How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Draw an open-door or arrow sigil in oil on a candle and burn it at a crossroads.
- Anoint the soles of your shoes before job interviews or important meetings.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Dress an orange or white candle and burn it at the start of any new venture.
- Anoint a key and carry it as a charm for opening doors.
- Add to a floor wash and scrub from the back of the house out through the front door.
Ceremonial & Occult Magick
- Dress a candle and offer it to Papa Legba or Eleggua at a crossroads before other work begins.
- Anoint the threshold of your ritual space to open the way for spirits you call.
A Simple Working
- Take an orange chime candle and an old key.
- Dress the candle with Unblocker oil from base to wick.
- Anoint the key and lay it in front of the candle, pointing away from you.
- Light the candle and name, one by one, the things blocking your path.
- For each, turn the key once as if opening a lock.
- When the candle has burned out, carry the key with you.
Pairs Well With
- Abre camino herb, the Latin American road-opening plant.
- Orange candles, for opening and change.
- A skeleton key, as a physical charm for opened doors.
- Lemongrass, for clearing and opening.
- Van Van oil, a close cousin for clearing and luck.
What You Receive
Unblocker oil, in a 16 oz bottle.
Origin & Lore
Unblocker oil belongs to the road-opening family of condition oils, close kin to hoodoo Road Opener and Latin American Abre Camino formulas. It is used when life feels stuck, whether in work, money, love or spiritual progress, to clear what stands in the way.
In many African diaspora traditions, no door opens until the spirit of the crossroads opens it first.
Road-opening work is closely tied to the spirits of the crossroads: Papa Legba in Haitian Vodou and Eleggua in Lucumí, who are traditionally honoured first so that the way opens for everything else. Hoodoo Road Opener oils carry the same idea in condition-oil form.
Did You Know?
Abre camino means open the road in Spanish, and the plant sold under that name in botánicas is a Caribbean shrub, Koanophyllon villosum.



