Before you mess up your karma by cursing or hexing someone, try one of these more elegant options instead.
If you just Googled “How to curse someone,” or “How to hex someone,” read this first!
I mean, I get it. Someone did you wrong, and it is so, so, so infuriating and unfair.
It seems your options for doing something about it in the physical world are so painfully limited, you feel almost irresistibly compelled to direct your considerable personal power toward causing them harm.
Believe me, I’ve been there. And I’ve even done that. And I don’t recommend it.
In my regrettable experience, karmic backlash is a real thing. And it’s just not worth it.
But, hey, cheer up: you have options! The five alternatives below will provide valuable magical recourse without endangering your own energy, sanity, and general wellbeing.
Hex/Curse Alternative #1: Reflect All Energy Back to Its Source
A traditional feng shui cure for dealing with challenging neighbors involves nothing but a mirror. The idea is to the mirror so that the reflective side is facing the neighbor’s house, and then simply set the (completely neutral) intention that it reflect all energy – good, bad, or in between – directly back to its source.
Sending negative energy right back to its source is quite a bit tidier and more efficient than a hex or a curse.
Usually the mirror is placed outside of the house, but apartment dwellers can place the reflective side against the wall, and hide it behind a picture or a sofa. If your issue is with your downstairs neighbors, you can place it reflective-side down on the floor, perhaps under a piece of furniture. If the upstairs folks are bothering you, you’ll need to figure out a way to attach it to the ceiling, reflective-side up.
This same practice can be adapted for the workplace, or you can even wear a mirror pendant and set the intention that it reflect all energy back to a specific source.
The important thing is the intention. It doesn’t matter what size or shape the mirror is. It can be as big as an entire wall or as tiny as a mirrored tile.
Hex/Curse Alternative #2: Cast a Protection Spell
When it comes right down to it, you are the one you most want to take care of in this situation. And hexing and cursing can have the unfortunate side effect of tying your energy to the person or people you most want to protect yourself from. Luckily, there are plenty of spells that work wonderfully for protecting your physical and energetic wellbeing. (Although of course it’s still important to take safety precautions in the physical world, such as locking your door and not getting in the car with strangers.) Here’s a simple and effective one:
Ingredients:
An Archangel Michael candle
Dragonsblood incense and incense holder
A lighter or matches
Essential oil of frankincense
Sunflower oil
A small bowl, shot glass, or saucer
Light the candle and incense. Say:
Archangel Michael, I call on you and invoke your protection. Please keep me completely safe in all ways, at all times. Please surround me in your fiery divine light through which no negativity may enter. Thank you!
Feel gratitude for Archangel Michael’s sure and steadfast protection as you place a tablespoon or so of sunflower oil in the small dish. Add one drop of frankincense essential oil and combine. Then lightly anoint your forehead, throat, heart, belly, and wrists with the oil.
Finish by picking up the incense and holder and safely wafting the smoke around your body (and home if applicable).
Place the incense back near the candle and allow it to burn all the way out. Extinguish and re-light the candle (as needed for fire safety purposes) until it’s burned all the way down.
Hex/Curse Alternative #3: Neutralize Someone’s Power Over You
In truth, no one has the power to cause you harm: legal, physical, financial, or otherwise. If it seems like they do, it’s only an illusion, just as everything is in this time-space reality. Even if they’re your landlord, your boss, or your mother-in-law, once you remember how powerful you actually are, the other person’s seeming power over will fall away. It’s like waking from a nightmare. And this spell can act as your alarm clock.
Ingredients:
Sea salt or Himalayan pink salt
The other person’s business card, photo, or full name written on paper
A jar with a tightly-fitting lid
Fill the jar part way with sea salt. Hold the identifying paper in both hands and say,
[Name of person], you have no power over me.
What once seemed like power is now erased.
It’s erased yesterday, it’s erased today, it’s erased tomorrow.
It is null and void. It was never even there in the first place.
It now completely dissolves, dissipates, disappears, and returns to its native nothingness, now and forever, in all directions of time.
Place the card, photo, or name in the jar and completely surround it with sea salt by pouring it over the top and filling the remainder of the jar. Seal the lid. Feel your own power returning and remember how magical you actually are. (Keep the jar on a shelf or in a cupboard until you feel you no longer need the magical reminder.)
Hex/Curse Alternative # 4: Bind Someone from Causing Harm
In some cases, a binding spell is much more appropriate than a hex or a curse anyway. This is especially true if someone is behaving like a bully (in any sense of the word), and you simply want to stop them from causing harm. Here’s a blog post I wrote featuring three ways to bind a bully without harming your karma in the least.
