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southernmermaidsgrotto · 1 year

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Herbalism book reccomendations 📚🌿

General herbalism:

The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook by Green J. (2011)

20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs by Zak V. (1999)

The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guid by Easly T. (2016)

A-Z Guide to Drug-Herb-Vitamin Interactions by Gaby A.R.

American Herbal Products Association's Botanical Safety Handbook (2013)

Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine by Hoffman D. (2003)

Herbal Medicine for Beginners: Your Guide to Healing Common Ailments with 35 Medicinal Herbs by Swift K & Midura R (2018)

Today's Herbal Health: The Essential Reference Guide by Tenney L. (1983)

Today's Herbal Health for Women: The Modern Woman's Natural Health Guide by Tenney L (1996)

Today's Herbal Health for Children: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Nutrition and Herbal Medicine for Children by Tenney L. (1996)

For my black folks!!!

African Medicine: A Complete Guide to Yoruba Healing Science and African Herbal Remedies by Sawandi T.M. (2017)

Handbook of African Medicinal Plants by Iwu M.M. (1993)

Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Lee M.E. (2017)

Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Mitchell F. (2011)

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments by Covey H.C. (2008)

The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism: Transform, Heal, and Remember with the Power of Plants and Ancestral Medicine by Rose K.M. (2022)

Indigenous authors & perspectives!!

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Kimmerer R.W. (2015)

Gathering moss by Kimmerer R.W. (2003)

The Plants Have So Much To Give All We Have To Do Is Ask by Siisip Geniusz M. (2005)

Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings by Djinn Geniusz W. (2009)

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: ethnobotany and ecological wisdom of indigenous peoples of northwestern North America by Turner N. (2014)

A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines by Hogan Snell A. (2006)

Medicines to Help Us by Belcourt C. (2007)

After the First Full Moon in April: A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder by Grant Peters J. (2010)

Latin american herbalism works!!

Earth Medicines: Ancestral Wisdom, Healing Recipes, and Wellness Rituals from a Curandera by Cocotzin Ruiz F. (2021)

Hierbas y plantas curativas by Chiti J.F. (2015)

Del cuerpo a las raíces by San Martín P.P., Cheuquelaf I. & Cerpa C. (2011)

Manual introductorio a la Ginecología Natural by San Martín P.P.

🌿This is what I have for now but I’ll update the post as I find and read new works, so keep coming if you wanna check for updates. Thank you for reading 🌿

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kemetic-dreams · 4 months

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Roots under Beale: The Significance of Beale Street to Memphis Hoodoo History

In the late 1800s, Robert Church, the first African-American millionaire in the South took great interest in Beale Street. After purchasing land on Beale, Church built Church Park and Auditorium exclusively for black Memphians. He also created a recreational center and an upscale hotel. Beale Street was very important to African American life in Memphis as Church wanted to create a safe haven for black Memphians where African American food, music and entertainment could be celebrated.

A community of healers, conjurers and rootworkers began to develop on Beale. Memphians knew that you could visit the right store or juke joint and find someone with the ‘gift’ to provide magical and spiritual help. Beale Street musicians like W.C. Handy began to speak of the hoodoo culture through the lyrics of their songs. Blues singer Lillie Mae Glover known as ‘Ma Rainey II’ became popular on Beale Street as not only a performer but also a conjurer. She would perform rituals and various spiritual workings for other performers on Beale, as well as random customers who knew to seek her out. One of her special abilities was the ability to make mojo hands for blues musicians. While many hands were traditionally made using roots, lodestone and a red flannel bag, Lillie Mae made hers using common ingredients like sugar, flour and a heap of coal.

It became evident that hoodoo was being practiced in downtown Memphis much to the dislike of the white community. Hoodoo and any African based religious practices were compared to savage paganism that threatened the wives and children of the white community of Memphis. Local police were put on alert regarding the threat of hoodoo and ‘voodooism’ as it was commonly referred to.

The Memphis Press-Scimitar reported:

‘The Voodoo business still thrives on Beale Street. Police, looking for a witch

doctor yesterday confiscated a half a sack full of “Stay Away Powder,”

“Easy Life Powder” and “Spanish Luck Drops” being sold to negroes at

25 cents a set. The “Stay Away” powder, supposed to jinx a love rival,

proved to be nothing stronger than flour. “Easy Life” powder appeared to

be a fine grade of ground clay. “Spanish Luck Drops” were more potent.

