School of Raq
A day in the life of a witch: Raq (sounds like "rock," and is short for Raquelle) is a music-teacher-turned-witch who offers spiritual help and healing from an all-faith perspective. Each Sunday, they cover topics like the tarot, astrology, holistic music, creativity, and other spiritual practices that can be picked up by anybody from any faith practice. Intersectional, political, and heart-felt, Raq discusses how to navigate spirituality in a society that makes being a human difficult. Come curious; leave transformed.
School of Raq
16: A Celebration of Black Magick!
Happy Black History Month!!!
In honor of our Black witches and wizards, I did a little digging into the history of Black Magick and witchcraft here in the States! Though woefully incomplete, I hope this will be a jumping off point to inspire your own study and celebration as we take this month to honor Black witches and freedom fighters past and present.
Sources:
Hoodoo:
Black Magic Matters: Hoodoo as Ancestral Religion, featuring professor Yvonne Chireau and Giovanna Parmigiani at Harvard Divinity School:
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/magic-matters/2021/11/10
Vodou and the differences between hoodoo and Vodou:
https://medium.com/@ioannis.tsiokos/hoodoo-vs-voodoo-c9da8d5c193b
Uniting themes of West African Religions:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/African-religions
Marie Laveau:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laveau
Zora Neale Hurston
https://www.edgeofyesterday.com/time-travelers/discover/heroes/zora-neale-hurston
https://www.litpubcrawl.com/thescrape/zombies-amp-hoodoo-amp-zora-neale-hurston
Pamela Colman Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Colman_Smith
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pamela-colman-smith-rider-waite-tarot-2163627
https://www.americanrenaissancetarot.com/blog/2019/3/1/pamela-colman-smith-american
People to follow:
- Diana Rose (ddamascenaa on IG)
- Eroticsofliberation on IG
- Ev’Yan Whitney (Sensual Self podcast, evyan.whitney on IG)
- Jasmine’s Garden (jasminesgarden23 on TikTok)
- Bri Luna of the Hood Witch (thehoodwitch on IG)
- adrienne maree brown (adriennemareebrown)
Music: "Future Abstract" by penguinmusic on pixabay.com
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