Chain of bad luck? A curse or a haunting?

How do I cleanse land? In November 2012 my mother killed herself. She died three days later. My mother had 17 dogs and my brother came home and chopped them up. 
The luck got worse. I found out I got two disorders then I lost my job and two months ago my house burned down. My house, my herbal garden and my tree all burned. 
When I bought the house I realised there was a elderly man ghost with it. He was friendly so I let him be. 
I was out of state when it burned. So when I came back home I control burned the rest of the building away. The house cried and this (see pic) is what came out.
It is not nice it's bad luck and evil. My car blew up and I lost my job. I thought it was me but I think its a curse and I want to know how I break it. II do no harm to no one - I'm a nurse (a healer) and a fire fighter. Please my friend, help me.

Firstly, I am very sorry about the loss of your mother and the pain you and your family have suffered. It is quite natural that all this trauma has lingered on and that you still feel the atmosphere tainted by the tragedy you have gone through.

Breaking a curse and breaking bad luck are two different things. I don’t actually believe you have been cursed, it would have manifested itself very differently and been more focused on a single person. I think what you are going through is more of a reaction to the negative vibes that have been left behind from the tragedy. The positive side of this is that there are a lot of things that you can do to influence this situation and to bring positivity back to your home.

The first thing you need to do is to understand that everything that has happened is an individual event in itself. There is a psychological danger of linking negative events together in your mind to form a chain of bad luck. The danger is that you will start to believe in your own bad luck and that kind of thinking will propagate further negative experiences. I say it a lot but a lot of things that happen in life are due more to coincidence than to malign influence.

You then need to look at protecting your property. There are many different ways to do this but we’ll go with a simple hoodoo based protection. Take equal amounts of rock salt and red brick dust and mix together. Both of these have powerful protective properties. Sprinkle around the parameters of your own to form a protective circle. At the same time, smudge the boundaries with a simple blend of incense – I’d personally use sandalwood but any of these will do the job of purification and/or protection – cedar, juniperberry, pine, amber. Some witches choose to fortify the boundary of their home with other substances, popularly their own urine. I’ll leave that one up to you…

Once you’ve sorted out the atmosphere of your property, you need to look at eliminating the negativity from yourself and your person. Like I say, its unlikely you are cursed but it may be prudent to put a little anti hex protection in place anyway. Buy a small amount of dried agrimony (any good online herb store will sell it) and sew half into a little pouch to keep on your person. With the remaining amount, grind it down and mix with a skin friendly substance (Vaseline, coconut oil, body moisturiser) to make a body wash. Use this to wash your entire body down. Once you’ve done this, get some more of the purifying incense, set it alight and move it round your body in a circle. This will cleanse your aura of the negativity and the agrimony will ensure if there is a hex against you, it is broken.

In terms of your ghost, I think that was released when you burned the house. I don’t see the ghost as intrinsically evil in itself, more as a memory of the miseries of the house. What I can suggest is that you take a piece of rubble from the old house (or soil from the land if you cannot obtain the rubble) and bury somewhere peaceful and private as a symbol of laying the house to rest. Speak over the “grave” about how this is an end to the misery and the start of new beginnings. Tell your ghost it is time to return to the earth and to rest.

And approach your future with optimism, the worst is behind you now. Bad things in your past do not mean bad things in your future. Take your first steps into your new beginning.

Image provided by the questionner, a picture of the burning house referre

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