The Mexican witch lifestyle : brujeria spells, tarot, and crystal magic

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Personal Author:

Ruelas, Valeria

Edition:

First Simon Element hardcover edition.

Physical Description:

xxii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Discover the vibrant culture of brujeria and embrace your own inner witch with this essential guide to spellcasting, spirit worship, tarot, crystals, and all the other elements of this increasingly popular lifestyle."--

Contents:

Part one: The essentials of brujeria. Botanicals, yerberias, and mercados ; Build your altar ; Preparing your altar and space ; How to do a spell ; How to use magic words ; Re-ritual herbal nasal steams ; Yerba readings with tea ; Obsidian dagger preparation ; Limpias ; How to change an object to give it purpose ; Working with nature ; How to recite magic words ; Obsidian mirror training ; Fixing your energy with crystals and candle spells -- Part two: The practice of brujeria. The Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck ; The cards ; How to work with yerbas ; Candle magic ; Candle and crystal spells for common problems ; Lifestyle spells ; Santa muerte -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: Crystal index -- Appendix 2: Yerbas of brujeria.

Subject Term:

Witchcraft

Witchcraft -- Mexico.

Magic

Tarot

Crystals -- Miscellanea.

Publication Info:

New York : Simon Element, [2022]

Subject:

Witchcraft

Witchcraft -- Mexico.

Magic

Tarot

Crystals -- Miscellanea.

Black art (Witchcraft)

Sorcery

Magick

Necromancy

Spells

SAILS ISBN:

9781982178147

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Discover the vibrant culture of brujeria and embrace your own inner witch with this essential guide to spellcasting, spirit worship, tarot, crystals, and all the other elements of this increasingly popular lifestyle.

A modern Mexican bruja is a powerful person, one who reads the tarot and performs spellwork and rituals of devotion to their spirit guides and deities. Brujeria, which translates as witchcraft in Spanish, is a unique form of spirituality that blends core elements of Afro-Indigenous beliefs. Having originated in Mexico, brujeria is now practiced in Latinx communities across the world.

Valeria Ruelas was raised living every aspect of the brujeria lifestyle. From shopping at botanicas and yerberias, to casting spells, to interpreting tarot readings, Valeria has today become one of the foremost practitioners of brujeria in the US. And as part of her daily practice, she seeks to bring the intense wisdom, harmony, and spirituality that comes with living this bruja lifestyle to her followers and returning power and ancestral magic to those whose agency has been lost.

Within these pages, Valeria provides you with an expert's introductory handbook for all the aspects of brujeria, including,
-Respectfully shopping at a yerberia or botanica
-A complete guide to common crystals
-Essentials for your altar
-A introduction to tarot
-Spells to bring luck, love, and good fortune
-The secrets of Santa Muerte

Comprehensive and inspiring, The Mexican Witch Lifestyle is the perfect guide for anyone curious to learn more about this vibrant culture of witchcraft.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Tarot reader Ruelas (Cosmopolitan Love Potions) delivers a generous guide to brujeria, the "practice of natural, psychic, astral, and spiritual magic." She covers the basics and outlines how to divine life advice from tarot cards, to cast spells, and to use crystals to influence one's "energies." The extensive compendium of spells promises ways to find reprieve from grief, boost favored electoral outcomes, and mend broken relationships; for example, a spell for supporting those undergoing medical procedures involves rolling candles in herbs and then lighting them while reciting an incantation. Explaining how to build an altar, she posits that it should be four feet wide, cleaned frequently, and adorned with colorful cloths, crystals, and a tarot deck. She details several methods for working with crystals, suggesting that readers dangle a "crystal pendulum" over someone to "move energy on the person," or ask questions of crystals arranged in a semicircle for insight into the future. To connect with the spirit Santa Muerte (whom the author describes as nongendered and possessing a "woman's energy"), one should "honor her/them with deep contemplation two to three times a week as well as perform mini rituals and offerings." Ruelas's simple instructions and the thorough glossary explicating key terms and concepts make for a rich primer. Witches will find a lot to love. (Nov.)

Introduction	p. xiii
Part 1 The Essentials of Brujeria
Botanicas, Yerberias, and Mercadds	p. 2
Build Tour Altar	p. 6
Preparing Your Altar and Space	p. 7
How to do a Spell	p. 8
How to Use Magic Words	p. 9
Sound Magic	p. 10
Pre-Ritual Herbal Nasal Steams	p. 13
Version 1	p. 14
Version 2	p. 15
Yerba Readings with Tea	p. 15
Obsidian Dagger Preparation	p. 17
Documenting Your Spells	p. 18
Limpias	p. 19
Consent and Limpias	p. 20
How to Perform a Limpia	p. 20
Long-Term Limpias	p. 21
Additional Limpias	p. 25
After-Limpia Protection Candles	p. 27
How to Charge an Object to Give it Purpose	p. 28
Working with Nature	p. 29
Ocean Water Spell	p. 30
Rainwater Money-Drawing Spell	p. 31
River Water Protection Ritual	p. 32
How to Recite Magic Words	p. 33
Obsidian Mirror Training	p. 33
Fixing Your Energy with Crystals and Candle Spells	p. 35
Using Crystals	p. 36
Scrying with Crystals	p. 37
Tarot and Crystal Scrying Rituals	p. 38
The Practice of Brujeria
The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck	p. 42
Astrology Basics for Tarot	p. 43
Using the Tarot	p. 44
Tarot Meditation	p. 44
The Cards	p. 45
Cups	p. 45
Wands	p. 50
Swords	p. 54
Pentacles	p. 59
The Major Arcana	p. 63
How to Work with Yerbas	p. 72
Making Spell Oils	p. 73
Brujeria Sprays	p. 73
Making the Tinctures	p. 77
Candle Magic	p. 79
Candle Color	p. 79
Candle Shapes	p. 81
Candle and Crystal Spells for Common Problems	p. 82
To Help with Addictions	p. 82
To Help the Client Manifest Money and Jobs and to Open Channels of Luck	p. 83
To Improve Memory and Study Habits	p. 83
For Healing Friendships and Family Relationships	p. 84
Lunar Spells	p. 84
For General Exhaustion Prevention	p. 85
For Exhausted Parents or Caretakers, Those Who Take Care of Others, and Empathy Fatigue	p. 85
To Heal After Theft, Auto Accidents, Fires, or Other Tragedies	p. 86
For When You Need to Release the Past	p. 86
For Peaceful Sleep	p. 87
To Save Up Money for a Big Occasion	p. 87
To Help Manifest Money and Jobs and to Open Channels of Luck	p. 88
Lifestyle Spells	p. 88
Send Love to Your Enemies Spell	p. 88
Breakup Spell	p. 89
Fighting Injustice Spells	p. 91
Free Someone from Prison Spell/Abolition	p. 91
Help Someone Gain Victory in an Election	p. 91
Surgery and Medical Procedure Support Spell	p. 92
Enemy Maintenance	p. 93
Basic Ancestral Magic	p. 95
Spray and Oil Recipes	p. 95
Energy Increase/Energy Change OH and Spray	p. 96
Medico! Support, Health, and Healing Oil and Spray	p. 96
Job Drawing	p. 96
Limpia	p. 97
Luck Spray and Oil	p. 97
New Moon	p. 97
Protection Oil	p. 97
Saturn	p. 97
Solar Oil	p. 98
Sex Worker/Sexual Healing	p. 98
Spell Break	p. 98
Stop Gossip	p. 98
Trauma and Grief Relief	p. 98
Universe Spray and Oil	p. 98
Full Moon/Tlazolteotl	p. 99
Waning Quarter Moon/Tochtli	p. 99
Waxing Quarter/Sad Release/Mayahuel	p. 99
Money	p. 99
Last Long	p. 99
Pay Me Back	p. 100
Receive Messages Oil	p. 100
Haunted Home Help	p. 100
Academic Success Oil and Student Life Spray	p. 100
Venus	p. 101
Jupiter	p. 101
Stay Away Racist	p. 101
Mercury	p. 101
Uranus	p. 101
Neptune Spray	p. 101
Mars Spray	p. 101
Election Help/Political Activism	p. 102
Break Them Up	p. 102
Love Attraction	p. 102
Come Back to Me Oil	p. 102
Santa Muerte	p. 102
Connecting to Santa Muerte	p. 105
The Universal Magic Words of Santa Muerte	p. 106
The Universal Magic Words of Santa Muerte II	p. 107
Her/Their Magical Attire and Symbols	p. 112
The Cloaks and Their Colors	p. 115
Santa Muerte Altar	p. 119
Medalla Blessing Ritual	p. 120
Welcome Her/Them in Ritual	p. 121
Afterword	p. 125
Appendix 1 Crystal Index	p. 127
Appendix 2 Terbas of Brujeria	p. 145
Index	p. 157

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