What is Road Opener?~~~~

Hello Everyone,

Finally I got around to doing a post,  every time I start to write it I get questions so this one has been long over due.  

But I have to say a "challenge" was given to me by one of my readers, about why are Bible passages used in Folk Magic.  I felt I would be opening a "can of worms" if I responded, but now I don't think so.   But it will take me a little time to put my article or post together.

In the meantime one of my readers asked me this question:




Dear Ms. Q,

“I am desperately looking for a job, a permanent full time job,  but it seems that everywhere I look I seem blocked in, a friend of mine told me I should use Road Opener, I’m not sure if that is an oil or a candle, what is it and would it work?”

Two of the most used candles and oils to help unblock situations from getting a job to just being recognized for your hard work  is “Block Buster” and “Road Opener”.   Both are very popular, so let’s start with “Road Opener”

Road Opener both the oil and candle helps you open new doors and create new opportunities. It is highly effective for just about any situation you may find yourself in, especially when you are feeling unsure of what to do, challenged, blocked or stuck.

The idea behind Road Opener is to help clear obstacles away and to transform bad luck into good luck. This can be for almost any situation whether you are searching for a new job, new love, or just want a fresh start, Road Opener Oil as well as the candle helps to create the ideal environment for you to get there.

The oil can be used in in several different ways. You can put some in your bath, put a dab on your body (be sure to test for sensitivity), or use a bit to anoint your altar or ritual working space.

It can be used or added to a wash on floors and doors. 

Some folks will get a piece of red flannel (you can buy small squares at craft shops)  and apply some of the oil and then place the flannel in your purse or pocket.

Some folks will do a light mixture of this oil along with furniture polish and wipe  down one’s bed with it, particularly if you are seeking love.

 Put some oil on loan or job applications and bank statements.

Place a couple of drops inside your shoes (just remember to test  your skin for sensitivity)

Some of the major road opening oils or herbs contained in this oil include five finger grass, lemon balm, sandalwood and abre camino, but it has to be an odd number of ingredients suspended in either olive oil or sweet almond oil, and some of the solid herbs should be in the bottle especially a sliver of Abre Camino herb.

There are many different Road Opener Oil recipes. However, the ones that are legitimate always contain abre camino. This herb also goes by the name of thoroughwort. It is an herb from South America that has religious/magical as well as medicinal properties.

Using the oil and the candle sometimes is not enough to make the pathway or the road open, one has to also take steps to make sure any negativity that might have clung to you from when you were let go from your last job or difficult situation  has been cleared.

Even negative thought by yourself or magical actions by others can cause blockages.Thinking negatively instead of in a positive manner is one thing, feeling depressed from not finding work is another, upset on losing out on a job or promotion is a very negative feeling, more bills coming in and not enough money to cover them is of course the most difficult, fear of not getting the loan is the worst.

But another thing that “Road Opener” works on is also legal matters to get them to move forward so if you feel that you are blocked, that you can't move forward, or are stuck, then you may need to do a road opener spell.

So what do you need a Road Opener for?  Well for example you can use it to clear away blockages involving People, places as well as things.  Virtually, any kind of obstacle can be eliminated, whether it is internal or external.

It can include:

    Negative outlook on life (make sure you or your loved one are not suffering from clinical depression)

    Naysayers and sabotages or saboteurs

    Financial stagnation

    Emotional blockages

    Conflicts with other people

    Lack of opportunities

    Bad weather (unless the Divine Presence says it will rain on the bride’s wedding day, trust me it does not stop hurricanes or wildfires, it might delay them but not stop them)

    Unemployment

    Legal problems

    Confusion and inability to think clearly (but be sure that it’s not because of a stroke or over medication)

    Writer’s block

    Evil Eye (Mal de Ojo)

    Illness and disease (but only as an aid while seeking medical treatment, do not rely on magic alone, and remember sometimes a person must endure the illness as a life lesson, especially when it is taken out of human hands and needs to be left in the hands of God)

There are many ways to unblock one's path forward. There are other factors that may determine the type of Road Opener work chosen. The one that most people use depends on both the availability and cost of the materials required, and the time necessary for doing the work.

