Disclaimer: Anyone can reblog or share this post, but please only use it for your own practices if you are a rootworker/hoodoo practitioner of African descent.
If you were to ask me the basic skillset of Eurocentric witchcraft and magic practices, I’d say it’d usually include warding/protecting, healing, cursing, cleansing, grounding, and divining. For those of us coming from a Eurocentric/mainstream mindset to Africana practices such as hoodoo, it can be challenging to change one’s old habits and break out of these frameworks of thinking about what we do. There’s nothing wrong with blending hoodoo and witchcraft or mixing Africana traditions with Eurocentric ones, but I do think it’s crucial when trying to learn a new path to understand the fundamental differences between it and other traditions.
As I’ve picked up new habits and ways of thinking that are more in tune and alignment with what I’ve learned as a practitioner of ATRs, everything that I’ve been doing with hoodoo has suddenly become much more natural – and very foreign to what I learned from my time in witchcraft communities. So I want to share with other folks with similar challenges some of the basic skills of hoodoo as I have come to understand them through a much more Afrocentric lens.
These skills are…
Intuiting: Channeling one’s own wisdom and ancestral wisdom together
Praying: Communicating with spirits and natural powers
Cleansing: Removing unwanted energy for spiritual elevation
Dressing: Anointing oneself, one’s space, or objects with energy
Feeding: Making pacts with spirits and forces of nature through offerings
More on each of these below the “keep reading” line…
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