Ways to Cleanse

Ways to Cleanse

There are many ways that one can use to cleanse. We are going to talk about the ways I use. I want to teach you at least one good system that you can use to cleanse yourselves with. You will have a few to choose from and I don’t care which one you choose to use just so long as you pick one and use it. As I have stated at the starting of this lesson, you must keep yourself spiritually cleansed. This is so very important. You will have to get in the habit of doing this; then it will come as second nature to you.

Some of the ways you can cleanse yourself are so easy, and they are not time consuming that it would be stupid not to use them. After all we are talking about your spiritual person here. We touched on this in the last class, but I thought it important enough to do a whole lesson on. This is the first thing you need to learn before you do any kind of conjure work. Also as I stated you need to keep yourself cleansed so you don’t have any blocks and you can have success in your life.

Just being around negative people all day can draw that type of energies to ourselves. I know and understand that we are all busy during our day; and we are tired by the time the day is through. You just have to take the time to do this. It is very important! Below you will find a few different ways to cleanse yourself. This is by no means all of them. Remember to cleanse those feet; this is very important!

 The Chicken Foot

 The chicken foot is a wonderful tool to use for cleansing. The chicken scratches up messes! So by scratching yourself lightly with the chicken foot you will be removing the negative energy from yourself. This is a simple but effective way to keep yourself clean!

The Cleansing Sprinkle

 For this you need a bottle and a sprinkler head; the kind like was used in the old days for ironing. To your bottle you add, salt, Florida water, Holy water, and fill the  rest with water from a faucet. Once you have it ready you sprinkle yourself with it while praying Psalm 23. Remember to do those feet!

 BRUSHING

A small whisk or fan the whole dried wing of a black hen or buzzard, may be used to cleanse and take off jinxes. I use a whole Turkey wing for brushing, this works well because the Turkey is known to gobble things up. To remove a crossed condition you sweep downward, while praying that the condition be removed and you be cleansed.

 Rub Down

An alcohol base is used to make a spiritual rub down. You add your herbs to the alcohol and pray over it. Then you rub yourself in a downward motion while praying.

 Cleansing by Incense

Smoke can also be used to cleanse and to remove block conditions. When I cleanse a client using this method I cover them with a white sheet and set the incense pot under the sheet.

Don’t cover your head. Once the incense has gone out I brush them down, always going in a downward motion to remove. Sulfur and be burned in the home to cleanse it.

 Candle Cleansing

You can use a black candle to cleanse away a crossed or jinxed condition. Take you candle and wipe yourself in a downward motion; while praying that the candle draw the condition off of you and remove it to the sender.

Cleansing Prayer

If you feel that you have a crossed condition then you need to read Isaiah 41 for at least three consecutive days. This pray is very powerful and will remove anything that is on you.

SPIRITUAL CLEANSING

SPIRITUAL CLEANSING

Cleansing is one of the most important areas of conjure that you will every study. Cleansing can handle just about any situation you will come across. I have found at times it's the ONLY way to help yourself or another person. If you're crossed you won't get any lasting results from your work. While you may see a difference for a short while the condition will continue until you give yourself a good cleansing. No matter what the root of the crossed condition might be, the results are always the same. Nothing in life seems to work out for a person that is crossed. This is a very important lesson that we all must learn and use in our daily lives.

I know sometimes we are busy and just don’t have time. Well you need to make the time! If you want your work to be a success then you have to keep your self cleansed. In general, all cleansings are performed for seven days! Seven is the traditional number associated with cleansing. The best planetary hours for doing cleansing are Venus, Jupiter and the Sun. Your cleansing work should start in one of these hours. You would use Venus for crossed love conditions, Jupiter for luck/money, and the Sun for all health problems. Or you can use a seven day candle. Then you would of course be using all of the planetary hours. If you are unable to pinpoint the problem, then start the cleansing in the hour of the Sun.

Although using the planets really has nothing to do with conjure work, you can add it to your cleansing. This will give you extra power to achieve the cleansing that you need. I look at cleansing and uncrossing as the same work; when you do both your removing blocked conditions from yourself. I consider this also healing work; because by removing the blocks that are in your way you are healing that area of your life. If you want to have total success in your life and your work then it is very important that you keep yourself cleansed and
protected at all times. If you choose not to do this then you are asking for trouble down the road.