Now one that the ladies in Granny’s group have used seems to work for them, it does take a little time but it’s well worth it.

There are two times of the month to do this ritual but it depends on what you want to have done, if done during a waxing moon that is the time when you want to draw in or bring in opportunities.  During a waning moon is the best time to get rid of obstacles.

What you will need is:

1 egg

1 bottle of Florida water or Holy Water

Road Opener Oil

1 Red Candle or Road Opener Candle

Frankincense either in stick or cone form or you can burn the resin on self-igniting charcoal in a heat resistant container but burning it in Stick or cone is cheaper and easier to obtain.

Brown paper torn from a brown paper bag

a pin

 a pencil

Copy of Psalm 23 and Psalm 70 to read

What to do:

Wash off the egg with Florida water or Holy water.

Let the egg dry.

Hold the egg in your hands and tell the egg what you want it to remove and absorb.

Start rubbing yourself with the egg from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet.

Do not rub the egg in a back & forward motion on your body (only downward).

Pray that what you want removed is being absorbed now by the egg.

Repeat this process a least 3 times.

Take some road opener oil and make the sign of the cross on your feet, knees, hands, center of chest, forehead, and top of the head. Remember, you should put on the oil in the order above ONLY, just as you cleans yourself with the egg from the top of your head down to the bottom of your feet, you make the sign of the cross from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, thereby sealing your cleansed self from the removed negativity.

Crack the egg in the toilet and flush it! You can incense out your bathroom to clear any negative energy that may be lingering in there from this ritual.

The egg cleansing part should be done for at least 3 days but 9 days have proven to be the most effective.

Then after you’ve cleansed, anointed, sealed yourself and burned the Frankincense to clear the negative energy from the bathroom and any other areas where you are doing the work, at your work table, write on the brown paper in pencil what it is you want finding a job, forward movement on a legal action, finding an apartment, whatever that you feel stuck or blocked about.  Fold the paper into quarters, then on a freestanding red candle write with a pin what you want.

If you are using a glass enclosed Road Opener candle write on the wax on the top of the candle.

Then on the candle anoint it with the Road Opener oil if it’s the red freestanding candle (mounted in a candle holder) then stroke the oil from the bottom to the top, not back and forth, but only from the base of the candle to the top where the wick is.

With a glass enclosed candle anointed it with the oil in a clockwise motion 3 times.

Then put your petition under the candle (either freestanding or glass enclosed) and light the candle.

After you have lit the candle recite Psalm 23 and meditate on what you want. 

Recite Psalm 23 followed by Psalm 70 and meditate every night until the candle burns out then burn your petition and cast the ashes to the 4 directions.

Now some people have found that using an orange candle works very well instead of a red one, but back in Granny’s day finding orange colored candles was not easy unless they were shaped like pumpkins for Halloween and sometimes they used them as well.  

Sometimes one or the other ladies will do a ritual bath and they will do it for 9 nights in a row.

What they would do is make a sort of tea using these herbs:

Orange Peel

Lemon Balm

Burdock

Gravel Root

Solomon's Seal Root

Five Fingers Grass

High John Root

When Mrs. Rodriquez joined the group she suggested adding Abre Camino and Lemon Grass that way you’d still be sticking with the traditional odd number of ingredients, we found out that the words Abre Camino meant Road Open or Road Opener.   Abre Camino is an herb that grows in the Caribbean and tropical parts of the US.

 Prepare it as a tea boil 3 cups of water, soak the herbs for 30 minutes, strain the herbs out so you have just the tea, then pray over the tea reciting Psalm 16, then add some of it to your bath. Pour it over your head an odd number of times 7 or 9 times, reciting Psalm 70  then air dry and anoint your feet and palms with a Road Opener oil, do that for 9 consecutive days.

To make the oil take your solid herbs that I’ve listed above (with High John you may have to shave some of it off as well as another other herb that is not easy to grind up) along with pine needles, bay leaves, salt ( either sea salt or black salt), Rue --- it should be an odd number of ingredients, even if you don’t have everything listed it still should be an odd number but Abre Camino is a must have.

