New Etsy Site complimentary to the Website

Here ya go, hoodoo fans! Up on Etsy again. Click the photo below it will take you to the shop.

Hiring Mama Vescha for Spell Services

For new clients considering hiring me as your root worker this is vital in reading and understanding.
Because some people just are not taking the time to fully understand and consider these terms that I have put in place for us to work compatibly and smoothly with beneficial and mutual understanding for us both. Your root worker is your ally so this is a working relationship. 

http://conjureroot.com/services/working-services-for-you/

More Conjure and The Root Updates for Client work

This is going to only affect clients and customers from the last two months so bear with me here. A recent crash of my computer and salvage attempt contributed to losing more than half of my computer files which include email consultations, email tarot reading drafts (not saved on the server), loss of client case files (photos of prework, work, and follow ups), in addition to several business files (I believe these are backed up on a disk somewhere), but client case files and the photos for each client, personal photos and ritual work photos included are not backed up due to frequent change outs in client cases. SOO, what this means right now, is that if you have not heard from me and you have an open case, please send me a quick email, so that I may sort you back into files and we can do a brief follow up on your work. The cases I have now are written out in book form but do not include photos of work performed, only in note form. Your written file contains only the original consultation/reading photo you sent during the initial set up of your new case. Everything else is stored electronically. Just so happens that I didn't renew a cyber back up spot last year, go me, yay, Vescha... A lot of emails I will be able to recover on the Gmail server, but that is going to take some time to sort through the folders as they are not nearly as organized as the folders were in my Outlook. Blessings Vescha

Photos of the Mountain Farm, CATR's New Residence

I know I said months ago that I would get some photos up! Delayed, but here's a start. : )

An Unveiling of the Dark and a Voice to be heard

Prewarning! Going to be a LOONGGG one, but it might be worth sharing for some of you who need some inspiration? So here it goes:

