More on Hoodoo Mojo Bags- How to wrap a Mojo Packet

I wanted to post some more how to's on mojo bags and packets and give some suggestions on this technique. This method takes a little more effort and time than the already sewn mojo bags where you write out petition papers, fill your bag with herbs and curios, tie, and bless, and feed, and all that good stuff that goes into the process.

This method is more of a start to finish process, and I will give you a basic way of doing this, but by all means develop your own style as you will. :) This is an instruction on how to actually make a mojo packet not a mojo bag. The difference? A mojo bag is a sewn bag with two sides a string at the neck as a draw string to close it or placed around the neck to tie it shut. A packet is just that, mojo folded into a packet and wrapped with thread to keep it sealed.


Here is an image of the beginning process after you have obtained red flannel fabric, red thread, scissors, petition paper, and herbs. (It was for love work including dominating a man).
Cut your flannel fabric about 3 to 4 inches by 3 to 4 inches, creating a square piece.
Boil water on the stove and gather the herbs appropriate to your work.
Tear your paper into squares for the petition paper. As you can see in the image here, I have flannel and paper ready for these love packets.





For a Money Mojo I made on behalf of a client, I used:
Cinnamon
Allspice
Five Fingers Grass
Irish Moss
High John Conqueror Root

Place these raw ingredients in a shallow pan, like a baking cookie dish. I used three tablespoons of each ingredient and one crushed High John Root.
Once the water has boiled, pour this over the raw ingredients in the cooking sheet. I used only a cup to two cups. Allow it to steep with the herbs until cool.

Place the red flannel on top of this concoction until it absorbs the liquid. Then remove (allow bits of ingredients to remain on flannel if they stick) the flannel and lay across a safe place to allow it to dry.
Take your paper for the petition paper (no writing should be on the paper, in other words, do not write out the petition on the paper YET) and lay it on top of the concoction. The paper is going to absorb the water. Take it back out and place in a drying area.
Strain the herbs and water and store the saved water to use as a bath or floorwash ;).


Once the flannel and paper have dried.
Prepare your petition paper.
Gather any type of other extra curios like pyrite, mojo wishing beans, or lodestone and personal concern for the mojo. Place them across the mojo flannel and fold it towards you, turn and fold, and repeat till you have a little packet of mojo.

Take out your red thread and wrap the mojo packet towards you while focusing on the petition. Wrap it until it is secured then tie it off with odd number of knots.
Name it and feed it some whiskey, carry it like all other mojos, by the skin out of sight. Keep it fed though weekly.








More suggested formulas:
Reconciliation Mojo Packet
Balm of Gilead
Basil
Roses
Catnip
Violet
Tonka Beans
Rosemary

Draw New Love:
Catnip
Roses
Daminana
Cubeb Berries
Lovage

More Thoughts on Hoodoo Love Work

So, I had some more thoughts on Love Work over the weekend. By no means should we be denied love in our lives, but I think people have come to a time in their life where they are feeling the desperation of economical stress and failure in this society that more people are clinging to the idea of love. Maybe I am wrong or being too cynical? Do we HAVE to have a relationship, man or woman, to identify who we are? Are we not enough for ourselves to be happy?
So, I sit and look around and evaluate those lovers around me, my own relationship of 16 years, and most of all the marriage of my parents, cliche I know, go ahead and think it, cause I sure did! LOL. 
So when do we know if doing love work on a straying spouse, cheating boyfriend, or old flame is worth the time and money spent? Only you alone can actually answer this question in the end. And this is why I have said it time and time again, even if the cards say no way there's no chance, the heart wants what the heart wants, and people are free to choose as they will, ignore warnings and signs or heed the red flags. I am actually amazed at how many people ignore the pertinent details that signal an impending doom. This is why I will recommend a reading in most cases, and will all together decline a case. This however, hasn't stopped some from purchasing materials and going along with madness! All I can do is offer my suggestions and advice. So what are the signs that someone should look at in deciding whether or not to proceed with love work? Well aside from the behaviors I mentioned previously in the last blog on Love Work, when was the last time you spoke to your ex? Has he moved on to another relationship, is it serious, are they married, do they have children together? This should be a first question in your mind. Do you find it necessary to break up a happy marriage, one that will involve hurting a child from breaking up his/her home?
I have heard of this situation from co workers, but have yet to have one such case come my way, it's usually the wife trying to keep another mistress out of the picture and preventing her cheating husband from straying.
And then there is that issue, if you work on a straying husband or boyfriend, do you take responsibility of forgiving this man completely and learning to trust him again? Is it true "once a cheater, always a cheater"? Even if it's not true, how many of us have been taught this idea and so for that, it remains in the back of our heads, contributing to a lack of knowing how to build trust, and in the end contributing to an impending failure of the relationship anyway.
There are a hundred types of relationships and circumstances, each unique, each with it's strengths and weaknesses. I believe the best thing in situations like these is to evaluate all sides of the pros and cons, taking care of yourself first and your needs in a relationship is important before you can begin to know what you want, what your boundaries are. Not many people stick to boundaries, much less form them, and I don't mean boundaries on another, I mean personal boundaries. When is enough abuse, enough? How long will a woman hang on to a man expecting him to change? I have seen women hold on, while they try everything they can to find a way to change a man. When in the end they don't realize they have lost their own self respect and worth as a beautiful woman of desire from a man who is not worthy of their love!
If only all women can be logical and follow that logic when their sanity is at risk. LOL.
To me all I can say is that no person is worth giving up your own self sanity, health, and emotional well being. Not every person is able to make changes to be better at loving another. That's just cold hard facts, baby.
I am not trying to sound pessimistic, I am talking about real life occurrences that affect many people in the world. I would love nothing more than for everyone to find true love, and not hurt each other in the process. I suppose, I might be a little romantic at heart. Lol.

