If you already practise, you do not need another list of correspondences.
You need to know what the thing you are breaking was built to survive.
My name is Ren Kagetsuki. I am a Japanese practitioner and for fifteen years I was paid to construct the working that your uncrossing is aimed at.
So this is written from the other side of it, with respect for the craft and no interest in ranking traditions.
Where each method actually lands
Anything sent has four parts, and every method reaches one of them and stops.
The residue on the person. The threshold of the place. The line it travels along. The source holding it open.
- Cleansing bath, smoke, florida water, egg work. Residue. All of it, reliably, and nothing past the skin.
- Uncrossing. Residue, more thoroughly, over a course rather than a night.
- Warding, wash of the doorway, brick dust, salt lines. Threshold. Holds what is outside, outside.
- Cord cutting. The line. This is the one that removes rather than cleans.
- Mirror work, return to sender. The source, when aimed. Nothing at all when not.
- Freezer and binding work. None of the four. It restrains a person, which is a different job.
Most reported failures are not failures of skill. They are a residue method run against a line.
The six errors that make a curse breaking fail
1. Breaking before reading
Running an uncrossing on a person when the thing is sitting on the building.
The check is one night somewhere else. If it eases, you have been cleansing the wrong subject.
Most people already know the answer without testing it, because they have noticed they dread going home.
2. Putting the name on the work
Almost every instruction in circulation says to write the sender’s name. For a cutting, that is backwards.
A name held with intent behind it is the opening move of the thing you are trying to end. You are not severing a road, you are laying a fresh one from your side.
Name the road. Do not name the walker.
3. Working angry
Anger is directional and it points at a person, which means your attention is on the sender while you are meant to be closing a route.
This is why the people who most need a severance are the worst placed to run one.
4. Cleansing without warding afterwards
Your own tradition already tells you this and it is still the most skipped step.
A cleaned person with an open threshold refills. In my experience within three weeks, and usually faster than the first time.
5. Cleaning the body and not the room
Or the room and not the body. Whichever one you did not do is where it waits.
Both, the same night, in that order. Person first, then the space, then the door.
6. Stopping at the relief
The relief arrives before the work is finished, and it feels like completion.
A fortnight of good sleep is what a residue clearance feels like whether or not the line is still open. It is not a result. It is a symptom of a result.
What built work looks like from your side
There is a difference between somebody’s ill will reaching you and somebody having sat down and made something.
Ill will behaves like weather. It thins when the person’s attention moves, and a good cleansing genuinely ends it.
Built work does not care what they are thinking this week. It was made to run without them.
Three marks, from the construction side.
- It keeps a schedule. Bad stretch, quiet gap, bad stretch, and the gaps are similar lengths. Rites are done in counts, and the pressure follows the count.
- It is narrow. One area of a life taken apart precisely while the rest holds. A brief was given.
- It resumes on its own date. Not gradually. It comes back the way a machine comes back on.
Against that, an uncrossing is maintenance. You will be running it again next month.
That is not a criticism of uncrossing. Maintenance is exactly what it is for, and a person under sustained work needs it every month whether or not anybody ever cuts the line.
One thing Japanese practice does differently
The order.
Most of what I read in English clears first and then protects. Here it is the reverse in the middle: wash, guard, then cut, and only then clear again.
The guard goes on before the cutting rather than after it, because cutting is the moment the sender notices.
That is the whole difference and it takes five minutes to adopt.
Roast a handful of coarse salt in a dry pan, medium heat, until it stops crackling. Let it cool, carry it in cloth, and do not take it off until the working is finished.
It is called yakishio, and it is what is handed to people here the moment they say somebody has it in for them.
The full sequence in that order is here: the seven methods and the layer each one reaches.
If you have broken it twice and it came back
Then it is not your technique, and the number of repetitions is the diagnosis.
Twice is a line still open. Three times with a competent ward in place is somebody actively maintaining it, and that is a different kind of job.
The cleansing side, done in the right order, is set out here: uncrossing, and where it stops.
And if you would rather hand the cutting to somebody outside the situation, that is what I do. Tell me what you have already run and how long each attempt held.
That is a better case history than a symptom list, and you are the only sort of client who arrives with one.
