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February 2016

February 16, 2016

Skull And Bones Gang 2016: Ancestors Come To Life

In a centuries old tradition the Northside Skull and Bones Gang walk the streets on...

February 11, 2016

Voodoo, Beyonce, Racism, and Resistance

I stand beside her and the rest of my sisters as an unapologetically black Voodoo...

February 02, 2016

Spiritual Lessons From Science Fiction : The Force, The Unknown, Q

Fans of the Star Wars series of films are very familiar with the “force.” It...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

Starz Announces Plans For New Santeria Television Show

The religious Santeria community is already nervous about the possibility of another disrespectful and sensationalized...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

Who Do You Pray To? Santa ? Bob Marley? Yoda?

We make meaning and magick where we find it. Our faith can call to us...

December 05, 2015

Crazy Krampus Craft : Feeling Horny ?

Inspired by these events I decided to make my own Krampus craft.Many folks online have...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Voodoo Review: Daughters Of The Dust

This is a beautiful film that deeply moves your spirit and your soul. Daughters of...

October 21, 2015

Spiritual Lessons From Sci-Fi: We Love You Ronald D. Moore

I think that the delightful commonality to all of these shows is their strong female...

October 10, 2015

Ancestor Poem Number 11

So while the veil in thin, And the past is in your ears,....

September 2015

September 20, 2015

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux- Don’t Bow Down

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux is a powerful presence with a luminous spirit. I was honored...

September 09, 2015

It’s My 2 Year Blogiversary And I’ll Rant If I Want Too !

As for complaints however, lets start will the almighty powers that be.... I know some...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

Spiritual Lessons From Sci-Fi : Lucy

At the core of the film is the age old question- What are we capable...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

Beyond the Beyond: Pagan Festival Season 2015

The camp fires are burning, nature is calling, and if you are like me you...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Light Up The Black: New Season of #OITNB

What would Crazy Eyes' special brand of Hoodoo look like ? Wouldn't it be delightful...

June 08, 2015

Voodoo Review: Eve’s Bayou

Shrouded in death, ancestors, and mystery ...Eve's Bayou centers around a child called Eve.

May 2015

May 16, 2015

Bessie Smith, BB King and the Hoodoo Blues

The Hoodoo tradition is older than Bessie Smith and BB King put together. The resourceful...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

For Flint… A Wise Man Said

The Dragon Ritual Drummers have been like family to me for almost two decades now....

April 22, 2015

The Rite to Yemaya- Some Thoughts on Appropriation

I guess some people are wondering what is the problem. The problems center around the...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

Tarot Card Poem: The Fool … Unplugged

One of my own personal reflections about tarot performed live in NYC some years ago....

December 2014

December 30, 2014

2014 Voodoo and Santeria on Television- That’s Not Entertainment !

I will continue to watch the mainstream media, with a hopefully eye, a scratchy head,...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

Beware the Ginger Vampire !!!

The goddess Lilith was thought to have red hair, and is depicted thusly in traditional...

November 07, 2014

Review: The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult

DuQuette's introduction raises more questions than it answers. He speaks of Science Fiction as the...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Snapped “Voodoo Drug Dealer”

This episode of Snapped is airing over 25 years after the crimes occurred. The story...

October 23, 2014

Voodoo Cruise Exhibit Sinks To A New Low

Obviously these things are not about real life. Seeing is believing however, and when most...

October 15, 2014

Welcome, Walk and Be Wild with the Goddess

Sound is one of the most sacred and magickal things we have to share. It...

October 10, 2014

Freaks Come Out At Nite: AHS Freakshow

The freaks have come out on American Horror Story: Freakshow and we are “Gooble Gobble-ing”...

October 08, 2014

The Baron is Dead – RIP Geoffrey Holder !!!

Holder played the laughing and mischievous Baron Samedi, the king of the Dead. In the...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Voodoo Universe Explores Babalu Aye and Ricky Ricardo

Babalu Aye is an Orisha, or demi-god, in the religion of Santeria, more properly known...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

What Goddess? Where? Book Trailer: 55 Ways to Connect to Goddess

Greetings Voodoo Universe Readers ! I'd like to announce my new book 55 Ways to...

August 10, 2014

Naked Voodoo: The Sexualization of a Religion

One of the ways the popular media has chosen to portray New Orleans Voodoo and...