Hello from Buffalo. New to the group.

[Untamed28]

Hello I'm from Buffalo NY but I am currently in AZ. I am a traveling nurse. I have one son(12). My mother has always been very spiritual which naturally left me interested. I have practice and studied Santeria and spiritualism since I was a teenager I am now in my late 30s. Upon trying to research my family's roots and also studying different cultures and religions on my own just reading books and watching different videos. I have come very curious about hoodoo. I have read other books on hoodoo. I really do feel that it is something that is very connected to me spiritually. My background is African American, Native American and Puerto Rican. I've always had a very strong spiritual connection to my dreams (oneiromancy). In doing some research about hoodoo and seeing that this is a common practice for some hoodoo practitioners made me light up inside.
I am seriously interested in practicing hoodoo and excited to learn. I feel that having a connection to your ancestors known and unknown is very important. Finding good teachers is so hard. There are a lot of fakes out there or people using their gifts to scam people. So it's nice to know that there are people willing to teach you the right way. So in a nutshell I'm excited to be here!

[Miss Athena]

Hello Untamed28,

Welcome to the Lucky Mojo forum! We are delighted that you have found us as part of your journey into hoodoo, and hope you find our forum an enriching and informative place to be. As always, feel free to ask questions here and we will be happy to answer them.

We usually give a quick run down of rules and helpful links here. These are links to general information on hoodoo to give you a jumping off point:

Hoodoo History:
http://luckymojo.com/hoodoohistory.html

Mojo Hands:
http://luckymojo.com/mojo.html

Oils:
http://luckymojo.com/oils.html

Baths:
http://luckymojo.com/baths.html

Powders:
http://luckymojo.com/powders.html

Incense:
http://luckymojo.com/incense.html

Candles:
http://luckymojo.com/candlemagic.html

Herbs:
http://herb-magic.com

Conditions and how we can address them:
http://luckymojo.com/hoodooataglance.html

Here is some info on how the forums are set up. It is divided into four major parts:

1) News and Announcements about the Lucky Mojo Curio Company and this site.

2) Lucky Mojo Spiritual Supplies and how to use them, listed in threads by product type and product title.

3) Life Conditions and Situations, with recommended Lucky Mojo products, spells, and advice.

4) The Online Hoodoo Community, including sites, events, and outreach sponsored by Lucky Mojo.

When you post, it helps your moderators, who are recompensed volunteers, if you post in the area of the board that is best suited to the archival of your question or comment. That way moderators will not have to move your post or merge it into ongoing threads.

If you can't find a post you made, it may have been moved or merged. Go to your profile by clicking on your name and "search recent posts" -- you will find it.

Within each board section there are STICKY threads -- ones that always stay "stuck" to the top. These are popular discussion-threads that you can read and add to if your questions or comments fall into one of these oft-broached topics. If you don't see a "sticky" that relates to your question, feel free to start a new thread in the relevant section.

We do have a few "thou shalt not" rules here, and they can be found in the Forum Rules link at the top of each page.

Most important for newbies are these five common errors to avoid:

1) Please do not come here asking for our formulas for conjure oils or for instructions on how to use spiritual supplies that you bought at a grocery store or at a competitor of ours; this is the Lucky Mojo Forum and is financially supported by the Lucky Mojo Curio Co.

2) Please do not post illegal copies of material from other web sites or from books.

3) Please do not post put-downs of any group of people based on their religion, race, or national origin, including derogatory comments about religions to which you may have previously been an adherent or comments in which you seek to falsely conflate any religion with the practice of evil sorcery.

4) Please do not start new topics; we have thousands of topic-threads already in place.

5) Please do not quote people by using the copy-paste function; it wastes space.