Voodoo Jar, Part 3

Voodoo Jar finale and job-interview update, all in one. Last week was sitting-on-eggshells stressful.  After a smashing 1st interview, J proceeded to hear nothing for the entire rest of the week.  I spent all day, every day, glued to my phone, waiting for a text or a call from him letting me know that he…

Voodoo Jar, Part 2

This will, I’ve discovered, become a 3-part series. Last night, I sat down to finish the painting on the Voodoo Jar  by completing the other side with Agwe’s veve. Immamou is the name of his ship. It’s strange, but I hadn’t thought of this until it reoccurred to me last night while painting, but Agwe is said to be a…

Voodoo Jar, Part 1

In the interests of pushing our energies toward a successful facilitation of The Move, we have started making a Voodoo jar for that purpose.  I call it a “Voodoo Jar” but it would fall more into the category of a “Witch Jar” or hoodoo, or your basic variety of root magic.  The Witch Jar, or…

Open Gateways

I’d been feeling very nervous lately. The prospect of uprooting an entire life and moving it nearly across-country and starting over again is a big one.  My husband J and I have already made a couple of tentative steps toward getting our ducks in a row.  I had the “we’re going to try to move…