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Integrity in the Modern Era of Hoodoo Practice

 Introduction     Growing up, I got the earliest teachings of what I now know to be understood as hoodoo through "what the grown folks used to say", family lore stories, and traditions I had observed in my occasional visits to church and at a Christian daycare center. As I got older, I began to teach myself through trial and error, research, and many long nights of deep intense prayer to whomever's ears were turned in my direction. I had never thought of my spiritual practice as something that could become mainstream on the internet. In fact, I had never seen anyone online uttering the word hoodoo (be them right or wrong because unfortunately hoodoo tends to be lumped into other African Traditional religions) up until around 2019. I also saw this robust digital world of spiritually unfold even more online during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, where the world was locked down and all we had for social interaction was social media. Man, what a time to be alive!...
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Hoodoo for Survival in 2026 and Beyond

 Introduction     I have really sat long and hard on this post in particular, mainly because I wanted to provide those who read my posts with wisdom and motivation through sharing my own journey. Especially the parts of it that aren't glamourous. Hoodoo, rootwork, conjure, ancestral veneration, and being a devout devotee to my respective spirit guides has helped me to overcome a lot of adversity. I don't come from wealth, and a lot of what I have I had to work hard and fight tooth and nail to get it. It would be inauthentic to sell you all dreams that Hoodoo is like snapping your fingers, uttering words, and then the things you need and desire appear. Additionally, it would be inauthentic of me to portray myself in a light of "having it all" and my life being a cake walk because of Hoodoo. I can assure you it isn't. I am not immune to the ups and downs of life (though I wish I were). I get sick, bruise, and find myself continually exhausted by the pain in strife i...
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Self-Esteem is Spiritual: A Black Woman's Guide to Cultivating Confidence

 Introduction      Over the past few months, I have been seriously contemplating how trauma - both generational and in my childhood - has impacted me and molded me into this complex being that was somehow hard to digest. I processed how myself, and my girlfriends in the sister circle, had to fight at home, at school, at work, and more just to be seen as human. You know, alive with feelings, blood, dreams, and yet it's a hard to grasp subject that Black women are not monoliths. Some of my earliest memories were jabs at my appearance, demeanor, and how small I was for my age. I  was five years old and didn't understand why I had to drink pediasure and take nasty medicine prescribed in amber-colored plastic bottles. Eventually, I realized that I committed the sin of being frail in the South, and later in adulthood of being "too big". My lighter complexion had grown more toasted and warm, taking after my mother's cocoa tone, to which my father noticed and didn't h...
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Hermit Mode: The Value of Introspection

 Introduction      It's been roughly two months since I have posted to this blog space. Hold up! Before you call me a slacker I can explain - a lot has happened up to this point. As I type this, it is November 25, 2025, just a few days shy of Thanksgiving (fuck Christopher Columbus) and about a week away from my 25th birthday. In October, I made arrangements for a major milestone in my life - getting a bilateral salpingectomy. I worked my ass off for all of October once my surgery date was scheduled for November 13th so, that I could afford the minimum of two weeks off. I also experienced heartbreak, when my relationship of five years ended abruptly, causing me to grieve and cry for 4 days and 3 nights exactly. My work days were hell on my body, there were times where I was working from can't see to can't see consecutively. There were days where I stressed and cried due to worrying about not being able to afford my surgery copay, and when I had to rush and find a rid...
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Location: Lithonia, GA 30058, USA
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How Finding My Ancestors Helped Me to Find Myself

  Introduction         Have you ever heard of something called "the Dark Night of the Soul"? It's a period of deep loneliness, despair, and often the mark of a crossroads in a person's life. For as long as I could remember, I was praying to something, or someone, whom I thought looked upon me with love - a giant benevolent man in the clouds that was omniscient,  and according to the Bible made the world in about a week. I prayed to the Christian God devoutly (or whatever devoutness could look like for a 6 year-old), and made sure to thank Jesus, his only begotten son, for whom he had sacrificed to absolve everyone's sins. I also called on the Holy Spirit to "fill up" my life and lead me to salvation, in hopes that I wouldn't go to yet another hell because Lord knew my life on Earth thus far had been hell enough.     Over the years leading up to that night, I had really taken the time to build a catalog of my life up until then. It was my junior ye...
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Location: Lithonia, GA 30058, USA
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From Pain to Power: My Journey as A Conjure Woman

 Introduction           Welcome to Musings of a Conjure Woman, a space that found me when I needed it the most -  a place where I could let my thoughts, experiences, teachings, and learnings flow freely from my heart and spirit to the web, and maybe to the world. I hope that with this page I can walk in my purpose with honor as a Griot, as a Black Woman, and as a soul that seeks to guide others. Mainly because I didn't have the help when I unlocked my healing journey, or the deep dive into my history to cultivate a spiritual renaissance, and had many moments of longing for guidance in human form. Human form? Yes, because a large portion of my research and studies came from books, personal anecdotes, answered petitions set underneath glowing candles, and cry outs to my Ancestors and Spirit Guides many nights at 3AM for their wisdom.      As I develop this blog, I want you the reader to know that it will be a place where you can learn...
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Location: Georgia, USA
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