#Hoodoo Spirits

[3rdeyeblaque]

Black Man At The Crossroads Day

Happy Halloweeeeen Hoodoos!! On this final day of Hoodoo Heritage Month, we celebrate the Black Man at the Crossroads Day. 💀🖤

The Crossroads is integral to the religious fabric of Kongo Cosmology. At the crux of ancient ancestral wisdom (the Kalunga line) and the realm of the living (the Mukala line), is our place of significant power, transformation, & Spirit.

Here, we meet The Black Man (not to be confused with The Devil); a Kongo-Bantu ancestral spirit who is a gatekeeper of closed/open roads & conductor of the spiritual energies at the Crossroads, which catalyze shifts, changes, + movement from the spirit world into the physical world.

When we go to The Crossroads to sing, dance, pray, invoke, petition our spirits or to conjure, forage, consecrate workings, deliver/dispose offerings… we come to The Black Man, among many other spirits.

Today we celebrate him, acknowledge his presence, and give specific offerings as tokens of gratitude and thanks.

As with any ancestral or Hoodoo Spirit, cultivating a healthy relationship & honoring the principles of energy exchange is paramount. Come correct or not at all. And respect his gangsta.

[kemetic-dreams]

[sacred-goddess7]

I’m glad I could do the things I love 😊💕🫶

#help reblog Tumblr family ❤️

[conjuremanj]

A Working To Ask A Spirit For Strength. AKA John Henry.

(Not my photo)

Strength, when thinking about strength the what comes to mind is John Henry. Henry is known as one of the strongest, fastest, and powerful man that worked on the railroad durning his time.

So if your looking for a little help with anything and you need the strength to do something (example help with winning a competition) You can ask the spirit of John Henry.

I wanted to give out one of the correct ways to do this that's not in fake hoodoo books.

Here's what you do. Bring a white stick candle and rub yourself down with it.

Take around $5 in pennies with you to a railroads. (don't leave a dollar if your asking for something big)

Leave the money I mentioned along with food and drink as a offering, light the candle and ask John Henry for some of his strength, and what you may need if for.

Last walk away don't look back.

Easy peasy right👍

[lionheartapothecaryx]

NEW DROP ON ✨ALL ACCESS ✨PATREON

For the last day of Hoodoo Heritage Month, October 31st, 2024 - I am continuing my Psychism series, This post is more educational than previous one, including a Q&A, helps you set up an ancestral altar, explains the habits behind certain aspects of ancestral work & altar tools, an helps you understand why and what you are actually doing. It includes instructions for an additional ritual at the end, to further assist with strengthening & elevating them and you. This ritual is transformative and life changing, there’s truly nothing like it. For those who truly want to invest in their relationship and connection with your ancestors, this is for you.

$5.55 MONTHLY ALL ACCESS PASS ✨

[propheticeve]

The spirit of SA, lust, perversion, filth is rooted in your ROOT chakra

If you suffer from womb related illnesses

Pcos

Endometriosis

Fibroids etc.

Look into the SA history with the women in your family, female ancestors, including you.

Locate ʌ pattern. And began to renounce it off of your blood line.

Renounce womb related hurt, disease, sickness, abuse, misuse.

Your womb is ʌ sponge that can hold generations of trauma.

Release

[theblissfulstars]

Taking Prayer Requests

Is there anything you need prayer for? are you just going through a hard time? Please share your prayer requests and you will be prayed for.

[iamwinklebottom]

Tarot 📿PICK A CARD🌼: “Warnings?” Preparation, Pregnancy, Corruption, Travel, & Abusing Privileges

[divinelykylei]

Let Me Introduce Myself

Hi, I'm Kylei! I'm a 24-year-old diviner, spiritualist, herbalist, hoodoo practitioner, and writer. I also study vedic and sidereal astrology (pushya sun, ubp moon, uphal [virgo] rising). I want to help people get back in touch with their souls, plants, and their ancestors/spirit guides.

I'll be posting collective messages, sharing my ramblings, and reblogging anything that speaks to me.

Welcome to my blog; I'm happy to have you here :)

[gullahconjure]

A Boo Hag is a creature of the night, a skinless monster with red muscles, prominent blue veins, and eyes that reflect light like a cat’s. Sometimes it’s depicted with flowing white hair, like the hair that “grows” on corpses that led many older generations to believe the vampires were coming from the dead to feed. (Hair and fingernails seem to “grow” on corpses because, as the skin dehydrates, the nails and hair look longer).

The Boo Hag looks human during the day because it cloaks itself with its previously unlucky victim’s skin. At night, it escapes the skin and goes looking for its next victim. It can slip inside through any crack in a window or a crevice in a wall. Once inside, it finds you sleeping in your bed and crawls on top of you. It sucks the air from your lungs as you sleep, “riding” you until sun-up when it escapes to its hidden skin suit.

