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itsstillsweetiebythealtar · 2 months

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Me and Etsy not getting along at all yall and I’m not feeling the impersonal vibe it’s giving so💀 I will return to conducting my readings on here. All readings are still $10 and include photos of the cards.

As for the digital hoodoo journal just let me know if you want one and I’ll email it to you. Like before simply DM me and I’ll respond but all readings are still gonna take at least two days to be finished.

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kemetic-dreams · 4 months

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Several African American blues singers and musicians composed songs about the culture of Hoodoo, including W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Big Lucky Carter, and Al Williams. African American blues performers were influenced by the culture of Hoodoo and wrote songs about mojo bags, love workings, and spirits. Their songs brought awareness of Hoodoo practices to the American mainstream population.

Several blues songs describe love charms or other folk magic. In her "Louisiana Hoodoo Blues" Gertrude Ma Rainey sang about a Hoodoo work to keep a man faithful: ""Take some of you hair, boil it in a pot, Take some of your clothes, tie them in a knot, Put them in a snuff can, bury them under the step…." Bessie Smith's song "Red Mountain Blues" tells of a fortune teller who recommends that a woman get some snakeroot and a High John the Conqueror root, chew them, place them in her boot and pocket to make her man love her. Several other Bessie Smith songs also mention Hoodoo. The song "Got My Mojo Working," written by Preston "Red" Foster in 1956 and popularized by Muddy Waters throughout his career, addresses a woman who is able to resist the power of the singer's Hoodoo amulets.

Hoodoo practitioner Aunt Caroline Dye was born enslaved in Spartanburg, South Carolina and sold to New Port, Arkansas as a child, where she became known for soothsaying and divination with playing cards. She is mentioned by name in the Memphis Jug Band's "Aunt Caroline Dye Blues" (1930) and in Johnny Temple's song "Hoodoo Woman" (1937).

Blues singer Robert Johnson is known for his song about going "down to the crossroads" to sell his soul to the devil to become a better musician. Some authors suggest that the song invokes a Hoodoo belief in crossroads spirits, a belief that originated in Central Africa among the Kongo people. However, the devil figure in Johnson's song, a black man with a cane who haunts crossroads, closely resembles Papa Legba, a spirit associated with Louisiana Voodoo and Haitian Vodou

#blues music #memphis #vodun #voodoo #hoodoo #african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #afrakans #brown skin #afrakan spirituality #african culture #rootwork #ancestor veneration #pagans of tumblr #conjure #witchblr #african music

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auroradivine · 2 years

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As people of the Sun y’all really be sleepin on the big homie Sol ☀️ He just be up there chillin in the sky givin us life when he could be giving your work life. Don’t get me wrong I love me some Luna. Big feminine energy 😌Ijs the moon as a anchoring symbol in spell work and ritual is so ingrained in our thinking that we tend to forget the sun's energy can be used as well. Father Sun is the natural balance to Mother Moon. If you do it in the moon you can do it in the sun. Duality 🤌🏿 Rather than offering opportunities that can take several weeks to manifest according to the moon phases…the Sun presents us with five different phases every single day and an additional phase we call a year.

🌅 Sunrise,Dawn: Infant/Child Sun– Basically when the sun wakes up and peers over the horizon. This phase is all about new beginnings, changes, health, employment, renewal, resurrection and finding the right direction. It can also be very cleansing.

☀️Morning: Adolescent Brother/Lover Sun– This is when the sun is growing in strength, so it brings the magical power for growth, positive energy, resolutions, courage, harmony, happiness, strength, activity, building projects and plans, prosperity and expansion of ideas.

🌞Noon: Father Sun – When the sun reaches its peak in the sky at midday – work magic for health, physical energy, wisdom and knowledge. It is also a good time to pop your tools or crystals out that need charging. (Note: some crystals can fade in strong sunlight so check first before putting them out).

☀️Afternoon: Sage/Warrior Sun – The sun is heading back down, and the energy now is good for working on business matters, communication, clarity, travel, exploring and anything professional.

Sunset – As the sun takes itself off down below the horizon, work magic for removing depression, stress and confusion, letting go, releasing or finding out the truth of a situation.

🌄Sunset: Grandfather/Sacrificial Sun

Because the energy of this Sun phase is much akin to that of the Waning Moon, His appearance makes it a good time to simplify or tie up loose ends, and provides the perfect atmosphere for work that involves dieting; getting rid of bad habits; and eradicating stress, confusion, and poor health. Efforts designed to uncover deception work well at this phase too, as do those related to divinatory skills and psychic activity.

