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I have written of use of naughty color, or somewhat naughty colored curios in Hoodoo into the future, in my yarn "Hoodoo blues", and have stern to do the especially, vis-?-vis the color red, which is so particularly hand-me-down in Hoodoo too. Red Ochre powder Whether it's Red ochre, red brick, Cayenne, or any other red trinket or paper, Hoodoo friends power, warm and quick plan qualities with such. It is no foul up that color red is comparison to Guilty, Blockbuster and loud deities In Hoodoo, such as St. Michael the Cherub, St Barbara or Chago Loa, and we can even see redBeing' one of the colors that harmonize to Legba. Jiffy and drawing/conjuring cloth is moreover frequently seen as "red" in Hoodoo, and therefore candles passionate to St.Expedite are regularly red wax dyed candles.It's moreover equal to love, passion, attraction and even luck plan, for the Red Press out Destiny paper is red positive, and the color regularly comes from flakes of Alkanet make happen in it. By far similar Glow and South, to which color corresponds, the red in Hoodoo ( and in magick ) is a powerful adjunct to any take home of spiritual work, in language of speediness and power. Blood which is red, is sacred, and ties to ancestral, incessantly flows, as a consequence is an heady, and glossy, beckoning spiritual energies. To color seems to join the properties. Welcoming wall of protection products are regularly associated with fire and color red and join it's warm and "blustery" ( as a consequence the name ) qualities. Utmost of the botanicals hand-me-down in the formulae harmonize to fire, Mars or Sun.REDDENINGReddening is a New-Orleans Voodoo Hoodoo discrimination folk ritual/spell of laying suspicion through of punish red bricks in front of doors, windows or even a little deposit and shop. It is said that this practice originates from using red ochre ( a natural dye Fe2O3, anhydride of golden-haired Ochre ( or authentic Ochre, Fe2O3 x 5H20 ), readily hand-me-down in Africa as a abrasion dye and apotropaic agent. Ochre smoothly occurs as earthenware and is sometimes hand-me-down as possessions or part of possessions for making a poppet, to work sentimental ( image ) magick on someone, self-important so in African consequential traditions. Red bricks and chunks and pieces of them, are hand-me-down to make the traditional 3 morose chase on Mamzelle Leveaux's solemn, as a part of wishing or somewhat prayerful ritual, performed at her sleeping place. Knock down red birck virtuous, makes for a Hoodoo powder "pre excellence", use to invalidate consider work, rather that paying attention on bits and pieces, or even foot track magick. It's frequently hand-me-down to barrage higher powders and bits and pieces or liquids, lain down in tour work, such as foot track magick or scatter Hot foot powder where someone energy walk higher it. Dash such with Red brick virtuous powder, renders such tour protected. Seems although, that similar numerous curios of New Orleans discrimination consider, red brick is a two-headed consider, for it can be hand-me-down to morose, or soar a men as Zora Neale Hurston recorded in her folkloric work : "Mules and men", which says:"So Pierre took me with him to booty a new brick. We took the brick home and courteous nine black candies by mail e shocking doctor's name on each. His name was written nine become old on a area of paper and to be found allow down on the brick. It was coupled submit starve yourself with loop. We put the black candles to bubble, one each day for nine days, and then Pierre dug a well to the water guess and slipped the brick slowly to the band. "Pale similar the brick soaks up the water, so that man energy soar." I have moreover read of Tour Hoodoo jar spell, truthful, that utilizes brick, rusty nails, beans, and other cloth, all in nine amounts Red Hoodoo dyes Explicit botanical bind natural red dyes and are regularly hand-me-down to bring color to oils in Hoodoo ( or other type of formulae if/when looked-for ), such as Alkanet make happen ( Alakana tinctoria ), Puccon make happen or Bloodroot ( Sanginaria candiensis ) Cayenne sprinkle flakes ( Capiscum annum ), Red Sandalwood powder ( Pterocarpus Santalinum ) even Dragon's blood resin ( Dracaena Drako ), or customary Onion prepare ( Allium ), and are all confidence of dye but have magickal use as well You'll credibly use flakes of Alkanet to spot "Red fast luck", for they are warm of folks that would wish to Blip our money, seeing as You'd credibly go for Cayenne sprinkle flakes or Onion peels in oil that's whispered to banish or move ( notwithstanding ) someone or no matter which. Welcoming wall of protections contains Sandlwood ( regularly red one, to bring color, even although Red Sandalwood is really a love simultaneous botanical ) and Dargon's blood resin, as folks are warm and blustery.Hmm, That motivated me ;Red Hoodoo powder:Red Cayenne flakes, an apotropaic botanical. Red brick virtuous, punish. Dragon's blood resin . Cayenne flakes Squash, If You wish add to a contemptible of talc powder dyed red. If You use minerals such as Saltpeter or Epsom salts, it would make a enjoyable "Run Dev*l Run" type of barrage.Use as uncrossing or evil exile agent, moreover might be hand-me-down in shocking magick too ( Red brick virtuous, and Cayenne are moreover hand-me-down in Crossings, and Dragon blood is section regularly found in "Dimness arts" formulae or "pact working ), and can of course, due to containing Red brick virtuous, be speckled on "baffled" items, to bring in them protected. RED Press out DestinyIt's a Hoodoo country oil paper, as recorded by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, red in color, containing either 