#southern root

[conjuremanj]

Making Some St Anthony & Gede Haitian Powder For Some Clients.

Today I made a St Anthony powder for a client to be used in their folk magic...👇

In this photo👇 I made a Gede powder for a client.

This is made Haitian Vodou powder made with specific herbs to be used during Fet Gede here in New Orleans.

It Any One Wants Some Hit Me Up...

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado touchdown, Northern Colorado, 2015

[ludinusdaleth]

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 91, "True Heroism"

[appalachiabrat]

[xxwillowpotatox]

WAIT ALSO TALESINS LITTLE *yes*

[haveyouheardthisband]

[manessha545]

Colca Canyon, Peru: The Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru, located about 160 kilometres northwest of Arequipa. With a depth of about 1000 – 2000 m. it is one of the deepest canyons in the world. Its length is about 70 kilometres. The Colca Valley is a colorful Andean valley with pre-Inca rooted inhabitants. Wikipedia

[thesilliest-littlefella]

sooooo sick in the head that they didnt have ANY of the actors that portrayed will graham to a southern accent. like not even a twinge of one.

[callsign-daydream]

Hangman: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He’s a grown man, and fishing’s not that hard.

[chiefyarts]

Out in the treeline

[conjuremanj]

How to Build An Ancestor Altar.

Hoodoo is a practice of ancestral . The honoring and/or even worshipping of ancestors is practiced around the world. Many African religions have a foundation in the belief that one's ancestors play an important role there life, living even after death. The spirits of the dead are invited in the household so that they may influence the family and provide blessings and protection. Maintaining a connection with our dead ancestors is a foreign concept to the majority of Americans. Christianity teaches that death is a concrete ending and many approach the subject of death and dying with morbid fear and confusion. For those who are seeking to practice hoodoo, it can be difficult to address these ingrained fears and establish a new understanding of life and death.

Hoodoo like many African traditions, sees life and death as being an journey of the soul. it rises on the spiritual plane where our souls continue to live. Endurance and wisdom from those who came before us and establishing a relationship with them is vital to the success of every working, charm, trick and candle burning used in the tradition. Without with our ancestors is like shooting in the dark hoping to hit your target which results in a lot of wasted time and energy.

Our ancestors don't just power magical workings, they also can guide us so that we can avoid a negative situation and recover from it quickly. The real strength of a conjure man comes from the foresight provided by our ancestors through the ancestor altar. A beginner might be overwhelmed by the all the information that is available on the subject and become confused. I understand how a person could reach a “stalemate” in their research for authenticity. Find a place in your home that is relatively low in traffic, meaning that not many people will see your altar. You can also use a closet space. Your altar will become a point of spiritual gravity a highway for spirits to travel through. (So not the bedroom) This spiritual activity can negatively affect your dreams and sleeping pattern. ( Meaning the energy) Find a space for your altar (table) Next clean your surface with a spiritual solution like Florida Water, Rose Water or Koloria 1800 etc. Wipe in a circular clockwise motion. After the altar is dry, say a prayer over the table expressing your intentions for it to act as a holy space.

If the table is made of wood you could then rub a blessing oil into it like Van Van or Ancestor Oil. Find a cloth for your altar. Most commonly white cloth but any would do. Cover your altar with your altar cloth. The very first thing on your ancestor altar should be the Bible. Make sure that your Bible doesn't take up to much space there are other things that will to be added.

Also, it is likely that your ancestors were Christian and they will respond to verses because they are familiar with them. Next, place a white seven-day candle before the your Bible. (We use candlelight to provide our ancestors with illumination.) The candle acts as a beacon drawing spirits closer to us.

The white seven-day candle can stay lit at all times if you do stock up on them. (don’t light the candle until your altar is completely set up) After the candle has been placed on the altar, add a wine glass full of water next to the candle. (Any glass or chalice will do) We are born of water and your bodies is partially made of water. It's entry point between the world of the living and dead. The glass of water allows for a stronger connection with the spirits who will be called apon. You can place a picture of your ancestors to the left and right of your Bible, candle and glass of water. Their pictures help to strengthen your connection.

Don’t worry if you don’t have pictures of them. There are other things that can be added to your altar to strengthen the connection. Next place anything that might have belonged to them on the altar in front of their pictures. Add items that are significant to your spiritual practice on your altar, I highly suggest some type of divination tools like bones or tarot cards. It come in handy for clarifying a message.

Finally, place an image of a spirit known for protection on your altar. It’s always best to have a working relationship with the spirit you chose to place on the altar, but if your beginning you might not have a working relationship with a spirit of protection so use this time to begin communicating with that spirit. I suggest Saint Michael or the Virgin Mary. This spirit will act as a guardian between you and any random spirits that may be attracted to your altar, Place an extra candle and glass of water next to the image of your protector.

Other common items you can choose to add is dirt from an their grave, incense burner, candle snuffer, a bell, flowers etc. Arranging your items is personal preference. The water, coffee and rum should be cleaned and refreshed at least once a week. Any food offerings should be left on the altar until it has lost all life and becomes stale. Your candles should be replaced as soon as they go out.

