Can You Undo a Spell?

Yes... No... Maybe...

Because we offer personalized spellwork through our website, very occasionally, and I mean no more than once every two or three years, someone will ask me if I can undo a spell I did for them or if they can undo a spell they did for themselves.

The answer is simple and the answer is also complicated. Yes, in theory, you can… sometimes. When you harness personal energy, divine energy, and razor-sharp intention and send a spell out into the world, you have altered the fabric of time in a certain way. We can get into the semantics of whether the spellwork itself was part of fate or what was intended to be, but no matter how much we debate that issue, there can never be a resolution that goes beyond anecdotal evidence, speculation, and opinion.

We could say the same of any chosen behavior. If I choose to take my own life, I have altered what - again, just in theory - was “supposed” to happen. Perhaps, I was “supposed” to die comfortably in my sleep at an advanced age after I built twenty homes for Habitat For Humanity and donated my lottery winnings to an orphanage. Instead, I took action and died at thirty, desperate and sad, and meanwhile, deprived orphans who were unborn at that time a better life and left a few people homeless.

Or do I feel compelled to die because I am “supposed” to die at just that moment?

Regardless, I made a choice that changed the trajectory history was on prior to the act and in doing so, I sacrificed anything I would have accomplished had the act not taken place.

Spellwork is similar in that you set an intention and you act on it and in doing so, you send energy toward a change in the world which can affect outcomes that would have occurred had that change not have taken place. It also causes new outcomes to develop that were not previously likely to occur.

Yes, my dears, life is a Choose Your Own Adventure book and each choice you make changes the outcome, spellwork included.

Can you undo the spell? The answer that goes along with “…sort of” [insert anguished wince here] is that you can pull back the energy you invested in the spell to the degree that it is still accessible. If the energy is spent and has already affected change, we cannot likely get that energy back. If energy is pending and has not yet enacted anything substantial, yes, you can likely call that energy back to you.

This sort of energetic control is a fairly advanced process and you would have to be knowledgeable to the extreme about how your energy works both within you and outside of you and you must have that energy well trained enough that it will come when you call it.

What you cannot do is put all the feathers back in the pillow. When you enact spellwork, again, you create change and that has a ripple effect like a rock thrown into a pond. We never truly know all of the things our actions, including spellwork, change. You cannot undo what has been done, but you can stop the spellwork from having further effect. That being said, change itself has momentum. It rolls along with a certain inertia that with spellwork, ideally follows a track you laid out with your magical process. What we must do is stop the Indiana Jones stone ball from rolling after we set it in motion by pushing it with as much force as we could generate.

Calling back the energy will not likely prevent all of the future change from occurring because some of that change is now energetic inertia. The movement of the energy from the spell is a separate force from the actual energy of the spell and they work together to create outcomes, so if we undo a spell, we must not only pull back the energy but must also stop the forward movement.

Think of a freezer spell, one of the simplest protection works you can do. You write a person’s name on a tiny piece of paper or assign an effigy to represent them, then you put that into a container of water and put it in a freezer. While the water is frozen, they are prevented (or at least somewhat deterred) from causing you harm. If the ice thaws and becomes water again, they are released from the freezing spell and can act as they choose. Power outages can do more than cause your frozen sirloin to spoil!

[As a quick aside, the wonderful Witch, Dorothy Morrison, was supposedly once asked what a person should do if their freezer is so full of spellwork that they can’t get the food in and she allegely replied, “Make better life choices.”]

When we consider the freezer spell, we know that the target of the spell will have their ability to harm us lessen as the water freezes and be fully in place when the water completely turns to ice. As the ice melts, their ability to harm us gradually returns. The idea is that by the time the ice melts, the target will ideally have lost interest in harming us.

So yes, you are undoing a spell by allowing the ice to melt, but you cannot go back and unfreeze them for the weeks or months or years that they were frozen.

When someone asks if they can undo a spell, it usually means they have cooled down and are having second thoughts about exerting that kind of control over a person or a situation OR - much more likely - that the spellwork resulted in some unexpected results. Maybe you did spellwork to get your ex to return to you and now that your ex is obsessed with you again, you realized why the two of you broke up and now you want the ex to go away.

This is why we must be profoundly thoughtful about the spellwork we do and never enter into it casually or haphazardly. Of course, we should not overthink the process to the point that “analysis is paralysis,” but we should be certain that we are on board with and accountable for the impact of our spellwork.

Since pulling back the energy of a spell and attempting to undo any further effects is challenging at best, my suggestion is to overwrite the previous spellwork with concerted new spellwork. Yes, it does smack of whiplash and we must be decisive and accountable but if we genuinely feel that we must reverse the effects of a spell because of outcomes we did not foresee, altering future trajectories can be easier than trying to go back and undo what we already did.

If you did spellwork to secure a specific job you wanted that seemed ideal for you, but you get into the job and learn that the job was not as it appeared and you are miserable, rather than undoing the work that got you the job, it is easier to do new spellwork to find a better job.

If you angrily did spellwork to cause your rude sister-in-law to see and feel the error of her ways and her car goes off a cliff and she is in the ICU and you fear it is the result of your spellwork, the best thing to do is to send her healing energy rather than trying to undo what you did before. In this case, if the accident was a result of your spellwork, the damage is done and you cannot make her not go off a cliff.

Again, the answer to our original question is “yes” and the answer is “no’ and the answer is “maybe” and the answer is “possibly not.” If we lived in a perfect world, we would never need spellwork to encourage the outcomes we want. We would easily have and appreciate all that we need and want. In real life, however, that often is not the case and sometimes, we need a push to encourage the outcomes we want to see.

When this happens, we must be pure in our intention and accountable for any outcomes that occur from our spellwork. If we feel we must undo a spell, we must accept and honor the fact that the spell itself is a living entity that - for better or worse - is doing exactly what we told it to do. We must understand that we may not be able to alter outcomes that already happened as a result of our spellwork but also know that we have the power to shift where that energy goes and what it does next, plus add additional energy to dilute or alter what we did before.

For the TL/DR version, here is a video that I made a while back on this very subject:

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