Bad Things Keep Happening to Me. Am I Cursed?

It is not one thing. It is everything, and it has been going on long enough that you have stopped telling people.

The money. The health. The person who turned on you for no reason you were ever given.

What you are seeing is real. A run like this has a shape, and the shape is readable.

My name is Ren Kagetsuki. For fifteen years I was paid to build runs like this for other people.

There are three patterns I look for. The third one is the one I was paid to create.

The first pattern: it lands on what matters

Ordinary misfortune has no interest in your calendar.

The car breaks down on a Sunday as often as on the morning of the interview.

The illness arrives in a quiet week as often as in the week that decided everything.

What is sent does not scatter like that. It aims.

The fever the night before. The payment that failed on the one day it could not fail. The argument that broke out the evening before the thing you had waited months for.

Go back over the last year and mark only the days that mattered.

If the trouble is sitting on those days and thin everywhere else, you are not looking at luck.

The second pattern: it spreads where it has no business spreading

A bad year in one area makes sense. Money goes, and the stress reaches your sleep and your temper.

That is one thing spilling, and I do not count it.

What I look for is trouble in places that have no connection to each other at all.

Your body, and your car, and a friendship of twelve years, and a document that went missing at work.

Nothing links those. No stress explains a document.

When a run reaches into four separate parts of a life inside one season, something is working on the person and not on the circumstances.

A man wrote to me with a list in that shape. A hand injury. His wife’s car. His brother refusing to speak to him. A supplier who had been reliable for nine years suddenly refusing to deal.

He kept apologising for the list. He said he knew it was just a bad year.

A bad year does not reach a supplier in another prefecture.

The third pattern: you fix one thing and another opens

This is the one that tells me most, and it is the one I was paid to build.

A curse made properly is not a single blow.

Anyone can wish a single bad day on someone. That fades by the weekend, and nobody ever calls it a curse.

What I was paid for was the work that stays.

You tie it to the person rather than to any one part of their life.

Then it does not matter what they repair. It simply moves.

The client pays off the debt, and within a month there is a diagnosis. They recover, and a relationship ends. They settle that, and the work goes.

From the inside it looks like a person who cannot catch a break. From my side it looked like something doing exactly what it was made to do.

If you have fixed three things and watched a fourth open each time, stop trying to fix the fourth.

Then find the week it started

Almost nobody can name the day. Almost everybody can name the season.

Write down roughly when the run began. Then write down what happened in the weeks before that.

Not what went wrong. What you did, and who was standing near it.

How to lay it out. One line per month, going back two years. Bank statements and the photographs on your phone will give you the dates faster than memory will.

Mark every month that was bad. Then, separately, mark every month that held something that mattered. An interview, a move, a court date, a wedding, a completion.

If the two sets of marks sit on top of each other, you are looking at the first pattern on paper instead of in your head.

A job you got that somebody else wanted. A relationship that ended badly. A family matter over money or property. A move into a new house.

The cause is usually sitting in those few weeks, and usually the person already knows it.

They have simply never been allowed to say it out loud.

If a name came to you while you read that, that is information.

You do not have to be sure. You do not have to accuse anyone of anything.

There are other tells that come with this, on the body and in the house: the signs of a curse in full.

How long a run like this goes on

People ask me this before they ask anything else.

Ordinary bad luck runs out. It is made of unrelated events, and unrelated events do not keep arriving in formation.

Give it six months and the average run thins on its own.

What is sent does not thin, because something is still feeding it.

The longest case I have taken had been running for eleven years. The woman had stopped calling it anything. She thought it was simply who she was.

That is the part I want you to hear.

These things do not get lighter by being endured. They get quieter, and you get used to them, and the shape of your life bends around them until you cannot remember it any other way.

Length is not evidence that you have to live with it. Length is evidence that the source is still open.

How a curse like this is taken off in Japan

Not positive thinking, and not repairing the damage one piece at a time.

The Japanese approach treats this as a line.

Something runs from a person to you. While that line is open, whatever you repair is repaid with something else.

So what has settled is cleared, and then the line itself is cut and closed.

Stopping at the clearing is the mistake almost everyone makes, and it is why cleansing gives two good days and then nothing.

Once the line is gone, the pattern stops replacing itself.

What is already damaged still has to be lived through. It just stops being added to.

That is the whole of it, and it is done from here. You perform nothing.

If bad things keep happening to you

You have probably been told this is your own doing. That you self-sabotage, that you make poor choices, that you should look at your attitude.

I am not going to tell you that, because I know what the other side of this looks like. I sat on it for fifteen years.

Tell me when it started, what has been happening, and who was standing nearby when it began.

I will tell you which of the three patterns I see, and whether it is something I can take off you.

If you would rather check the rest of it first, the full intake is here: am I cursed, the twelve questions I ask.

You will not have to face anyone, and you will not have to do anything to anyone.

You have been carrying this on your own for long enough. Hand it over.