Can you ever truly stop being who you are? Even with demons riding your shoulders, you are still you at the very inner core. We walk through life wearing a mask to every person we meet in the street, we don't truly allow those people to come into our world, these strangers. When you greet a certain woman on the street, is this how you would greet your friends who show up for your party? We each have a natural guard, some guards are thicker than other guards we show. How much trust do you put into yourself in knowing how to use the guard correctly for every person you know? How much should you guard from those you know? I am not talking directly about guarding and hiding a secret. I am talking about guarding and protecting your inner core and your heart.
As a child we learn how our voice can be heard to get the basic necessities we need for survival. How do we do this as an adult? What happens to the child who never had a voice to express what they needed or how they were hurting? What becomes of the child in adulthood? How does she use her voice if she's never taught how? I have learned through the years that children need their voices and every good parent should teach and allow that child to use it. The voice comes not only from the vocal box, but also through the movements, decisions, action and reactions, showings, her artistic abilities, and every act whether seen in right or wrong light, is her voice trying to be heard. What does she have to say? Who does she have to say it to? Herself, the cosmic world, her lover, her children, her friends? Many voiceless adults know what they have to express, but fail in almost every attempt to try to be heard. Communication signals are crossed, the ones that emanate outward from within, the longer the chords- the more tangled these become. This breakdown leads to break ups of relationships, families, working conditions, networking of friends, and so forth. At an early time in life, I used art to communicate my voice and as I grew into teenage years, my voice became a part of my destructive behavior which continued well into my early adult years. My voice was heard by very few, although translation was unclear. I fought hard to make my voice heard, on a vocal level but also an artistic level. Every act of my self was one step closer to learning to get my voice heard. I didn't need to be heard by every single person I came across in life's travels, the first person I needed to hear my voice was myself. Hearing my voice allowed me to recognize my pain and my pleasures. I was silenced as a child, the only way I knew to truly find my voice was through means of unconventional acts to the mundane eye. I knew early on I would walk a path that would be misunderstood, judged, feared, stereotyped, and mistrusted. However, that is the only way I knew how to walk, I have always leaned to the darker and more fierce side and methods to break through to the core of my being. Walking in the darkness, and silent, with no voice will take you this path. It was through all my trials, errors, and failures to have my voice heard, to get to the truth of who I was, using the only ways I knew to use, did I finally find the right way to have my voice heard. I was around 30 years old when that light bulb came on. yay, go me! Yes, I found that way. However, the next hard task was finding a way to break the silence I had created around me. Words had no meaning through the filters of damaged canals I had created for those around me. In fact those around me, I believe, for their own reason and not at true fault, had clogged vessels and channels and really wasn't able to hear what I had to say, nor could they see how my behavior was self destructive. Did they take on that hurt and pain, did I cause the hurt and pain, not intentionally for both. Not only do you need to know how to say what you need to say, the receiver needs to know how to listen to not only words and actions but the deeper source of what is being communicated. For me it was a reaching out saying "I am confused, I am lost, I love you, please tell me what to do, because I am failing miserably at this!" But once I came to the point of realization and the strength to take the path to healing, all I could do at that point was to show what I had accomplished, in hopes that an understanding would come forth to those around me. I had conquered a demon but I never realized the spawns it secretly created while I was looking inward until a year later.
For the next 8 years, my task was to use the voice I had found, help others to find their voice, and to finally show my love and children what I had always felt and believed in about them and us as a whole unit. So when I say that everything I do I do for them and I do for me, this is it right here, searching and reaching, putting my whole being out there, making my voice be heard to express what they are to me.
Tears can come from pain or joy. Confusing actions and reactions can come from those same places. The self can be lost in translation, and I felt lost in translation for sure. One thing that never changed is the love I have always had with me for myself, my children, and the love of my life. I had learned to heal myself in ways that were more in alignment for me and for my family, I attuned my spiritual path more correctly to it's roots and nature. I went back to college and finished a degree. I started a business specifically for aiding and guiding others in need of help. I worked hard every day to show the ones around me that I loved them, and that knowing that I went through hell for that many years, I tried very much to shelter and protect them all so they never had to feel what I was feeling. Yes, that was my blind eye, not realizing that my silence, was misconstrued. The double edge sword in the gut was finding out that the one love of my life misunderstood me, didn't trust me, and couldn't see the true beauty within me as I thought he had. For he was the only strength I could pull from when I had none, but I pulled so much of his strength, that it left him dazed, confused, angry, and hurt. This is how strong the demon that rode on the crazy bus to my hell was. Never my intention, could be stopped, no way. Did I grow and evolve from it, absolutely.
When I began to have children, I encouraged them through the years to speak their truth, speak their mind, express themselves, and to not be afraid to express themselves. All three of my beautiful bundles of joy are expressive, full of love and emotions, and do not hide from the world. They have true liberty, unlike what I had at their age. If I am only able to give them one gift, that would be the gift that I give to them, freedom to be who they are, and go any where they want, free of fear to be who they are and have their voice be heard in any way they see fit. I know that for everything that I have ever done or tried to do, was to be able to be heard, from early poetry, rituals, drawings, photography, more rituals, bdsm, psychedelics, alcohol, more rituals, writings, more drawings, more poetry, priestessing, healings, was directly for the sole purpose of seeking the self and self's voice and making it be heard. Many of these paths like I say have been judged, misunderstood, stereotyped, etc. If I said I did it with love in my heart, that alone is misunderstood and mistrusted. Unfortunately, I can't go back in time and pull out websites of my old photography to show that it was all in the act of trying to be heard, the writings, the blogs, all of it. Maybe it's on an old hard drive somewhere if I was smart enough back then to back up files... One thing that is true and stands true, is that the friends that I have made along the way, and my family, and some place deep in the heart of the one that I am close to who has shared my life for 16 years, they all know this to be true of who I am, where I have been, and why. Today my only wish is for my love to regain his strength and balance and come to clarity of our path together. To see (and understand) how very much in love with him I have always been and always will be, and know in his heart that we alone can walk this path side by side as a strong united force as a loving couple better than we were before. And damn we rocked the damn house together, if I could only share that with the world ;), but a very special few in our life have seen us at the core of our unity and saw the love we had rocking for years together, even at our hardest times, we survived a lot, like those old couples that have the stories of crazy complex stories and experiences to tell to those young whipper snappers who think they found their love of their life like no other. Lol, yea, that is what I look forward to one day ;). But!!! The rituals we have done together have never skipped a beat in the least. We created a beautiful child from ritual work and as we are very powerful as individuals we are very powerful as a couple, we know it (at least I know it at this moment) and so do the ones around us. That I see very clearly and one day as the Sun comes out and dries the mist and warms the earth, he will see it too. I know I don't have to prove anything to anyone, maybe I can do something to help clear away the demons that try to cover my truth and beauty, but the sole purpose now in the moment of this post, is just that, to clear the clouds for myself, for my love to be heard, and for someone else out there that might need encouragement to take the necessary steps to find their voice too. It's been a lifelong lesson the real meaning and curse behind being an Aquarius a "humanitarian" and works from the inside out to try to change the world so that my children continue to be free to be who they are and have their unique voice be heard. I do it for them, the sacrifices we make for our children is Great. This is a fight that I will never give up, of course. I will continue to fight for liberty for them. I will continue to fight for liberty for all the ones that I love, him, my children, my sister, my family, my friends. That's just who I am and have always been. Same girl, a little older, a little wiser, and just with a clearer view of how to fight and with new tools to fight with: my work as a spiritual guide, healer, paintbrushes, and my artistic talent. :)

