Making Reconciliation Spells REALLY Work

Hands-down, the most common client request for hoodoo is for a reconciliation spell. This is no real surprise when you think about what a vast and complex landscape human emotions can be, and how challenging it is to make a relationship really work in this modern age. We are taught dysfunctional ways to behave in relationships from television, glamor magazines, movies and even from our friends and family. So when the relationship goes sour, or breaks up all together, it makes sense to turn to a conjure doctor to fix the situation.

This, however, is a misconception. Yes, a conjure doctor can help you mend your relationship. Yes, we can help soften hearts and open minds and get the two of you to reconcile. BUT, contrary to popular opinion, we are NOT miracle workers.

So how, then, should you approach reconciliation spell work in order to get effective results with your hoodoo? Let me share what I've learned over the years from personal and professional experience.

Communication is Number ONE!

My teacher taught me that reconciliation spells are much more likely to success if the people are talking to one another. I'm going to take that one step further and say that reconciliation spells will ONLY succeed if the people involved are talking to one another. Otherwise, there really is little chance for the two of you to come back together and heal the wounds of the past. That means, tuck your tail, apologize for what went wrong and genuinely try to mend things. Let go of resentments, start anew and give the other person the benefit of the doubt. And if it has been longer than two years since you've spoken to the individual your chances for success are pretty much none. But, for those of you who are speaking to your lover, here's a great spell to get the lines of communication going.

Personal Letter Dressed with Powders for Reconciliation

You'll need:

• 1 packet of Success and Eloquence Powder
• 1 packet of Reconciliation Powder
• 1 hand-written letter or card to your lover

Write a letter to your ex sincerely apologizing to them if you've wronged them, or forgiving them if they've wronged you. Be heart-felt and honest and don't blame them for anything. Just focus on the love you have for one another and how much you miss the great times you had together. Sign the letter or card and make sure the ink has dried.

Flip the letter or card over and sprinkle some Success and Eloquence Powder and some Reconciliation Powder on the card. As you do so, call out your ex's name and pray to God in your own words for his heart to be softened, for his mind to be opened and for him to remember the love you have together, and feel desire in his heart to call you and speak with you in return. Now run your four fingers down the card in wavy lines - like snake tracks - and say "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, AMEN!" Shake off the excess powder, then give the letter a flick with your finger to snap off any residue. Fold up the letter, put it in an envelope and seal the envelope with a little dab of your urine. Mail the letter to your lover and when he opens it, he'll be dominated by your urine, affected by the Reconciliation Powder to want to be with you again, and then compelled by the Success and Eloquence Powder to want to talk to you.

Humility and Sincerity Are KEY!

All too often, I have clients come to me and say "I want my boyfriend that broke up with me back, but I want HIM to make the first move and I want HIM to apologize to me!" or some variation of that theme. Let me tell you right now that the reason you two haven't reconciled your love is because OF YOU! Stubbornness and pride serve no role in reconciliation work. Let go of your pride, let go of your stubborn need to be right, and stop this whole cat and mouse game of not talking to him until he talks to you, etc. All it does is feed into the dysfunctional mind games that Hollywood have taught us are a part of any relationship. I'm here to tell you that the sooner you drop that behavior and those requirements the more likely you are going to succeed in getting your partner back.

Forgiveness Goes Two Ways

In order to go from break up to make up, you'll need to master the art of apologies and forgiveness. But remember that forgiveness goes two ways - and by that I mean that you have to forgive the other person AND FORGIVE YOURSELF for what happened. Holding on to guilt or resentment are only ways of closing off your heart and will ultimately fight against any positive spell outcome.

I always recommend to my clients that they should take up some kind of journaling or way of processing their emotions. Shoot, even therapy is something we should all sign up for after a break up - it helps you work through your feelings, learn your lessons, grow and evolve instead of just placing blame, vilifying the other person and walking away from the relationship with nothing to show for it.

