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Another minor magical work of art. A Polynesian curse-breaking spell first recorded in 1905. When it was translated, Witches in England noticed that the incantation had a forceful and destructive beat that was found to make the spell work quickly and easily. So, it has been passed down by Witches since that time. It is a spell of the nature of Saturn and Mars. You can see that the Mars symbolism is part of the symbolic language of the spell, itself, but to signal the other vibration to the reader, I have marked in symbols of Earth, Saturn, Ceres, and Tetra-Ts as decoration.

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The following is a case study on curse removal that two Witches of Coven Rochester effectuated within one week. It is an example of how these things can be dealt with quickly and efficiently when there is knowledge and power present.

Miss Q recently confided to Mrs. B (not knowing Mrs. B was of the Wicca) that she had been having nightmares every night for the past 10 years. These nightmares were very violent, and caused Miss Q to wake up screaming. Read that again: violent nightmares and waking screaming every night for the past 10 years. She did not want Mrs. B to think she was crazy, but she believed that she was under a curse.

Miss Q related a history that Mrs. B found credible: Miss Q had traced the start of the nightmares to an abusive relationship with a boyfriend ten years prior in another state. She had actually been forced to move away from him to escape the relationship. While they were together, Mr. BF started cutting Miss Q's hair while she was sleeping and, every time she awakened, her hair was significantly shorter. Miss Q could not understand why she was not waking up while he was cutting it. Mr. BF's mother was a "psychic reader" and involved in occult matters. Mr. BF kept telling Miss Q that he was "trying to remove her demons." Miss Q started feeling like she was being stabbed by needles periodically and would feel a strange sense of wetness on her ankles.

Mrs. B found the account credible enough to perform divination to determine whether Miss Q was under a curse. This was Mrs. B's investigatory astrology chart, which she asked me, as her Magister, to check. And, if the chart was positive, she asked me what could be done to help Miss Q. But first, the chart:

Mrs. B's investigatory astrological chart: Is Miss Q cursed?

Miss Q is Lord 7: JUPITER.

The potential curse/curse is the turned 12th from the 7th, or radical Lord 6, MARS.

Radical Lord 12 can sometimes be in play, instead, but that's Venus here, and she's being well-behaved. Moreover, there are a couple of things highlighting to us that we should use Lord 6, MARS: The South Node is somewhat close to the 6th house cusp, and the Moon is just about to oppose the 6th house cusp. Plus, Mars is behaving very badly toward Jupiter.

The curse, if any, was cast upon Miss Q 10 years ago. Therefore, we are looking for a past aspect, not something recent. And we've got just such a past aspect.

Before the Moon changed sign (likely an indication of Miss Q moving across the country after the curse was cast on her to escape Mr. BF), the last thing that the Moon did was translate the light of Jupiter to Mars. Mars, the curse/curser, has tremendous power over Jupiter inasmuch as Jupiter is in Mars's sign. What does Mars do with that power? Mars is in the sign of Jupiter's detriment, so Mars uses its power to HARM Jupiter.

Therefore, the chart is positive for the presence of the curse.

I gave Mrs. B my opinion, which supported her own analysis, but added my thought that the curse could be broken easily. Mars is in 29 Gemini. So it has been detrimenting Jupiter for a long time. But Mars is just about to enter Cancer, where it will cease detrimenting Jupiter, and that was the sign that the curse would be broken.

And so it was. I first heard word of the case on Friday. By Tuesday, I had analyzed the chart and told Mrs. B how to break it. On the next Friday, Mrs. B easily broke the 10-year curse. Being clairvoyant, Mrs. B was able to locate the energy of the curse in Miss Q's body and shift it into the energy lines where the curse had entered Miss Q's body. From there, Mrs. B extracted the curse energy and sent it deep into the Earth, where the Earth Mother maintains her Fires, so that the energy could be transmuted. This, by the way, is why the Earth Mother is associated with curse breaking and protection magic. It is the Goddess in that form, and not in Her form as Lady of the Moon or the Queen of Heaven, who is the Great Protectress and the Great Purifier.

As Mrs. B disposed of the curse, she felt the old anger of Mr. BF's mother well up in her . . . the anger that, for reasons unknown, motivated the curse.

Immediately after, Miss Q felt lighter. Mrs. B checked on her the next day and Miss Q reported that she had enjoyed sleeping through the night without any nightmares. It was the first time in 10 years.