Then mash and grind them together,  I’ve used both an electric as well as an old fashion coffee or pepper grinder,   put some of these ingredients into your Master Bottle (a larger bottle)   and add to it dirt from a crossroads,   a small old key and/or a St. Peter’s medal to the inside of the bottle (a small canning jar works well) and top it off with either Olive Oil, or Sweet Almond oil,  shake well, let it sit for a week to “marinate” then you can use it.

Pray over it using all three Psalms 23, 16 and 70 to charge it with your energy. 

There are other alternate ingredients that one can use in place of the ones I’ve listed,  they should be solid ingredients and ground up but dirt from a crossroads, and an old key are necessary, and if you can get it Abre Camino as well. 

The ingredients that I’ve seen varies from practitioner to practitioner depending upon availability and location, so I’ve included all that I know about, you do not have to use all of them just remember an odd number of herbs plus the key and the crossroads dirt.   In some areas or countries it’s impossible to get Rue if that is the case then substitute Basil in its place.

List of herbs and ingredients:

    Lemon balm – clears away negativity and evil influences

    Lemongrass – clears away negativity and evil influences

    Abre camino (Eupatorium villosum or Koanophyllon villosum)– Literally means “road opener” and is used in Latin American folk magic

    Ammonia – the great clarifier.

    Camphor – removes negative spiritual forces

    Lettuce (Lactuca sativa)– In Latin American folk magick, chases away disturbances caused by the dead (this is not Ice Berg lettuce that we usually see in most salads but more like romaine or butter lettuce)

    Salt – removes negativity and blesses space

    Citronella - clears away negativity and evil influences

    Acacia

    Sage – purifies and makes sacred

    Cedar – removed negative energy

    Cinquefoil

    Palmerosa

    Vetivert- clears away negativity and evil influences for strengthening formulas of all kinds (optional)

    Crossroads dirt – opens roads for opportunities and choices (do not use the cross roads dirt from a cemetery---and it needs to be a 4 way crossroads not 3 way)

    Keys – open doors, the older the better,  St Peter medal is optional

    Basil – clears away obsessive and lingering spirits

    Pine – cleansing and purifying

    Saltpeter – uncrossing and removing obstacles

    Rue – destroys the evil eye, obliterates envy, removes effects of black magic

    Sulfur – removes negativity (dangerous to use I would avoid using it)

And there are many Road Opener rituals or spells one can use, I've given just a few of them,  as I go through my paperwork if I come across any more I will post it. 

Remember our main objective in life is to be happy, not so much happy, happy, joy, joy bouncing all over the place, but a measure of contentment and peace in our lives, and if life has been throwing you obstacles and road blocks this is the one to use.

Bright Blessings,

Ms. Q

What is Black Cat Oil? Do I have to use a black cat?~~~

Dear Ms. Q,

I’m confused about “Black Cat Oil”  in some places I see where it can be used to hex a person, or break a hex or spell, but  I also read where it is used for luck for gambling and  also to attract someone to you and for protection.   What is the right way to use this oil?”

When I got this question I knew what one of my posts is going to be, and it will be about the use of Black Cat Oil.   The bottom line is that this oil can do all of those things, but it depends upon what carrier oil that is the base oil the other ingredients are put into. 

The ingredients are the same but the oil it is to be suspended upon as well as the color of Cat candle is to be lit determines the use of the oil. 

I know, why is this?  

Well it depends upon the traditions from what country.  It’s believed that cats have been domesticated in Egypt as early as 4,000 years ago. In ancient Egypt, cats were sacred and identified with the deities Ra and Bast. In the form of a cat, Mau, the sun God, Ra, slayed his enemy, Apep, the serpent of darkness. Bast (Ubasti/ Bastet/Baset) was the cat Goddess of fertility, dance, and wine. The Egyptians mummified their beloved cats for their journey to the Afterlife and sometimes entombed them with mummified mice. They were valued for their ability to kill vermin. Bast's fertility aspect related to her protection of the grain from mice and rats.  

Just as Dogs were regarded important for their hunting ability as well as being trained to guard a person’s property, Cats were important to protect grain and other foods from vermin such as mice and rats. 