They were a cheap but stout perfume. All in all, police figured the 25-cent

collection cost the producers not more than a couple of cents.’

Raids on rootworkers and conjurers were quite common in the city. There is record of a number of arrests where hoodoo devotees were arrested and artifacts such as mojo bags and amulets were confiscated and in some cases destroyed in the presence of practitioners. Hoodoo was not only feared but represented empowerment for the black community, something that the times simply would not allow.

The development of a hoodoo community on Beale Street gained the notoriety of the title ‘The Black Magic District’ as many Memphians knew that one could obtain a cleansing, a black cat bone or guidance from the ancestors by visiting the right individual on Beale. In the 1940s gold miners would visit Beale Street looking for conjurers to help them spiritually locate treasure along the Mississippi River. The rising number of Memphians using Beale Street’s healers as a form of healthcare caused some Memphis physicians to become critical and voice offense against the community’s rootworkers. However as writer Keith Wailoo in has noted “Those who invoked spirits to relieve one’s rheumatism or to subdue one’s enemies would not be driven easily from the Bluff city.” Hoodoo was here to stay.

In 1876, Jewish immigrant Abraham Schwab opened one of Memphis’s most iconic businesses on Beale Street. A. Schwab began as a dry goods store offering everything from cloth overalls to blues records. Years later the store began to carry a number of hoodoo related curios. In fact at one point the store was literally bringing in shipments of over one hundred and twenty tons of hoodoo related candles. The hoodoo community in Memphis would purchase oils, candles, incense and roots from the oldest store on Beale. One of my earliest exposures to hoodoo curios came when as a child I was taken into Schwab by my parents. I remember the scent of incense and the colorful collection of candles and curios. It was a wonderland to the senses.

During the writing of A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers and Spirituals, I was given the opportunity to visit the store’s archives and see some of the remnants of hoodoo curios and artifacts. A number of old curios from Memphis based companies like ‘LaClyde Lucky Products’ and ‘Lucky Heart Cosmetics’ were preserved in pristine condition saved for their historical preservation. Boxes of dried rattlesnake root, John the Conqueror and assorted herbs could still be found. A member of the Schwab family shared stories of hoodoo practitioners throughout the years and the many testimonies and stories of customers from the conjure community.

These are but a few of the numerous stories about rootworkers and conjurers on Beale Street that were instrumental in the history of hoodoo in Memphis. The history of hoodoo in Memphis is a story of cultural survival that needs to be told.

#memphis #beale street #rootworker #african #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #afrakan #afrakans #brown skin #african culture #afrakan spirituality

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damonblack966 · 12 days

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#witchblr #occult #witch #satanism #baneful magic #hoodoo #witches #witchy #witch aesthetic #satanist #satanic #rootwork #rootworker

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lionheartapothecaryx · 3 months

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Always pray over and charge your spiritual waters and colognes.

#hoodoo #the love witch #aphrodite #black witches #witches of color #witchtok #witches of tiktok #love magick #rootworker #florida water

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iamwinklebottom · 2 months

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Santa Muerte La Negra Messages | “Like A Good Neighbor, Santa Muerte Is There”

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auroradivine · 2 years

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As people of the Sun y’all really be sleepin on the big homie Sol ☀️ He just be up there chillin in the sky givin us life when he could be giving your work life. Don’t get me wrong I love me some Luna. Big feminine energy 😌Ijs the moon as a anchoring symbol in spell work and ritual is so ingrained in our thinking that we tend to forget the sun's energy can be used as well. Father Sun is the natural balance to Mother Moon. If you do it in the moon you can do it in the sun. Duality 🤌🏿 Rather than offering opportunities that can take several weeks to manifest according to the moon phases…the Sun presents us with five different phases every single day and an additional phase we call a year.

🌅 Sunrise,Dawn: Infant/Child Sun– Basically when the sun wakes up and peers over the horizon. This phase is all about new beginnings, changes, health, employment, renewal, resurrection and finding the right direction. It can also be very cleansing.