1). Cinnamon. Wintergreen. Vanilla. Flakes of Alkanet ( for color ) Highly developed versions may pull-out lodestones, even pyrite chips, ocher peels and what not. These are notwithstanding not parts of the paper as number one recorded by Hurston, or 2). Citronella essential oil gauzy. PRESUMED: red dyeOnce more as recorded by Hurston, this one might be referring to a lucky floorwash they use in New Orleans, ego frankly gauzy Citronella in water. Now I aimed Red Press out luck, and not frankly Press out luck as usually referred, to evade upsetting it with yet another paper, containing Bergamot,as well as one section of red Press out luck text 1, as individual upper, create the third section, an Asian grass which was traditional in New Orleans and was oil pastel golden-haired colored. Besides, it ought be wisely to add into, that even although I myself ( for my own ins and outs ) as well as numerous suppliers energy dye Press out luck ( or somewhat Red fast luck ) red, it's frequently sold in form of oil that has two layers, red and green, alluding to the clever use an integrity of the oil, which can be use in love and money matters. Therfore, Press out luck, as the name cleverly suggests brings fast, although best regularly very in need permanent luck, and is as such preffered in cloth that may assume luck in a coop, quick money, love, sweepstake games and slash emblem games. It smells so very to be more precise, that it can be hand-me-down as magickal perfume as well.Puckishly REDAdditional thing is intimately simultaneous to color red, and regularly associated with especially in Hoodoo, and it's the De*il. In all righteousness, attributing red to the Wicked one, may not be an portion of Christian, or/nor other take home of spiritual intonation on Be attracted to ( Hoodoo and Creole Voodoo ) as an supposition, but somewhat an portion of commercialism and it's effect on anything really. Or an portion of a mode, influencing magick similar anythin' to boot that has to do with possible beings. See the mode of depicting the depraved one as horned, red copy was customary even in midleage artwork, and subsequent to in modern days, particularly seen on announcement labels. A particular ( and fairly famous ) laundry detergent ( name beginning with "P", cessation with an "l" ) have bearing in mind had a indication pleasantly depicting red devil, and some lye suppliers in States composed use red devil on their stickers and labels of all sorts. Hence, an portion is "Red Fiend Lye" which is use in Hoodoo in some spaces, by means of burring four unopened containers with labels in advance outwards in four corners of the deposit, to locality off enemies, and is reportedly very effective Yronwode, Catherine "Hoodoo Herb and Rock layer magic "Red Fiend image, is moreover regularly seen on abundant Hoodoo paper junk mail and labels such as Run Fiend Run or Chinese brush, to name authentic a pair off of them J NOTES: This yarn was written and calm by myself, therfore If You wish to use any part of it elswhere online add credits: Shadow of Gloom magick place, Shadow-333@hotmail.com, or a up-front interconnect to this postCREDITS AND REFERENCES : quoted from :http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/grand-jean/hurston/chapters/hoodoo3.html#4 as confirmed on http://www.administrator.com/article/new-orleans-voodoo-curio-spotlight-red-brick-dustaccording to : "PHARMACY Permutation Presume", NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM Yronwode, Catherine "Hoodoo Herb and Rock layer magic ", data of "red lye"Model CREDITS:Model depicting Ochre powder ( first image ) is from www.123rf.com, and some shortened into by myself, hand-me-down into for justifying and illustrativ e purposes, in the absence of any ill energy. Jiffy image, vetting Cayenne sprinkle flakes is from www.dreamstime.com shortened by me for use into, and hand-me-down, as the inventive one withou t any ill energy
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Hoodoo & Conjure QuarterlyTM is a Journal of the Magical Arts with a Special Focus on New Orleans Voodoo, Hoodoo, and Folklore. It explores historical and contemporary information about the conjure arts, including magico-religious practices, spiritual traditions, indigenous healing and herbalism, and religions with their roots in the African Diaspora. Features articles by notable authors and practitioners including Denise Alvarado, Aaron Leitch, Alyne Pustanio, Byron Ballard, Dorothy Morrison, Madrina Angelique, Mathew Venus, Carolina Dean and others. Richly illustrated by celebrated New Orleans artists Denise Alvarado and Ricardo Pustanio, ritual pop artist, Karen Miranda Augustine, and gnostic conjure artist Chad C. Balthazar. Hoodoo The Origin of the Root; Dirt Dauber Nests; GOETIC RITUAL: Magickal Doll to Raise the Ghost of a Loved One; by Denise Alvarado Curio Spotlight: Bat's Blood; Secrets of Sex Magick: Explore your Sexual Fantasies with the Help of the Guede; St. Martha Dominadora Love Domination Candle by Sharon Marino Cove-Witches and Curanderas: Traditional Healers and Magic-Women in Modern Appalachia by H. Byron Ballard A Short Look at Witchcraft and Self-Defense in the Diaspora by Papa Curtis Haunted New Orleans Folklore: The Devil Baby of New Orleans: Fact or Fiction? by Alyne Pustanio Planetary Magic and Hoodoo: The Venus Love-Tub Lamp by Chad Bathazaar The Real Dirt on Visiting the Dead by Dorothy Morrison Buying Cemetery Dirt by Madrina Angelique What is Real Hoodoo?; and Bottle Spell for Prosperity by Matthew Venus Shoe and Foot-Track Magick by Carolina Dean The Return of Psalm Magick and the Mixed Qabalah by Aaron Leitch Volume 1 also contains gris gris charms and formulas, a free doll baby template, and a little lagniappe, of course.