And just like the moon you can charge your crystals 💎 in the afternoon sun, make sun water ✨, sun salutations 🙇🏿‍♀️ meditate 🧘🏿‍♀️ , allat.

AND! It’s almost summer time so the sun is just growing in strength so summer rituals are exceptionally powerful. Harness that Cancer ♋️ energy for love work and emotional healing , Leo ♌️ energy for fertility and business, and Virgo ♍️ to get organized and goal planning.

I also lean more towards working with the sun when the retrogrades have Lunar energy chaotic and out of whack or when I need to manifest something faster than the moon phases would allow.

Oh yea let me not forget the sun correspondences because like the moon there’s herbs, stones etc that work particular well with Solar energy

Colours: Gold, Yellow, Orange, Red

🌿 Herbs Marigold, heliotrope, sunflower, buttercup, cedar, beech, oak, St. Johnswort, bergamot

💎 Crystals Diamond, amber, carnelian, citrine, sunstone, topaz, red agate, goldstone

Metal: Gold

🗓 Weekday: Sunday

🧠 Intentions: Strength, Victory, Creativity, Growth, Love, Prosperity, Hope, Money, Exorcis

Chakras: Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus

But yea, balance out your work with some Sol ☺️

#black spirituality #black girl magic #black witches #hoodoo #black witch aesthetic #african spirituality #spirituality #voodoo #ifa #sunrise #sun #sun magic #sun witch #witches of tumblr #rootworker #conjure

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everythingados · 10 months

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CARD READINGS: OPEN ✅️

It's been a loooong time since I've done any readings and I do need some extra income and practice right now!

One (1) card reading = $1.50

Three (3) card reading = $5

One (1) question per reading

Donations are welcomed and appreciated 🙏🏾❤️

Please, no questions concerning health, death, or religious/spiritual initiations.

I only read with playing cards. My spirit doesn't resonate with tarot.

Cashapp: $tntnturtle23

PayPal: @tiredaf21

#paid readings #psychic readings #playing card reading #hoodoo #rootwork #atr #african traditional religions #conjure #pagan #witchcraft #tumblr witch community #baby witch #mediumship #tarot #new age #astrology #voodoo #donations

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lady-conjuress · 5 months

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To some, this might seem controversial, but to those who are open-minded and not easily moved, it is something to think about:

It’s already been said that Hoodoo is in fact a closed religion/tradition because it is incredibly ancestral and specifically tailored to the experience and realities that Afro-American/Black slaves had and passed onto (and evolved) to generations down. It is our culture because it is deeply embedded with the remnants of the Bakongo and other West/Central African traditional religions. It is our foods, it’s our spiritual practices, it’s our death rites, it’s our songs, and it was and still is our survival (especially to those who are not so fortunate).

In this past before I deleted this blog on numerous occasions due to lack of energy to commit to it, I may or may not have stated that particularly with non-Black people—specifically White people because we have more of a closer experience and encounters with them due to America being a melting pot—attempting to practice Hoodoo while simultaneously disrespecting the tradition/religion, its peoples, and usage tailored to experiences that Black-Americans have faced, there is a sense of strong and willful ignorance and blatant hatred that many of them have. They trample over the sentiments and realities of the people and both the past and tend to have a obnoxiously large sense of superiority and sense of “you’re right and I’m wrong” towards the people that this tradition/religion belongs.

I say this because I have seen many—mainly—White women (and some of the men) having literal Mammy (an actually racist archetype of Black enslaved women) figurines that they “use” to attempt to work with spirits of enslaved female slaves. Now, it should be obvious that that is twisted and incredibly entitled to Black women’s labor and assistance in such a way that violates their autonomy on both a physical and spiritual level (it is very possible to trap a spirit and have it do your bidding), so why would a woman (women) who as been subjected to rape, molestation, physical abuse, having her/their children sold off and abused, and being forced to tend to children who are not your own while yours at someone suffering and in need o your care, be willing to help you? What makes you think that you are entitled to this poor souls help? She couldn’t catch a break in the physical realm and now you’re trying to force her to labor in the spiritual? So many ignorant “witches” claim that “spirits do not see color”. To an extent, that is true, unless a spirit is an enlightened being, far beyond the limitations of the human ego, seeking to aid in the growth of a humanity or even a human’s spiritual evolution. However, these women/men are trying to force a spirit that is not enlightened, probably still being haunted with trauma in the spiritual realm, and is very human. These human spirits have feelings, opinions, likes, dislikes, so the fact that those “witches” even think that they can force some poor spirit is down right evil and disgusting. And the opinions that they might hold can even extend to race.

