Education
This is a copy of the Education resource index at Big Lucky Hoodoo, which is usually gonna be more up to date than this version. I'm in the process of changing all these links to point here instead of to the old livejournal version of the blog. I'm also gonna generally tidy things up and do a little editing where possible. Recently updated/edited links have *.
Last update 2/28/21.
Conditions
- *Breakup Work: About, Justification, Ethics, FAQs
- Commanding and Compelling
- Communication: Hyatt Spell to Get Contact
- Court Case Work
- Evil Eye: Removing
- Hot Foot: Hot Foot Trick with Dog Manure
- Job: A Shoe Trick for Getting a Job
- Love: Spells and Free Will
- Peaceful Home: Collected Posts
- Reconciliation: Collected Posts
- Reconciliation: Realistic Expectations
- Return a Lover: Black Cat Bones
- Return a Lover: Theory and Practice
- Reversing: Common Client Questions
- Special Oil #20: Multipurpose "Ketchup of Condition Oils"
- Stay at Home: Keep Him Home with Earwax
- Stop Gossip and Commanding/Compelling Work: Theory and How-to
- Success and Mastery: How to Use Products for Success
- Tying Nature: Ligature Spells
Curios
Animals
- Black Cat Bones: to Return a Lover
- Cat Hair: White Cat Hair in a Breakup Spell
- Chickens: Feet
- Chicken Eggs: for Peaceful Home
- Cow Tongue: A Stop Gossip Spell
- Dog Manure: in Hot Foot Work
- Rattlesnake Dust
Peppers and Powders
Human
Formulas and Formula Families
Instructions and Theory
See also Recommended Reading and Books sections, below.
Candles
Oils, Powders, Baths
Doll Babies
Graveyard Work
Mojos
Personal Concerns and Papers
- Personal Concerns: Theory and Practice
- *Personal Concerns in Food: Love/Lust Truffles
- *Petitions: Crafting Them, Focusing Your Goals
Deploying and Disposing of Ritual Remains
Timing
- Days of the Week: Working by the Weekday at Lucky Mojo
- Frequency of Spellcasting: How Much Work is "Too Much"?
- Spells: Setting Time Limits
- Spells: Timing and Duration
- Timing and Duration in Spellwork
- Timing: "How Long Will It Take To Work?"
- Timing Spells, Setting Limits, and the Non-Existent "Rule of Three"
Spirits and Saints
Ancestors
- A Guide to Dead and Ancestral Worship, Altars, Offering, & Ritual at Sphere + Sundry
- Ancestor Altars at Hoodoo Foundry
Angels
- Archangels: A Medieval Prayer
- Guardian Angel: Medieval Prayer
- Saints and Angels: Punitive Miracles and Smiting
- Saints and Angels: Theory
- *Saints and Spirits: my background and approaches to their formulas and art
- *St. Michael: Collected Resources & FAQs
- Working With and Petitioning Saints and Angels
Saints
- *St. Anthony: Collected Resources & FAQs
- St. Expedite: Balthazar on Working with Expedite
- St. Expedite: Information at AIRR
- St. Expedite: Mama Cat on Working with Expedite
- *St. Martha the Dominator: History and Working With St. Martha
- Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
- Relics, Shrines, and Pilgrimage
- *When Angels are Saints and Saints are Angels, aka Yes, St. Michael IS a saint, and here's how it works
- *Saints: "Making Them Work" and Other Bad Ideas; Coercive Approaches
- Saints and Angels: Punitive Miracles and Smiting
- Saints and Angels: Theory
- *Saints, Spirits, & Hoodoo: My (slightly unusual) background and approaches
- *Santa Muerte: Resources, FAQ, Innovations
- Spirit Work Information at AIRR
- Working With and Petitioning Saints and Angels
- Working With Saints
Education, Etiquette, Ethics, Client Info
These links are useful for anyone who has engaged or intends to engage the services of any professional reader or rootworker, as they have useful tips on finding a good worker and being a good client.