The Fear of cats began in parts of Europe during the middle ages especially during the time of the Black Death, this disease was carried by fleas and it could infect not only rats and mice and other rodents but also Cats.  For some reason Dogs were not widely believed to be evil. Even today there are people who view certain cats, particularly black cats, as unlucky.  I have to be honest if I’m in a dark room or walking a dark street and I trip over a black cat I would consider it bad luck only because I couldn’t see the cat. 

Yet in the Middle Ages cats were being seen in a dual role,    In Christian Europe, barn cats, farm cats, ship cats, etc. were still used to effectively control vermin. Yet cats in late medieval Europe were also identified with witches, sorcerers, and heretics. An unknown, stray cat wandering around in an area might be either an ordinary stray cat, a witch's familiar, or a witch in disguise.

That was because it was believed that cats could also be shape shifters or a witch could take on the form of a cat.    Eventually cats were burned with those convicted of the crimes of heresy and witchcraft. In 1630, King Louis XIII of France halted this awful practice of burning cats.   Which was a good thing because of their ability to control vermin.

To make things more difficult for the cat (and any other domestic animals)  parts of cats--like parts of other domestic animals were used as ingredients in sorcery. The animal's liver, eyes and blood were used in creating some sort of unsavory magical mixtures in some European magic spells.

For example the notorious Black Cat Bone:  Although it is strongly identified with African American hoodoo, its origins are actually found in European magic.  To wit in one Grimoire written by Antigo Livro de Sao Cipriano of Portugal.  Translated it reads as follows :       ”Cook the body of a black cat in boiling water with white seeds and wood from the willow until the meat is loosened from the bones. Strain the bones in a linen cloth and, in front of the mirror, place the bones, one by one in your mouth, until you find that you have the magic to make you become invisible. Keep the bone with the magic property and, if you want to go somewhere without being seen, place the bone in your mouth”

Folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who studied hoodoo in Florida and Louisiana in the 1930s, and Harry Middleton Hyatt, collected thousands of spells and superstitions from various African American sources throughout the South in the 1930’s, and they reported that many root doctors claimed that within every black cat has in its body one bone that will either grant the owner invisibility or can be used to bring back a lost lover

 To get this bone, they [Hurston and Hyatt] said, a black cat must be thrown alive into a cauldron of boiling water at midnight. The animal dies in horrible agony, and the practitioner boils the carcass until the meat falls off the bones. Some say that the special bone will be the top one left when the water boils away, others say it can only be found by placing each bone in turn beneath the tongue while an assistant notifies the practitioner that he has become invisible (a variation on the Cipriano Grimoire), and still others swear that if all the bones are thrown into a stream that runs north ( Not common in most of North America although there are a few and there are a few in Europe and India), the desired bone will be one that floats on the water and heads south.  

And this is one more reason why just before and after Halloween Black Cats are not adopted out of Animal Shelters and if you have one you need to keep it indoors.  Though both Hurston and Hyatt recorded this superstition, no cat bone can make a person invisible.

 

Most bones sold as "black cat bones" in mail order are actually from other small mammals and are sometimes painted black. 

There are a dozens and dozens of superstitions revolving around cats and black cats, far too many for me to post here, but that takes us away from the subject of Black Cat Oil.

In European and European-American traditions black cats are considered unlucky. However in Hoodoo the black cat is a symbol of luck and strength helping in the sporting and gambling world. This old time, traditional Hoodoo oil is very popular with gamblers and people who play games of chance but it also is used to reverse bad luck and its vibrations work well for Witches and their general workings.

Black Cat oil is a traditional New Orleans Voudou oil with many uses.  It should be in your magical cabinet because it is good for power, protection during intense magical rites and protection in general, stealth, luck, unhexing, hexing, attraction and maybe love. Traditionally this oil is used to break hexes and other negative conditions, as well as protection if castor oil is the base oil. It can be sprinkled at entrances to the home to reverse and remove malign influences, and it is used to attract money as well by anointing cash registers and doors of businesses, slot machines, lottery tickets, tip jars, your wallet, coins, purse, or cash book of you are a server. If you have a jar to keep  change in it will fill up quickly.