“But that’s racist! They’re discriminating!”

One could claim that, but given the fact that those “witches” are dominating and feeling entitled to enslaved women’s spirits in ways that are very similar to the experiences that they’ve had in their lives on earth with their masters, their sons, brothers, grandfathers, sons, etc., however, it is for a completely different reason. It is for self-preservation. If you’d grant people with PTSD in real life with the comfort of having a safe space that’s free of triggers, why the hell do you think that these tortured spirits are not to be granted the same? Because they’re spirits? Because they’re no longer alive and so don’t have to worry about abuse? Well, I’ve got something to tell you. They deserve to be treated with respect, and that means leaving them the fuck alone. There’s a common denominator and pattern with specific people trying to force the spirits of enslaved women (and even men, but for the sake of this post, it’s women) to perform work for them: They are usually white (and women, at that). In all of my time doing this work, not once have I ever seen a Black-American person try to do that. I’ve never seen a Black-American person use a “Mammy” figurine (also known as La Madama). If they do, it’s because they are usually taking “advice” and “lessons” from these “witches”…who are cultural outsiders.

I can’t even say “you’re just like your ancestors” because I know that not every white person is a descendant of slave masters, etc. But I most definitely can say that you are no different from those sick masters in a sense that you feel that you feel very entitled to these women’s bodies and labor, even when they do not wish to perform for you.

People most definitely have the right to defend and protect their culture, so that means standing up to people like these fake “Hoodoos” and “witches” who boldly disrespect the people who kept up the culture by passing down methods and ways of survival and traditions in order that their ways are not forgotten.

I love being an American-born woman, truly, I do. But I will say that American culture (as in America not having a culture of its own that is solely based in one ethnic group that gives birth to the American culture we see today) is like a bastard child with questionable paternal lineage. What does that mean? It means that because America (the product of the numerous cultures/races of the past and now) is made of numerous groups and their cultural traditions, it’s damn near hard to pinpoint which on it has a full foot in.

To further explain: Italians—an ethnic group of Europeans—have their own culture, food, and traditions that contributed to America despite Italians not being see as “traditionally” White or Anglo in the past even though they are White/European. The Irish that immigrated to America and contributed aspects of their culture to America. The English (though I will say that America has more of its English-roots being that the colonialists were the first Europeans/Whites to step foot on Indigenous land/America, and retained more and a dominant hand in the making of what we know as America today). You have other racial groups (non-Whites) who contributed, but because they were not the ones to establish dominance or systems, they held much less of an recognizable influence (even though many are apparent) in cultural contribution to what we know as America today.

When you have a dominant and more powerful group that relied heavily on the historical oppression of less dominant groups, you are much more likely to have your traditions outlawed (I.e. the Ghost Dance of the Lakota peoples, Hoodoo and Voodoo of the Afro-American/Black/Creole peoples, etc.,) in favor of the less “savage” and “uncivilized” practices of the dominant group (White people). What happened in Hoodoo and Voodoos case is that many of the raw and unfiltered practices of the African peoples that were brought to America was syncretism (disguising one’s ancestral practices by recognizing similarities of the dominant peoples practice with ones own and slapping their religious figures faces or methods of worship on top of yours and camouflaging it while secretly practicing your own). This is why the Bible is used in Hoodoo because that’s the religion (Christianity) that was slapped onto Black people once they stepped foot on American soil. Candles in Hoodoo were actually not traditional, and they actually started being used during the commercialization and marketeering era of Hoodoo by the Jewish-Americans (and no, I’m not being “anti-semitic”. This is just a simple historical fact, so don’t get triggered). Slaves did not have colored candles like we see today. They worked with what was available to them, which were usually plants, lamps, and the Bible. Bodily excrement was always in supply if any rituals or workings required them. All of the snake oils and other oils were introduced by Jewish-Americans during that time because a lot of them exploited Black people and our traditions.

“But you have Hindu content on your primary blog! You’re a hypocrite if you say that we can’t practice Hoodoo but you practice something you don’t have a cultural connection to!”

