First Community Conjure Blessing for 2017 Video

The first event for the year on New Year's was a great turn out! I am pleased how it went and all the great feedback and messages from those who were included. There are a few pics and a 1 minute video clip I recorded (see left) as I was burning each paper after the charging and cracking of the coconut. That was the only part of the ceremony I could have a free hand to multitask and record. :) Anyway, your messages have been awesome to read and I'll be responding to the rest of you as soon as possible. I look forward to many more Community Conjure Blessings this year!

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Ok, on a side note, I started a New Instagram account to follow. The other one had just become consumed with more of my personal family and stuff, and less conjure. So, follow the new one @mamav_conjureroot for more magickal and conjure related shares and hopefully you don't mind cute kitty companion videos and pics, and random life shares of Vescha's seemingly strange life, no not really, but really to some!

The next Community Conjure Blessing will be in February for blessings of Fertility. "Fertility doesn't always mean making babies, but YES that can be part of the blessing as well! So, start gathering your thoughts, goals, petitions, desires, needs, and readiness to bear fruit!" I will announce the date of that later this month, so keep looking for that, please do not send me any requests for it right now, those will just be lost in messages and inquiries by Feb. Take the time to focus on what you need to bring into your life this year. The event of course, will be another free event. It's a community blessing, part of my work as a Priestess, to bring healing and joy to the local and worldly community! 

Winter & New Years Ceremony at the shop

As 2016 wraps up and we are carried off into 2017 and the Winter season, the house smells of cinnamon, hazelnut, and a little bit of dragons blood mixed with sage. Winter is a time that I always like to focus attention to cleaning up and clearing out any stagnating energies that haven't made it to full maturation that was set into motion during the Spring equinox. Getting rid of energies that no longer serve us, purging old ways that no longer align in our universes, is the winter season theme beginning this past week. From the Winter Solstice to the New Year is the time that I spend clearing the energies. From a full house cleansing, removing of dead spiritual cob webs, floor washing, incense smoking, fire releasing ceremonial event, and cleaning up all of the altars, personal and client working, is in full swing this weekend through next week. This year has been filled with much sorrow, death, and all sorts of mental breakdowns that have touched our magickal community, the world around us, and even here at home. So, this New Year's, at the shop I am planning on holding a community healing for continuous release of what no longer serves us, letting go of old habits, patterns, thoughts, feelings, tangled ropes, the dead fallen branches that need to be cleared and released so that we can see what really lies ahead of us and waits for us on our path. I am not talking about choosing new paths, but clearing it, lifting the fog to see your path more clearly. I will add a link to the FB link at the bottom of this post so you can add your name for me to put you on the petition.

For New Years, I like to make up all new Attraction/Abundance sprays, baths, and floor washes for the shop and for my home. I usually do not cook traditional foods for luck and prosperity as many do, instead I have been taking this time to prepare these for myself, family, and friends. I also spend a lot of this time working on new business adventures for the new year, get it all out into my notebooks and work on the sites a little bit.This is just what has served me well over the past few years, and gets my inside light all toasty and ready to shine for the New Year. : )

Let's see, what has been happening all year at CATR? This year, I introduced Hoodoo Tea Blends to the inventory. I also put together a few Conjure Boxes, and really looking forward to doing some more this year. I had several custom Conjure Boxes sent out to folks. That was a lot of creative fun and I think they enjoyed the nice surprises. There is one left for the year, it's a duplicate of the first money conjure box that came out around March/April (the image is of the first one that sold). It's exactly the same, so if you want to snatch it up, it's on the shop here Money Conjure Box.
For 2017, I am really hoping that we will be in a new space finally, I have outgrown my working area. I don't have any immediate plans to open the doors again for the public or clients, but many of my regular clients know that if they are local they can follow my meetups where I frequently host magickal meet and greets and workshops. So, if you haven't already come out to meet, please send me a message and I will get you connected to the meetup group! That's about it for now! I hope you enjoyed my rambling! Hahaha. Don't forget to stop over to the event page on Facebook to read up on the January event.

Winter Releasing Event <~~ Event to sign up to be added to the Community Conjure Blessing.

