Starr Casas - Hoodoo Your Love: Conjure the Love You Want (and Keep It)

Hoodoo Your Love is filled with wisdom the internet will never teach you. Starr Casas is the conjure teacher that we all want and need, and this book is another session immersed in her wisdom. Her conversations about the many layers of love magic are hard truths that will help your love magic find wild success.

Jacki Smith author of Coventry Magic with
Candles, Oils, and Herbs, coauthor of Do It
Yourself Akashic Wisdom, and founder of
Coventry Creations

Mama Starr Casas is old school. She was doing this work before it became all the rage and she knows what she's talking about. Her style is direct and evocative, and this book is hard to put down. Hoodoo Your Love is a valuable addition to any folk magic library.

H. Byron Ballard, author of Seasons of a
Magical Life

I always learn something new with Starr. In Hoodoo Your Love, she generously shares tips, tricks, and wisdom you won't find anywhere else, rooted in her living experience and honoring her elders and ancestors.

Christopher Penczak, author of The Witch's
Heart

Hoodoo in the southern United States has a legacy of using what was available in the local environment. Mama Starr Casas's Hoodoo Your Love demonstrates that folk magic can be performed using materials many may consider mundane. Mama Starr's voice places you on her front porch sipping coffee and listening to her advice and lore. A refreshing insightful look into the wisdom and workings of spiritual workers and their legacy of love working.

Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and author of
A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo

Far more than just a book on managing love through the power of Conjure, Hoodoo Your Love is a masterpiece of visceral, authentic Hoodoo that covers the common sense and straight talk so often missed in modern presentations of Conjure. With the authentic voice of a true Conjure woman, Starr Casas pulls no punches as she leads the reader on a frank and powerful journey through all aspects of Hoodoo love work. Never one to shy away from the raw power of real Conjure work, Casas strikes gold again with this latest addition to her library of must-have Hoodoo classics. Through her writing, our souls can remember and relish the feeling of learning Hoodoo at the knee of our elders, an experience that is so often lost in today's world.

Katrina Rasbold, author of Crossroads of
Conjure, Energy Magic, and Uncrossing

Containing never before published material, Hoodoo Your Love is another classic, true Conjure book by Mama Starr Casas. She keeps the work true to its origins, returning to the roots of Conjure with tips, tricks, and works. From the proper Bible verses to use in a work to learning how to pray and create your petition, Mama Starr shares a lot of good knowledge. I learn something new every time I read the book.

Charity Bedell (Loona Wynd), coauthor of The
Good Witch's Guide

In her characteristic straight-talkin' style, Starr Casas delivers the lowdown on how to magically manage affairs of the heart. From hello to farewell, and every possibility in between, Hoodoo Your Love is filled with practical no-nonsense advice and conjure work geared toward all things love. It's a must-have for any lover's bookshelf!

Cairelle Crow, coeditor of Brigid's Light

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C onjure, also known as Hoodoothe two names are often used interchangeably and I will do so in this bookfocuses on making one's life better; it focuses on the home and hearth, helping folks in everyday living. The main concern of a conjure woman is blessing their homes and keeping the home peaceful, making sure their mate is faithful, drawing luck, and much more. The way Hoodoo achieves these things is by laying tricks or working the root. This is done through prayers, candles, lucky hands, and other means. Dirts, powders, salts, waters, and other ingredients are worked with in order to complete a job. There are many works that have been handed down orally through the ages.

Conjure includes works on healing a broken heart by working with an animal heart and works of healing and love as well as domination and controlling. You'll find all that here and also learn a way of working with a cow's tongue to sweeten someone's words toward you. This book will cover what I call hard works and what others call hexing work. We have to remember all things come into balanceyou can't have light without dark. And we also have to remember that Conjure comes from a tradition that had to take justice into its own handsso it deals with drawing in a lover as well as keeping one honest.

I know some folks don't believe it is right to make someone do something against their will, and that is their right to feel that way. I, for one, don't have that issue, and if divination says I can go for it and it sits well with my spirit, then I'm gonna do the work! You know why? I am responsible for every single job I do, and I promise I am not gonna do anything Spirit tells me not to do. I'm too experienced for that. When I was young, I got my butt spanked by Spirit for not listening. Like my mama used to say, A hard head makes a soft behind!

This work has never been about playing nice or being sugary and sweet. The ancestors who began working Conjure couldn't afford to be. These folks were enslaved and their lives depended on them knowing what to do to protect their families in a time when just looking wrong could get you killed. You have to get out of the twenty-first-century mindset and go way back to a time when folks thought it was okay to own another human and treat them any kind of way. We have something today that the ancestors didn't have, and that is the freedom to either do or not do something. So if these works are not for you, that's fine. We each decide what we will and will not do. I just want to give y'all a heads-up this is a little different than my normal writings. Peace, be still!