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Although a White magician never lays a curse, it is necessary for us to understand them. A curse is the manifestation of negative feelings usually toward an individual. One who lays a curse upon another usually has a personal grudge which they wish to do something about but do not want to handle it face to face. This is cowardice in its lowest form. All that is required to place a really nasty curse upon someone is a personal effect such as a piece of clothing which has been worn several times or a ring, and either a lock of hair or a fingernail clipping. The curser then goes through and proceeds to wreak havock with the victim's luck, places spooks on them, etc. All of this is usually done without the curser realizing that whatever s/he sends out will come back three times! The best way to break a curse is to find the humor in it and laugh at it. This is not always easy. In fact, it can be downright difficult! Sometimes the best thing to do is to look back on a run of bad luck as if it were a movie. Envision the whole series of unpleasant events as if it were happening to an actor on a screen, but instead of a live-action movie, it's a cartoon. Then give that actor mouse ears. And a really wacky outfit. Then top it all off with sound effects. Let's say that this morning you burned your breakfast and it set off the smoke detector. Now watch that burned breakfast this morning chase our actor out into the yard, the house billowing smoke. The cartoon fire department screeches up in a rubbery truck and procedes to flood the house with their hoses. There is soon so much water in the house that the windows blow out and water pours out onto the yard. Our cartoon actor rushes up to the fire chief and yells, "I only burned breakfast! Isn't that a little too much water?" To which our fire cheif replies, "We just want to be sure we got it. Besides, business has been slow." At that the fire hoses turn off and the rubbery truck takes off again, siren blaring, leaving our cartoon actor dripping wet holding a spatula. If a curse had been on you to mess up your luck, our little exercise would have broken it as soon as you laughed at its effects. The main thing to remember with curses is: It doesn't matter who placed the curse upon you, the important thing is to find the humor in the curse and laugh at it. Trust in The Deities and The Rule of Threes to do the dirty work. Don't try to get back or get even, or to even hold a grudge. That would only be bringing yourself down to their level. Revenge is not ours to deliver.
The way a White path witch 'gets back at' someone is to bless them. We 'kill them with kindness' so to speak. For instance, I once had a neighbor who did something very cruel and unnecessary to one of my dogs. Instead of cursing that neighbor and screwing up both of our paths, I simply laid back and waited for The Lord and Lady to have their way. Soon, for reasons known only to him, the neighbor decided that he no longer wished to live in the neighborhood and placed his house on the market. At that point I acted. I offered the blessings of The Great Ones upon his house and he soon had many serious offers to buy. As he loaded his moving van I smiled a satified smile. He had gotten out of a home he no longer wanted, another family got a home they did want, and I got rid of a cruddy neighbor. Win/Win/Win situation! I'm not going to make believe that I didn't want to 'step left' as it were. I mean I was really angry when he hurt my puppy, but my faith in The Great Ones won out. True to form, they did not let me down. If I had cursed my neighbor, I would have had that energy come back at me three times meaning my path would have been unnecessarily darkened and it was entirely possible that the spiteful man would have actually enjoyed the negative energy. We all know people like that.
Merry Part and Blessed Be!
Torin W.
athame@flash.net