Erzulie Freda Mistress of Love, Beauty, & Femininity

Maitresse Erzulie Freda, one of the most beloved Loas of the Vodou religion is the Loa of Love, Beauty, and Femininity. Similar Spirits or Goddesses from other pantheons include Aphrodite, Isis, Virgin Mary, Lilith, Astarte, Kamadeva, Innana, and Oshun. Although they may seem similar they are not the same spirit or achetype. When working with the Loa, Maitresse Erzulie Freda Dahomey, she requires particular offerings and responds well to extravagant gifts such as pearls, shells, gold and gems, jewelry, a nice feminine french perfume, floral waters, toiletries, and a vanity set. Her offerings are of the finest wines, sweet liquors, special sweet drinks made from cane sugar alcohols, fruits such as melons, french and creole cuisines and fancy deserts. Her altar is adorned in fabrics of fine silk, lace, sequins, in white, pink, pale blues or blues of the Sea. She is lust, sensuality, pleasure and passion, femininity, beauty, love, desire, eloquence, luxuries, glamor, and delicacy, but she should not be taken for a fool or priss, for she is most powerful in her magic and breaks the most powerful wanga, and she is quick to correct her devotee and express her dissatisfaction, which is putting it mildly. She is what resides in every woman. She is the Moon, mysterious, emotional, light and dark. She is a water Loa. She is a cool spirit, or Rada Loa. She is passionate about life and love. She is flirty, loves to dance, loves to

laugh, loves a party, will be the Queen of High Class when she walks in the room, all eyes and attention only for her, AND, her space must be clean and fresh. She has high demands for her perfect world, she can act spoiled and even bitchy. Her horse will find themselves often left in tears. Erzulie weeps from the broken heart of a broken and disappointing world after all. She is the wife of three Loas, Met Ogou, Met Agwe, and Danbala and the Mistress of other Loas. Often you will see images of Mater Dolorosa, or the Virgin Mary on her altars along with her offerings, gifts, and husbands. Her colors are light blue, pink, and white, although she will come to you in other colors depending on her message she is trying to convey to you. The Loa will come to you in dreams to teach you, and so will your Erzulie, to show you what she wants from you as offerings. Erzulie can come to you in dreams as a beautiful mulatto or white woman, (she was a rich white woman, a Queen in her time on earth according to legends), or she will come as one of her other symbolic forms such as a little snake, or something that seems familiar to you that represents feminine beauty. She's the girl who walks past the mirror 50 times a day to just admire her own reflection. She walks with grace and poise. She may even act like the queen of an empire, but has delicate, soft, and luscious skin and features and posture. She will bring her loved ones wealth, beauty, health, protection, and happiness. She can be called to help enhance your magickal skills especially in divination. She shouldn't, however, be called to bring love, as she can bring the love she desires and it usually isn't the one you are compatible with! She can be very jealous as well, can cause complications in a relationship, it's best to keep your private love life out of the path of Erzulie Freda. Where Erzulie is, her husbands should be close by for balance. She seems to be snooty and picky, but she loves GREATLY especially her devotees.
Erzulie Freda is just one of many Erzulies. Each Erzulie has a different face, a different personality. Some other Erzulies are Grann Erzulie, Erzulie Dantor, Erzulie Mansur. Each one is unique, has particular offerings, prayers, and songs.

This is a song for Maitresse Erzulie Freda that you can use for your private workings with her.

Soti nan dlo fre, mètrès Erzulie Freda, vini dans, favè Bondye ou ak bote, nou se mwen ki beni yo, nan mitan prezans ou, li se fre, dlo a se fre, vini dans, vini dans, montre nou bote, nou gen bwason dous ak manje ki bon , vin dans, vini dans!

St. Jacques Le Majeur

St. Jacques Le Majeure, vini ak yon nepe, touye dragon sa yo, bwè wonm ou a, viktwa se pou ou.

Today, July 25th, is celebrated as his feast day. St. Jacques is known under other names sometimes as St. James the Greater. He is syncretized to Met Ogou in the Vodou traditions. St. Jacques colors are red, tan, and blue. Serve him some nice dark rum, coffee, red beans and rice, and tobacco cigars. Ask St. Jacques for victory over all matters, wars, quarrels, and enemies.