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Hoodoo, Rootwork, and Cartomancy for Weird Black People
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Hoodoo Cartomancy Card Meanings
New to Hoodoo cartomancy and don’t know where to start? Here are the card meanings I suggest for all fifty-four playing cards as a professional card reader!
What is a Rootworker?
Though a medicinal rootworker may look the same as a clinical or community herbalist to the untrained eye, there are important differences between the work of most rootworkers and that of an herbalist working in another tradition.
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.
Hoodoos: It’s Your Spiritual Obligation to Care about Black Trans People
When you say hoodoo is liberation-centered, that's a promise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Working Playing Cards: Clubs & Spades
Just try to remember the spiritual aspects of endings and choices, and you’ll make peace with the Spades.
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.
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
Examining Your Spiritual Practice
Each position poses a different challenge. What matters is that you choose the spiritual practices that are ethical and right for you.