#atrs

[southernmermaidsgrotto]

Tag yourself!

{made with the Ancestors and Great Spirits of the African Diaspora in mind, here's what I associate with each day of the week and the children of the diaspora born therein:

Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace

Wednesday's child is full of woe

Thursday's child has far to go

Friday's child is loving and giving

Saturday's child works hard for a living

And the child born on the Sabbath day

Is bonny and blithe, good and gay.

Monday: masters of finding new roads and moving forwards, tearing down blockages, trailblazers and warriors. Artists of all kinds, writers, poets, singers.

Tuesday: embodiment of thunderstorms, winds, omens, they're powerful conjurers with hot hands, always busy, always moving. Often times scholars, historians.

Wednesday: defenders, protectors, of humanity and nature as a whole. Warrior spirits at their core, but also great diviners and mediums.

Thursday: eloquent muses of the arts of love and war alike, great beauties who lead armies with equal charm and force. Sweetening, love and luck workings come easy to them.

Friday: personification of abundance and status. A commanding presence. Building legacy, great manifestors and conjurers, specially for work and finances.

Saturday: guardians of waters and the beyond. Community leaders, gifted healers, divine messengers. Carrying all the wisdom of the Elders and Ancestors.

Sunday: priests and priestesses that defy status quo, very old Ancestors coming back to reshape and rebirth reality. They will enter your life and purge every aspect of it.}

[pelmenga]

redrawn a card from the new decks in the “romance club”.

Jonas deserves to be a handsome man!

(original)

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Ayida Weddo guiding and empowering Soleil in Fright Krewe.

[itsstillsweetiebythealtar]

Recently watched The Skeleton Key again and was not too pleased with how Hoodoo was portrayed (especially with them saying it started in Louisiana, Hoodoo started throughout the south simultaneously). I’m noticing that the more and more I watch a movie, the more I kinda be like.. why did they portray it like that??

But I wanted to ask all of my ATR practitioners out there, hoodoo, voodoo, lucumi, isese, santeria, obeah, etc., have you ever watched a movie and felt as if your practice was portrayed in its authentic and complex form??

[artbyfelmcinnis]

Cover The Head, 2024, digital

I remember letting myself have a lot more fun with this rendering style

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Haint blue

"Haint blue is a range of pale, blue-green colors that are often used to paint porch ceilings in the Southern United States. The tradition originated with the Gullah people in Georgia and South Carolina. 

Haint blue was originally thought to ward off ghosts or evil spirits (also called haints). It was meant to mimic the appearance of the sky or water and trick the spirit into leaving. 

Haint blue was used on more than just ceilings. It was also used on: Exterior trim, Decor, Windows, Shutters. 

The color was influenced by spiritual traditions that included wearing blue beads and clothing, because it was thought to offer protection. 

A popular shade of haint blue is hex #D1EAEB."

[thelazyhoodoo]

[omiwole97]

Mojuba Olodumare, Mojuba Egungun, Mojuba Orisha

[wdxxw]

This is quite old art of mine, I hope that by downloading this application my long-term art block will go away. sorry for my bad English, i'm just learning it

[hoodooboo]

ngl, i’ve kinda drifted away from hoodoo the past year. i was wondering if it was right for me, if it was the path i’m meant to travel.

and it’s been confirmed that it is. i’ve been seeing and receiving signs from my ancestors that they want me to come back, to honor them and our traditions. so i’m starting from square one and relearning everything i once knew.

i know i have a long journey ahead of me but i’m looking forward to it

[thelazyhoodoo]

I keep my old SSRIs on my altar for this reason.

You know what?

My ancestors would have wanted pasteurization, vaccines, antibiotics, disinfectants, birth control, psychiatric medications, pain management, anesthesia. My ancestors would have wanted to be able to keep their loved ones around longer, and not lose them too early/too soon to childbirths, injuries, bacterial infections, mental illnesses, and diseases that are curable and/or preventable in our modern day life.

Modern medicine saves lives.

[southernmermaidsgrotto]

The other day I heard someone say "europeans use the language of colonization as an excuse to insert themselves into indigenous and african traditions" and it's so true. The Colonizer continues to feel entitled to our work, our bodies, our ways, just because we may share a language (french, spanish, portuguese or other) when the only reason we share that language in the first place is the enslavement and genocides they inflicted on us.

Besides, we still have our own languages (indigenous languages, african languages, creole languages, AAVE and so on and so forth) and the "shared language" is only a partial and superficial resemblance. We use those spanish words because it's a way to share with other hispanic-colonized indigenous and black relatives. We use it because the language of colonization is a shared experience in the americas, as natives and as diaspora. As a way of making communication amongst ourselves easier. There is no deeper connection to Europe, no other tie, except the fact we had to use their language to speak because we were forced.

My Elders raised me on our oral history, on stories of spaniards cutting the tongue of anyone who spoke our language or self-identified as negro or indio, and then they would cut the ears of anyone who had heard them do so. So we stopped calling our things by our names, in public, and started using their words when we're in front of outsiders.

And that is not even the worst they've done, that is just one of the memories of violence we have, of them forcing their language on us. This is why you can't now turn around and say "but they're speaking spanish! I'm a bruja too!" as an excuse to force your way into religions and traditions that don't belong to you. Doing so is, once again, inflicting colonial violence.

And it's also why it's so important that you learn your ways directly from your people and in privacy, not from the internet. There's so much terminology and other things that we cannot say in public spaces like this. Talk to your Elders.

[pelmenga]

Spring has come and even Jonas has a wreath of flowers on his head. Считаю прелесть сквернословия при переводе была утеряна :(

[nfumbewalk]

Not Going Down Easy

Dos Aguas.

I'm not going to relent. Nor am I backing down just to agree to be peaceful. I'm a damn white person with African DNA so leave me alone, you weird ppl who are obsessed with the color of my skin! Religion isn't based on race, I don't reckon. It shouldn't be. Nothing should be a "closed practice."

Many paths are discouraging ppl because of this bullshit. It never mattered 10-20 years ago. Why should it now? In the United States of America, we have freedom of religion. No one should be shut out, unless they aren't fit in the head. I know, mental illness has a **I'm Proud to be Bipolar or...(insert dx here)**thing, but real mental illness (not feigned for likes and views) is a serious thing. Studying paths takes a level head.

Just don't judge ppl on race and one post that you read, asking: "Are you a white woman?" My picture was right there?!? Yeah, someone under 30 got stuck in my craw a tiny bit. I don't do well with the younger demographic. Too old, seen and heard it all, and I could care less about what young ppl think about me. That's why I deleted the post. I did not want any word sparring back and forth. Waste of time.

We have spent many years cultivating our rich American diversity. Want to frown? Don't care. I'm proud to be an American. There's bad shit in every culture and in every land. Deal. Don't whine and protest. Don't like it here? Go! Its a free country. And that's why I love it! And my religion too!

Adupe pupo! Mojuba Olorun, Olofin, Olodumaré!

M.M. Oluwa 💖💀💖

[uzumaki-rebellion]

I'm so happy Ryan Coogler hired Yvonne Chireau as his Hoodoo consultant for "Sinners'. That man really respects our roots. Yvonne don't play about Black American culture and our connections to spirit and Africa. Her books and lectures are always on point

[thecultoflexithewulf]

"In our community, intergenerational wealth is hard to come by, so the practices that get passed down through time act as a different sort of currency to support us through life. Knowledge of, and connections to, ancestors and folkloric spirits form a safety net of divinity that stretches everywhere that Black heads lay down to rest." - Nandi, Intro to Hoodoo article