Myths, Misconceptions, and Pinterest-Popular Bullshit
- Backfiring Work, Karma, the Threefold "Law": More Conjure Myths
- Ethics and Accountability: "No Real Spellcaster would...." and other Myths
- Free Will Redux
- Love Spells and "Free Will"
- Love Binding: Why I Cringe When New Clients Want It
Avoiding Scams & Fakes
- AIRR Code of Ethics
- AIRR: On Avoiding Fake Psychics and Scams
- *Ratings and Why You Should be Wary of the Concept
- Scam Artists: How to Avoid
- Scams: The Collected Posts
- Sites that List "Fraud" and "Legitimate" Psychics (why you should be wary of them, at Cat's Rants)
- Success Rates and Guarantees: Why They Are NOT Good Signs
- Why We Sometimes Tell You Your Business (and Why You Should Not Get Shirty About It)
- *Why Legit Readers Will Not "Just Tell You Something About Yourself to Prove They're Real," aka Psychic Pet Tricks on Demand
Etiquette: How to Be a Good Client
- Suggestions for Clients, from Lucky Mojo
- Hiring Multiple Workers and "Stacking" work
- How Not to Get Fired as a Client or Customer
- *Personal Concerns: Sending Them to Your Worker
My Services
Altar Work
- *About and How to Book
- *Commonly Requested Work and Services
- *Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck on a Budget
- *My Code of Ethics
Consultations & Readings
- My Philosophy as a Reader
- *How They Work and How to Book
- *How to Get a Lame Reading
About Karma Zain and Services
- About Karma Zain: Interview by an Anthropology Student
- About Karma Zain: Bio at Big Lucky Hoodoo
- About Karma Zain: Info at AIRR
- *Seraphin Station Shop Terms of Service
Resources and Recommended Reading [*]
- Books, Spellbooks, Instructions
- The Lucky Mojo Forum
- Realistic Goals in Spellwork at Cat's Rants
- Recipes, Advice, Theory, Instructions at Cat's Rants
- Sometimes the Magic Works, Sometimes It Doesn't, by Christopher Warnock
- Lucky Mojo: Hoodoo in Theory and Practice
- New World Witchery: American Traditional Witchcraft
- Rev. Fred and Miss Marguerite: Hoodoo and Spirit Work in Italy
- Supplies: Conjure-Ready Herbal Blends When There's No Candle-Shop in Town, at Hoodoo Foundry
- Using Products and Finding Info
- Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic, by catherine yronwode
- Old Style Conjure, by Starr Casas
- Spiritual Cleansing: A Handbook of Psychic Protection, by Draja Mickaharic
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[*] Re. Resources and Recipes: I have not attempted to link to everything under the sun that might be useful. I have mostly sought to list blogs and discussion groups that are currently active and regularly updated by professional workers or others whose knowledge and experience are considerably beyond the norm.
This is not to bash the educated student of conjure who works for him- or herself, by any means; there are plenty of educated and talented folks out there who have made thorough study of conjure and/or grown up with it. And it's not to put down published books at all; there are a few out there that are worth reading. But somebody who teaches and/or performs conjure for clients is going to have a variety and depth of experience that no amount of book-reading or study can replicate. You learn more from taking clients for six months than you do from studying on your own for five years. A professional worker with ten years of experience will have performed thousands of spells for a wide variety of situations for people from all walks of life and cultures; that will of necessity take you far beyond what you'd encounter in working for yourself and your family.
So a pro worker or reader who also blogs, publishes, and/or teaches -- who hosts a site that is more than just advertising or a storefront for their products or services but who actually discusses and explains those products and services and the work that they do -- is an incredible resource. If you are interested in traditional American Hoodoo, you should be familiar with active bloggers and writers who interact with the public. I've linked to some of my favorites here, and also listed a few resource posts from this blog and a few websites you should know about. This is a work in progress, not exhaustive. Just because I don't have a link to somebody here yet doesn't mean I don't think them worth reading. The people who link to me have probably gotten linked to ahead of others who are in the queue for me to mention when I have a chance :-)