darkfallenangel ([info]lunagypsy) wrote in [info]ot_black_cats,
@ 2006-03-13 21:25:00
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Weird Question
Does anyone think that there can just be an abundance of bad luck, or could it be something less "chancey?"
Lately it feels like we're cursed. It seems the more goodness I give out , the more bad things seem to happen. I try to look at everything in a bright sense, find the good that comes out of the bad, but my mother said that my grandmother once swore she would curse my mother and all of her family (grandmother hated my father but my mother chose him over her and married him, so grandmother went after mother with a knife, saying she was forever cursed.) I'm nearly 30 years old and feel silly wondering about this, but I am also tired of this little black rain cloud that seems to froever hang over our heads. I hope no one thinks I'm nuts...maybe the rest of the world has the same amount of bad luck in the same timeframe? Sorry for venting like this...


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[info]faithchan
2006-03-14 04:51 am UTC (link)
Not to belittle curses (cuz they are real and can be quite nasty); but quite often, the power behind them is the power of suggestion. (If you believe you are cursed, then you are cursed kinda thing.)

That being said, sometimes a run of bad luck is a run of bad luck. How long a run are we talking about? A week? Month? Year? Ten years? *shrug* I'm no expert, but I know psychology and karma like to work hand in hand sometimes.

In short, a real CURSE in the woo-spooky-magic kinda way is not a common thing (insofar as my experience has shown). Your run of bad luck reminds you of your grandmothers words, which draws her darkness in around you, you think of her, it gives her power, etc etc.

I just realized that I am REALLY tired, so if that made no sense, I apologize, but I'm gonna click 'post' anyway, cuz that's just how I am. Good luck, and blessed be.

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[info]lunagypsy
2006-03-14 02:12 pm UTC (link)
No, all of that made sense:) I undersatnd the whole power of suggestion thing, but this has been going on for a LONG time, I'd say at least since my birth, so we're talking going on 30 years...short overview:
My parents are super-good people, but they are so nice they are doormats, really. But they put family and loved ones first, esp. their children (3 of us). My paternal grandparents withered in front of my young eyes from cancer, but that seems like a natural (though sad) course...but my dad, hardworking, was layed off several times through my life to the point where mom fed us kids generic mac & cheese and boiled potatoes with welfare butter, and pawned their wedding rings for a few groceries...my mother's health went to Hell, her kidneys are failing, she needs a transplant, my father had a few major heartattacks and is now also diabetic, my teenage years were turbulent(seemed to have that puberty-poltergeist phenomena going on...)and now my health is not well. I had a really bad string of years, being badly abused in a relationship, and now that I am happy and thought luck was turning around this happened within 5 days:I caught a flu, I twisted my ankle, our basement ceiling fell, we got ants and mice in the house, our furnace died...and thats not counting everything else in the past year alone. I am just starting to feel hopeless...
Sorry this was so long!

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[info]faithchan
2006-03-14 04:43 pm UTC (link)
...Yea, that's under the heading of 'prtty damn crappy.' While not totally outside the realm of 'that's life,' it sounds pretty close. But in either case, you should NOT lose hope. It's what helps keep us sane.

If this is just life being a bitch, then it will pass. If this is a curse, then you can fight back. Incense, cleansing, spells, whatever you feel would work best. My one suggestion is that if/when you do a curse breaking/banishing spell for her/her energy, end it by banishing thoughts of her from your mind. When something bad happens, don't let yourself think it's her influence. Even if you break the curse...if there even is one...lie will still thow shit (as I'm sure you know), and it is SO important that you not let yourself lose hope or faith that things can and will get better, because LIFE gets better. It may be unfair, but it is not biased.

'Faith' is not my given name, it's my taken one. There are may times I need the reminder that it is a part of me that should not be ignored, pushed to the side, or belittled. It's what can save my ass.

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[info]silvertipwings
2006-03-14 11:01 am UTC (link)
I've had bad times before (two weeks to a few months), tho never been told I was cursed directly.
The ways I typically try to work my way out of it: start meditations to calm myself (I'm easily upset sometimes), keep an up-to-date calender on obligations and the like so nothing slips thru the cracks, pick up/declutter my apartment then fengshui-ify it, ring a bell all over the house and around all my stuff (away bad spirits & stale energy! begone!), spray salt (or distilled & blessed) water on the walls, air the house out after all that...

via the illustrious Scott Cunningham:
Curse-Breaker Incense: 2p Sandalwood to 1p Bay, burn and "visualize it banishing all negativity from you." He suggests doing this for 7 nights during the Waning Moon...
another variation he lists is adding in 1p Rosemary.
good luck!

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[info]lunagypsy
2006-03-14 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Sigh..I miss Scott Cunningham, he seemed like such a good fellow.
It seems the more I try to deflect chaos, the more it comes at me.
I haven't tried making my own inscence, but hubby and I do cleanse the house, we play tibetan chants and burn inscense, ring chimes in the corners...I even went around the perimeter of the outside with sea salt. But things have been strange lately, I had a mental breakdown in Laurie Cabot's shop last month, I felt so safe and surrounded by beauty I started to cry right in the middle of the shop. I went home and tried to duplicate the ambience from there...

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[info]bewildern
2006-03-16 03:29 am UTC (link)
I've had/am having similar problems. All I know to say is just to hang in there.

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