Well, I’m glad you can at least admit that having no cultural roots in a tradition where bloodlines and cultural lineage is stupid and even dangerous because you have no elders in your family to guide you and pass down your familial traditional knowledge to with, but Hinduism is open to anyone because it is not a closed practice. You don’t need any initiations and you don’t need any ethnic or cultural heritage to practice it, but it’s better that you learn from Hindus about their own religion so you can get the help you need. That’s what I did. I didn’t go into that religion and told the people that I knew more than they—the ethnic/cultural people that it belongs to naturally— as someone who is not Indian. That’s disrespectful. You don’t just waltz into peoples houses, kick your feet up on their table, and demand that they get you some food while telling them that you’re the one who pays the bills when in fact you don’t. I actually have manners and know when to shut my damn mouth and listen. Don’t let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash.

Look, at the end of the day, I can’t physically make you—a non-Black person—not attempt to practice Hoodoo. Do what you want to. I can only warn you of the dangers of having no elders, no cultural connection, and no bloodline. That’s like prancing around with all of your western wealth as an American in an extremely impoverished country and thinking that you won’t get robbed or seriously messed up over it. It really just shows that you’re either a.) oblivious or b.) willfully ignorant. So you’re responsible for whatever happens to you because you’ve been warned time and time again about being an outsider in a tradition that racial/cultural survival and tradition/religion are essential and core to.

I would NEVER (and I do mean NEVER) practice anything related to Nordic pagan traditions or religions because I have no connection to it. It’s one thing to learn about it and point out similarities in ways of worship or even veneration, but I know that isn’t what’s in my blood. Even if Nordic religion/traditions were open, I’d still go to the racial/ethnic people of whom those traditions and religions belong to in order to learn and better understand. And while doing that, I’d still keep my damn mouth shut and listen because they know far much more than me. Their ancestors have practiced for thousands of years. And if their traditions/religions are closed, I’d respect it because that’s how you preserve traditions and save your ways from being bastardized. People have a right to defend their culture and traditions.

On a lighter note: I’d like to state that I totally don’t mind non-Black people sticking around this blog just to learn more and better understand, but as I’ve said in my pinned post: I don’t tolerate ignorance and I sure as hell don’t tolerate hypocrisy either. Either you get it or you don’t. I am not begging you to stay on my blog, so feel free to leave if what I say upsets you.

#personal #hoodoo #rootwork #conjure #rootworkers of tumblr #black american spirituality #lady-conjuress

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indigaux · 1 year

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I wrote “Elixir” for all the queer witches in the hood who know their b/thr/p/ussy is a lucky charm ~ magically delicious‼️🌈🍀✨🍭🍑🫧🍾🦋

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kemetic-dreams · 4 months

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During the era of slavery, occultist Paschal Beverly Randolph began studying the occult and traveled and learned spiritual practices in Africa and Europe. Randolph was a mixed race free African man who wrote several books on the occult. In addition, Randolph was an abolitionist and spoke out against the practice of slavery in the South.

After the American Civil War, Randolph educated freedmen in schools for former slaves called Freedmen's Bureau Schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he studied Louisiana Voodoo and hoodoo in African American communities, documenting his findings in his book, Seership, The Magnetic Mirror. In 1874, Randolph organized a spiritual organization called Brotherhood of Eulis in Tennessee.

Through his travels, Randolph documented the continued African traditions in Hoodoo practiced by African Americans in the South. Randolph documented two African American men of Kongo origin that used Kongo conjure practices against each other. The two conjure men came from a slave ship that docked in Mobile Bay in 1860 or 1861.

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gullahconjure · 1 year

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Comment 1 if you have USED a mojo bag, Comment 2 if you MADE a mojo bag.

#black americans #hoodoo #rootwork #conjure #art #spiritualism #african american #folk magic #magic #earth #black tumblr #mojo bags #voodoo #native #indegenous

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silverstagwitch · 2 years

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Splitting Them Apart

Items/ingredients

1 Lemon

1 Blank Paper

1 Black Pen

1 Black Chime Candle

Red Thread

Large needle

1 Quarter

Step 1. Light the candle and focus on the two people you want to Break up. Step 2. Write their names on each side of the paper and then squeeze the lemon on the two names on the paper and then rip or cut the paper in half separating the names on the paper,

Step 3. Crumple up each paper one in each hand and say the following,

Separate this couple Cut the cord Make one Become two With this ward

Step 4. Then you're going to place one name in one half and the other in the other half, then you're going to sew it up. Step 5. Then take the lemon halves to a crossroads and make sure to bury them on each side of the crossroads to keep them from being reunited, and make sure to place the quarter on the crossroads. This is to ensure that the crossroad entities will watch over your work.