Kongo Black

Other uses: Calling on ancient Afrakan ancestors. Invoking ancestors for specific reasons. Protection during travel. Clearance for opening or rituals and other ceremonies. Cleansing the room and sleep area. Run duppy. Protection from bad dreams or negative visitations. All dem ting deh!

🌠Some magic I recommend to use in your spells: psalms from the Bible, these are powerful prayers!

🌠The first is Psalms 29:1-4. This is amazing for commanding, asking God to aid you in your work and to achieve your goal.

In all ADRs, our first line of defense, our gateway to the divine, our initial focus should ALWAYS be to build a relationship with your ancestors. Set up an altar/boveda; sit at it regularly and get to know your spirits/spirit guides. Thank and appreciate them, ask them for guidance, meditate, do what intuitively feels right (within reason as there are stipulations with rootwork; consult a practicioner/elder). Your ancestors work faster than orisha/loa/lwa so go to them first and foremost with your issues.

Main rule: DO NOT FEAR THEM!

They are here to help you and help give you everything you’ve ever wanted. Don’t be alarmed when you start to experience their presence(sights/smells/sounds/feelings/telepathic images/memories/etc) as they all work in different yet profound ways.

You can’t possibly know where you are going, unless you know where you came from!

Outsiders like to believe hoodoo is as simple as it can get. Just throwing easy-to-find ingredients into a jar and praying over it. But there’s so much they’re missing.

Rootwork was born from our black peoples’ necessity, used for our ancestors survival, it was used and continues to be used as a tool for empowering those in the absolute worst situations of life, and using things that are simple to find even for those in need, but that doesn’t make the work itself any “easier”. The complexity and beauty in rootworking stems from knowing when and how to work your magic, what kind of trick is best to use, what ingredients and prayers to add, in which quantities (and using what sacred numbers to invoke what intention and spirits), how those ingredients interact with each other and how that affects the spell, for how long to work it, or even where to leave the remnants when you’re done, how to pay the spirits, and a long, long etc.

The ingredients may seem easy to find, but even how we acquire those ingredients has a meaning, and a use for us. Many times, it’s not just working the jar, but also working the oils that were used in the jar, and the blessing of each ingredient separately before making a whole, etc. It isn’t just our intention, our ancestors, our ashé that fuels our magic. Every step in the process is well-thought and planned, ritualized, strengthening our work even further. 

109 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

Good evening y’all!

This prayer is so powerful. Stop what you're doing and set this to your status, and watch what He will do. Simply copy and paste.

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A mão que planta axé, não pode ser a que queima. A boca que mastiga obi, não pode ser a que difama. A casa que abriga o orixá, não pode se prestar a degradação. Não se pode cultuar aquilo que não se vê desrespeitando aos que são visíveis!!! O povo de yoruba diz: “iwá lé sin” (o bom caráter é a essência da religião) Não existe religião ruim o que existe são pessoas ruins na religião. AXÉ❤

Texto: Expedito de Ogum