Rootwork Ramble: For Every Hoodoo Who Feels Alone
Post 2 of 2026
For Every Hoodoo Who Feels Alone
I’m opening office hours for Hoodoos who feel alone. I was not expecting so many folks to reach out after the Spiritual Homeless piece. Post here
With all the questions, the Ancestors and I decided: every last Wednesday night of the month. 7:30 pm EST, for $27/month. We start Next Month in March
We can meet to discuss, ask questions, and connect with other practitioners navigating this path. Gathering. Link in bio.
Now let me tell you why these matters.
You Are Not the Only One Feeling This
After “Spiritually Homeless,” my inbox took off, with so many messages saying the same thing:
“I thought I was the only one feeling like this.”
Thank you for taking such great care with the piece and for naming what I was feeling.
And I get it. You’re practicing, Ancestors are present, altar is tended.
But your altar of heart, you still feel isolated in a way that’s hard to name.
Let me be clear: feeling alone while your Ancestors are with you isn’t a contradiction.
It’s a natural human feeling for some people, like being alone in a committed relationship, which is real when I coach some Black women through this exact feeling.
The Ancestors Are Here, But So Is the Loneliness, and we have to acknowledge that.
Why Community Matters in Hoodoo & Rootwork
In Low Country Hoodoo, we understand something crucial: you need many things to be a good Hoodoo and Rootworker, and as my Rabbi Gelberman always used to say:
Never instead of. Always in addition to.
You need your Ancestors’ sweet souls, AND you need your living community.
One doesn’t replace the other in Hoodoo and Rootwork.
My Grandma Joe used to say:
“The dead can guide you, but you gotta make space for the living, ’cause they gotta walk beside you too.”
If you like chat, lean into a more structured town hall vibe. The office hours are for you.
As I tell my mentees in Foundational Hoodoo Students and budding Bible and Playing Card Diviners, I’m not here for your practice to look like mine.
I’m here as a guide and to assist others in the community, so you don’t feel alone and have a place to ask a question, call someone, or put a prayer request on the community altar.
In the community, I’ve hosted folks who found prayer partners and long‑term friendships that have lasted for decades.
It’s not just about connecting with me; it’s about connecting with your Hoodoo and Rootworking clan, if you desire.
When Your Ancestors Are Quiet and Hush!
Sometimes you need someone to say:
“Hey, what you are experiencing is normal. I’ve been there too.”
Or:
“Here’s what happened when I went through the Ancestral silence period of my life.”
Some people’s Ancestors aren’t loud guides, and you need help knowing you’re not making it up or “doing it wrong.”
’Cause so‑and‑so said they can see their grandmama five generations back in the kitchen cooking greens, and all you get is smells and context clues.
Hoodoo and Rootworking experience is different for different folks.
It doesn’t mean you are wrong or right; it means you need a place to talk out loud.
That’s what office hours are for.
That’s what a living community does.
Hoodoo & Rootwork Were Never Meant to Be Solo
I took a respite from in‑person events. I had an Ancestral garden, which was a lot of work, but my back can’t do that right now, so I had to pause. I’ll get back to it once Ancestors approve.
I say this to remind you:
When your Ancestors pause you from community things, be understanding of that pause, but don’t use it as a crutch not to be in community at all.
Hoodoo has always been communal.
Even when it had to be hidden.
Even when it had to be quiet.
It was practiced in proximity to others.
You don’t have to agree with someone every step as a practitioner for them to be part of your community.
Growing up in Gullah Geechee Low Country praise house‑like environments taught me:
I don’t have to be in the same denomination as you for us to find value, love, and care in one another.
My family practiced together.
My Mom still practices with me.
My son and daughter practice with their elders.
It’s a family affair over here.
I’m not saying that’s how it’s supposed to work for everybody.
But you still have a community you can sit with and be real with.
This isn’t about teaching, notebooks, or deep dives.
This is about sitting together, witnessing each other, and holding space for thoughts, questions, mistakes, and breakthroughs.
When your practice is truly alone, with no living witnesses, you start second‑guessing everything.
Is this right?
Am I doing this correctly?
Is this feeling real?
Am I making this shit up?
That doubt creeps in not because you’re doing it wrong but because Hoodoos need other humans to reflect what’s real.
What My Elders Taught Me About Community
My Uncle Sank had a saying:
“Grief needs truth. Grief needs a friend and famlee.”
In Hoodoo and Rootwork, we grieve many things, not just people.
And Uncle Sank taught me: when you’re carrying something heavy, you can’t carry it in isolation.
You need your people, the ones who can see it, name it, and help you move through it without letting it make a home in your chest.
The same applies to spiritual loneliness and spiritual anxiety.
You can feel displaced and still be grounded.
You can feel alone and still be connected to your Ancestors.
But you don’t get through those stages alone.
This is a monthly gathering where we can ask questions.
We’ll send out a form before each gathering so it can be organized.
We share what’s working (or not), and we’re real about the messy middle that comes with Hoodoo and Rootwork.
It’s deeper than instructions.
It’s about connection.
In Hoodoo and Rootwork, there is a difference between an elder classroom and sitting on somebody’s porch.
Let me say this plainly:
If you feel alone in your practice, it doesn’t mean you’re failing.
It means you’re human.
And you may need some community love.
Come through.
Your Ancestors Know Your Address
Your Ancestors are with you.
But they also know you need living people around you who speak the same spiritual Hoodoo language as you.
In Low Country Hoodoo, we say it many ways:
“Baby, you can name it without claiming it.”
You acknowledge what’s present: anxiety, loneliness, doubt, fear, without letting it define your whole practice.
You invite it to sit on the porch.
You listen.
Then you send it on its way.
But you can’t do all that alone.
You need voices in the room reminding you:
This feeling is temporary.
You’re not broken.
Things exist even when you can’t see them yet.
What You Need Ain’t Out Yonder
A lot of folks think the answer is finding the perfect teacher, the proper lineage, the authentic tradition.
You belong because you are a beautiful Black human being.
As my Grandma Joe would say
“Baby, stop huntin’ for a whole new yard like you ain’t got one.
What you need ain’t out yonder.
It’s right here. Plant down.”
There is no Hoodoo guru greater than your own stable, healthy, well‑taken‑care‑of Crown.
Come to the office hours to uplift your practice.
You need other Hoodoos who are also figuring it out — and you will never stop figuring out new things.
Hoodoo office hours are where we sit down, build networks, and find others in your city.
This Is Why Office Hours Exists
Everyone’s Hoodoo and Rootworking experiences aren’t like mine; that’s why community is essential.
To be clear:
Some of us like cosmology through the Bible.
If you want Hoodoo Bible Study Deep Dives, that’s your lane.
Hoodoo foundations are deeper. We do Ancestral crossroads, Ancestral staff work, personal “Crown” work, and more.
Hoodoo Office Hours is for gathering, talking, and witnessing one another’s journeys.
A place where you can ask the questions you’re scared to ask elsewhere.
Where you can admit you feel lost without someone telling you that means you’re doing it wrong.
It’s the community space for those figuring this out.
The space where feeling alone becomes feeling seen.
Every Last Wednesday
$27/month
7:30 pm EST
60–90 minutes
We gather, talk, and hold space for each other.
For the Hoodoo who feels alone
You don’t have to be.
Link is here if you want to come plant down with us.
We start Next Month in March
Needed this!