☀️Morning: Adolescent Brother/Lover Sun– This is when the sun is growing in strength, so it brings the magical power for growth, positive energy, resolutions, courage, harmony, happiness, strength, activity, building projects and plans, prosperity and expansion of ideas.

🌞Noon: Father Sun – When the sun reaches its peak in the sky at midday – work magic for health, physical energy, wisdom and knowledge. It is also a good time to pop your tools or crystals out that need charging. (Note: some crystals can fade in strong sunlight so check first before putting them out).

☀️Afternoon: Sage/Warrior Sun – The sun is heading back down, and the energy now is good for working on business matters, communication, clarity, travel, exploring and anything professional.

Sunset – As the sun takes itself off down below the horizon, work magic for removing depression, stress and confusion, letting go, releasing or finding out the truth of a situation.

🌄Sunset: Grandfather/Sacrificial Sun

Because the energy of this Sun phase is much akin to that of the Waning Moon, His appearance makes it a good time to simplify or tie up loose ends, and provides the perfect atmosphere for work that involves dieting; getting rid of bad habits; and eradicating stress, confusion, and poor health. Efforts designed to uncover deception work well at this phase too, as do those related to divinatory skills and psychic activity.

And just like the moon you can charge your crystals 💎 in the afternoon sun, make sun water ✨, sun salutations 🙇🏿‍♀️ meditate 🧘🏿‍♀️ , allat.

AND! It’s almost summer time so the sun is just growing in strength so summer rituals are exceptionally powerful. Harness that Cancer ♋️ energy for love work and emotional healing , Leo ♌️ energy for fertility and business, and Virgo ♍️ to get organized and goal planning.

I also lean more towards working with the sun when the retrogrades have Lunar energy chaotic and out of whack or when I need to manifest something faster than the moon phases would allow.

Oh yea let me not forget the sun correspondences because like the moon there’s herbs, stones etc that work particular well with Solar energy

Colours: Gold, Yellow, Orange, Red

🌿 Herbs Marigold, heliotrope, sunflower, buttercup, cedar, beech, oak, St. Johnswort, bergamot

💎 Crystals Diamond, amber, carnelian, citrine, sunstone, topaz, red agate, goldstone

Metal: Gold

🗓 Weekday: Sunday

🧠 Intentions: Strength, Victory, Creativity, Growth, Love, Prosperity, Hope, Money, Exorcis

Chakras: Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus

But yea, balance out your work with some Sol ☺️

#black spirituality #black girl magic #black witches #hoodoo #black witch aesthetic #african spirituality #spirituality #voodoo #ifa #sunrise #sun #sun magic #sun witch #witches of tumblr #rootworker #conjure

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xelsrealm · 1 year

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love messages from spirit tarot spread

by @xelsrealm

where is (subject) currently actually at in love energy?

what love energy is coming in to them?

what energy are they putting out to the universe?

messages from spirit for them right now regarding love?

immediate future

the overall plan/larger narrative

messages from spirit and spirit team for (subject) in general

affirmation card/oracle card

#love messages #tarot #tarot spread #234 #healing #growth #witchcore #hoodoo #rootworker #diviner #divination #spirit #spirituality #tarot reading #tarot reader #333 #331

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ashshanea101 · 8 months

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Introvert Problems

photocredit: @Tarot_withAsh on Instagram

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realityanddelusion · 1 year

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“Do you really speak the language? Do you know what your name is?” Vilification, bastardization, and dumbing down black people seems to have been in fashion since cameras started rolling over in the Americas. From the stage to the screen from the white globes of the minstrel shows to the white gloves finding there way onto Mickey and other beloved cartoons if you love it chances are it’s roots go back to chattel slavery. But this video isn’t meant to focus on the bad. This video is a mix of both fictitious representation of ATR and actual real life footage of black people being , raw, real, and powerful. I wanted to highlight key things such as animals that hold some of secrets. Bre’r Rabbit, Li Gran Zombi, Aunt Nancy just to name a few. Ring shouts and catching the Holy Ghost can also be seen in there as well for purposes I was going to go into depth over but thinking about it I believe it’s best if I leave them in obscurity. The presentation before is in no way a full representation of black majick or what hoodoo is but serves as a way of letting you know that like God and water it will take the form of whatever it’s host need them to be. 🎶Exuma the obeah man