So mote it be.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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I think I can fit almost all of this on 10 pages of a big spellbook gift.

To Reverse Bad Luck
To Bring Peace and Purity to a Home
To Remove Blockages Holding You Back
The Dog of Defense Invocation
To Return a Psychic Attack or Negativity
The Wicked Shall Decay (19th century, Devon, England)
To Protect an Item from Theft
The Comfrey Root Talisman
To Burn Away Evil or Negativity (Roman/Latin)
To Break a Curse (Maori)
A Curse Breaker (Babylonian)
A Protection Bottle
Herbal Hexbreakers
-- To Purge a Love Hex
-- To Counteract a Hex Delivered in Food or Drink
-- To Send a Curse Back to its Maker
-- To Purify the Home of a Hex
-- To Avoid Impending Evil
-- To Purify a House of Ill Luck
The Iron Key Amulet
To Break a Curse by Fire
The Circles of Light
To Unbewitch Men and Cattle (17th Century . . . still works great!)
The Turnabout Bottle

Breaking a curse by fire is fairly easy. There is also a great cursebreaker done by fire and water, and I will tell you about it now.

There are many curses that require that the curser leave something at the house of the person to be cursed. Perhaps a poppet, perhaps a carved apple, a beef tongue splashed with ghost pepper sauce and pinned together by nails, maybe just a piece of paper, maybe a letter mailed to the house with some stuff in it (sometimes as simple as a few grains of salt and pepper, or dirt from another state or country), the stump of a burned black candle, a cairn of shame made of small rocks. I've seen it all. Whatever you find, go get a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid that will fit the object. As small a jar as will be serviceable, mind you. Wearing gloves, pick up the item and put it in the jar. Fill the jar 50% to 75% with water. Add a tablespoon of vinegar. Add to it nine pins, nine needles, and nine iron nails. It would be lovely if you could get the iron nails from a working blacksmith. His art of shaping and reshaping by fire and water has made him half-magical, himself, and he will understand that other magical people sometimes need a bit of iron. Make sure the jar is lidded tightly. Let it sit for three days to marinate and rust.

During the day, build a small campfire somewhere safe. Wear thick boots. Bring work gloves. When it is burning nicely, set your sealed jar in the fire, and then clear out, preferably very well shielded and blocked. The sealed jar, of course, is going to explode and, when it does, it is going to send pins, needles, and nails flying everywhere. When you hear the explosion, you will feel a release in your heart or solar plexus. Feel free to say a phrase of your own making: "Thus I send the curse back to whence it came!" or "The curse is deadT" or "It is done!" or "So mote it be!" or "Take that, you knucklehead!" Whatever you like. After the explosion, put out the fire or let it die out. Clean up as best as you can. Throw any remains in the garbage.

This is not used much anymore, I have to say. Apart from finding a safe place to set off a glass grenade filled with pins, needles, and nails, it is very difficult to clean up. It is unlikely you will get all the glass and sharp objects. Who knows whereunto they might have exploded off to? and that means you will be leaving a bunch of sharp stuff around in nature. Which isn't very nice.

Still, it is worth telling the story and knowing the technique. If you ever need it, perhaps your own ingenuity will suggest a safe way of accomplishing the same effect. Throwing the jar down the caldera of a volcano, then running like heck? Maybe.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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I had an inquiry last night from someone who thought that he might have been a victim of a curse. In speaking to him on the telephone, it appeared that the curse had been deflected and did not take effect. Minor curses sometimes get deflected like that because a family spirit is watching over the person.

He was curious whether it could have been the work of a coven of Witches. No, not in this area. There are so few genuine covens here, and none of them would engage in such a thing. But that does not signify . . . many families have magical traditions. They are not of the Craft of the Wise, but they may have a background in African, Latin, and Afro-Carribean magic, or American Hoodoo. They are not Witches, but they can cast curses.

A curse cast intentionally by a magical practitioner is not a minor thing. It is doubtful whether a nonWitch (including the self-proclaimed and groups of same) could break one on his own. A pagan coven not of the Wica or in the lineage of the Old Religion, even working as a whole, probably also could not do it. If there is a spirit-sending involved in the curse, the person dealing with it will have to be clairvoyant and, hopefully, able to act on the astral plane. The victim will have be cleansed and sealed, and you have to know what substances are efficacious in doing that. You will not find them published in books. If it is a generational curse cast by an ancestral spirit, that spirit will have to be summoned and called to account for its behavior and stopped. It will resist. It has momentum. "Begone!" or "I banish you!" or "We break the generational curse!" will not work.