Why Love Work Doesn't Always Work

When it comes to Love Mojo eyes and ears tune in closely, so why I don't write that often about love work is well beyond wonderment, really... I suppose the reason why is two fold A: Although I perform a lot of love work for clients, it is not really my favorite "work" to do and B: It is the one spiritual practice that generates so much of a hot debate between spiritual folks and spiritual workers that I really do not like to feed further debates on it as I have a truly mixed approach to "Love Work" as an individual.
My first approach is with natural caution to this type of work when someone first approaches me with a Love issue that they need fixed. As any one of my personal friends or family will tell you it is no surprise that I do proceed with caution in this area, for what I think are only natural reasons, but for so many others who are the hopeless romantics that throw caution to the wind, would think I was down right skiddish of love or unsympathetic to love issues. Lol. Yes, I am naturally a guarded person personally, and I am a thinker before a feeler (and from a woman's stand point is rare, it confuses my husband too, lol), and this is probably why I have such wonderful responses from clients in this area, as I am like their rational thinking, opened eyes, while they seem to be floating in the clouds under Cupid's love struck emotional sappy and sometimes teary eyed silliness. Man what people do for love sometimes... Lol. I have compassion for my clients, but I also keep level headed and practical when it comes to this type of work. What seems as a dire need to fix an issue isn't always worth the attention, and getting to the root of the issue is more important than many of the secondary issues and details that clients worry about.
I spend 1/3 of the time with many clients coaching on finding self love and fulfillment, changing destructive behaviors that damaged the relationship and/or their self worth, confidence, and pride. Every case seems to vary slightly but one thing they all deeply have in common is the need to be loved.
Everyone is looking for that one special person to last a lifetime. In this day in age, that is pretty damn difficult, and I see it everywhere I go. I believe that the problem with why more people are not finding that one perfect love is because most people have a warped sense of what a relationship is and what it requires. How many of us grew up with model parents who stayed together till the end? The media and T.V. dramas teach our youth about every possible situation that could go wrong when two loves come together and how they can ruin a potentially perfect love. How we solve problems and conflicts with others is also being corrupted. Look around you and notice how many have been taught to run, fight, abuse, obsess, manipulate, lie, and cheat to get through life. Some people are so desperate for love that they will settle into what they believe is an ideal love affair only to be sadly disappointed that their ideal love came with extras they can't wash away. Then you have those that will try to change their mates to fit their own idea of the fairy tale. All spells disaster waiting to happen.
When it comes to love work, it is a challenging task, as you are not only working the energy present with one client but technically two targets which is more work to evaluate and maintain. When it comes to love work that fails, in my experience there are a few reasons why it doesn't work, the first being that the individuals were not meant to be together, their spirits are not compatible. The second reason is because of the mentioned issues above, thought processes on how you interact in a relationship as part of the whole unit is corrupted, behaviors such as obsession, possessiveness, neurotic emotions, trust issues, boundary settings and boundary invasions, etc. have not been worked on by the individual and these same behaviors are what got us in trouble to begin with.
The successful love cases I have had are the ones in which the individuals have learned from their mistakes, are selfless, and have corrected any wrong behaviors on their part that contributed to the love issue.
Time frames are affected by these factors. Love work can be short lived after a slow or fast on coming of the energies, or it can be long lasting after a slow or fast on coming of the energies. Root workers can not tell you which to expect, although sometimes we have a pretty good idea which direction it will take if we use our practical intelligence, read the cards, or use some other form of intuitive reading.
So, the first thing that I always do, is take notes of the situation and background like any other case, try to get a clear picture from the clients point of view of when and what contributed to things going wrong and then proceed with a tarot card reading. The cards can give me a general idea if love work is going to be successful. Most of the time, the cards give me the insight I need to inform the client of the success rate. I am the type of worker that will let you know if it is a straight out NO WAY, ain't gonna happen too. And then sometimes, I take a case that takes months to complete and lots and lots of coaching on hopes that the client gets to a peaceful balance in their life and happy with the choices they make in the future. I surely turn away several cases every month that I personally am not willing to work with for personal reasons that I discuss on my website, that I can clearly see with my eyes wide open will never be successful. Lol.
But the road keeps on twisting and turning in life, and I believe everyone can find true love. If I can help someone get there if not a step closer to achieving it I will give it my best shot. I do believe that when we are clean and pure we are more open to receiving Spirits guiding messages that lead us to our hearts desires. And I firmly believe that self love is the most important love in the world. When you have self love, respect, and balanced spirit, we can have better judgement on who we choose as a mate, better in tuned to our right path to find them, and keep them when we do find them.
So, if you have a case in which love work isn't working for you, what do you do?
Cleanse, Balance, Redirect your energy to healing the negative qualities that affect your relationship status.