Light and Love,
V

Updates and Future

Here are some updates for the future of Conjure and The Root (Sacred Vescha Conjure). A long needed sabbatical is under way. I have been fighting this current for some time and now it is time to succumb to it's power... I will be taking this time to focus on a new direction and changes for the future of the website, supplies, among some serious life changes in personal areas of life since the move. The move was a huge change for all involved, disruptive for some, however, time will tell how the tides will smooth out the roughness, and erode things into nothingness. I am hoping for the best of both effects. During this time of personal reflection, healing, and sought after enlightenment, I will be focusing in on my spiritual and artistic goals, two of 3 important reasons for the drastic shift in living situation last year. I would like to eventually share some of this but that will come in due time. :) In the mean time, I will be leaving available and taking less of the following requests: Readings, consultations, and Spell services. These areas will remain active and available on the website. Production and availability of tangible products will not be available through the website unless under the available services i.e. nation sacks, mojo bags, and other follow up products that is part of the work being done on your behalf AND under only special requests if you send an email directly to me, or as a result of reading and consultation it becomes clear further work is needed to be done in your case. At that time I will send you an invoice of products to purchase directly. The time frame in which the products will be unavailable is yet to be determined, but you can count on at least the next 2 months. In addition the other available items that will remain up are the items pertaining to the Vodou sections, packets, bottles, jewelry, that are already created until purchased and no further items in these areas will be available until I reopen all categories.
Blessings of Light and Eternal Flame in your hearts,
Mama Vescha.Sur

Changes and Mountain goat wannabes

New name is active and new website is also active. veschaconjure.com is being redirected to conjureroot.com. If you have trouble with it, contact me mamavescha@gmail.com

In other news, new bath, floor wash bottles are in stock, and new size for oils are available now as well. Photos coming available in time. Orders are now on track and on time, I apologize for the backed up issues. I needed to work out new supplier locations with the move, set up an efficient system of mail outs and work out address issues with the post office and other new suppliers that didn't recognize our new address as verified through the post office. Phew, hopefully all is in the clear. New projects that were discussed in the last few newsletters are in active pursuit now as well. So expect to hear about some awesome opportunities next year after the new year for all you magickal folk out there. ;) Coming soon will be some photos of the new place and our little farm animals! Whoa. V is on a farm. This city girl is not sure what to do with all that! The comfort of the mountain top air, fresh mountain spring water, and hundreds of acres nature and woods that surround me will get me through! Lol.

We made it! YAY GA mountain Hoodooing!

OK! So we are here! Photos to come soon, we are still in the building phase, but here we are GA Mountains, here to leave our imprint (and footprints :) ).
Update: Seriously behind on emails, tarot readings, orders from the past few weeks. Have had some connection issues with the internet, and I get 0 cell phone service up here. We are in a very rural area now, more than 5 miles into the woods in the forest, but only about 15 minutes from the closest town. So, emails are going to take longer to respond to on certain days, this is part of the adjustment I will have to live with.

