hello world
ive decided to do this old project of mine online
i call it the hoodoo book of flowers
the great black book of generations
what im basically trying to do here is a hoodoo holy book
a sacred hoodoo text, a book of divination
i like that system them yoruba folk got and
envy folk who do that here in the americas
its a nice little instrument
the hoodoo way believe working w/the head
stronger than working w/the hand
but it would be nice to have a divination system
to play with
specially since it would necessitate a sacred text
thats the kind of challenge a man like me like
want to do me a divination system
based on african american history/culture/destiny
and sensibility, an african american way
been playing with this thing for decades
in various and as yet private manifestations
i basically consider it a lifework, gon work on it
till i die
so anyway I decided ima do it online
otherwise I might not ever get to it cause I just dont have the time
so you gon have to bear with me the next couple of
months (years?) or so
ima be putting a lot of raw speculative stuff up
gon do it when i can, do it in spurts, small marches
(and if I decide its not working and taking too much noveltime ima stop)
gon be simultaneously building the text on my website: rootwork.com
gon put it here cause im concerned about folk stealing the fruit of my labor
(even though i myself stole quite a bit of it and intend to keep stealing as i build it)
but i have a theory about using the net
as a magical instrument
you got to get over being protective of your work and wanting
to make money off of it and you got to put it in the public domain
the public discussion
basically you want folk to ‘steal’ your work, you want to disseminate it
plant your seeds in fertile ground
but at least if i put it on rootsblog simultaneously, folk will know
where this vision came from, it came from me
rickydoc flowers
the hoodoo book of flowers
the great black book of generations
ima let you watch me work it, ima ask you to witness
so i been working on a system
still early, still getting it together in my mind
i figure 7 cowries
2 tosses, first toss give you your movement
phases of life as initiation
2nd toss place you in the flow
name your challenge
all the while you been listening, you hearing
and you knowing
o o o o o o o – legbas gift
(all bets off – move w/caution)
1st movement: invocation
1 x o o o o o o
1 x o o o o o o genesis
2 x x o o o o o
3 x x x o o o o
4 x x x x o o o
5 x x x x x o o
6 x x x x x x o
7 x x x x x x x godnature
2nd movement: initiation
2 x x o o o o o
8 x o o o o o o challenge
9 x x o o o o o crossroads
10 x x x o o o o struggle
11 x x x x o o o adversity
12 x x x x x o o fortitude
13 x x x x x x o
14 x x x x x x x
3rd movement: life
3 x x x o o o o
15 x o o o o o o birth
16 x x o o o o o youth
17 x x x o o o o relationships
18 x x x x o o o work
19 x x x x x o o mating
20 x x x x x x o growth
21 x x x x x x x maturity
4th movement: empowerment
4 x x x x o o o
22 x o o o o o o power
23 x x o o o o o unity
24 x x x o o o o institutionalization
25 x x x x o o o magic
26 x x x x x o o
27 x x x x x x o
28 x x x x x x x
5th movement: illumination
5 x x x x x o o
29 x o o o o o o vision
30 x x o o o o o transformation
31 x x x o o o o
32 x x x x o o o
33 x x x x x o o
34 x x x x x x o
35 x x x x x x x
6th movement: revelation
6 x x x x x x o
36 x o o o o o o destiny
37 x x o o o o o transformation
38 x x x o o o o wisdom
39 x x x x o o o eternity
40 x x x x x o o
41 x x x x x x o
42 x x x x x x x
7th movement: grace
7 x x x x x x x
43 x o o o o o o grace
44 x x o o o o o
45 x x x o o o o
46 x x x x o o o
47 x x x x x o o death
48 x x x x x x o rebirth
49 x x x x x x x godhead
as you see i got big holes in my little system here
these are damn near just place fillers
i got to sit down one day soon and just come up with a viable system
thats part the reason i put it up, ima work this out in public
and if i fumble the game everybody gon know
rickydoc bullshitting
and you know i cant have that
so ima do this, gon be godawful rough
but the only way im going to ever get this
project in gear is to just take the time
to do it in my life, so ima give it
whatever it need but right now that’s real minimal,
im just going to get it up on line rough
and accept the initial embarassment
then ima start working it thru the years until
its what i want it to be
what im saying here is dont judge me by the roughness
of what you bout to see in play, this gon be sweet one day
first i got to get my structure together, fill in those blanks
then i got to come up with some afroam storyriffs
that pinpoint the significant and afrospiritual
takes on afroam history/culture/destiny that illuminate
pertinent spiritual and strategic principles
then put the poetry on it
and its got to encompass the whole of human destiny
a hoodoo book of wisdom
ive tried a lot of structures for this text, biblic, koranic, iching, others, nothing worked
ive learned there are no useable holybook models, each one is uniquely tied to its culture
only recently decided to put my holybook and my divination ambitions together
feel like this one gon work, i got the material, just got to move it around
revise it, fill in the blanks and make it sweet
gon take me a little while though cause i got to do it
in my spare time
hey but thats just the way it is w/them big projects
and i like it like that, i like being bigtime, if only in my own mind, so . . .
hopefully one a week but more like every other
ima put me up an excerpt from
the hoodoo book of flowers
the great black book of generations
a book of divination
a book of fa
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