If you have no real lineage amongst the Wise, no one on the Inner Planes will recognize you as having any authority to do anything whatsoever. This is one of the great harms perpetrated by untrained and self-proclaimed people. We, ourselves, have been victimized by such people, but only to our annoyance, and not to our harm.

When an initiated Witch steps up to the plate in a cursing situation, and gets ready to raise her bat, she does not come alone. She comes sharp, cold, clear and efficient, like the tip of an iceberg. She, and everyone behind her, is on your side.

One thing that has astonished me over the years is the amount of people who think that they can be diagnosed in a cursing matter over email or, now, by texting or some other messaging system. If you are not willing to give a Witch the gift of your voice in exchange for her help, or even your personal presence if she requests it, do not even bother contacting her in the first place. A Witch can break most minor unconsciously cast jinxes in under 10 seconds if you are in her presence (she is, after all, a priestess of this whole Earth, and she has the power of absolution, like most priesthoods do). If it is an intentional curse from a family tradition from one or more practitioners, she will in all probability need to diagnose you and release you by your physical presence (it would take me about an hour to do it). If it is an ancestral spirit causing problems over generations, it is probably going to take somewhere between 3 and 30 days to get the thing resolved. Those nuts don't crack open in an hour. :D

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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Negative people throw around jinxes like you would not believe. Most people have strong, self-confident auras and little jinxes just bounce off of them. Some people, though, are very susceptible to getting jinxed, either because of some constitutional weakness or because of some temporary stress in their lives. By a jinx, I mean a very minor curse, usually unconsciously cast by a nonWitch out of feelings of annoyance or jealousy. The "Malocchio" of the Italians, and the Evil Eye of other cultures, falls under this category. [1] If it's just the jealous frenemy or neighbor overlooking you, or the rival business associate wishing you would fail in your endeavors, or the irate old lady you cut off in traffic who is wishing you a bit of ill, that's easy to deal with.

If you are Witch yourself, you can break a minor jinx on yourself by adding a good bottle of stout to a warm bath (the Hops in the beer is the jinx-breaker). Have a soak. Dunk your head a couple of times. Pray to the Goddess to release you. She will.

Don't have a stout? Substitute a strong black cup of coffee and throw it in the bath, instead. Do as above.

For a Witch to break a minor jinx on a nonWitch is very simple. There are many, many techniques for this, and a good Witch can make any of them work. My favorite, because it is a bit mischievous, is to catch the jinxed person unawares, when his or her back is turned, throw an open pair of scissors near (but not at) the person's feet, and chant in Italian:

BURST, EVIL EYE!
THOU SHALT NO FURTHER GO!

(Schiatta, malocchio!
E non piu avanti!)

The startling, the scissors, and the chant, together, break the Evil Eye.

Another good Evil Eye remedy is the use of iron. A Witch will find it easy and effective, and even a nonWitch can easily unjinx someone with this spell. Take a piece of iron. An old rusted iron nail is good. An old iron key. A scrap square of iron. Whatever. You are going to use your iron to touch the jinxed person at six points of his or her body while you say a certain charm:

KON VEK ORCUR LE BA GRAS

Have the jinxed person face you. Take your iron and touch and chant as follows:

iron to his right hip: KON (pronounced "cone")
iron to his forehead: VEK (pronounced "veek")
iron to his left hip: ORCUR (pronounced "OR-cur")
iron to his right shoulder: LE (pronounced "lee")
iron to his left shoulder: BA (pronounced "bah")
iron to his right hip again: GRAS (pronounced "grace")

Repeat the whole procedure two more times, for three in all. Then have the person go take a shower.

The chant has a good rhythm. After a few practice tries, you will see that it practically says itself.

As for the meaning, it is one of the magical languages, and it translates literally: No can curse you do harm. Or Englished: No curse can do you harm.

That's also six words, so if you prefer to use it in English, do so.

[1] Now, if you've got a skilled Witch casting the Evil Eye on you, that's a different story. Burn an orange candle and call your local witch doctor in the morning. :D

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*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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