Any time you do any kind of work you need to cleanse yourself first. You don’t want some unknown energies entering your work. Also you will be able to focus on the work at hand if you feel refreshed. I cannot stress this enough cleansing is the most important part of your work; if you expect to be successful. I have heard it said a few times that you don’t need to cleanse yourself until the job is done; well I say this is a load of crap. Are you going to leave a hotfoot work you have done and are still working on around you and yours? I hope you are smarter than that. Use your common sense! Don’t believe everything you hear from these so called experts.

Look At Hoodoo

We all know what Hoodoo is; an African-American folk magic. My question is do we really understand what that means? Hoodoo was brought from Africa by a people much to KEEP Hoodoo, Conjure, Rootwork , or whatever you wish to call the work as pure as possible. When these folks were brought here against their wills they used their knowledge to protect themselves, heal themselves and their loved ones. No one taught them this they brought the knowledge with them.

These folks weren’t Christians they had their own believe system; but due to the fear of the unknown they were not allowed to practice it. In order to hold on to their heritage they incorporated Hoodoo with Christianity. Therefore the Bible became a large part of Hoodoo. What other things had to be change in order for them to hold on to their way of worship? They were brought into a whole new  different world than they were use too. Do you really understand the gift these Ancestors have given us? Does their suffering not call out to us to keep the work as pure as possible?

I claim this as my heritage and I can tell you it really bothers me what people are doing to Hoodoo. I don’t understand why folks have to change things to suit themselves. I am a traditionalist, and have been called closed minded where  Conjure work is concerned; and I agree. I am! If all this mix matching doesn’t stop; Hoodoo will go from being very powerful to just another watered down system that will die out because the work will be useless. I have been asked what makes Conjure work so powerful. I tried to answer as best I could.

 It’s a scheme of things that make this work so powerful. One you need the power of God! I feel like you must have a gift for the work. I think that it is important to have a working relationship with your Ancestors. You have to have a power within yourself; that you can push forth into the work. You need to be in balance with yourself. If you have these things going for you then you have an open channel for Spirit to reach you. The roots and herbs that are used in the work hold a power of their own. Words hold power and the Bible is full of powerful words! Between the power of God, your Ancestors, the roots and herbs, and the power of the Bible and prayer you will have total success!

 I would suggest that if you have a need to remove or add to Conjure work that you look inside yourself and see if this is really what you need to be doing. If you have adverse feelings toward God, the Bible, Christians and the Psalms then you need to move on to something else because these things make up Hoodoo. I have never been into controversy but where Hoodoo is concerned I plan on speaking my mind. If you are going to practice Hoodoo, then practice Hoodoo; don’t mix it up  with Vodou, Palo, Santeria, Wicca, and whatever else is out there.

Money Drawing Oil Lamp

Money Drawing Oil Lamp
Lamp and oil
Personal Concerns
Petition
Lodestone
Pyrite
3 silver dimes
Cinnamon
High John the conqueror
Devil Shoestring
Frankincense
Dragons Blood



Add all your items, and then add the oil. Then pray Psalm 23 and state your petition. Light the
wick and turn it down, by turning the wick down the lamp want smoke. This type of lamp can be
left burning, just keep the lamp full of oil. Sometimes I will add oils to my herbs and roots
before I add them to the lamp. Just be careful not to add to much or the oil will make your lamp
smoke.

Road Opener Oil Lamp

Road Opener Oil Lamp
Here's a simple Oil Lamp that can be kept burning.

A little dirt from the 4 corners of a crossroad's
A large High John root
A large Magnet
Cinnamon Stick
Master of the Woods
White Mustard seed
Fenugreek
A pinch of magnetic sand
A quarter, nickel and a dime you have left hidden at the crossroads for three nights.
Petition paper
Personal Concerns

Say your prayers, ask that your roads be opened and all blocks be removed from your path.
Then place a pinch of each of your ingredients into the lamp, and then fill the lamp with oil.
Stay focused on what you want to accomplish with this lamp. See in your minds eye your
roads being opened and free of obstacles. If you have to chant; my roads are open and free
of obstacles. Everything I need will come to me. Now you can’t just light this lamp and leave
it sitting there burning and expect to see strong results. You will have to work the lamp. By
this I mean you will need to talk to the lamp and pray to your higher power that your roads
be opened and free of obstacles. Conjure takes work and dedication for it to be effective. If
you chose to just light the lamp and let it burn without doing anything else you would see
some results but they wouldn’t last long. It all depends on what you expect the out come to
be.

