TEN THINGS โWitchblrโ NEEDS TO FUCKING KNOW ABOUT AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS:
Hoodoo is a closed system that IS NOT for non-Black people.
Hoodoo has deities, but Orisha, Lwa, and Mpungu are not part of Hoodoo. Those deities belong SOLELY to their own respective systems.
A tarot reading, intuitive reading, palm reading, โa feelingโ, etc. CAN NOT help you determine which Orisha owns your head. Only an initiated priest of that system, using the specific divination tools of that system, can tell you this. The same goes for Lwa, Mpungu, etc. If you want to know, seek out and PAY a reputable BLACK priest.
Plenty of Hoodoos, myself included, use tarot but tarot IS not part of the Hoodoo system.
The Crossroads is not just some place where you go to dump your empty candle or otherwise dispose of completed spirit work. Spirits live there. Would you want someone dumping their trash at your house without even asking? Thereโs also plenty of other ways to dispose of works.
Just because deities in different systems are SIMILAR (or you perceive them to be) doesnโt mean they are the SAME, and definitely doesnโt mean they can be engaged with in the same way. Yemoja, La Sirene, and Mami Wata are DIFFERENT spirits (Mami Wata is actually a family of spirits, not a single spirit) that have different protocols for how to engage them. And initiation is required.
Hoodoo has initiations.
The Crossroads Man is NOT Esu or Papa Legba. They are different spirits. What they have in common is being the keepers of Crossroads, of course, but they also have their own individual things that they do and different protocols. See item #6.
High John the Conqueror does not work with non-Black people. If youโre non-Black and think youโre working with him, go ahead and cleanse that trickster spirit out ya house baby ๐คฃ
The โRule of Threeโ doesnโt apply in ATRs. Youโre just scared a Black person might hex you ๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ
