This is the whole sequence, in order, for somebody working alone.
My name is Ren Kagetsuki. I spent fifteen years on the other side of this, and the order below is the order I was taught, minus one stage I will explain when we reach it.
Most people start at stage four. That is the single reason it does not work.
Before you remove a curse on yourself
Three checks, because the sequence below is for something aimed at a person. Run it against the wrong thing and nothing happens.
- Does it follow you? If you are better away from home and worse in it, this is about a place and not about you.
- Is everyone in the house affected? Same answer. Work on yourself will not touch it.
- Did the same thing happen to a parent? Then do not run this alone at all, and I mean that plainly.
That last one is not caution for its own sake. Taking something off one person in a line moves the weight to the next person in it.
What you need
- Coarse sea salt, a bag of it, with nothing added
- Two small white dishes
- A small cloth bag
- Plain white paper, unlined
- Three consecutive evenings you can protect
The last item is the one people fail on. Two nights and a gap is not the same working.
The five stages, in order
Each one on each of the three nights. The order is the method.
Stage one: wash
You cannot work on something while it is still on you. Everything else fails from here if this is skipped.
A handful of coarse salt into a hot bath. Fifteen to twenty minutes.
While you sit, hold one idea and only one: the salt is drawing what is on you into the water.
Rinse under the shower before you get out. Head downward, and do not go back up.
No shower, no bath, no problem. Cold water over the back of the neck and the wrists, and salt in the palm, rubbed and rinsed off. It is thinner but it is the same act.
Stage two: guard
Done before anything else is attempted, and this is the stage that is almost universally missed.
Dry-fry a handful of coarse salt in a pan. Medium heat, about five minutes, until it stops crackling.
Let it cool, put it in the cloth bag, and keep it on you. Pocket or at the neck. This is yakishio, roasted salt.
Do not take it off between the three nights. Not to sleep, not to bathe.
Then the door. Small cones of plain coarse salt on the two white dishes, one either side of the door you actually use.
Changed each morning. The old salt goes outside, onto ground or into the street. Never the sink and never back into the bag.
Stage three: find where it sits
You cannot move something you have not located. This takes four minutes.
Sit somewhere quiet with your eyes closed. Three slow breaths, out longer than in.
Then move your attention through the body in a fixed order, unhurried, a few seconds each.
Crown. Forehead. Eyes. Nose. Mouth. Throat. Chest. Stomach. Back. Hips. Legs. Feet.
You are looking for three things only: somewhere heavy, somewhere cold, somewhere that prickles.
Most people find one or two. If you find several, take the strongest and ignore the rest.
Write down where it was. You will want to compare it on the third night.
Stage four: cut
Only now, and only on a washed body with the roasted salt on you.
Sit facing east, after sunset. Write on the paper what has been happening to you, when it began, and what it has taken. Two or three lines, plainly.
Do not write anybody’s name. A name turns this from a cutting into a sending, and a sending runs from you.
Salt in the centre of the writing, fold away from yourself three times, say one short sentence aloud and use the same sentence all three nights.
Then burn it and put the ash outside, or give it to running water.
The full form, with the reasoning behind each step, is written out here: the severance, step by step.
The stage between cutting and checking
A practitioner would send it back here, before checking.
It is a hand mirror, held facing away, three sets of words, three rounds. It is written out in full here: the full return to sender ritual.
I have put it on its own page rather than in this sequence for one reason. The return has a condition the other four stages do not.
You have to be able to run it without wanting anything to happen to anybody.
Add a wish to it and it stops being a return. It becomes a sending, and a sending belongs to whoever made it.
If you are still angry, and you have every right to be, do the other four stages this week and leave that one.
Stage five: check
On the morning after the third night, in this order.
- The hour you woke. If you had been waking at the same time and that has moved, note it.
- The salt at the door. Damp, grey or collapsed in a dry room means the room is still working against you.
- The body scan again. Same order, four minutes. Compare it with what you wrote down.
Sleep moves first and it moves fastest. If nothing else has changed but you slept, that counts.
When the curse does not stay off
It very often does not hold the first time, and how long the relief lasted tells you why.
- Two weeks, then back. The line reopened. Alone, this is the ceiling. A severance without a seal is temporary by design.
- A couple of months. Lighter than you thought. Run the same three nights again and it usually settles.
- Nothing at all. It is not sitting on you. Look at the house, or at the line you come from.
The cleansing side of this, in more depth, is here: uncrossing, and where it stops.
The four mistakes
- Starting at stage four. Cutting before washing and guarding is the commonest and it is why most attempts fail.
- Writing the name. It makes a line instead of ending one.
- Working angry. Anger is aimed at a person, and this is aimed at a road.
- Breaking the three nights. Start again rather than continue from where you stopped.
If you would rather not do it alone
Everything above is real and it is what I would tell a friend to do tonight.
It also stops in a specific place. It clears, it guards and it cuts, and it does not seal, so against something a person is still feeding it buys weeks.
Tell me what you ran, what changed, and how long it lasted. That is a better description of your case than a list of symptoms.
You did the work. Let me tell you what it hit.
