Generational Curses

What are generational curses?

Generational curses are curses, spells, or things acting like curses that have effects spanning more than one lifetime. As I have written elsewhere, curses and spells do not automatically dissolve or fall apart when their creator dies. Since a curse contains its own energy source, created so that it draws its power from an external source, It can remain potent and effective for decades, or even hundreds of years. 

I’ve been unraveling curses in my practice since my initial training in curse unraveling in 2011.  I’ve seen and unraveled dozens of generational curses, curses which span more than a single lifetime. In this post, I encapsulate what I’ve observed in my curse unraveling practice. 

What does a generational curse look like? What is its scope?

A generational curse is aimed at an individual or a family, intending to produce a negative effect over a long period of time. “You and your whole damn family forever” is one way to think of many generational curses. “You, your children, and your children’s children for [[x]] generations” is a curse form that I’ve also seen. Generational curses may be crafted to work in present time only, or in cases of great ire they are created to perpetuate over many lifetimes and possibly forever, as in the above-mentioned Mysore Curse. 

The Mysore Curse, a famous generational curse from modern times 

"When the Mysore state took over the Vijayanagara Empire in 1612, Queen Alamelamma of the Vijayanagara Empire tried to run away with some treasure that belonged to her but was stolen by the Mysore army during the invasion. When she escaped, the Mysore king ordered the soldiers to catch her. She jumped into a river and, before committing suicide, shouted the curse: "May the land at Talakadu would be barren, May the river at Malangi turn into a whirlpool, and may the Mysore kings never beget children."

Since then, Talakadu has been buried underneath sand dunes, with only some areas successfully excavated. The Kaveri river at Malangi always turns into a whirlpool, and the Mysore kings had male children only once every two generations. Many Mysore kings and queens have adopted children, for example, nephews or cousins. An attempt was made to ward off the curse by installing an idol of Alamelamma in the Mysore Palace premises." ~https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_curse

This is an excellent example of a curse being laid at the time of its creator’s death, while the potency of the curse itself lives on through hundreds of years.

Curses Can Morph Over Time

The thing about curses, especially ones that are created on the spur of the moment, is that they can lose focus over time or morph into something outside of their original scope. They can begin to work in strange ways, going beyond the original intentions.

One of the most absolutely lovely spells I ever saw was acting as a curse for its bearer when I was in my curse unraveling training in 2011. Curses, spells, and blessings are constructed in the same way, only with different ingredients, intentions, and focus. In the training, we were put into working pairs to practice the techniques we were learning. My partner wanted to know why her business had very low visibility despite marketing, advertising, and networking. 

What the helping spirits showed me during the diagnostics process was a gorgeous protection spell that had been placed on my partner’s ancestors to keep them safe from the very real threat of persecution and death in those former times. The spell had a strong “don’t see me” clause for her ancestors. Over time, however, it began working too well; it had morphed into a very strong form of invisibility: people’s eyes would just slide off her storefront, her advertisements, and her marketing materials. Living in modern times when doing this sort of magical work is generally safe, we were able to unravel the curse and clear its effects through time, improving the visibility of this person’s business.

Other kinds of generational curses or curse-like structures have been magical bindings placed on the ancestors of clients, usually during apprenticeship in magical training. In many cases, something happened before the bindings could be removed again, and the binding-spell-now-acting-like-a-curse lingered through many generations down into the present time for my clients. In many cases, these bindings were voluntary. In some rarer cases, the binding was placed on the client by themselves in a former life to solve a problem, or to keep themselves from causing harm. The effects were still very much potent and present in their present lifetimes.

Generational Curses can be Unraveled and their Effects Neutralized and Cleared

The good news is that 

Anything made can be unmade

That is, a generational curse can be unraveled. Its effects can be cleared from a person’s experience. Unraveling a curse which came into being in a different generation or century requires a little bit more attention: effects must be neutralized and cleared over a broader expanse of time. These effects may have impacted more people than just our client — or may still be affecting them today. Once the allies show that a curse is multigenerational, we unravel with this in mind. 

This article was written by Jeffrey Rich, shamanic healing practitioner and educator. 

He sees clients worldwide via Zoom.