Now that your ancestor altar is completely set up, it’s time to begin welcoming the spirits into your home. Begin by inviting your ancestors to “sit” at your altar. You can achieve this with a three-day long ritual that is intended to prepare the space.

Day 1- at your altar, try to imagine the faces of those who have passed. Say a prayer out loud to them. Speak their names. Take as much time as you need to really make a connection.

Day 2- Prepare meals that they would like. You can Leave the food on the altar.

Day3- Bring them gifts as an offering. Before bed, say another prayer giving them thanks and honor. I suggest this be done at least once a week. Pay attention to your dreams and to your intuition during this process. Your ancestor will eventually respond to your prayers so pay attention.

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado weather

[ludinusdaleth]

obviously not solely a southern thing but it is so fascinating to me how absolutely united basically every bible belt cr fan ive talked to is in feelings about the ruby vanguard/aeor plot elements like. yeah. laura & matt are from here we know what this is a metaphor about and what everyone else fundamentally isnt getting about cult behavior & the concept of being judged & punished for your leaders actions as a Whole

[batsplat]

omgg i started following you because i loved your motogp posts and i did not expect to get emotionally attacked about my tennis fave like this. you've lit expressed everything ive felt abt tennis lately like daniil's return game has developed so well these last few years if only his shoulders were still functional he wld be soo unstoppable (i remember like last 2 year-ish when his serve suddenly went to shit and i was like wtf is going on?? but then it turned out his shoulders don' work anymore😭😭😭) ngl i did not expect him to make it to the ao finals this yr at all but then he did and i started getting hope again and then well uk what happened next... (i actually went to bed when he was up 2 sets because i alrdy had premonitions for what was abt to happen and i didnt need that experience twice 😭) anyways i finally quit watching the men's tour reguarly middle of this yr-ish because mostly because my biggest opp started winning big tournanments/slams consistently and i cld not take it anymore (part of why i got into motogp ig, i needed a new thing to fill in the hole)

also ur thing being having to be the chosen one in men's tennis is soo true but i wld argue it cld even be broadened down to being in the chosen generation... every 90s born player doomed to be seen as the weak links of the sport, both forever destined to be surpassed by those who came before and those who came after...

anyways mostly i also just wanted to thank you for writing all your super information motogp posts!! not only is ur writing style super informative/consistent, all the topics u've written abt feel super unique like i doubt i wld ever randomly stumble elsewhere. i'm not that good w/ words so idk how to fully express my appreciation, but your posts are the main reason i started delving into more past motogp races and interviews instead of just sticking to current ones which has 1000% made my experience of becoming a motogp fan more enjoyable!

🥺🥺 such a nice ask from a fellow sufferer... I actually tried to sleep in for the ao final and managed for like. maybe a set. it's so funny to have a whole fanbase quite literally begging their player not to go up two sets to love, zero hindsight needed I was HORRIFIED by that second set going his way... especially since I noticed the balance of play in the actual games had changed and meddy wasn't winning any return points anymore, just relying on an earlier break to seal that set iirc. and then I started going for increasingly desperate tactics to distract myself when the inevitable happened in the next three sets (including rewatching marc marquez: all in, it was rough man, like I get what you're saying about getting into motogp to escape because generally I too have fled to this sport whenever tennis has most been pissing me off)

and obviously that final was very trauma flashbacks to my definitive sports trauma, a match I'm STILL not over and at this rate have accepted I'll be miserable about until the day I die. but this time I couldn't even BLAME him because it was an insane effort to even get to the final, he'd done such a fantastic job given his tennis really wasn't there at the start of the tournament, he just kept figuring out ways to win... the hurkacz match where he basically ran out of fuel in the fourth, that crazy semifinal where he just refused to know when he was beaten, and then taking two sets off sinner in that final!! the resilience and the grit but also the tactical acumen, like my god when he blindsided hurkacz by radically altering his return position RIGHT AFTER doing that post-match back-and-forth with courier where he explained in detail why he favoured his regular return position. the cleverness and the bravery he showed in clutch points in that semi, something that zverev is completely incapable of (monte carlo 2023 still lives rent free lol), like the psychology of that match slapped. how he took it so sinner, completely caught him off guard by mixing up his game, and it was WORKING. really managed to change the dynamic of that match up... he lost that match first and foremost in his legs. just so cruel after everything. we had the guy who easily disposed of an admittedly rubbish djokovic in the semis on the ropes. and it still. was. not. fucking. enough. one of the best slam final runs in recent memory and it still wasn't enough!! he's already far outperformed what he SHOULD have been capable of in his career and somehow he keeps developing a game style which should have plateaued ages ago and I have so much respect for the work him and gilles have done post-2022... and he really should have more to show for it