Develop a routine of cleansing the spirit.
Use love and healing herbs on the self to promote heart healing, and embracing self love.
Work this into a life changing habit and regular maintenance work as needed.
Work on healing past traumas, pains, etc. that block up your path to finding and keeping a mate.

When to use Luck and Love Magick

Love and Luck, desires that all humans have.

Cleansing work is always a must even if you are not a worker (spiritual worker), but also for those who come in daily contact with people (working retail, restaurant service, etc.) Keeping a clean spiritual temple (your body), keeps you in balance, allowing for free flow of energy to travel within as well as allowing to receive energy from outside sources and integrate these energies into your being, metaphysically speaking. Crap gets built up, period. Clean house, peeps. Inside and Out (you and your house).

So, you have your spirit clean, purified, wiping the funk off your back, now what? For some, this is all they need to live a quiet, happy life; they feel pure, the table has been cleared. And for the others... Cleansing work is part one to a whole magickal regimen. For these folks, it's a balance of sweeping out the dirt and bringing in freshness and newness. The important thing here is to be sure you have followed a regular cleansing routine, clearing out cobwebs in your spirit, temple, and house. When you are not clean, luck is down, and can not come through a dirty vessel (the vessel being you). You will bring more sorrow and disappointment in your life if you try to use luck and attraction magick if you are not cleansed. Some folks just don't understand this. They want luck and love magick to fix their issue, just building on top of more failure and disappointment. It's like the "brown paper bag effect". If you have molded fruit nearby fresh fruit, it's release of ethylene gas will likely speed up the ripening of the fresh fruit before it can be enjoyed and it too will mold quicker, it's useless, not edible. Then you realize you just wasted 5 dollars on some kiwi fruit you will never get to enjoy. Disappointment, a small one, but hey if you keep buying those kiwi's and they keep ripening too fast, you might want to double check that fridge to see if you have some old moldy fruit in there hiding behind the mayo. If you use attraction magick without having kept yourself cleansed, you will be inviting failure. You might be kicking yourself at that point for even spending the time, energy, money, etc. building on top of chaos, beating your head against a wall to try to figure out why everything you are trying isn't working, working yourself into further self doubt. It's that simple. Ok, So did I stress the point enough here, CLEAN house. And yourself. :D


This is a bath that you can create with the intention of opening doors and bringing in a little luck and love your way. It's very simple to do. It can be performed weekly or even three days a week to bring in some luck in friendship, opportunities, love, and money.

All Luck Bath ~ Coconut milk, Fresh Basil, Cinnamon, and Honey. Coconut for the open door spirits. Basil for peace and cooperation from others. Cinnamon for luck in money and love. Honey for sweetening people to you. Make small doses of this bath so it doesn't go rancid. Pray over the concoction after it's prepared by using your favorite luck prayer, psalm, or charge of intent. Use three times a week after regular showering.
While bathing, use a prayer of your choice, meditating on the open roads to love, beauty, happiness. Burn a light blue candle, a tea light is fine. When you are done with your bath, pinch out the candle and use for the next bath. No controlling or demanding thoughts over others should be a part of this type of work. You are asking the spirits of the doorways to be open to you, and inviting peace, love, and luck into your life.

~Mama V