Love Uncrossing scented jar candle

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Cleansing first: take an uncrossing bath, let yourself air-dry and light the candle while dressed in clean clothes.
• Clearing a relationship: set a photo of the two of you under the jar to strip away interference and bad feeling between you.
• Follow-up: once the candle is spent, move straight into attraction or reconciliation work with a pink or red candle.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Old ties: write the names of past partners who still seem to hang over your love life on paper, burn the paper by the candle and scatter the ash outside.

A Simple Working

• Take a bath with a handful of sea salt and a cup of rose water.
• Air-dry and dress in clean clothes.
• Light the candle and say what pattern in love you are clearing.
• Write that pattern on paper, burn it in a fireproof dish and blow the ash out of a window.
• Let the candle burn for a few hours each day until spent.
• On the following Friday, light a pink candle for new love.

Pairs Well With

• Love Uncrossing oil: the matching oil for dressing yourself and the jar.
• Rose water: for the bath before lighting.
• Sea salt: a simple uncrossing bath base.
• A pink chime candle: for the attraction work that follows.

What You Receive

One Love Uncrossing ritual jar candle topped with a scent and herb blend; colours vary from candle to candle; burns approximately 3 1/2 days.

Origin & Lore

In hoodoo, a crossed condition is a run of bad luck or blocked success thought to come from a curse, jinx or spiritual mess, and a love crossing is one that settles on romance. Love Uncrossing is a modern ritual candle for clearing that condition so love can flow again, burned after a cleansing bath and before any new attraction work.

When every relationship sours the same way, rootworkers have a word for it: crossed.

Much of what is known about hoodoo crossing and uncrossing comes from Harry Middleton Hyatt, a minister and folklorist who recorded thousands of spells and interviews across the South between the 1930s and 1970, published as Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork. The word crossed reflects a real practice: crossing marks, X-shapes and crossed lines of powder were laid in a target’s path to put them in a bad way.