What crossed conditions are, the scripture behind uncrossing, and how to take the bath that washes them off.
Some runs of bad luck feel random, and some feel placed. When the blocks stack up in a way that has a shape to it, the tradition calls that a crossed condition, and the answer the old workers reached for first was the uncrossing bath.
What crossed means
Crossed is the state of being jammed up: doors that were opening suddenly will not, money that was moving stops, sleep turns strange, and small accidents pile past coincidence. Sometimes it came from a person, sometimes from a place, sometimes from a season, and sometimes it does not matter where it came from as long as it leaves. Uncrossing is the wash that takes it off.
The scripture under the wash
Uncrossing in this tradition leans on hyssop, the cleansing herb of the Bible. Psalm 51 asks to be purged with hyssop and washed clean, and generations of workers took that instruction into the tub. If your grandmother kept a King James close, this practice will feel like home.
How the bath goes
Prepare the way any spiritual bath begins, and the full setup is in How to Take a Spiritual Bath. For uncrossing, the washing is downward only, head to feet, off the body and into the water. Speak what is being removed by name. When the bath is done, carry a cup of that water out and pour it away from your home, and let yourself air dry.
Seal it before the day ends
An uncrossed person is a clean slate, and a clean slate needs covering the same day. Set protection immediately: My Grandmama Prayed For Me at the entrance, or the covering routine in How to Protect Your Energy. If the blocks were the money-and-roads kind, follow with Break Every Chain, our Blockbuster, to keep the path opening. For the deeper reversal side of this work, Breaker Oil Basics covers it.
When to get help
Most crossed conditions wash off with patience and repetition. A few want a worker's hands on the situation. If a condition keeps returning after honest work, that is information, and there is no shame in asking for help inside the tradition.
Wash it off and cover it up. The uncrossing teachings that stay off the public feed go out on the email list at the bottom of this page.