Bust through blocks and invite ease, flow, and success into your life with one of these simple road-opening rituals.
While ease and flow are our natural state, it’s also completely normal to feel blocked from time to time.
You might notice this as a sense of stuckness in a particular area of life—romance, money, work, or creative expression. Or it may feel more diffuse, as if delays, frustrations, and small obstacles keep cropping up no matter which direction you turn.
If you can’t pinpoint exactly why you feel blocked, that’s okay. Periods of stagnation often arise when something within you is shifting or ready to change. These moments can act as thresholds, inviting growth, insight, and a deeper alignment with your path—once you move through them.
That’s where unblocking spells (sometimes called road-opening spells) come in. Their purpose isn’t to force outcomes, but to help clear resistance, restore movement, and invite luck and momentum back into your life.
Below are five simple unblocking spells you can use to dispel stuck energy, move forward with greater ease, and open yourself to the unexpected blessings waiting on the other side.
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Unblocking Spell #1: Desert Sage Spell
Unlike white sage, which clears energy completely and leaves a kind of open, neutral space, desert sage works by stirring energy into motion. It swirls, loosens, and animates what’s been stagnant, reaching into the subtle, hidden layers of your home, your energy field, and even your psyche. In doing so, it gently disrupts old patterns and encourages them to shift and transform. At the same time, desert sage carries a deeply comforting, grounding quality—a quiet reassurance that all is well—which makes it especially supportive when you’re moving through change or working to dissolve energetic blocks.
To perform this unblocking spell, begin by opening all the windows in your home. If possible, open exterior doors as well (as long as you don’t have a pet who might make a quick escape). Take a bundle of dried desert sage outside and empower it in bright sunlight, holding it with clear intention. You’re welcome to hold a piece of quartz alongside the sage to further amplify the energy.
Next, hold the sage over a fire-safe dish or plate and carefully light it, allowing it to smolder so that it releases a steady stream of smoke. Move through your home in a generally counterclockwise direction, smudging each room and area. Linger at doorways, thresholds, and corners, where energy tends to collect. When you’ve finished, gently smudge yourself as well.
Pause, take a few slow, deep breaths, and inwardly call upon the Divine in whatever way feels most powerful and natural to you. Ask for assistance in clearing all blocks and opening the way for ease, flow, and success in every area of your life. Sense, feel, and imagine that this clearing has already been accomplished. Offer your gratitude.
When you’re done, fully extinguish the sage by sealing it in a jar or submerging it in water, and make absolutely certain that it is completely out.
Unblocking Spell #2: Ganesh Invocation Ritual
This is a go-to unblocking ritual of mine, and it’s what I tell my friends to do when a specific situation feels stuck or stymied. For example, you might want to do this one if paperwork is taking forever to go through, if a technical difficulty has you stumped, or if a project feels like it’s on hold indefinitely while you wait for someone to give you the OK. You will be working with Ganesh, the beloved, elephant-headed Hindu deity who is often referred to as “the remover of obstacles.”
All you need is a statue of Ganesh (any size) and a red candle. Optionally, you might like some cinnamon incense and an incense holder.
Simply place the candle in front of the statue, light the candle (and optionally the incense), and silently ask Ganesh to help you move the situation forward. Then thank him. Leave the candle burning for as long as you can safely attend to it. Then extinguish it and light it again whenever you safely can until it’s burned all the way out. Feel free to light additionally sticks of incense as desired.
Unblocking Spell #3: Door Opening Ritual
According to feng shui, the doors in your home are powerful symbols of ease, flow, and opportunity. Your front door is literally the place where people, energy, and blessings enter your space. And all the other doors are places where you move from one realm (or room) to another.
In this unblocking spell, you will be working with this potent symbolism to get your energy moving and open the way for positive change in your life.
Begin by taking some deep breaths, relaxing your body, and setting the clear intention to open doors of opportunity in your life and to generally get things moving in a positive way. Call on the Divine in a way that feels powerful for you and ask for help with this intention.
Fill a bucket with warm water and add three drops of essential oil of spearmint and one drop of essential oil of sage. Stir it around a little and then soak a clean rag in the water. Wring it out. Then open your front door and wash the inside and outside surface of the door with the water. Also wash the inside of the door jamb and the threshold. Close the door.
Now go through your entire home and open every single door as wide as it will go. (It’s OK to close it after you open it, the important thing is that you activate its energy by moving it.) Finish by tuning into the freshness and positivity you’ve set in motion. Feel, sense, and imagine that positive conditions and opportunities are absolutely coming your way.
Unblocking Spell #4: Horseradish Sprinkle Spell
If you think your block has something to do with someone else’s ill will, or even a hex, a curse, or a malingering spirit, this horseradish unblocking spell could be for you. (But also check out these 5 Awesome Ways to Break a Hex or a Curse.)
If you have small children or pets who may munch on the horseradish, I suggest you choose another unblocking spell, as horseradish can be irritating to the mouth and skin.
This one is from Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, in which Scott Cunningham writes:
“Horseradish root (dried and grated or ground) should be sprinkled around the house, in corners, on the steps outside, and on doorsills. This will make all evil powers clear out, and will diffuse any spells that may have been sent against you.”
Unblocking Spell #5: Sea Salt Soak Spell
Never underestimate the power of a simple sea salt bath. Some rituals are popular because they work.
A sea salt bath is an all-purpose unblocking ritual. It removes heavy, stuck, and challenging energy of all varieties. It clears out old psychological patterns, removes energy you may have picked up from other people or environments, and generally resets your energy and opens the way for positivity to flow.
For this road-opening ritual, light your bathroom with one or more candles and dissolve a full cup of sea salt (any grind or variety) in your bath water. Call on the Divine in a way that feels powerful for you and say, “Thank you for filling this water with vibrations of healing, purification, and love.” Visualize the bath water filled and surrounded with bright, golden-white light. Be sure to stay hydrated by keeping plenty of drinking water nearby as you soak for at least 40 minutes.
Did you try one of these unblocking spells? Or do you have any questions or thoughts about them? Please share in the comments below.
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