Now is the time to slow down, retreat, reflect, the future has begun now. A new home, a new life, a new adventure. Everyone is still making adjustments, some harder than others, but everyone is healthy, and looking upwards to reach their goals. There is no turning back now, we walked away from the past, will hold onto great memories, and we are here to make some new ones!

Relocation Of Sacred Vescha Conjure

The time is fast approaching that I am relocating with my family and the Conjure Botanica. What this means to you? Not much, if you are just a regular reader, Lol. But giving you guys the warning that when this time comes in a few weeks that emails will be on hold, orders on hold, new spell work on hold. We have been doing a very slow transition moving, and this isn't a simple move across town, or down the block. We are moving 100 miles from here to a remote place in the mountains, so it's going to take a few days to get up and running again after everything is moved over, including internet connectivity, getting unpacked as quickly as possible, getting these three vagabonds settled into their new routines, you know the family life and all that good stuff. We have moved about a quarter of the place. As most of you know, the shop is attached to my house, so that means it's the last to be moved over. Any current client work will be wrapped up and sent on it's way to the client as needed. Other client work will be moved to the new location i.e jar spells, mojo bags, and other movable things. Light settings will be completed and any new order of light settings will be on hold. Reoccurring light sets will resume in my private space in the new place and be the first to be up and going before shipping orders resume. The store site will be closed during the actual move, so if you are planning to buy anything in August, please, please get the orders in as soon as you can. The second weekend of September I will close the shop Sept 6th through Sept. 13. So the latest to put in orders will be Sept 5th. I will mail these last orders out over the weekend and early the second week, but no new shipping orders will be accepted. I will accept Tarot Readings, as these can be done nightly. The shop will resume normally on Sept. 14th. As I said before, continued light sets will be worked, honey jars, and mojo bags as well. Any other spell work will be on hold as discussed with the clients.
Happy late summer!
Mama V!

A Rootworkers Opinion on Hoodoo and The Bible

The bible in Hoodoo or African American Conjure has a very tight history with each other. Many people ask me if they have to use the bible in order to work with Hoodoo. I know other workers out there are getting the same questions. And I will put it right out there, the questions are coming primarily from my international clients and the new age and neo pagan magicians. My response is yes, you should consider at some point to work with the bible if you are working traditional old hoodoo. Do your research, walk into any conjure shop that has been in business for 25 or more years, and you are going to see that the bible is very much a main component in Hoodoo. Maybe I am too traditional or old fashioned, but my theory is why change something that has worked fine with the elements in the tradition? Every old worker and older customer that I have spoken to has said yes they work with the bible, and yes, their mother also worked with the bible. At one point in my life I saw the bible as something that corrupted the Christian minds of the new Aeon, I saw the bible as a reminder of every thing gone wrong with the Christian tradition. It wasn't until many years of experience with magick and getting older and out of my "rebellious years", that I was able to sit down and take a different approach to viewing the bible. Do you need to be Christian to read the bible or work Hoodoo? No. But in the tradition of Hoodoo, there were and still are many eclectic Christians working spells straight from the bible with their prayer candles. Prayer candles are 7 day candles, Novena candles that contain prayers and images of Catholic Saints, and as we know a Catholic Saint is a patron of "something". The way that I view the bible is one more magickal book to use for rituals. And why not, isn't this what a prayer is? An invocation, a petition, a calling to the energies in the universe to grant our wish? I do come from a Gnostic perspective when it comes to using the bible. Just as each Saint serves a mission to present to God on our behalf, so is each prayer in the bible. Psalms in particular which are very common in Hoodoo, and among my favorite petitioning rituals, are powerful, give them a read over a few times, you will quickly see how these words hold power to invoke your desires. I think that if you have a strong sense of your own faith and path and enlightenment of who or what "God" is to you personally, you aren't going to be brainwashed, swayed, or corrupted by the bible... I have heard this comment before. O.o ... Hoodoo has become very diverse, many things out there claiming to be part of Hoodoo that aren't, many cross overs from other traditions are slowly entering into Hoodoo. If you are going to work Hoodoo, learn it's history and the original elements of Hoodoo. Stepping back into time in the old black southern culture, you are going to see what Hoodoo is and what impostering ideas of Hoodoo are. The bible has been and always will be a part of Hoodoo. It is irritating to see people try to work Hoodoo however they want and to change the elements of the tradition and dismiss that the bible exists among all the other authentic elements in Hoodoo and try to call it Hoodoo OR sell it as Hoodoo. I have heard people literally say, "I do Hoodoo except using any Psalms or the bible, I don't think it's necessary since I am not a Christian and don't agree with the bible". Lol. This cracks me up, every time someone says this. It just shows me that they cannot see any spiritual text as a unity of all spirituality and that we have unlimited resources. Further, it's funny to me that these same folks are the folks that will do a ritual that involves deities of Hindu or another culture that is not of their own ancestry. Is this a case of religious prejudices, lol? Dismissing the fact that the bible is an element and tool in Hoodoo is like the Photographer dismissing his reflectors, eventually he's gonna want to have them on hand. Ehhh. Either way, in my opinion, we are free individuals in the universe to be open and available to utilize any spiritual resource for our pursuit of happiness. :) But, this is just my opinion, not claiming it as a fact... : )