Hex/Curse Alternative #5: Activate Swift Justice
Perhaps the person you wish you could hex or curse is actually doing something illegal, or has done something illegal. Lucky for us, there are divine helpers who just love enforcing swift and appropriate justice. The Norse god Forseti is my personal favorite to call on for the purpose.
Here’s a spell from my book, Holistic Energy Magic, to be used when you’re in a legal situation and you’re entirely in the right:
Call on Forseti. When you feel his powerful presence, send him gratitude in the form of visualized light. With or without words, show him the situation. You might picture the whole thing as if you’re picturing the storyline and emotions of a movie. Be sure to feel your feelings and project them to him as well. Imagine that you are illuminating the dark spaces and shining light on the true situation. Then ask Forseti to intervene on your behalf and bring you the justice that you deserve by saying:
Forseti, the presiding one,
Please stay with me till this thing’s done
Bring justice from your golden hall
Swiftly and once and for all.
I honor you with love and light
And thank you for your wisdom bright!
Feel even more gratitude, and be sure to heartily thank Forseti once justice has been served.
Don’t compound the problem by hexing or cursing someone! Try one of these more karma-conscious options instead.
Thank you for sharing this with me..I’m loving this..
So glad to hear it! Thanks for reading. 🙂
Thanks, I appreciate it. People basically teach you how to do things, but not the fine points. So this is good!
So glad it’s helpful, Dee!
Thank you for this reminder…. I was considering placing a hex’s on a mean, racist person but you are right not worth the Karmic backlash
Glad the post was helpful, Nadia. Thanks for reading.
Can I do this on someone else’s behalf or does it have to be personal? My partner is having issues and its starting to effect me and our relationship.
Celeste, I would feel totally fine about doing any one of these on someone else’s behalf EXCEPT a binding spell. So with the other 4 options, you’re cool.
My daughter husband is being a bully toward her name calling and down right mean said to her that he was trying to break it up with her before they had kids and he said he never wanted to marry her they been together for 13 years don’t get it why now he being abusive towards her
How many times do you need to say the words to certain Angels ? Like 3, 5 ..times or do you stop once you begin to feel grateful ..
Do you mean the words in the protection spell? Just once is fine!
Yes, I mean for spell #, 4, and 5.. is once as effective or do I keep repeating the saying if that same person continues to harm me.
I’d start with once, although you can certainly call on Archangel Michael for protection at any time.
Thank you! I appreciate your time and knowledge.
Hi! I wanted to do #3 with my daughter regarding the aftermath of a bullying situation. I read somewhere on your site recently about a protective circle and I’m not finding it now. Do we need to do that for #3? Thanks 🙂
Hi Angela! You don’t need to. If you feel guided to, though, here’s the circle casting post: https://tesswhitehurst.com/how-and-why-to-cast-a-magical-circle-6-simple-steps/
Hi Tess,
I need to know which good, protection spell for me and family. I am tired of everyone trying to accomplish their goal twice … I feel like a two, two curse on us . Any suggestion ?
Thank you
Was looking to do karma , but I stopped after reading this . Unfortunately I still hope for the karma to hit and have the cheaters be cought by her husband seeing he doesn’t believe me .I honestly have no answers on how to make this happen .
Hello, I have lived nextdoor to a very unstable and angry neighbor for the last 6 years.
In that time, I have had visits
with him that were nice but he turns! The next time
I talk with him he verbally with
despite attacks me.vial stuff!
I’ve many times have delt with it by responding in kind as emotional defence. I’ve just had another intense attack
by him 2 weeks ago. At first, I was stunned and it turned to
Intense anger.After so many years of being attacked by him,
I admit I lost it! I spit out some very powerful words his way.
As well as binding him from doing harm to anyone else or to himself. BUT there at one point I was unwise and my words came out as a curse.
Appalled by what I had just
done, I wrote a letter telling him to forget what he had received from me, that he sure pushed my buttons good.
That I apologize for my angry
words and take the law out of it! That my angry words have no power! But, He was still bound from harming anyone
else or himself! I haven’t seen him around but I send him white light and wish him well.
Did I do the right thing addressing my words of anger and power? Taking the power out of the words and withdrawing the energy in which I originally sent them with. I’m still wondering what effect outcome will be.
Did I uncurse him and make the right ammends? Karma?
