07/26/2022
Facts About Hoodoo That are also up for discussion
1. Your African ancestors identified as priests and priestesses. Stop calling yourself a witch, as there is a difference between ancestors and deities. Note:- they both are essential in your practice.
2. You cannot practice hoodoo/rootwork if you don’t work with your ancestors.
3. There is more to hoodoo/rootwork than mason jar magic, egg divinations, boiling pots of cinnamon water, and urban poetry like Ching-Ching goes the money tree.
4. Your ancestors should never fight with a deity. They cannot and will not win. Your grandmother cannot defend you against the wrath of a well-fed Orisa.
5. Your dearly departed (people you knew) and elevated ancestors (zansèt ki wo/egun) are not the same. Your elevated ancestors have dominion over your dearly departed. Your dead grandmother answers to her dead grandmother.
6. There is no such thing as karma in hoodoo. When practicing hoodoo, it’s more important to master the 48 Laws of Power than to worry about karma.
7. You must do divination before, during, and after all spells you perform. You put yourself and your ancestors in mystical danger when you don’t use divinations in your magical work exercises.
8. You must enchant your herbs before using them. You must ask the herbs for permission to access and use their power and do not uproot fresh herbs at night.
9. Demons and other malevolent entities can infiltrate and program crystals. If humans, who are 3-dimensional beings, can program crystals, so can demons.
10. When you engage in spiritual wars (hex battles) with other practitioners, you risk harming your ancestors. In some cases, the winner of the magical battle can hold your ancestors captive, sever their connection to their bloodline, and permanently destroy the loser’s relationship with their bloodline.
11. You must evaluate a hoodoo practitioner by their resume (how many clients they have successfully served) and reputation, not how much they can pontificate or regurgitate.
12. Real spiritual practitioners can tap into any energy either deities or orisha or any form.
13. Real spiritual practitioners can fix any problem you have within 90-days.
14. Real spiritual practitioners don’t leave their ancestors food incompetent offerings. If you wouldn’t eat it, why would they?
15. You must always leave your ancestors both food and water.
16. You must wash your face and brush your teeth before collaborating with your ancestors. If you can get ready for a sneaky link or your spouse, you can get ready for your ancestors. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
17. You must pray and meditate when you first rise. You must pray and meditate before you go to bed.
18.If you struggle to interpret your divination, it’s probably because you’re channeling illiterate or I enlightened ancestors. You need to work with your elevated ancestors.
(Òrishàgbemí)
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