Make your journal a magical one. Get yourself a nice spiral bound notebook from the local book store. Into it, place a photo of you and your ex together when you were happy. Then, you can use some Love Uncrossing Products to unravel the emotional knots that you built up in your relationship using the following spell:

Dr. E.'s Love Uncrossing Spell

You'll need:

• 7 or 13 packets of Love Uncrossing Herb Bath (depending on how much you have to work out)
• 1 half red/half black jumbo love uncrossing candle
• 1 bottle of Love Uncrossing Oil

You will perform this spell every afternoon or evening for 7 consecutive days. Make a strong infusion of 1 package of Love Uncrossing Herb Baths by pouring boiling water over the herbs in a coffee cup. Allow the herbs to sit for about 10 minutes. Strain out the herbs. Draw yourself a nice bathtub full of water. Add in the cup of infused liquid to the bath.

Now, carefully using a knife, cut the tip off of the candle, turn it upside down and carve a new tip on the butt of the candle - digging out the wick so you'll be able to light it. On the black half of the candle carve in mirror-writing "Remove my condition". On the red part carve in normal writing "I am worthy of love". Dress the entire candle with Love Uncrossing Oil - stroke away from you on the black part, stroke toward you on the red part. Place this in a candle holder and set it next to the bathtub. Light the candle.

Disrobe and enter the bath. As you soak in the bathtub, state "Wash me with hyssop and I shall be clean in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN!" Now relax in the tub and mentally go through any of the suffering, anger or resentment from the break up. Focus on forgiving yourself and forgiving your ex. See if you discover any emotional behavioral patterns that need to be healed or changed. Write these down in your journal during and after the bath is done. Finally, imagine all of the pain and anger being leeched out of your body by the herbs in the bath, and then imagine glowing pink light entering your body - replacing the resentment with love, the anger with acceptance and the distrust with loving trust.

When you are done, stand up, cross your arms across your chest and then quickly uncross them by wiping diagonally from shoulder to hip across your chest saying aloud "reMOVE this condition from me!" - repeat that three times. Step out of the bath and lightly towel off. Scoop up a cupful of the used bath water and allow the rest to drain away.

Once you are dry, anoint your feet, wrists, neck and heart with Love Uncrossing Oil. Dress in light colored clothes and walk to the crossroads (4-way crossroad). Toss that used bath water over your left shoulder into the intersection toward the east saying "AMEN!" and walk away without looking back. When you get home, pinch or snuff out the candle and use it for the next bath.

Over the course of the week, keep your journal with you and write down any thoughts or realizations that come to you about your relationship, your negative behaviors or patterns or lessons you've learned. The effect of those baths will last up to and beyond a month.

Reconciliation Spells Take Time

Sometimes clients think that a reconciliation spell will be a "one shot, bang, and you're fixed" kind of job. I'm here to tell you that reconciliation spell work in a long haul, and it is a slow and steady progress that you're looking for. Trust takes a long time to grow, and one moment to destroy. You now have to go through the process of rebuilding trust - and that takes time, honesty and communication. Reconciliation spells should aim at softening the hearts and opening the minds of those involved.

Reconciliation Honey Jar Spell

This spell uses sweeteners to soften up their attitude toward you and to remember the sweetness you had together.

You'll need:

• A jar of honey with a metal lid
• A photo of you
• A photo of your ex
• 3 gold-eyed needles
• 2 balm of gilead buds that are stuck together
• orange peel
• 1 package of Reconciliation Powder
• 1 bottle of Reconciliation Oil
• 9 pink candles

Take the photo of your ex and put a dab of Reconciliation oil on each corner and the middle of the photo. Do the same with your photo. Now put a dab of honey on the ex's photo's mouth. Then stick your photo to it so that the mouths are touching. As you do so state aloud your ex's name and say "You remember the sweetness of my kisses and we only speak sweet words to one another from now on!"

Then stick the three needles through the papers (in and out to hold them) so they are stuck together. Make sure the three needles are parallel. As you do so, state "We are joined at the hip, joined at the head and joined at the heart. In Jesus' name I call you back to me for it is our destiny to be together again! AMEN!"

Now push the papers down into the honey and when you pull your finger out it will have honey on it. Lick the honey off and say "As this honey is sweet on my tongue, so too shall I be sweet on your mind, sweet on your tongue and sweet in your heart!" Add in the balm of gilead, the orange peel and three pinches of Reconciliation Powder. Cap off the jar.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, you will do the following: Take 1 pink candle and carve "reconcile our love" onto the candle. Dress it with Reconciliation Oil - stroking the oil toward you. Dust it with Reconciliation Powder. Then melt the butt of the candle enough that you can stick it to the lid of the honey jar. Light the candle and let it burn all the way down. As it burns pause for a moment and pray to God to illuminate your ex's mind, to draw him back to you and to remind him of the good times, the love and the wonderful joy you shared together. Do this for three consecutive weeks and you should see steady improvement in your ex's disposition toward you. You can continue to work the jar with pink candles until they return to you if you like.

