Temple Mami Dan Densu of Alaska

I was listening to this young woman on a podcast a few years ago suggesting that African Americans and practitioners of ATR's shouldn't...

Let's start there. Vodou isn't a system of magic. It isn't witchcraft. It ain't hexes. It ain't Satanism. It isn't anything people...

Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Hanukkah. Yule. Christmas. New Years. It's the most expensive time of the year. So what should we, as an...

Before we have this conversation we need to agree on what is meant when we say words. Race- A designation of social status based on...

"Men do not cry." my Godmother said these words to me upon the end of my most recent visit to Togo. Among the youth exploring African...

"...that is considered a big sin, here..." were the words my translator relayed to me from my Godmother when asked if LGBTQIA+ people and...

And y'all this has been bugging me for a while. In the largely Judeo-Christian, Eurocentric western world a witch is any occultist,...

Here in the U.S. we celebrate Halloween mostly as a secular holiday, a moral purge of sorts where excess and rambunctious behavior can be...

There is a long standing tradition in many West African cultures of polygamy, particularly among the Gbe speaking peoples of Ghana, Togo,...

So another tearful end of my time in Togo where my faith was restored, I was taught the secrets of making the mirror of the Amengansie,...

So I was on a forum populated mostly by self taught magicians and intuitive spiritualists this morning and came across a post with a one...

The most efficacious sacrament and most potent tool in the Hounnan's repertoire is the bath. The bath purifies. The bath baptize. The...

Vɔxa of two klu commemorates the end of Dzodze and the beginning of Tedoxe. TÔDELA presides over all sacrifices to the vodous in my ƒome...

It's Mother's Day and many within the African Diaspora community express a palpable disdain for Western holidays. While I agree there...

I had been hearing about this for about a year but kept the young lady's name out my mouth because I really didn't know too much about it....

In Vodou, there are many ways to make petition to the Divine, but the most readily available method is do gbe ɖa, prayer. It is important...

Like a lot of retired service members I let myself go after separation and like a lot of service members I regret that laps of self...

"If it's not about black liberation, I don't have time for it! " I hear this often from diasporans looking for spirituality without the...

"If there is no blood, there is no Vodou". It's as simple as that. Sacrifice is specific. It is not commerce where you give what you...

At a minimum, once a day, a person should pour water and gin or other strong drink on the clean earth to thank God for a world of...