Painting the Haint Blue on windowsills, shutters, doorways, and even the verandas’ ceilings kept the spirits and Boo Hags away. The color would cause confusion, as a ghost would think they had stumbled into a body of water (which they cannot cross) or stepped out into the open sky and would be swept away by the wind or killed by the sun. It was a cheap and relatively easy way to keep away spirits out for blood, bodies, and death.

Haint Blue is a color found at your local hardware store, and it’s common to see it painted onto the ceilings of covered porches of new construction with no one knowing the story behind the hue. It’s believed to bring calm and make spaces feel more extensive than they are. That’s why you sometimes see old houses with bright blue shutters, roofs, and fences; it’s keeping out the evil spirits while allowing the good ones to stay and guide the younger generations.

[long-sleeved-sandwich]

cemeteries can’t be “haunted” like that’s just the ghost house 😐

[aradiasmagickalcoven]

UNCROSSING CHARM ✨🖤💫

This is something I like to do every new moon. It is a traditional uncrossing charm that will banish a good deal of low level negative energy sent your way. I’ve found that people can send negative energy out without even realizing it. Most people aren’t really conscious of what’s going on with their internal energy. Emotions and stress—especially irritation, jealousy, or anger—can leak out. This is one of the origins of malochia, or the evil eye. So just because negative energy is coming your way doesn’t mean that you’re under a curse or being attacked on purpose. Sometimes these things just happen as part of one’s day-to-day interactions with people. For this charm, you will need the following ingredients:

l A large grey candle that can be removed from its glass (a “seven-day candle”)

l A nail to carve a sigil into the candle with

l A lancet

l Dragon’s blood powder

Carve this sigil on the candle. (Although it’s better to do it right on the candle, if you are unable to fi nd a removable candle, draw it with a marker on the glass.) You can carve your name and astrological sign on the candle, as well. If you have a personal sigil, as some magicians do, use that instead. Prick your fi nger with the lancet and put a few drops of your own blood in the center of the sigil. Rub the carvings and the wick with dragon’s blood powder. Charge the candle, holding it between your hands and fi lling it with energy. When you feel that the candle can take no more, seal the energy in by tracing the sigil of your choice over it (I was taught to use a pentacle). Now light the candle and allow it to burn down all the way. If the candle is in a glass holder, you can put the whole thing in a metal pot of water when you’re not in the house. That way, if the glass cracks, the water will put out the flame. If you must blow the candle out, just relight it with focused intent at a later time.

[thespiritualscripter]

I Experienced Automatic Writing For The First Time!

On April 22nd, 2024 I discovered that I could automatic write without even knowing what it was or what was happening to me.

I got this random idea in my head to start journaling because I am on a self development journey and I wanted to get better at memory retention and communication. I told myself I would start Monday night. So after work I did my usual wind down and popped an edible, turned off the lights to my bedroom, turned on a dim light and cracked open my journal.

I began writing about my day and eventually my edible kicked in and I did not have anything else to write about so I began doodling. Eventually I drifted into an extremely calm meditative state as I scribbled randomly in my journal with a clear mind. (It's important to note I was not thinking of the past or the future but I was just in the present moment with my thoughts.)

Eventually I felt tingles in my hand and it's like something took it over and began scribbling on the paper. Me being high I was fascinated by what was happening so I watched in disbelief until my anxious thoughts took over my mind and I threw the pen out of my hand and jumped out of my meditative state.

Since that encounter I contacted my sister who is also spiritual and more knowledgeable than me and informed me that it was called spirit writing/automatic writing. I began doing research and discovered it's a form of divination used to communicate with spirit.

The only form of divination I used previously was tarot cards and the 4 pennies Yes/No divination used in Hoodoo. Tarot cards have always been tricky for me to fully understand as I believe I am neurodivergent but that is another story for another day. Having a divination tool where I can get direct answers and not leave me second guessing was an amazing feeling so I sought after to do it again the following day.

This day I did everything with intention and recreated the same steps of taking an edible, turning on a dim light, and focusing on the present moment. This time I asked to speak directly with my spirit guide and the connection happened instantly before my edible even kicked in. I told my guide to used up and down motions as "yes" and circle motions as "no" and began asking questions.

Without giving too much away I asked if they were my spirit guide and they made and up and down mark indicating yes. I wanted to confirm that I would get correct answers and I wasn't crazy so I asked them what my name was and they wrote out the first initial of my name in cursive. Then I went deeper and asked if my husband would receive a promotion he recently interviewed for and they told me yes undoubtably, weeks later he received confirmation that he did in fact get the position!

I also asked about my goals, as I have been going hard on them this entire year and my dream is to be self employed. They confirmed to me that I would be self employed (wish I asked by when lol).

The next morning I had another connection but this time with my grandmother on my father's side. I asked if it was an ancestor and they said yes so I asked if they were on my mother’s side and they said no but said yes to being on my father's side. I asked if I knew them and they said yes so I asked them their name and they wrote out "Nanny" which is what we called her.

A few days later I was able to get in contact with my great grandparents on my mother side because my mother had questions about my great grandfather's passing. He confirmed that he was fighting to stay alive in the hospital because of my mom and finally let go when he heard her whisper in his ear that she would be okay and he did not have to worry about her (the following day after she whispered that too him he passed away) and we both cried.

Since my initial encounter I have been practicing daily to get better and stronger at my spiritual gift but the first 3 days were the strongest and after getting a reading done on me I realized this was all apart of the plan. April 22nd was a full moon in Scorpio and I am a Scorpio sun. There was no coincidence about this especially knowing that I am 29 and currently in my Saturn Return.

I added a few shots of my journal and blurred out my text so I do not give my identity away because I would like this to remain an anonymous spiritual journal as I have no plans on monetizing this gift but only using it for the protection and knowledge for me and my loved ones. Please also note that it's really hard to read what spirit is telling me but through practice I was told I will get better with this and receive more legible answers.

I would love to know if you've ever experienced.

P.S. my right hand has constantly been in a tingly state ever since and I was told that this is my new norm now that I have unleashed my gift. I am now practicing spiritual protection daily and diving more into my spiritual interests of astrology, crystals, and numerology. I even asked my spirit guide through automatic writing if I was allowed to anonymously document my spiritual journey through Tumblr and they wrote out yes.

[ I want to end this by saying that I protect myself before during and after each divination. Now that I have this gift I know that any spirit whether good or bad will want to contact me but I have the ultimate power of who I allow to connect with me. So please do not try this on your own for funsies because now I have to really practice protection work daily to keep me protected from negative energy. ]

[drawing-cards]

Speaking of Spirits

I don't know if this is common knowledge, but spirits like to communicate through dreams most of the time. I remember when I had just got my set of runes that I picked out from my fave metaphysical shop and had the weirdest dream ever a few days after. I spent some time getting to know my runeset, looking at the meanings, casting them, and attempting to make rune circles. I was doing anything that would require me to keep the runes in my hands. I had built such a strong connection with them that one night, I had a really vivid dream about cutting my hand and bleeding into the runes.

I woke up confused as fuck because I would never dream about cutting myself on purpose, let alone think about it normally. After doing a little research, I found that back in the day nordic diviners would bleed into their runes to strengthen the relationship they had with the spirits affiliated with the runeset they owned. This allowed for better runic circles to be cast and better divination through them.

Some of my friends who also had runes had similar dreams where their runes would ask for a blood favor after so long. It was really comforting knowing that I was not the only one. In retrospect, I could never bring myself to bleed over my runes, but I do use them when I can to ensure that I can sustain my relationship with them. If I can learn more about the runes academically and magickally then maybe I'll consider it in the future, but I'd have to really think about it. I think that was one of my first direct spirit encounters too.

[conjuremanj]

Cologne And Perfumes In Your Practice.

Now in my previous post I spoke on spiritual colones, waters like Florida Water and their uses and while this is one way to use it, there are other ways to tap into the power of these products. When looking at colognes and perfumes, try not to see them as just fragrances. They were made from herbs, resins, and oils.

Beside Florida Water, Rose Water Cologne or Kananga Water there are other colognes and perfumes that are made to be used for spirits deities and workings. It's not enough to buy a spiritual perfume and begin using it.

To get the most out of them, they need to be blessed either by the Orisha it's for or the Lwa it's for. If for hoodoo a blessing to the ansestors will do.

If you choose, you can ask your guides, angels, saints, or deities for help to make it more effective at whatever you want it to do for you. Basically you're making an holy item or spiritual item.

Colognes Perfumes As Offerings: While many deities have their own type of offering that is giving to them, these colognes could be good to used as a wash to honor your deity or spirit. Other deities like receiving perfumes that contain their favorite ingredients like Ezurlie or any love deity, that created specifically for them.

Scents Used In Your Space: Perfumes and colognes are placed on the body to give their properties to the wearer, they can be added to washes or sprinkled around your property for protection of a place like Saint Michael.

Saint Michael for instance a perfume dedicated to him can be used to help fortify your home and protect those within it and also be used as a offering to him on his fest day. Use it as a floor wash, or sprinkling around the perimeter.

Can I Use It In A Ritual Bath: No these are not a bath their are perfume/, colognes only sprinkle or out in your body. (If can burn privates if you add to bath)

Working For St Lazarus: Using natural water not faucet water, you don't really know what's in it. ( Rain Water is good). Add a little St Lazarus cologne or use a St Lazarus wash or both is fine too. You can add his oil if you choose. Add that to the bowl of water, place his colored candle in the middle of the bowl and light it. This we'll get St. Lazarus attention, then pray his prayer and tell him what you need. Let it burn.

Perfumes as Spiritual Food Just as perfumes can be given as offerings to spirits, they can also be offered to mojo's, washes, dolls, crystal etc. If a liquid is called for in a ritual, often a cologne or perfume can be used or added to it to power the liquid with its properties.

List Of Some Of These Perfume/Cologne.

[lionheartapothecaryx]

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