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Hoodoo, Representation, and Repression

Annie from Sinners is the best representation of Hoodoo on screen this decade.

Wunmi Mosaku infuses her character with the strength of spirit, compassion, and community-mindedness I hope to see in any conjure woman. She also brings the full force of her classical training to bear on a script where all three women leads are underwritten.

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Solidarity with The Swamp

The other colonizers, too, drained swamps because of their place as “almost mythical” sites of Black “resistance and rebellion.”

Historically, The Swamp has been a site of Black and indigenous solidarity, resistance, autonomism, magic, and medicine.

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Cartomancy as Ancestral Citation

The truth is I've always been able to read without them. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Its a mark of the lineage. A long conversation between the dead and the living. To work the cards is to remember those who worked the cards.

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Hoodoos: It’s Your Spiritual Obligation to Care about Black Trans People

When you say hoodoo is liberation-centered, that's a promise.

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Spiritual Sovereignty: Liberation is a Spiritual Practice

Spiritual sovereignty helps us maintain purpose-driven autonomy despite colonizing forces that work to create god for us in their own image.

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Money Work for Anti-Capitalists

Money work, or money magic, is among the top two reasons that people turn to magic. The other, of course, is love.

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Houses & Husbands: Working with Saint Joseph

Saint Joseph is generally associated with homeowners, but I doubt he’ll leave us landless millennials to suffer without his care. Here’s how I modified traditional Saint Joseph work to help me as a renter.

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3 Elements of Dream Interpretation

The insights I’ve gained by interpreting my dreams, and moreover, by consigning myself to a particular system within dream interpretation have been unparalleled–even by tarot and playing cards.

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Working Playing Cards: Clubs & Spades

Just try to remember the spiritual aspects of endings and choices, and you’ll make peace with the Spades.

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Working Playing Cards: Hearts & Diamonds

There are important differences between the suits in tarot and those in playing cards. Those differences are essential to understanding these tools.

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Working Playing Cards to Get What You Want

Playing cards can be used as petitions or as an energy enhancer under a candle, but there are so many other ways to use tarot and playing cards in conjure and spellwork. Here’s a couple things you should know before getting started that can make your work more efficient and powerful