Draw Them Back - Don't TORMENT Them

One of the keys to really winning in the arena of love is to become "magnetic" instead of being "electric". The best way I can describe this is by observing those two phenomena. Magnets just naturally draw things to them by an indescribable, invisible but powerful force. Electricity sparks, lashes out, strikes and jolts. People who are confident in themselves, love themselves and see a relationship as an addition to their life are magnetic - they draw lovers to them and they are desirable to be around. People who lack confidence in themselves, don't think they are worthy of love or limit their love to "he's the only one that will ever love me" are electric - they cling like static to others out of desperation, their love is obsessive, unhealthy, sharp, spikey and jolting. You should strive to cultivate magnetic appeal with reconciliation spells - not electrical lashing out.

I've seen a real pattern, lately, where clients approach me asking for The Intranquility Spell against their ex to bring him back - right off the bat. This immediately raises red flags for me as a rootworker because it tells me they are being "electric" not "magnetic" and their chances for reconciliation are very low unless they change their tactics.

I will say, once and for all here, that The Intranquility Spell is not the solution for reconciliation in most cases. Its uses are rare and selective and it really only works on certain types of people. Usually it results in tormenting the lover which ends up driving them mad, not back to you. Again... change your tactics. Try a honey jar, or a lodestone spell - but don't beat them over the head or you'll only drive them away.

Doll Babies, Voodoo Dolls, Poppets - or whatever you want to call them

Doll babies, poppets, or voodoo dolls (as they are inappropriately called) are little dolls made in the likeness of an individual you seek to target. Doll babies (as they are called in hoodoo) are very firmly rooted in the concept of sympathetic magic. "If this looks like that, when I affect this, it will in turn affect that". The same magical concept is used when burning figural candles, skull candles or working with evil eye charms that are shaped like eyes.

Interestingly, the use of doll babies in magic isn't a native Congolese/African practice, per se. It actually comes from European magic that African-American slaves were exposed to through their magical interactions with other cultures.

Doll babies are usually made out of cloth and stuffed with herbs and personal concerns tied to the intended target. They can also be made out of clay, wax, sticks ... just about anything as long as it looks like a person. I've grown to love crafting doll babies out of clay because it calls upon the creation story from the bible.

I usually use a clay of the color that pertains to the magical goal I am aiming for: black for cursing, white for protection, healing or blessings, red for love, pink for reconciliation, etc. The doll baby pictured above was used for a very powerful curse to put a man in jail. He molested two children and righteously deserved to be behind bars. It was crafted out of black modeling clay and the target's personal concerns were put inside the head. Make the doll baby detailed enough to affect it where it counts. Give it hands, feet, eyes, a mouth, etc. That way you can affect these areas of the person's body when you cast the spell.

Baptizing the Doll Baby

Once you have created the doll baby, regardless of what it is made of, it is traditional to baptize it with a bit of whiskey and name it. Name the doll baby with the identical name of the target it is intended for and always baptize it "In the Name of The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen!" From this point onward, only call the doll baby by that name and restate that everything you do to it, you are doing to the person it represents.

How to Use a Doll Baby in Spells

Now that the doll baby has been "brought to life" you can use it in your spell work. Here are some ideas for how you can affect it - and remember every time you do something to the doll baby, call out the target's name as if you are doing it to them.

• Tie up its hands - to bind your enemy
• Tie up its feet - to trip up your enemy
• Blindfold it - so your enemy doesn't know who is cursing him, to blind him
• Hog-tie it - to completely incapacitate your enemy
• Twist the feet backward - to undo any of your enemy's progress, to trip them up
• Stab it with pins - to hurt your enemy or pin them down (in the eyes, mouth, genitals, heart, hands, etc.)
• Tie it to another doll baby - to tie someone to another, make them faithful
• Cut parts off - to maim them or disfigure them

Use your imagination, the possibilities are endless. Additionally, you can put doll babies in boxes with items like powders, condition oils, herbs, minerals, etc. Anything that touches the doll baby will affect your intended target.