St. Philomena, Filomena

St. Philomena, Filomena, was believed to be a Greek princess, and today is a catholic saint and an important saint of the Vodou tradition. Her feast day is August 11th.
Little is known about the life of Philomena whose body was discovered in 1802 in a catacomb of St. Priscilla in Rome. On the tomb rested three stones with the words LUMENA PAX TE CUM FI with symbols of 3 arrows, 2 anchors, a palm, and a lily. However, it's been suggested that the stones were in the wrong order and rearranging these stones would read PAX TE CUM FI LUMENA, meaning "Peace Be With You, Filumena". The young girls head had been fractured. A vial of what appeared to be reminiscences of dried blood was found in the tomb as well, which also leads theories in the direction to support the facts along with the symbols on the stones, that she suffered martyrdom. It is believed that St. Philomena was around the age of 14 at the time of her death.
She is the patroness of youth and babies. She can be prayed to for protection and blessings for children. Set sweet cakes, candies, sweet drinks, colas, toys, red and white braided ropes, pink flowers, lilies, perfumes, make up, green, pink or light blue candles.
Set an image out for her, light her a candle, and give her offerings. Recite a prayer and your petition to her.
A Prayer to use for St. Philomena follows, or you may choose another of your own liking.

St. Philomena, virgin and martyr, whose purity and devotion of everything innocent and good, grant to me the pardon of my sins, wash me pure. Your intercession is humbly called upon, from the heavens shines the light unto me. Protection and blessings, please intercede for me. Fortify me, sustain mine suffering, and obtain for me the graces of necessity and in particular (state your petition here)
O God, I thank Thee for the graces, Thou didst bestow upon the Blessed Virgin Mary, and upon Thy handmaid Philomena, through whose intercession we implore Thy Mercy.
Amen.

The Veil and the Gift (Psychics born with a Veil)

Old traditions of European countries believed that the baby born with a veil over partial or full face was a special child and were gifted with second sight, had enhanced intuitive skills, had psychic abilities, were card readers, aura readers, spirit seers, etc.  The child born with a veil was considered to be destined to do great things. The child was considered lucky.

This same story is echoed throughout the globe as well, with slight variations in the folklore.

This “Veil” is called a Caul. It is the inner membrane of the amniotic sac that a baby is encased inside while in the womb. It is a thin filmy, sort of slimy texture, the same membrane that some animals are still covered in during birth. The baby sometimes doesn’t fully emerge from the sac and is born with the caul covering the head, face, or in really rare times, the entire body which is called a “veiled birth” or “en caul”. In West Africa, a child born completely enclosed in the caul is called Oke.  English countries call the child a caulbearer, or a child born with a veil or hood.

