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Hello all,
I'm new to Hoodoo and yet feel very drawn to it. As soon as I started reading about it, something inside me lit up. I happened upon it through a book, The Candle and the Crossroads, by Orion Foxwood. I'm not sure if that book represents Hoodoo well, but it led me to talking about it with a friend who recommended the Lucky Mojo site and Miss Cat's books. So here I am! I've ordered some products and am going to learn all I can. When I'm not exploring my spirituality, I'm a yarn-spinner, fiber artist and farmer in rural North Carolina. Look forward to being here and getting to know you folks
Blessings,
Drucilla

Welcome to The Lucky Mojo Forum! It was a pleasure to meet you today on The Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour and in the "chat" of Blog Talk Radio!

Be Blessed!!!

Miss Tammie Lee

Hello, Drucilla, and welcome to the forums.

Hi, Drucilla! If we can help you, let us know.

Hi Drucilla! I love Orion's teachings. My spirit really clicks with him.

Thanks for the warm welcome, all! I'm very interested in learning how Orion fits into the hoodoo community since he's pagan, and I am too. Thanks again!

Drucilla,

Orion is an experienced Anglo-American mystic who was raised in the South. He has adapted some traditional hoodoo ways to his Pagan teachings, but i would frankly (and respectfully) call him a Pagan magician, not a hoodoo rootworker. He, in fact, calls what he does "conjure," which, while it was originally an old African-American term, has recently been creatively employed by mostly White Pagans to distinguish their own non-African-American ways of spell-casting from Black American folk-magic. We carry his book, "The Candle and the Crossroads" in our bookstore for our Pagan customers who are interested in how Pagans are developing an American form of witchcraft.

Here is how Orion's press releases describe him -- and you will note that hoodoo is not in his CV:

"Orion grew up with the second sight in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, an area rife with the folk practices of the southern and Appalachian tradition. He is a witch and Elder in Romano Celtic-Traditional Craft, High Priest in Alexandrian Wicca and teacher of the Faery Seership tradition. He is also the founding Elder of Foxwood Temple and a primary founder of the Alliance of the Old Religion, a national network of covens in his line that have united to preserve the ways of his Elders. He was the co-director of Moonridge, a center for metaphysical, Craft and Faery studies in Maryland..."

He became a student in my Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course in 2003 and graduated in 2009.

Hi Drucilla and welcome to the Forum! If you don't have it already, consider getting Miss Cat's book ''Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic'' which has dozens and dozens of representative spells collected that are a great foundation to build from. Nice to see another fiber-lover here! I'm an avid knitter (Estonian and Victorian lace mostly) myself when time allows

Welcome to the forum.