Having Aries, Scorpio, Taurus or Libra as your North Node.
Having North Node in your fourth or tenth house. Fourth housers especially, though.
Having your sun sign at 0, 1 or 29 degrees.
Having Aries as your sun sign.
Having Aries, Taurus, Scorpio or Aquarius as your Chiron sign.
Having Saturn in houses 1-6, especially in your first house.
Having a lot of first, fourth or tenth house placements.
Having a lot of Aries/Aquarius placements or Mars/Uranus aspects.
Significant Saturn or Mars-Sun aspects.
Having your Lilith sign in Cancer or Aries.
Aries breaks familial generational curses, Aquarius breaks societal generational curses.
Having Virgo, Leo or Cancer as your moon sign.
Uranus or Mercury being in retrograde.
A smaller detail is that these people usually either have fixed or cardinal Jupiter signs. I rarely see someone with a mutable one.
Yods in the birth chart, even just one. These particular curse breakers also might come off as odd or spiritually gifted in some regard from a young age. Prone to panic attacks/anxiety and also tend to fixate or have one thing they're really good at. They tend to get thrown off MUCH more easily than any other generational curse breakers, though.
Having a lot of Trine aspects.
Having a lot of cardinal placements.
Mercury in first house.
Please keep in mind that these are just my personal observations.
Also that having just one or a few of these in your chart doesn't necessarily mean this applies to you. I notice that people who fit this bill tend to have at least three (usually more) of these qualities in their charts.
Oh this hit all my red flags, I've torn down 3 already just walking Malaya to the park
THIS GIVES ME SO MUCH LIFE, YO. TAEHYUNG IS FEELING IT 😂👌🏻 ©H Chiu
Because you should only ever be learning your ancestral ways from kinfolk. Here's a compilation of some books, videos and podcast episodes I recommend reading and listening to, on customs, traditions, folk tales, songs, spirits and history. As always, use your own critical thinking and spiritual discernment when approaching these sources as with any others.
Hoodoo in America by Zora Neale Hurston (1931)
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston (1936)
Tell my horse by Zora Neale Hurston (1938)
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, editors (2003)
Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau (2006)
African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem (2007)
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Faith Mitchell (2011)
Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald (2012)
Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success by Tayannah Lee McQuillar (2012)
Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant (2014)
Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee (2017)
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston (2018)
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisa Teish (2021)
African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions by Lucretia VanDyke (2022)
These are just some suggestions but there's many many more!! This is by no means a complete list.
I recommend to avoid authors who downplay the importance of black history or straight out deny how blackness is central to hoodoo. The magic, power and ashé is in the culture and bloodline. You can't separate it from the people. I also recommend avoiding or at the very least taking with a huge grain of salt authors with ties to known appropriators and marketeers, and anyone who propagates revisionist history or rather denies historical facts and spreads harmful conspiracy theories. Sadly, that includes some black authors, particularly those who learnt from, and even praise, white appropriators undermining hoodoo and other african and african diasporic traditions. Be careful who you get your information from. Keeping things traditional means honoring real history and truth.
Let me also give you a last but very important reminder: the best teachings you'll ever get are going to come from the mouths of your own blood. Not a book or anything on the internet. They may choose to put certain people and things in your path to help you or point you in the right direction, but each lineage is different and you have to honor your own. Talk to your family members, to the Elders in your community, learn your genealogy, divine before moving forwards, talk to your dead, acknowledge your people and they'll acknowledge you and guide you to where you need to be.
May this be of service and may your ancestors and spirits bless you and yours 🕯️💀
Hello!!! How are you?
I really resonated with your venus trine pluto post. Your aesthetic is just elite ✨
May you please tell me about Pluto in the 5th house?
Thank you in advance!!!
Hello. I'm doing okay and thanks for your words. And sure, I can do that.
Pluto in the 5th house
These natives are endowed with a lot of magnetism and power of seduction. Their mystery is something that makes them irresistible in the eyes of others. Despite being somewhat reserved people, they can be very seductive and can be very skilled at flirting. They are very observant people with the people around them, they like to get to know people deeply before connecting with someone else. These people fear and hate the idea of projecting themselves as immature or easily-fooled people, so their heart and their inner child are things that they will not show so uninhibitedly. They are known for projecting a lot of power and people may think that they have what they want or that it is easy for them to have what they want. High level of sex appeal and a strong sense of self. They know how to defend themselves quite well and will not be afraid to face someone who disrespects them, brave, intrepid and with a lot of inner strength.
There is the possibility that the native does not want to have children or many children, if yes, they will take it very seriously. Children can feel very protected or intimidated by the native, depending on the aspects of Pluto. They are people very dedicated to everything they like or care about, be it their hobbies, their work, their relationships and even their children if they decide to have them. They tend to have a preference for mysterious, intense couples who are willing to give everything to the natives, who fill their lives with emotion, feelings that they have not experienced before and with whom they can have a dramatic, intense and exciting connection.
As a couple they are very interesting, intense and often transform their partner on a large scale. There is something in them that can drive their partner crazy no matter how long they have been together, they also tend to attract people who, even if they have already finished their relationship with the native, continue thinking and wanting to know about the native. They take their relationships very seriously and hate wasting time, so it may take a while for them to open up to people, but this is to see if it's really worth it or not. Despite this intensity, they are very constant and soft people once they give their hearts to the right person. In sexual terms, they are people who enjoy making their partner feel full and happy, they can play hard to get and they like their partner to do it too, the bedroom will never be a boring place with these natives.
~Elysian
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman (A Cappella)
gemini sun + scorpio moon + leo rising
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Eros and Psyche by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1889.
When my bestie dated a guy then I checked his astrology natal chart and saw "venus square moon" in it :
Run. Don't walk away.
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, “a feeling”, 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? There’s also plenty of other ways to dispose of works.
Just because deities in different systems are SIMILAR (or you perceive them to be) doesn’t mean they are the SAME, and definitely doesn’t 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 you’re non-Black and think you’re working with him, go ahead and cleanse that trickster spirit out ya house baby 🤣
The “Rule of Three” doesn’t apply in ATRs. You’re just scared a Black person might hex you 🤷🏾♀️
The girls with a passion for conjure 💅🏾🕷️🌸