So first let me post the recipe for it and then I’ll describe how to use it with certain candles.

THE RECIPE FOR BLACK CAT OIL:

I am also including what each aspect of each item means:

If you are using essential oils or dry products then it’s

• 2 parts Clary sage oil    or dried, crumbled sage or clary sage leaves

• 2 parts bay or bay laurel oil or dried, crushed bay leaves

• 1 part essential oil of myrrh or solid myrrh resin

• Fragments of steel wool or other iron shavings sometimes called iron shot or iron filings

• Small pieces of solid myrrh resin

• Hairs from a black cat This should be shed hair from a live black cat

   

All you need to do is mix all the ingredients together depending upon your carrier oil, and bottle up for your spell use.  It should be made on a Saturday that is close to the dark Moon, at midnight.

The carrier oil is very important----

If it is for romance or you wish to attract someone then use sweet almond oil, this would also be good for a gambling oil.

If you are seeking protection, blend the ingredients into castor oil or jojoba oil.

Mrs. Harcourt in Granny’s group used Black cat oil in a castor oil base to draw spirits for spirit contact when she held her séances.   I don’t know if that is a good idea, and have never used it that way myself.

Black Cat Oil is used to break bad spells and hexes or used for hexes, the items should be blended with castor or mineral oil.  Granny preferred mineral oil to break and send bad spells and hexes back to where it came from, that is where Black Cat Oil can cause confusion in one’s enemy, sending the hex back.

So what does each item do in Black Cat Oil?

   

    Sage – money, prosperity, protection, cleansing

    Myrrh – love

    Bay – success, breaks negative spells

    Black cat hair –fortunate/unfortunate, magical use depending upon circumstance

    Iron filings – magnetic, draws in your desire

One use of Black Cat Oil is to cause a target to strongly desire you. The myrrh is the love, the bay makes you successful in the love spell, the sage prosperous in love, the iron to draw this to you, and the black cat hair to make you fortunate, and give you the magical luck required in love.

But because we have to take note of the carrier oil, it can be used for unhexing, the bay with the power of breaking negative spells, Sage for protection and cleansing and the others re-balancing the aspects of your life. To regain being fortunate in all these areas, reversing the curse.

By reversing the hex or spell back to the person who sends it, it short-circuits their energy and as I’ve said will cause them confusion.

It can also be used, with extreme potency, to hex another person – the black cat hair can alter the result fortunately or unfortunately, in this case with your desire, it would make the target unfortunate in love, money, and success. Or, you could make yourself extremely fortunate in love, money, or success that is the power of this oil.

Because of the several ways the magical ingredients can work, in the raw it is quite unmanageable minus the carrier oil, therefor it needs to be controlled to your specific outcome by charging or praying over the herbs properly.  The proper carrier oil then stabilizes it.

HOW GRANNY USED IT:

In Granny’s day Black Cat oil  her use of it was not use so much for love as it was used for protection, hex or jinx breaking and sending the hex back to its originator, where she lived she didn’t have access to sweet almond oil it was too expensive, but castor oil and mineral oil was always available and she was a very practical person, to her protecting her family was love and that is what counted.

Granny only made Black Cat Oil with either Castor or Mineral Oil but she kept a black cat bone in the master bottle---now she got that bone properly.  Here is what happened----

Della, Bella’s sister had a wonderful black cat that she called Inky, he was a great mouser, and pretty much a Cat about Town, we could tell when Inky had his way with the lady cats after they had their litters.   But one day (or night really) Inky’s luck ran out, and he got hit by a car.  It was pretty bad and messy, he was killed instantly. 

Bella was very upset, but the ladies realized that Inky’s misfortune was fortunate for them, since Bella was also part of Granny’s group, she gave her permission for them to utilize Inky’s remains.   

After Bella’s husband Franco scooped up the remains with a shovel, and took it to the back yard, the head was removed and given a proper burial (I mean a little cross and all) the black cat hair was cut off the body (he was very fluffy) and in a big tub the kind you boil water out doors, Inky’s remains were boiled and boiled and boiled until the bones came clean, the left over water, any broken bones and what was not wanted was also buried with Inky’s head, and the now clean then sun dried  bones that were not broken, were kept and divided among the ladies.