Hoodoo Conjure Quarterly: A Journal of the Magickal Arts with a Special Focus on New Orleans Voodoo, Hoodoo, Folk Magic and Folklore (Volume 1) originally appeared on Powerful Voodoo & Hoodoo Spells on September 1, 2011.
This blog may ruffle some feathers. Currently one can find all sorts of hoodoo practitioners and even teachers telling people they need to get or use "road opener" spiritual supplies or they need to do "road opener" work. The problem is that there is no "road opener" in hoodoo. Before I go deeper into this let me state that I'm not saying that people shouldn't be using road opener spiritual supplies or that anybody who uses road opening work is a fake or anything like that. That's not the point of me writing this blog. I do not take offense to it. If that's what you want to do then have at it.
So where does "road opener" come from and how is it used? The term "road opener", abre camino in Spanish, comes from various ATRs (African Traditional Religions), such as Palo and Santeria. It is also found in the practice of Brujeria. The concept of road opener usually refers to spirits such as Eshu/Ellegua or Ogun, orishas who are specifically connected to blocking or clearing peoples "paths", i.e. their directions they are heading in life and their opportunities. In fact, in Palo there is a stick called "palo abre camino", which is used in their road-opening works. So when you reach a point where you feel "stuck", like you are trapped and no doors are opening for you and there are no further opportunities to you and you are at your wits end, this is when "road-opening" work was used by these people in their traditions. As I stated above, this "road opener" is not hoodoo.
In hoodoo, when a person is in this type of situation where they are stuck and can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, we call this being "crossed". If you take a piece of paper and draw a big cross on it you can understand it. The vertical line represents your path. The horizontal line represents the outside actions, usually by the negative works against you, that crosses your path and traps you. That's what being crossed is about. A person who is crossed is stuck, they can't better themselves, they are trapped, held-down, and can't get ahead. Doors can't open because the doors have all been locked. So the remedy for this is "Uncrossing". So the typical hoodoo response to a person complaining of being stuck and not having anyway out of their circumstance is that somebody has probably done work on them and crossed them up. They need to be uncrossed so that they can once again be free to travel their path. These people need to do uncrossing work and to use uncrossing spiritual products if they use spiritual products.
Now, there is another term or formula that is used that is pretty much the same thing as uncrossing. In order to explain this I will refer back to the big cross I advised to draw above. That horizontal line is crossing the vertical line. So the vertical line represents your path you are walking and the horizontal line crosses it. In fact, the horizontal line blocks your path. In this case another spiritual product you can use is "Blockbuster". Blockbuster is the exact same thing as uncrossing. The meaning is the same, it's just another way of communicating what it does. If you want to take it one step further, in the commercialized or marketed spiritual products for Blockbuster images of a lightning bolt striking and blowing up a concrete block is used. Reference above where "road opening" in the ATRs like Palo and Santeria involves the aid of the divine, i.e. via Eshu/Ellegua and Ogun. In the Blockbuster imagery we have the lightning bolt busting the block. Lighting is the finger of God and so the imagery is also suggesting divine help in removing crossed conditions and obstacles in our life.
Son in hoodoo/rootwork/conjure, we do uncrossing work or use uncrossing spiritual supplies or block buster spiritual supplies, not "road opener". Once again, I'm in no way trying to tell you what to do. You are free to do whatever you want. If you prefer "road opener", power to you.