anyway yeah I remember the serve decline in 2022, back when I was really in the weeds with analysing meddy's game. and that was also the year it felt like his legs completely deserted him. his deciding set record that year was horrific after ao, very rarely even got it that far win or lose and when he did so almost always lost (karatsev was cramping, let's not talk about the other third set win)

scorelines from the tour finals genuine miracle i did not throw myself into the sea

only one four set match post-ao and he also lost that, incidentally. and obviously that was partly because his brain was fucked, BUT I also wondered whether it was the aftereffects of the hernia operation that year affecting both the physicality and the serve. and I can't remember if he confirmed that anywhere but the theory's certainly cottoned on to help explain the serve decline, even if his endurance obviously has massively improved again. and then add in the shoulder... it's so brutal because it used to be such a key pillar to his game, like the whole magic was tied together by being able to whizz through his own service games while making his opponent's return games hellish

and like,, the thing I really admire about him is that there was a period in 2022 where it did feel like he'd been 'figured out', like there was increasingly a game plan that could be used against him. serve and volley, etc etc. but to some extent, he's managed to resist just being written off when facing elite competition BECAUSE he keeps coming up with ways to throw his opponents off-balance. what he's been doing this year, for all that it hasn't gotten him great results, has been so much fun to watch - really reminded me of his summer/autumn 2019 stretch where he'd played so much he should've constantly been at risk of keeling over of exhaustion but adapted to it by just becoming a completely different player. wawrinka uso 2019 match still goes crazyyyy, one of his most underrated performances. serve and volley in the uso 2019 final I wanna run to u. it's such a wonderfully unique game that's frankensteining all these unique parts together that all sort of shouldn't work but all sort of do, harnessed and constantly reinvented by (let's face it) the smartest top player currently in the game. and it really does piss me off that he hasn't been rewarded more. he's been the best of the rest since 2019, he's absolutely maximised his game for someone who doesn't have that stratospheric big three-level of talent and I WANT it to actually matter. but men's tennis will always see talent triumphing over guile I fear, and meddy has consistently been a victim of poor timing

and yeah, the generational aspect is true, where the entire ''''''''nextgen''''''''' cohort has essentially been doomed - partly because they just weren't good enough, but partly because they arrived at just the right time window to still be thoroughly traumatised by the big three without getting any kind of a break before the next super talents showed up. until 2022 I really did naively believe we were getting a chaos era of SOME kind until that decrepit spanish ghoul showed up in australia to trample all over my soul and give me depression, and then immediately another bloody spaniard started going at it. how can you not be a little bit bitter that alcaraz got to swan to his first slam title without having to face a single member of the big three? idk man like sometimes it really is the magic of sports that the anointed few don't just have talent on their side, they are also fantastically lucky. you see it with how the big three all secured their first slams... things just seem to work out somehow. infuriating and existentially horrifying

anyway. lol. as you can see I do always have a tennis rant in me. will always be a major part of my life, obviously something I have a far far better understanding of than any other sport, still keep up with the women's game fairly closely... where icl it helps that the players I'm most invested in have dropped off SO badly this year, partly due to injury, that I can merrily ignore their existence. plus, and this bit is crucial, I don't loathe the players who actually win things. so I'm in a happy place where I just enjoy the sport and (if anything) want Certain top players to do better than they currently are... but also don't lose any sleep over the results. like, have I been massively frustrated with iga this year? yes, but it's also not made me stare at a wall for five hours. also, it's just been a way better product than this predictable basher servebot shit from the men. women's wimbledon semi day THE best tennis day of the year, prove me wrong. they've had actual classic matches, which the men have been noticeably short on. just sort of been an odd season for the men, with djokovic shrivelling and alcaraz patchy outside of two slams and sinner doing his whole 'I'm not a cardboard cut out I'm a REAL boy' routine on his way to fifty hard court titles and everyone else irrelevant. as I've already said... it's fine. whatever. hope the sport enjoys fifty thousand alcaraz/sinner slam wins as the earth keeps turning around the sun and eventually we all turn to dust. it's fine

and seriously, thank you for everything in the ask... always happy to hear I've made someone's fan experience like. better. and that I add something a little bit different to the mix lol, also literally no compliment I like to read more than anything to do with my actual writing. because this ask was so lovely, here's my personal favourite moment as a tennis fan this year:

still think that australian open title should be restored to us

[soisaidfine]

at the roots of Ethel Cain's musical soul: singing from Perry First Church of God, Perry, Florida

I was just sent this video from Perry, Florida, from the 'Perry First Church of God' and I found this Florida church music very 'Ethel Cain coded.' It's very moving to hear it, I felt like I was at the roots of Ethel Cain's music. At one of the roots, and Ethel Cain made something quite different out of it.

Don't miss the very first notes of music ♡

Perry FIRST CHURCH OF GOD

'WHEN LIFE IS NOT A BED OF ROSES REMEMBER WHO WORE THE THORNS'

Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain

[backwoodspriestess]

The only way to get here is to pay a forest troll in holy treasures found on the forest bed. She also takes Klarna.