Granny kept one bone in her master bottle for Black Cat Oil, but I have to say that is the only honest way to get a black cat bone.    When Granny heard how it was supposed to be obtained she didn’t hold with that, she never believed in any kind of cruelty to any animal, even towards those you are going to eventually eat, and said it would only happen by chance,  a few years later Inky met his sudden end.

One of Inky’s offspring took a liking to Bella and was called Inkadoo  after an old popular song.

USING BLACK CAT OIL WITH CAT (BLACK OR OTHER COLORS) CANDLES:

Figure candles in the form of cats are popular items sold in metaphysical shops and on line. They come in several different colors and in some cases styles.

A red cat figure candle is used in romance and sex. This should be used with the black cat oil that has sweet almond oil as the carrier.

Green cat candles can be used to draw luck and specifically money. Again the carrier oil should be Sweet Almond oil.

The black cat candles that are used for a variety of purposes if to draw powerful good luck, use the oil with Sweet Almond oil as the carrier.

Gamblers, for example, may dress a black cat candle with Lucky Black Cat oil, and with the addition of galangal root oil or a similar luck drawing oil such as Success Oil

A black cat candle is used to also repel jinxes, hexes, bad luck, and evil intent. Use the oil that will have either castor or mineral oil as its base.

BLACK CAT on SKULL Candle: If you find a figure candle like this it is Very powerful for breaking curses, hexes, defeating bad luck. Use Black Cat Oil in a Castor or Mineral Oil base and also use either or both Un-crossing oil, and/or Commanding oil.

If you find cat candles in other colors such as blue, pink or white those are good as well but since they are milder in colors they should be used for positive energy not negative or hex breaking but to bring something positive into your life, such as peace, love, and good energy.

HOW TO DO A BLACK CAT CANDLE SPELL:

Depending upon your intent the process is the same with one or two differences, when you are ‘dressing’ the candle that is applying the oil remember if it’s to draw something to you dress from the wick down towards you, if it’s to drive away, repel, banish something from you dress the candle from the bottom of the candle to the wick away from you.

Using either a figure candle in the shape of a cat, or simply a plain candle. Choose either a white candle (general purposes), green (money and finances), or red (love, lust, fast luck) or black to banish.

Carve your name and birth date, or to banish write “return to sender” into the candle by using a pin, nail, or other sharp implement.

Dress the candle with Black Cat Oil whilst praying for your desired outcome.  Remember to bring to you, stroke the oil from wick to base towards you, to banish, hex etc. stroke the oil from base to wick away from you,  if it’s a glass enclosed candle punch 3 holes into the wax at the top, and put 3 drops of oil in each hole do not drown the wick,  to bring to you rub the top of the wax of the glass enclosed candle clock wise,  to banish something or hex   rub it counter-clock wise.

Sprinkle the candle with a bit of luck drawing herbs such as Cinnamon, or use Sage and Bay leaves to banish.

Add to this a bit of iron filings.

Pray over the candle. (aks “charge” the candle)

On a piece of brown paper write out your desires using a pencil (be specific). Using the oil, dress the paper by dabbing the oil on each corner of the paper and once in the center. (This is called a 5 spot)

Fold the paper towards you if you want to bring something to you or fold it away from you if you are banishing or repelling something and then place it under a plate or candle holder. Place the candle on top.

Light the candle and pray for the realization of your desires. Let it burn for 7 minutes then extinguish its flame. The next night do the same thing except burn the candle for 11 minutes.  Do not blow out the candle, snuff it out.

Continue this process alternating your burn/prayer time between 7 and 11 minutes each night until either the candle has burned entirely, or your desire is achieved.

Bury the remaining candle wax under or near your doorway if you want to bring something to you or take and toss in the trash in a cemetery or a deserted crossroads to banish from you.

A FINAL WORD:

Black Cat Oil is a very good oil to have in your magical cabinet, you don’t have to have a black cat bone in your master bottle but freely shed black cat hair works just as well, it a good nearly all purpose oil, especially for defense and protection.   Granny always kept a bottle and so do I.

Bright Blessings,

Ms. Q