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Cinnamon the ancestral herb
Cinnamon in the Formula: How One Bold Herb Shapes Tea, Oil, and Intention Cinnamon rarely enters a blend quietly. Its aroma arrives before the first sip, and even a modest amount can reshape the entire formula. That is exactly why cinnamon makes a useful study herb. The beginner may ask, “What is cinnamon good for?” The formulator asks a sharper question: What job is cinnamon doing here—and is it doing too much? Today we will study cinnamon as a sensory ingredient, formulatio
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18 hours ago5 min read
Cleansing your space
Your home holds more than furniture—it holds conversations, emotions, movement, rest and the spiritual atmosphere created by everyone who enters. A floor wash turns ordinary housecleaning into intentional spiritual work: first removing what feels heavy or stagnant, then welcoming peace and protection for the week ahead. Floor-washing practices are documented in African American Hoodoo and conjure records. Harry Middleton Hyatt’s twentieth-century interviews describe workers s
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5 days ago2 min read
Building balance
Building a Balanced Blend: The Role Every Herb Plays 🌿 A thoughtful herbal formula is more than a list of plants that share a similar purpose. Each ingredient should have a clear job—creating structure, supporting the central theme, improving flavor or aroma, and bringing the entire blend into harmony. Today, we’re using Mahogany Alchemy & Herbs’ Still Waters Tea and Safe & Sound Enchanted Oil to explore the difference between choosing meaningful ingredients and building a b
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Aug 263 min read
Learning about the Blood Moon
🌕🩸 THE BLOOD MOON: HISTORY, MYSTERY & TRANSFORMATION For thousands of years, a Moon glowing deep red during a lunar eclipse has captured human attention. What we now call a Blood Moon occurs when Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, placing the Moon in Earth’s shadow. Sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere bends toward the lunar surface, allowing red and orange wavelengths to illuminate it—creating that unforgettable copper-red glow. Ancient cultures interprete
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Aug 241 min read
Rootwork, history & tradition
Rootwork: History, Purpose & Tradition In our last article, we explored Hoodoo: its history, purpose, and spiritual significance. This week, we take the next step into one of the practices most closely associated with Hoodoo: rootwork. The word itself tells us something important. Rootwork is work with roots—but it is also about something much deeper: knowledge, intention, relationship with the natural world, and the wisdom passed from one generation to another. To understand
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Aug 225 min read


Hoodoo: History, purpose and significance.
Hoodoo: History, Purpose & Spiritual Significance Hoodoo is a spiritual and cultural tradition deeply rooted in the history and experiences of African American communities in the United States. It developed through generations of African-descended people who carried spiritual beliefs, practices, knowledge of plants, ancestral traditions, and ways of working with the natural world into a new and often difficult environment. To understand Hoodoo, it is important to understand t
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Aug 155 min read


Rose Colored Glasses
Do YOU see this life through ROSE COLORED GLASSES?? Is it an illusion you see? Or for those who don't understand that... Let me put it...
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Apr 14, 20211 min read


Dark Moon
I told you I would check back in.... Here we are on Dark Moon Day... Our moment to intentionally close out... Intentionally shut any...
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Apr 14, 20211 min read


9/11/2020
Have you ever been Soo close to the "there" that you can actually see it, & smell it... But not quite taste it? 🤔 I was standing at a...
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Sep 6, 20202 min read


Covid Updates:
Greetings, Family... The #Sistersofmah are sewing mask for the ELDERS in the community..Donate $5.00 (hit the Donate button) and Help us...
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Sep 1, 20201 min read


NOTES From our founder:
A Few Notes, or F.Y.I's or WARNINGS: Greetings, Loves... 1) Natural does NOT MEAN EDIBLE! 2)Adding ANY oil and or herb or powder to a...
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Sep 1, 20201 min read


Keep it Gangsta Ladies!
Grand Moon Risings family... I've been busy over the last few days handling the "other side" of the biz, not so much the alchemy, but the...
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Aug 31, 20181 min read


Inner reflections..
Najaah Amistad August 19 at 6:13 AM ~Writings of Reflections of unreleased Pain!...~ Me then: looking at him...🤔 Why do you always...
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Aug 31, 20182 min read


Alchemy comes in many forms around this little house...
From conjure oils, to body butters & enchanted waters, to herbal detoxes, and herbal incense blends ..I have learned over the years...how...
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Aug 28, 20181 min read


It's been a while...
August 26 at 6:14 PM Greetings family, I hope your frequency has been high, and your vibrations have radiated joy and prosperity. I know...
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Aug 26, 20181 min read


I can feel you...
August 17 at 9:45 AM Grand RISINGS loved ones.... let us greet each other correctly in the Great Rising of a new day...first off..😉, ...
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Aug 17, 20181 min read


Just thinking...
I've realized since I've been down here that I honestly don't look at life like everyone else.. yeah go figure.. lol, but no...
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Aug 15, 20181 min read


New Years
Dec 31, 2017 6:19pm If I don't speak to you directly..let me wish you ALL a blissful new year.. a joyful season, an electric new...
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Dec 30, 20171 min read


"re-start"
Had to do a cleanse "re-start", the car accident through many things in my world out of allignment so I needed to re-center a few things...
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Jan 8, 20174 min read


Connect with Osun
Embrace the love of those around you. Allow the positive energy to take over and influence the success that you are having. The inner...
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Jan 5, 20171 min read
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