Oil Lamps

The picture above is my San Simon altar. Three generations of family members work with San
Simon. I call him our family Saint. He is much more than a Saint who helps with prosperity. He
will also protect you and defend you against your enemies. Everything on this altar space is
dedicated to him. As you can see there is an oil lamp on his altar. The lamp is his so he can do
the work he needs to do. That lamp is filled with curios, roots, herbs, money, whiskey, and
other items that I felt he wanted placed in the lamp. I call the lamp his rootwork or spell lamp.
I never let the lamp go out. You can find out more about San Simon Here.

Oil Lamps are one of the oldest methods used to have light. All the old candle; but I woke up in the middle of the night many times and saw her
sitting at the kitchen table with a lamp in front of her. Since I am the
worker of the family I was given all the lamps. A few of them had stuff
dried in them; one had a piece of material with writing on it pinned to the
wick. I can't make out the writing, but I have often wondered what the
work had been done for. By using this type of magic the ingredients are
infused into the oil; which makes the work stronger. In some ways the oil
lamp is safer to use than candles. For one thing you don’t have to worry
about the jar breaking; or the candle not burning right because you
added to many ingredients to it.

For my own personal work I prefer to use oil lamps over candles. Not
only can you adjust the flame but the lamp never needs to go out. These
conjure or spell lamps can be used for many things love drawing spells, money drawing spells, court case work, Fiery Wall of Protection,
Domination spells the list just goes on and on. I do set petition for clients
in my working lamps for a small fee. I also offer oil lamps for the clients
to purchase. These lamps come ready to use. I do not offer lamp oil due
to shipping regulations.

If you decide to work with an oil lamp you need to prepare the lamp
before you start your spell. The lamp needs to be blessed and dressed
before you start. I clean my lamps with Florida water first, then dress
them with oil. After this is done I hold the lamp up to my mouth and let
my breath fill the lamp while I say Psalm 23. Once this is done the lamp is
ready; it has been cleansed and blessed.

Now you are ready to add your personal concerns, roots, herbs, curios,
petition papers, pictures and other items that go along with the spell or
conjure work. Remember everything needs to be blessed before you add
the ingredients to your lamp. Follow the links below to the different lamp
recipes.

Jumping The Broom

Jumping The Broom

During slavery times a slaves marriage didn’t have a legal standing nor was the marriage protected from the abuses and domination imposed on them by the slave-owners. A married couple, who were slaves were without legal rights, they could be separated or sold at their owners will. If the couple resided on different plantations they were allowed to visit each other only if they had their owners permission. They were not allowed to live in the same house hold like white married couples were. They didn’t have the benefit of being married by the church. Historian John Blassingame wrote about this. In his writings he states “that in most cases the slaves had to simply get their master's permission. Then they would move into a cabin together." House servants were often allowed to have a formal marriage. The slave-owner would have a preacher perform the ceremony. Often times there would be a large feast and dance held in the "quarters" to honor the couple’s marriage. Sometimes the ceremony included the slave marriage ritual of "jumping the broom”.

 Jumping the broom was not a custom of slavery, but is a part of African culture. When slavery was over African-Americans could have church weddings. Most of them felt the broom ceremony wasn't required anymore.  Jumping the broom fell out of practice among most African Americans who wanted nothing to do with anything associated with the slavery. A lot of practices were put aside. When Black folks moved to the North they wanted nothing to do with the practices of the South that they thought were back-wards. Many became interested in their heritage again when Alex Haley published his book "Roots." Jumping the Broom is also practiced by those who are not African American. There are different religions that practice this ceremony with-in their culture. To name a few Wiccans and Gypsies have developed their own broom-jumping tradition.

The broom has always had a spiritual value; it symbolizes the sweeping away past wrongs or removing evil spirits. When a couple jumps over the broom in a wedding they are leaving the past behind them. They are beginning a new life together. They are becoming one in their marriage. I wanted to write about this because I think it is a very important ceremony and two because I have the honor of making my soon to be daughter- in-laws broom for her wedding to my son.

Momma Starr