Quick Specs
- Author: Katrina Rasbold
- Type: Paperback book
- Size/Pages: 5.2″ x 7.9″, 240 pages
- Best for: Hoodoo practitioners, spiritual cleansing students, anyone dealing with persistent bad luck or suspected crossed conditions
Uncrossing in Hoodoo: What a Crossed Condition Actually Means
In hoodoo and rootwork tradition, a “crossed condition” is a specific folk magic concept that doesn’t map neatly onto the generic idea of a hex or curse. A crossing is a harmful spiritual state that has been set onto a person, either deliberately by an enemy through rootwork, or incidentally through contact with a cursed object, a contaminated space, or a targeted working that struck indirectly. Unlike an acute hex, a crossed condition tends to manifest as a slow, pervasive pattern of misfortune: relationships falling apart, money draining away, health declining without clear physical cause, opportunities consistently blocked.
Katrina Rasbold is a practicing hoodoo teacher and author with multiple books on conjure and rootwork. In Uncrossing, she draws on traditional Southern American hoodoo methodology to address the full range of conditions that fall under the uncrossing umbrella, including intentional psychic attack, incidental crossings, entity infiltrations, self-crossings, and even habitual destructive patterns that create their own spiritual blockage. The book is 240 pages and a 5.2 inch by 7.9 inch paperback.
What the Uncrossing Book Covers: IOB Techniques and Ritual Methods
Rasbold’s central framework is the IOB method: Identify, Objectify, Banish. Before choosing any specific ritual technique, she walks readers through diagnosis. What type of crossing are you dealing with? What are the symptoms? That diagnostic step is one of the most valuable parts of the book, because most uncrossing guides jump straight to candle work without helping you understand what you’re actually addressing.
The practical content covers ritual baths and showers using uncrossing herbs, egg cleansing, sacred sprays, smudging bundles for both personal and space cleansing, chakra checking and clearing, and candle work with specific spiritual tools including stones and incense. A full chapter addresses home cleansing, which Rasbold identifies as an essential step for anyone dealing with an intentional crossing that may have been placed within their living space rather than directly on their person.
The book also covers recovery after uncrossing, including protecting yourself from future crossings and working through the relationship and prosperity damage a crossing can cause. That final section makes it more complete than many uncrossing resources, which end at the cleansing ritual and leave the reader without guidance on rebuilding afterward.
How to Use This Uncrossing Book
How to work through this uncrossing guide from diagnosis through ritual through recovery.
- Start With Identification, Not Ritual
Begin with the chapter on identifying whether you're facing an intentional hex, an incidental crossing, or a self-created pattern. Rasbold's IOB framework provides the diagnostic step you need before choosing any ritual or cleansing technique.
- Follow the Sequence
Work through bath protocols in sequence before starting candle work. Read each method fully before gathering supplies. Rasbold's sequence follows hoodoo logic, building from lighter cleansing to heavier workings for entrenched crossed conditions.
- Don't Skip the Home Cleansing Chapter
After completing personal uncrossing work, use the home cleansing chapter. Rasbold covers clearing spaces that absorbed negative conditions, which is useful when the condition came from your surroundings rather than from within yourself directly.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock this book because uncrossing is one of the most searched but least well-explained topics in hoodoo. Most available resources are short articles or single-chapter treatments in broader folk magic books. Rasbold gives it a full-length dedicated treatment with a proper diagnostic framework and a complete toolkit from identification through recovery. This belongs on the shelf of anyone working in hoodoo, rootwork, or Southern conjure tradition. Browse my hoodoo and rootwork book collection for related titles, and explore my cleansing and protection books for companion reading on spiritual defense.
Frequently Asked Questions
In hoodoo, being 'crossed' means a harmful spiritual condition has been placed on someone, by an enemy or contact with cursed objects. It is slower-building and pervasive, distinct from a hex, which is typically a more targeted, acute direct attack.
Rasbold covers ritual baths, egg cleansing, smoke cleansing, candle work, sacred sprays, and chakra clearing, plus home cleansing for affected spaces. The sequence moves from identification through removal, protection, and practical recovery steps.
IOB stands for Identify, Objectify, Banish. It is Rasbold's core diagnostic framework for categorizing the type of crossing before selecting a ritual response, rather than jumping into cleansing without understanding what you're dealing with first.
Yes. Rasbold covers incidental crossings, self-crossings, entity infiltrations, and conditions created by destructive habits. You do not need to believe someone targeted you directly to benefit from the uncrossing practices in this book's framework.
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