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Quote of the Day

• client education • hoodoo education • rootwork education

Don’t be a spiritual fuckboi. Chiron Armand

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not-BS spotted on tumblr: lab-grown gems with a side rant on so-called “closed practices”

• hoodoo education • rants • rootwork education

not-BS spotted on tumblr: lab-grown gems with a side rant on so-called “closed practices”

I have an entire category on this blog for “BS spotted on Pinterest,” under which I also post BS spotted on tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, etc.Tumblr has lots of BS. I’m especially (not) fond of the posts about hoodoo that copy/paste or screenshot or quote a portion of a book and then close with stuff like, “remember, kids, if you weren’t born into this culture/aren’t the right race or ethnicity/are trying to be a convert/whatever, it’s appropriation: Do Not Touch because it’s a closed practice” and similar such BS bits of racist, essentialist, historically ignorant, anthropologically blind, genealogically clueless posturing, gatekeeping,...

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Foraging for Beautyberry

• beautyberry • hoodoo education • hoodoo tricks • plants • rootwork • rootwork education

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On karma, crossed conditions, and remediation

• buddhism • hoodoo education • karma • remediation • rootwork education

On karma, crossed conditions, and remediation This is a slightly edited version of a reply to a client in a convo that touched on uncrossing work and the concept of karma. It is necessarily a vast oversimplification, but it is probably more easily accessible and definitely less of a rant than other things I have written about karma here or on Big Lucky Hoodoo. This is coming to you from a rootworker *and* from a woman who was given the name Karma at birth lol… so despite the fact that hoodoo has no conception of karma at all, being a folk magic practice...

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Gratitude

• altar art • altar work • altars • prayer • rootwork education • spirituality

Gratitude

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