It is usually a mother, a sister, or a partner who will not hear a word about it.
My name is Ren Kagetsuki. Working on somebody else is my entire trade, so let me tell you where it is genuinely difficult rather than where it looks difficult.
It is not distance. Distance is the easy part.
It is consent, feedback, and what happens to you while you do it.
You do not need their permission, and you do not need them to believe it
This is the question I am asked first and the answer disappoints people, because they have been bracing for a lecture.
I work for family members every week. Most of them have no idea it is happening, and a good number of them would laugh at the idea.
It makes no difference to whether it works.
A removal is not a suggestion being made to somebody. It is a line being cut. The line does not ask the person at the end of it for an opinion.
Belief is not a component. It was not a component on the other side of this trade either, and nobody I was ever paid to work on had agreed to any of it.
What I need from you
- Their full name and date of birth
- Roughly when it started
- What has been happening to them
Nothing has to come from them. They do not have to write to me, speak to me, or be told anything at all.
Distance is irrelevant. It is done at distance for people in the next prefecture and people on the other side of the world in exactly the same way.
The one thing I will not do
Work aimed at harming somebody, for any reason, including a good one.
Taking something off a person and putting something on a person are different trades and I only practise one of them now.
Everything on this page is removal.
Why removing a curse from someone else is harder
You are working blind
On yourself, the body reports. You feel where it sits, you feel it move, you know on the fourth morning whether anything happened.
For somebody else you get none of that. You are relying on what they tell you, and people under this are unreliable narrators of their own week.
This is why I ask clients for dates and events rather than feelings. Dates survive the retelling.
You need a link, and most links are wrong
A full name and a date of birth is enough and it is all I ask for.
What people offer instead is a photograph, or hair, or an object of theirs. Those work, and they are also exactly what the other side uses, which means you now have two workings running on the same link.
Name and birth date only. It is cleaner and there is nothing to dispose of afterwards.
Their house is not yours to work on
If the thing is sitting on a building, nothing you do at your own address reaches it.
And a great many third party cases are exactly that, because the person who asked you for help is usually the one who noticed the house felt wrong.
The backwash
This is the part nobody warns people about, and it is the whole reason this work is given to somebody outside the family.
Standing between a person and what is coming at them puts you in the path of it.
Do this for somebody you love, with no separation built in, and within a month it is your sleep that has gone and your luck that has turned.
A practitioner builds the separation first and it is most of the work. Not the removal. The staying clean while doing it.
People find that disappointing to hear, because the removal is the dramatic part and the insulation is invisible.
It is also the reason nothing reaches my clients while I am working: how the work is carried out and what it costs.
What you can safely do for them tonight
Everything here is threshold work and cleansing. None of it is a cutting, and that is deliberate.
- If you share the house, clear the house. Windows open for twenty minutes, furthest room towards the door. Salt in the corners of the worst room for three days, then outside.
- Salt at the door you both use. Cones on white dishes, changed each morning, thrown outside. You are holding a threshold, which is yours to hold.
- Make them roasted salt. Coarse salt dry-fried five minutes, cooled, in a cloth bag. Hand it over and say what it is. Do not sew it into a coat without telling them.
- Write the timeline for them. When it started, what happened the month before. You will see it more clearly than they can.
What I would not do yourself is run a severance on their behalf. Not for permission reasons. Because cutting means holding their line in your attention, and doing that for somebody you love puts you squarely in the path of it.
That part is what an outsider is for.
When they will not hear it
Very common, and usually the reason somebody writes to me at all.
You do not need to convince anyone. Work the house instead of the person.
A shared building is yours as much as theirs, and threshold work asks nobody’s permission because it is not aimed at a person.
In my experience the house improving is what makes the person willing to talk about it, rather than the other way round.
Do not tell them who you suspect. It changes nothing about the work and it costs them a relationship.
When to hand it over
Three situations, and they cover almost every case that reaches me.
- It needs a cutting. Nobody inside the family can do that cleanly, because everybody inside the family is already in the path.
- Your own run started after you began helping. Stop, clear yourself, and do not resume.
- It has happened to more than one of you. That is a line rather than a person, and work on one member moves it to the next.
The order the work has to run in, whoever does it, is here: the seven methods and the layer each one reaches.
If you want it done from outside the family, send me their name, their date of birth, when it started and what has been happening.
More than one of them is normal. Households come to me as households, and I read each person separately.
You have been carrying somebody else’s weight on top of your own. Put one of them down.