Does this put everything that was said and done back to balance? I’d really love to hear from you about what you think and if my actions where appreciate. Thank you for any insight you could share with me. I strive to be true to the
Creed of the Goddess!
“Harm none” so be it!
Blessings,Todd
Todd, you are very sweet and conscientious to worry about your actions! It’s my sense that all is well and that you were justified in your behavior. If you happen to run into any adverse affects, you can always do a cleansing or uncrossing ritual. And, of course, it never hurts to call on Divine protection every day.
Hi, what if someone is just breaking rules would the justice spell still work?
Lulu, I’m sensing something else will be more powerful for you, like perhaps the protection spell.
Hello Tess!
I have doubts that a guy might have intentions to cause me trouble or ruin my relationship. I was considering a binding spell. What would you suggest?
Hi Riri! I’m getting the vibe that spell #3 (from this post) might be even better for you in this situation.
Hi Tess
I have been enjoying reading your weekly emails , Thank you for the time to share your knowledge.
I have been having trouble getting a job and feel I have tried everything to help including lighting green candles and burning basil, mint and cinnamon together., is there any spells that can help open new doors for me?
Thank you
Hi Teresa! Yes: https://tesswhitehurst.com/new-job-spell/
Hi Tess I need vengeance. My husband ended our marriage and threw me out of his house because I had complications during child birth! They all thought I would die and decided I go back to my father’s house and die. Am fine now but am still very angry over what he did to me! He got married to another woman this January! I want their marriage to scatter and want him to pay for what he did to me! Am still struggling with my baby! Vengeance is what I need! From Nigeria
Stella, I’m so glad to hear you’re fine now! I think most of us would feel the same way in your situation, but ultimately, focusing on healing and empowering yourself will make you healthier and happier than vengeance. Vengeance will hurt you as well as him. It’s safe to say that this situation made it clear that he was not someone you would want to be with anyway. So now you are healed and you have an opportunity to be healthy and happy without him. Feel your feelings, for sure, but always choose actions (magical or mundane) that will benefit YOU in the long run.
I sure hope Forseti heard my prayers. I shined a lamp in my direction, which was also in front of window. Both of us have had legal issues. My son admitted guilt to a dui and has paid his fine. I am hoping that he wont get any points. My case is a security deposit that was not returned. The property manager even charged an extra month after we gave our 30 day notice. i have consulted with a lawyer. He has all my paperwork and doesn’t return my calls.
I think I’ll reach out to Forseti again at night while shining the lamp in my direction
Hi Tess my partner has kind of put me in a tight spot when he asked me to go on a mortgage with him. I know it is his mum who is influencing him to do that as their family does not have the money and she knows I have a good savings account. She has convinced him that this is the best thing for all of us and she intends to come and stay with us free of cost. I have no issues with my partner providing for his mum. I am all for it but I am not ok being manipulated to commit to a mortgage and I think my partner feels the same but cannot stand up to her. I am going to say no but I know I can expect violent backlash from my partner and his mum. Anything I can do to protect myself and stand firm? And can I do a binding spell on her? I do not want to distance her from her but I want her to stop being manipulative and interrupting in my life.
Hi DK! Yes, do this meditation daily for a while: https://tesswhitehurst.com/shielding-and-boundary-setting-meditation-for-empaths/
Oh, and I’d recommend the neutralization spell from this post instead of a binding at this point.
Hi Tess,
Few months back, my position in my company was very very good since 2017 and suddenly 3 months back one manager came into some other department. He was jealous of my position, and due to this he started pointing me out to CEO with some negative thoughts at my back. He is of much lesser experience than me but biching at my back is favouring him in some ways. Now he is my reporting manager and takes credit of all the tasks done by me.
Can we do something to get my fame back and to down him?
I would do the neutralization spell from this post. Focus on protecting yourself and reasserting your own power over your position and life, rather than negatively affecting his position. And see what happens.
Which one of these do you recommend to stop someone from doing love spells? (She’s actually hiring a spell caster to do them) is there anything I can do to stop her? she’s doing it on someone I love dearly .
Sounds like it may be time for a binding spell: https://tesswhitehurst.com/the-good-witchs-guide-to-binding-a-bully/
Thank you so much for this. Something like this is desperately needed in my life and for a few little ones. My family is being ripped apart by some evil people trying to do me harm. It’s affecting not just me, my son’s but my grandkids are being hurt in the process, because these people care more about themselves then they do anything.
I’m sorry to hear it. Holding the vision of you turning this around.