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by catherineyronwode » Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:40 am
Hello, lovelygal --
The impact of the Covid pandemic has been widespread and is not showing any return to the way life was before the lockdowns and closures. Retail stores, restaurants, bakeries, amusement parks, music venues, comedy clubs, historical sites, museums, tourist destinations, and book shops all over the world closed during the pandemic and never reopened -- and those that did reopen have struggled ever since because shopping has moved almost entirely online, and is now brokered through the web sites of a very few multi-billion dollar corporations. Hands-on service and face-to-face meetings, which came to a halt during Covid have never come back to pre-Covid levels.
This has had a disastrous effect on folk magic as well. In the pre-Covid days all of us conjure doctors, wise old ladies, rootworkers, and home practitioners knew a hundred different ways to perform contact magic, foot track magic, handshake magic, and how to dust a business site for success and better sales. All of this information -- the result of hundreds of years of magical experimentation and sharing, particularly in the African-American community -- is irrelevant to half the people working in business today.
Sure, house painters sill fix their paint, and cleaners still fix their floor wash, and auto mechanics still wipe down the cars with a touch of this or that to bring in customers, but contact magic, the old, sure way to increase sales, is hard to implement in a virtual world, a world without physical contact.
So i feel your pain. It has affected my shop as well. Our online sales are robust, but walk-in shopping is not what it used to be.
And it's not only about you and me. A whole encyclopedia of contact magic spells is becoming as outdated and obsolete as the art of hand crocheting doll clothes or resoling a pair of shoes.
Without contact magic -- handing out dressed business cards, walking into a meeting with a lucky mojo tucked in your bra, snatching up your prospects foot tracks or shadow, laundering your business clothes with money-drawing bath crystals or a money herbs tea -- you are left with the prospect of working at a remove, which some folks call "kissing through a handkerchief."
1. Get their photos and burn Influence candles (or candles dressed with Influence oils and rolled in Money Drawing Herb Mix), then contact them while the candle burns and try to arrange an in-person meeting.
2. Get a street-view photo of their office, their photo, and your photo. Arrange them together to symbolize you meeting them at their office. Light an Attraction vigil light on the side with their photo and a Crown of Success vigil light on the side with your photo -- or use two small candles, theirs dressed with Attraction Oil and yours dressed with Crown of Success oil. Pray your wish for them to see you. Then telephone them (better than texting, because they will hear your voice) while the candles burn. Offer them something special if you meet.
3. when you do go to see them, follow all of the old contact magic spells i outlined above and be sure that the special thing you offered them is dressed with powder, oil, or a tea/bath wash, as is appropriate for the materials.
Good luck to you.
catherine yronwode
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