Van Van Oil for Cleansing and Uncrossing Baths and Home

What uncrossing actually means

Uncrossing is a word that gets used loosely, and the looseness hides how practical a job it actually is. To be crossed, in the old sense, is to have something laid across your path that does not belong there: a run of bad luck that has no ordinary explanation, a heaviness that follows you from room to room, a sense that your efforts keep snagging on something you cannot see, a home that feels wrong in a way that cleaning and tidying never quite fixes. Uncrossing is the work of lifting that something off, clearing the path, and then keeping it clear long enough for ordinary life to get moving again.

That is a humbler job than many magical workings, and it is one of the most useful. Grand workings for wealth, love, or power are often attempted while the worker is still crossed, still carrying a weight that drags every new effort back to the same stuck place. Clearing first, and then working for what you actually want, is not a detour. It is the order of operations that makes the later work possible. A magician who clears regularly, as a matter of hygiene rather than as a response to crisis, will find that their other workings meet less resistance, because they are not fighting through a layer of accumulated interference every time.

Van Van is one of the best-known formulas for exactly this job. That is a strong claim, and it rests on a long history. Van Van has been used for generations, in rootwork and in the wider magical world that borrowed from it, as a clearing and opening formula, a way of washing away crossed conditions and making room for better ones. It is not a novelty blend invented for a catalogue. It is a working formula with a track record, and that track record is part of why it is trusted.

Three baths, three days in a row

Each bottle contains enough for three baths, to be taken three days in a row. That is the whole regimen, and it should not be improvised away without a reason. Three baths, on three consecutive days, is a complete working in itself, not a sample of a longer working that you are expected to extend at will.

Why three, and why in a row? Because clearing is not a single event, like flipping a switch. It is a process, and processes need repetition to take hold. The first bath begins the clearing, loosening what has settled on you. The second bath continues it, reaching what the first bath stirred up but did not fully lift. The third bath completes it, washing the working through to a point where the path is actually clear, rather than merely less cluttered than before. Breaking the sequence, skipping a day, or stretching it out over a week, weakens that logic. The days in a row are part of the working, not a scheduling suggestion.

That also means a Van Van course should be planned, not squeezed in. Choose three days when you can bathe without rushing, when you will not be interrupted, and when you can give the bath your full attention. Prepare the bathroom beforehand, so that you are not hunting for towels or cleaning the tub in the middle of a working. After each bath, give yourself a little time before returning to ordinary business, so that the clearing has a chance to settle before the world's noise comes back in. A bath taken in a hurry, with one eye on the clock, is a bath half done, whatever oil is in the water.

It is also worth being clear about what a bath like this is, and what it is not. It is a magical bath, a bath taken with intention, attention, and a formula made for clearing. It is not a substitute for ordinary cleanliness, for dealing with a real-world problem in ordinary ways, or for getting proper help where a matter involves health, safety, or law. Magical clearing and ordinary action belong together. Clear the path, and then walk it, in the ordinary world, with the practical steps the situation requires. A bath that is used as a reason to avoid those steps has been misunderstood.

Staying uncrossed: the incense afterwards

Waft incense smoke around yourself right afterwards, to make sure that you stay uncrossed. That instruction deserves attention, because it names a real pattern in clearing work. Clearing removes something. It does not, by itself, fill the cleared space. Left empty, a cleared space tends to fill again, with whatever was there before, or with the next passing heaviness, because emptiness in a life is rarely left empty for long.

Wafting incense smoke around yourself after the bath is a way of sealing the clearing, of marking the cleared condition as the new condition, and of giving the space around you a clean, deliberate atmosphere to settle into, rather than leaving it to refill by accident. It is a small act, it takes only a minute or two, and it changes the character of the whole working, from a bath that happened to a bath that was completed. Think of it as closing a door properly after cleaning a room, rather than leaving it ajar for dust to blow back in.

What matters, in practice, is that the incense be one you associate with clearing and cleanliness, used deliberately, with the same attention as the bath itself, wafted around yourself fully, not waved vaguely in the air and forgotten. The act is the seal. Do it properly, right after the bath, while you are still in the cleared state the bath produced, and before you dress and return to the day's business.

Clearing the home, not only the person

Van Van is described as a home cleansing as well as a bath, and that double use is important, because crossed conditions rarely live only in a person or only in a place. They live in the interaction between the two. A person carrying heaviness brings it home, and a home holding heaviness puts it back onto the person every time they walk through the door. Clearing only one side of that loop, and leaving the other untouched, is a common reason why a clearing feels good for a day and then fades.

That may mean washing floors or surfaces with water carrying the formula, or otherwise applying it to the home in the way the maker's instructions for the bottle direct.

There is also a rhythm to home clearing that matches the bath's rhythm. A single clearing, done once in a crisis, helps, but a home that is cleared regularly, as part of ordinary magical hygiene, stays clearer with less effort each time. Think of it as housekeeping for the unseen side of a home, done alongside the visible housekeeping, not instead of it. A home that is physically clean and magically cleared is a different place to live in from a home that is only one of those two things, and the difference is felt by everyone who enters it, whether or not they have words for why.

When to reach for Van Van

Van Van is not a formula for every occasion, and using it for everything would blunt its usefulness. It is a clearing and uncrossing formula, and it should be reached for when clearing is actually what is needed. That includes the times already described: a run of stuck, snagging luck; a heaviness that follows you; a home that feels wrong despite ordinary cleaning; a period after a difficult working, a difficult person, or a difficult event, when you can feel that something has stayed with you that does not belong to you.

It also includes the times before a larger working, when you want to begin from a clear state rather than from a cluttered one. A magician about to undertake a serious piece of work, for love, for money, for protection, or for spirit contact, will often clear first, as a matter of method, so that the working is not fighting through interference from the start. Van Van, taken as three baths over three days, is a good form for that preparation, because it is complete in itself, it has a clear end, and it leaves you, on the fourth day, in a state from which to begin the larger work cleanly.

It is less suited to the opposite situation, where what is needed is not clearing but building, attracting, or binding. Clearing first, and then building, is good order. Clearing instead of building, repeatedly, without ever moving on to the work you actually want to do, is a different problem, and it usually signals that the real issue is not a crossed condition at all, but a reluctance to act. If you find yourself clearing again and again without ever proceeding to the work that follows clearing, ask yourself honestly whether clearing has become a way of postponing that work. Be specific about what you want, in clearing as in everything else, and let the clearing serve that want, rather than replacing it.

No guarantees, and the honesty of a clearing formula

No bath, oil, or cleansing promises a particular outcome. That wording is about the magick, not about delivery dates for a physical bottle. A Van Van course gives you a traditional, well-regarded method for uncrossing and clearing, in a bottle measured for three baths over three days, with a sealing step afterwards to help you stay uncrossed. What it clears, and what you then do with the cleared path, depends on your situation, your attention during the baths, and the ordinary actions you take once the path is open. A clearing formula that promised to settle all of that by itself would not be a magical tool. It would be a fantasy, and fantasies do not clear anything.

It does not dazzle. It clears. And clearing, done properly, is often the most valuable thing a magician can do, because it makes everything else possible.

Van Van oil for cleansing and uncrossing baths and home

If you want a traditional uncrossing and clearing formula, this is that oil. Van Van is one of the best uncrossing and clearing baths, as well as home cleansing, available. Each bottle contains enough for three baths, to be taken three days in a row, and incense smoke should be wafted around yourself right afterwards to make sure that you stay uncrossed.

I make no promise about a particular outcome, in terms of magical result. That wording is about the work itself, not about delivery dates.

Van Van oil for cleansing and uncrossing baths and home, $44 CAD. View the product

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