Celebrating Hoodoo Heritage Month & My Birthday
Covered by Spirit, Guided by Blood for 37 Turns Around the Sun.
October is sacred to me. It’s the month I was born — and the month we honor the legacy of Hoodoo.
Today, I’m celebrating my birth and my birthright. The Hoodoo that raised me. The spirits that keep me. The traditions that refused to die. I come from Alabama Creole women and Native kin who lived by discernment, prayer, and knowing.
I call it what it is: Hoodoo. And I’m not hiding it, watering it down, or masking it under anything else.
Hoodoo Heritage Month isn’t just about preservation — it’s about reclamation. It’s about acknowledging that what once had to be hidden, shamed, or called something else to survive, was always ours.
We are the descendants of people who conjured liberation out of impossible circumstances. Who prayed and called down healing in the middle of harm. Who knew how to make a way when none was offered. And somehow, those same people are still guiding us.
So here’s to us — the ones who remember. The rootworkers, scholars, conjurers, diviners, and doulas who carry this sacred technology forward.
Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month. Happy Solar Return to me.
Covered by spirit. Guided by blood.
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The Scholar and the Spirit: Why Studying Hoodoo Still Matters
Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month! Reflecting on her decades of research, Dr. Yvonne P. Chireau shares her thoughts on Hoodoo, the impact of the film Sinners, and the ongoing power of our ancestral traditions.
The Practice of a Hoodoo Baptist — my personal podcast series where I share my journey of rootwork, faith, and ancestral wisdom.
This is where doula work, spirituality, and cultural healing intersect. Episodes will live right here on Menärchē — for the culture, from the altar.
Faith Unbound: Reimagining Belief with Kristian A. Smith
What happens when faith refuses to stay in the narrow pews it was handed, and instead begins to stretch, breathe, and move in the rhythm of liberation?