It was common for the caul to be saved as a gift from the birthing assistant to give to the mother for keeps. The caul was saved by keeping it in a jar, or in a sealed envelope. It was either kept in water as it was in the womb, or it was laid out to dry then sealed in an envelope. As time passes, it becomes more imperative to protect it from break down and damage. It is part of the folklore that the state of the caul is linked to the person’s health. The person who kept his caul with him for life would carry on the gift and able to put to use his second sight; he could talk to spirits, etc. If he lost his caul, he would still see spirits but would lose the ability to communicate with them. If the caul is damaged, the person will be ill, but if the caul is firm and in good shape so is his health. Because it was considered lucky to own or possess a caul, in Europe the caul from the baby was saved and created into a good luck charm and sometimes sold to sailors to protect them from the waters of the sea and storms, it gave them protection from drowning. Author Newbell Niles Pucket wrote about this phenomenon and states that Midwives often stole and sold the caul for money because it was such a rare occurrence and considered good luck to own a caul. Many stories tell us about the Caul and its folklore of the baby being born with the gift of second sight. The Grimm brother’s tale “The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs” is about a child born with a veil. Stephen King’s book “The Shining”, Danny is said to be born with a veil at birth, he appeared to have no face. The theme of this story is that Danny has second sight. In “Gypsy: A Musical Fable”, Gypsy Rose Lee is born with a caul. Bruno Frye from Dean Koontz novel “Whispers” is born with a caul. Some famous people born with a caul include Sigmund Freud, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, Liberace, Edwin Thomas Booth, and Lord Byron.

Road Opener Work

Road Opener is a hoodoo formula that is used for when life just feels like it's in a rut or stuck. You try to move forward in life, but the same result every time, you feel like you are at a dead end, or your wheels are spinning at the crossroads. You don't see the future, no possible way to move forward. And it seems to ring true even after trying a new method, but every door is closed in your face. Something is holding you back, so it's time to cleanse and work some Road Opening. After a good spiritual cleansing (which helps to get and maintain balanced energies, see the other posts for recipes for baths and floor washes), road opening can be started to help cut a path and open new doors. Spiritual Cleansing removes the funk built up that you are swimming in, the muddy water. You don't always need to cleanse before Road Opening, but you will recognize if you do, such as if you feel chaotic mentally or emotionally, or have too much chaos in your life, if it's been awhile before you cleansed, if you don't feel balanced, if you feel you were once cursed, or have the evil eye on you, etc. If you experience any of these or similar, then go ahead and do a cleansing. Sometimes it's better safe than sorry, and you want to do a quick wash down before proceeding anyway.
I see Road Opening as cutting down the weeds that can grow over the pathway to an entrance, then you can see what lies ahead. It is almost like an attraction formula in the sense that it will help to open new doors to new opportunities. Road Opening can be mixed with other formulas that bring in blessings such as Money Draw or a Love formula like Come To Me. Another kind of Road Opening is Block Buster, I have found that this though breaks through tough situations, breaks down stone walls, but not opening up a door way, just clears the road. Then I use an attraction formula to bring in what I desire after the Block Buster.
Here's a simple recipe for performing a Road Opener bath. Use Psalm 16 with this. Prepare it as a tea bath, boil the water, soak the herbs, strain and pray over the tea bath, then add it to your bath. Pour it over your head an odd number of times 7 or 9, air dry and anoint your feet and palms with a Road Opener oil that you have purchased or made yourself.

Orange Peel
Lemon Balm
Burdock
Gravel Root
Solomon's Seal Root
Five Fingers Grass
High John Root
Lemon Grass,
Abre Camio


Abre Camino is an herb that grows in the Caribbean and tropical states such as Florida. This herb is used in religious rites such as Quimbanda, Santeria, Palo. It's name translates in Spanish to Abre = Open and Camino = Road, Pathway, Trail, etc.
This herb is commonly found also in Road Opener formulas. It is an expensive herb, but not impossible to locate via the internet. You can order it from a few botanicas online or do the search and find a local harvester in the southern Florida region. It will make your formula stronger, but you can still make due with the other ingredients above ;)
Good Luck!!!!

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.