While the egg warms to your home’s temperature, consider amplifying your positive energy with selenite crystals. Some people also use rose quartz, tiger’s eye, black tourmaline, citrine or amethyst. You could place them around your cleansing space to further enhance the spiritual properties of your ritual.

4. Read the Egg Shape

After five minutes pass, look through the side of the glass to see the yolk’s shape. Note the color of the whites against the water and the water’s clarity as well.

If the egg has a foul odor, it could indicate that the negative energy successfully left your presence. This doesn’t have to happen, but it’s a good sign.

You might also see some strings in the egg whites. That could mean the negativity comes from connections with other people in your life.

If the yolk cracked, you must start the ritual with a new egg. The yolk contains your negative energy, so a broken yolk won’t work.

FAQs About Your Egg Cleanse Ritual

Here are answers to questions you may have about your egg cleanse ritual. 

1. How Am I Supposed to Read the Shape of the Yolk? 

Here’s where you must rely on your intuition. The shape of the yolk may or may not suggest what’s drawing negativity into your life, but your subconscious brain knows. What does it see? Ask yourself this and allow the answers to flow through you, stream-of-consciousness style. You might even grab your journal and write down your ideas, taking care not to censor yourself. Your egg ritual can jumpstart a deeper exploration of what’s bothering you through the written word. You might even choose to share your ritual with someone you trust, like a friend or a therapist, if you feel they could lend beneficial insight. 

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2. What If the Yolk Only Partially Breaks? 

Your egg yolk may not fully separate. If this occurs, ask your heart and spirit what it means. It could signify, for example, that you have two very closely related sources of negative energy surrounding you. Alternatively, it could symbolize only a partial release of what’s on your mind. In this case, you may wish to repeat the ritual. 

3. What About the Glass? Must It Be a Special Vessel? 

The glass can be any glass you choose, but making it special imbues your ceremony with greater meaning. If you have a ritualistic glass that you use for such purposes, by all means, grab it. Otherwise, you may wish to cleanse your glass before using it in your ceremony. The most crucial element is that it is clear so that you can read the yolk. 

4. How Should I Prepare My Ritual Space? 

Preparing your ritual space can be an important adjunct to the ceremony itself and help you get in the right headspace. If you have a sacred space where you meditate or practice yoga, that’s an excellent spot. Otherwise, anywhere will do, but it helps if you clean it up a bit. After all, you wouldn’t host a wedding in a filthy church — give your ceremonial space a bit of TLC while you meditate on the meaning of your actions. 

5. What Activities Can I Do to Focus My Energy? 

If preparing for the ceremony isn’t enough to focus your energy, try practicing a silent yoga flow before your ritual. You might also take a walk outdoors, tune into a guided meditation or simply sit on your meditation cushion and focus on your breath. 

Sealing your ritual is as crucial as preparing for it. When your ritual commences, say or do something to close your ceremony, thank the spirits for their guidance and transition back into daily life. It could be as simple as chanting “Om” or reciting “Amen” or “so mote it be,” depending on your background and what feels right and natural for you. 

Potential Egg Cleanse Benefits

You’ve performed your egg cleanse ritual and read the results as best you can. Other than the reading, you’ll likely enjoy these additional benefits:

• Peace of mind
• A lack of notable negative energy
• Clarity on your next steps

You might better understand that you need to address issues in a relationship by defining the problem and setting up a time to talk. The ritual could also help you pinpoint what caused the negative energy because identifying triggers is easier when they aren’t actively affecting you.

When you’re ready to move forward with your life, wash the egg and its negative energy down your kitchen sink. Run the water to purify your home of any foul odors or energies and wash your hands to protect yourself from potential bacteria.

Try an Egg Cleanse Ritual This Week

Now that you know what an egg cleanse ritual is, consider trying it when you feel surrounded by too much negative energy. It could become a helpful spiritual practice that guides you when you feel stuck in a bad place.

Originally published March 13, 2023. Updated 11/19/2024.