Check out this spell to imprison the aforementioned child molester. The doll baby was bound up in wire, set over a photo of the local central prison facility, dressed with Command! Oil and Crossing Oil, laced with crossing and reversing herbs and minerals including crab shell powder, sulfur, vandal root, agrimony and more. The figure was encased in a square of wire representing the prison walls. A piece of devil's shoestring was placed at each wall so that he could not cross them and would be locked inside. The four black candles were burned down over the mirror to reflect back at him all of the harm he caused to those two kids. Once the spell was done burning I collected everything and took it to the Men's Central Prison facility and dumped it in a trash can inside the prison - to deliver that man into custody.

Doll babies are not just for cursing. You can also use doll babies for reconciliation spells to tie a lover to you or bring him back. They can be used to sweeten someone's disposition toward you by putting a whole doll baby inside a honey jar along with Attraction Powder or a few drops of Love Me NOW oil! You can even create a doll baby for a person that is ill, and then place them in a box with healing herbs to help them recover. Just take very good care of a doll baby that you fashion for someone that you seek to do blessing or love work with.

I use doll babies as part of my arsenal in the Rootworking Consultation that I offer to the public. Doll baby work takes a lot of time but is a very powerful and effective way to hit someone on a very physical level with rootwork, and it is DAMNED hard to counter it magically speaking.

A Speedy Honey Jar for a Court Case

Speeding up a Honey Jar

Honey Jar workings are known for taking a slow but steady approach to a problem. They sweeten the parties involved to think favorably toward you and they gently break down their defenses until they are fighting for your cause (or drawing toward you in the case of love honey jars). But in general, they aren't a very "quick" type of working, but I added a few magic ingredients to make this one fast. In this case I used cayenne pepper and petitioned St. Expedite.

Using a Honey Jar to Speed Up a Court Case

I was recently approached by a client to speed up the arrest and trial of a known child molester. In addition to some powerful workings to put him in prison using a doll baby (to be featured in a future posting), I decided to take a sweeter gentler approach with the parties involved. One of the unique issues around this case was that there were family members supporting the child molester who were telling the authorities that the case was a fraud and that the children accusing him of molesting them were lying to get back at their mother.

In order to get the district attorney, Child Protective Services, the detective on the case and the trauma counselor to get on the side of the children, I employed a honey jar spell (seen here). IN the honey jar, I included slips of paper for each of the parties I wanted affected (including the defending lawyer) - to sweeten them to my client's side of the case. I also added some Court Case Root (to win the trial), some tobacco (to win a trial), some black mustard seeds (to confuse and trip up the opposing side's lawyers), some deerstongue (for eloquence in the trial), a High John the Conqueror (to conquer the trial), some licorice root (to control the parties involved and make them act on the accusations quickly) and a pinch of cayenne pepper (to heat up the proceedings and get the trial MOVING). I set the jar on a saucer covered in Court Case Powder for added power.

Additionally, I started by burning red candles over the jar, inscribed with "Arrest (the child molester's name), start the trial NOW!" dressed with Court Case Oil and Fast Luck Oil. And I petitioned St. Expedite to quickly get the investigation going, to apprehend the child molester and to get the trial started so that no more children will suffer.

St. Expedite

St. Expedite works whenever you need things done FAST! He is typically petitioned by offering him his "due pay" in exchange: A piece of pound cake and a glass of water. He was a Roman soldier and as such he worked for pay - not just for glory. He is never petitioned for evil causes, as he is a saint and will only work for good. In this case, stopping a child molester is one of the best things for the community and the children involved, so I felt justified in calling on his assitance. Always employ an image of St. Expedite when working with him. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but you want his image to be there. I also like using Saint Expedite Oil on my candles when I petition him.

Once the child molester is arrested, I will pay St. Expedite his piece of pound cake and a glass of water and then I'll switch over to brown candles carved with "(Child Molester's Name) is judged guilty, Life in prison" and dress them with Court Case Oil and Success and Eloquence Oil, applying them weekly until the case is tried and the man is convicted.