📺-Looney Tunes, Wakanda Forever, Ring Shout, The beginnings of the Black Church, Lovecraft Country, AHS:Coven, Alek Wek @ Betsy Johnson 1998, American Gods, Little Rascals, History of Racism in Cartoons(2010), Fet Gede, Looking For Langston, Brujas- Princess Nokia, Dickinson, Praise Break (2018), True Blood, Lemonade(2016), Katherine Dunham and dance company in Casbah(1948)

#hoodoo #rootwork #rootworker #atr #vodou #obeah #exuma the obeah man #edit #if you do repost make sure you do so in honor of the descendants of slaves #also if you’re yt n interact with this send a black trans girl money

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bloomingsoul333 · 8 months

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Putting in werk

#herbal #herbalmedicine #plants #indigenous plants #herbalist #rootwork #rootworker

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blacktourmalinetarot · 8 months

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For those that use spell powders in their work (for doorways, mojo bags, foot track magic etc)

What are some that have really become a staple in your practice ?

Mine are..

•Fiery wall (protection)

•Sweetening powder

•Road opening powder

If you don’t use spell powders what are you most interested in incorporating into your practice?

#hoodoo #foottrackmagic #rootwork #highjohntheconqueror #road opener #abrecamino #divination #conjure #reiki #rootworker #rootwoman #spellcraft #spellpowders #witches of color #africantraditionalreligion

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itsstillsweetiebythealtar · 2 years

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Info Post

For my black spiritualists out there who miss the church feeling but don’t wanna deal with the church, try out the UFBL.

It’s an organization that was started by a Black new thought teacher Dr. Johnnie Colemon, who was initially associated with the Unity organization but eventually left due to racism and created her own organization

It consists of Black led new thought churches in the U.S. and if I’m not mistaken they have a few in Caribbean.

Here is a link to the website where you can find more information

https://ufbl.org/

Here are some of the YouTube channels for the churches under the UFBL

#black spiritualist #hoodoo #hoodoo tumblr #black spiritualism #black spirituality #african american spirituality #rootwork tumblr #rootworker tumblr #conjurer #rootwork #african spirituality #black spiritualists #black tarot readers #rootworkers of tumblr #black witches #rootworker #african american culture #conjurer tumblr

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damonblack966 · 2 months

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#witchcraft #witchblr #witch #hoodoo #rootwork #rootworker

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lionheartapothecaryx · 1 month

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3-27-24

Group Angelic Glamour Spell 🌙

Limited Openings - First Come First Served

IN HONOR OF MY BIRTHDAY MONTH ♓️

I’ve decided to do a little throw back for my friends and patrons who love glamour magick.

💕 Inspired by the Star tarot card this upcoming group spell will imbue patrons with the powerful energies of angels Jophiel (patron of beauty, art and creativity) and Amiel (the patron of magnetism, attraction and charisma) to enhance their physical appearance, sensuality and attractiveness to all genders, bestowing a heightened aura of allure, enchantment and charisma. Carefully selected plant allies of rose, catnip and more will be charged, blended and activated, with the appropriate blessings, oils and candles, perfecting the work.

Like a star … you’ll command attention.

All eyes will be on you!

🌙 ALL SALES ARE FINAL!

🌙All metaphysical services are intended as entertainment only & are not a substitute for medical or mental health services.

https://lionheartapothecary.com/products/3-27-24-group-angelic-glamour-spell-limited-availability-%F0%9F%92%95

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hellocupcakeitsme · 1 year

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My #bookofshadows turns 26 this year. It was a #birthday present from my parents when I turned 17. They got it from a store in Riverside California. It survived a house fire. Me being #homeless Living all over #southerncalifornia and moving to washington its been a staple in my life and one of my most cherished possessions. @realdragonmarsh #wicca #witchcraft #witch #witchcraft101 #witchy #pagan #pagans #Santeria #brujeria #brujo #voodoo #hoodoo #rootworker #lightworker #spells #Magic #magick #newage #spiritualism #folkmagic #mystic #mroveron #tarotreading #tarot #tarotcards #followme www.mroveron.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvOsogrjZi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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iamwinklebottom · 4 months

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I’m super indecisive at times. I was like “how df am I gonna edit this” lmaoooo.

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