#rootwork

[sir-illmatic]

[indigokra]

moonlight 🕯️🌕

since october is gullah geechee heritage month, hoodoo heritage month, and halloween season, i figured i’d paint something to represent them all!

you can find prints and other merch of this piece on my printful! (indigokra.printful.me)

alt text + desc under the cut

pictured above is a digital painting of a dark-skinned, Black gullah-geechee conjure woman dancing in front of a full moon. she is wearing a white, tiered, ruffled dress adorned with cowrie shells and a white headwrap. she is wearing gold face piercings, gold rings, gold bangles, a gold ankh necklace, colorful beaded necklaces, and gold hoop earrings. her fingertips are stained blue with indigo pigment, her eyes are closed, and her arms are reaching up towards the sky. hooked onto the belt of her dress are a miniature skull and a brown leather satchel of herbs. in front of her, four long candles burn and smoke into the sky. behind her, there are two trees with blue glass bottles hanging from their branches.

[thevillain-s]

HOODOO: “If freedom don’t ring, these “roots” gonna sing!!!!”

[covenofvenus]

Easy Homemade Florida Water Recipe No.1 Enchant your herbs using the following tags.

Lavender/Lavanda - for cleansing, protection and peace of home, mind, body and spirit

Orange/Naranja - for spiritual cleansing, to attract good fortune and luck, removal of stagnant energy.

Rosemary/Romero- for cleansing, protection

Cinnamon/Canela - for speed, to attract good luck and fortune

Cloves/Clavo - for domination of adverse conditions, to attract good luck and fortune, to remove negativity and purify spiritual vibrations

Mint/Mentha - for purification of energy, cleansing, protection and the attraction of good luck and fortune

Tangerine/Mandarina - for purification, to attract positive energy, uplift and bring abundance, to clear away negative influences

Lemon/Limon - to purify, cleanse and promote clarity

Mix together in a decent sized bottle, using distilled water and one cup of cheap high proof Vodka or Rum as a preservative, charge on your altar, in the moonlight or using your prayers.

Let sit for a week & Voila!

[lavenderlundi]

Is witchblr/paganblr dead?

Back before 2019 I felt like this website was a haven of practitioners from every religion/spiritual practice on here. Hundreds of new posts daily, new content/resources for new practitioners, ATRs regularly posted about Now it feels very dead. A lot of recycled info/posts. Barely any interactions on other practitioners posts. Nothing new really in the ATR space. Where has everyone gone? :c

[hoodooboo]

i cannot stress enough how important a relationship with your ancestors is, especially now.

a white candle, a cup of water and 15 mins is really all you need.

place your white candle and glass of water on your altar. your altar can be anything: the top of a dresser or nightstand, a mantle, a small table, a window sill, anything.

light your candle and call on your ancestors. if you know their names, call them out if you want. or just say “to my ancestors, known and unknown, i welcome you here now. i look forward to getting to know you.”

then take a couple minutes and just listen. you may notice a change in the temperature, or a song stuck in your head. maybe you don’t hear or feel anything at all. that’s okay. it takes time to get to know someone in the physical, so it makes sense that it take some time in the spiritual as well.

spend a couple minutes once a week, talking to and listening for your ancestors. start with 2 minutes, then 5 etc. refresh the water once a week. increase the number of times you’re at your altar slowly. you don’t have to go all out all at once, trust me.

after a while you can start giving different offerings like: coffee, tea, likka, tobacco, dragons blood, food ect. again, don’t go all out all at once.

personally, since i’ve started over, i only give big offerings on first sunday. i make a nice sunday dinner complete with dessert for my ancestors the first sunday of every month. i struggle with my mental health and having low energy and this works for both me and my ancestors. figure out what works for you and yours.

also, remember your ancestors are more understanding than we think. you may think they don’t understand queerness, mental illness, disability etc but i promise you they do. you are not the first and you won’t be the last.

okay, i think that’s it for now. feel free to add to this post some more tips for ancestor work

[this-is-anti-religion]

I am trying... so hard... to stay calm while I write this. But if I talk about how I don't objectively view forceful love spells as evil or bad because black slaves within hoodoo and voodoo used to cast love spells on their white slave owners in order to potentially get basic human fucking rights because it was basically one of the only ways they COULD get rights, and your response is "two wrongs don't make a right" or "abuse from any party is bad" then I need you to genuinely get the fuck away from me.

"Two wrongs don't make a right."

How the actual fuck do you think slavery was abolished? Not with attitudes like that! It was brought through violence. Through murdering our oppressors. It was brought through fucking bloodshed.

(Slavery hasn't truly been abolished it just looks different but that's a whole different conversation).

"Abuse from any party is bad."

No, no you're totally right! These black slaves with zero rights or autonomy were abusing their white slave owners! Won't somebody think of the poor, poor slave owners? /sar

DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELF?! DO YOU ACTUALLY FUCKING HEAR YOURSELF?! ARE YOU (general you) ACTUALLY HEARING THE WORDS COMING OUT OF YOUR RACIST, PRIVILEGED FUCKING MOUTH RIGHT NOW?!

Get the fuck away from me of you think this way. Genuinely. Get the fuck away from me. Those are MY people you're shit talking. That's MY culture you're demonizing. I am genuinely crying from rage right now...

(I've muted the discord server this happened in but honestly I'm thinking about just leaving).

[indigaux]

Naomi Native depicted as Oshun, Yoruba goddess of love, beauty, and fertility

Created by A.J. Hamilton