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365 Days of Hoodoo by Stephanie Rose Bird
Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham
Herb website Richters Herbs
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Mama Q M-O-M-A-Q-W-E, w-e,that's my name.
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ago.
No, I don't want mo q is a lieand I tried to align this double
entendre.
Petty ha is one of my mantras.
Mama q, I'm the first one inand the first one out.
Memphis Tenneke is mywhereabouts.
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Mama Q, that's my name.
Mama Q hey, hi, it's me.
Mama Q, I welcome you toMoments in Q, in Q today.
Hi, why black business?
Who do, who do, and are youkinky or not?
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Hi, why I give you the greetingof the day, day and I'm
explaining the why of thisepisode Happy 420.
Smoke if you got them.
Now, look, I don't smoke at all.
And I do understand that todayis the day after 420.
I had every intention of doingmy episode, but what had
happened was I fell asleep.
Now is today Earth Day, becauseif it is, see, I'm still
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keeping it real Earth Day for 20.
Same thing.
So smoke if you got them.
I don't smoke at all.
I get drug tested, so Iprobably light up some incense
or something like that.
Ok, speaking of herbs, I want tohighlight a black person that
educates me and others on MotherNature's beautiful me and
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others on Mother Nature'sbeautiful, bountiful blessings
in our backyards and our forestsfor the free, eating off the
body and using herbs.
And you're working.
It's all about Mother Earth.
For the most part, this episode, black business.
I highlight a black business tobring awareness and my
experience with said business.
Unless, I say it, it isn't apaid ad.
I highlight a black business tobring awareness and my
experience with said business.
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Unless I say it, it isn't apaid ad.
I'm open to paid ads, but Idefinitely want to highlight
black business.
There's enough money for all ofus to get it.
Alexis Nicole, aka Black Forager.
She is a foraging teacher,environment science enthusiast,
vegan food concocter from Ohio.
Let me paraphrase to you thisBon appetite article that was
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written about her.
She considers her online fame aquote-unquote fortuitous
accident that occurred duringthe pandemic whilst working as a
social media person for acompany.
Her family introduced her toforaging, being outside and
plants when she was younger.
She she loves singing, which iswhere you'll find her doing a
lot of her social media accounts.
Her wife for your friends,which matters to the story,
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never gets questioned like Alexdoes.
Not surprising.
Initially, the idea to shareforging education came during
the pandemic because people werenervous to go outside and some
people live in food deserts.
Alexis showed people you canfind food in your backyards and
or your neighborhood.
Now I can't remember how I wasfirst introduced to the black
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forager, but I'm glad I followher.
She makes chicken of the woodslook so freaking good.
I remember learning about cactiwhen she sung about them.
She let us know when to eatthem and when not to eat them.
As always, to me, representationmatters, so I love seeing
someone that looks like me, andeven quirky too, talking about
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finding and eating plants forfree, making recipes from the
findings too, because I'm notthere yet, but I do love
following her recipes because Iam open-minded and I enjoy
learning about different foods,and to me, she does an amazing
job of putting together therecipes and making the food
looks good.
Okay.
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So, of course, she isn't theonly black person out here
eating from Mother Earth, buther introduction allowed me to
learn and look out for othersthat look like me.
More about her will be in theshow notes.
Who do?
Who do I get to the root of?
Who do conjure up thoughts thatpop into my mind about
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spirituality.
Come on, get this work allright.
So I'm thinking about plantingagain this year, not the hemp,
though I plan to take a breakfrom that.
So here's a brief reminder ofhow I got into being a gardener.
And how does all of this haveto do with hoodoo?
All right, so my mini melearned about germination back
in high school and she was likeyo, mom, let me tell you about
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germination, yada, yada, yada.
And I was like, okay, let's.
She was like let's have agarden.
So I'm like, all right, cool.
So we started doing um, plantsand stuff, and so at this time I
was living at the spot wherethe woman that gave birth to me
is, and even now, some of theplants I planted are still
coming back, which is kind ofcool and weird to me, because I
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planted oh my goodness, I thinkthey're iris, I can't remember,
but I know for sure greenelephant ears and they're
supposed to be.
The green elephant ears aresupposed to be annuals, which
means they come back.
I mean, they only do one seasonand then they don't come back.
But for some reason, I guess,with us living um where we, then
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maybe that's why it's able tocome back every year.
But yeah, so it's pretty cool.
And so I did transplant.
Didn't do so well with that thatfirst year, because I didn't
know how to do it correctly.
I thought it was just easy Digit up, put the plant in there,
but they, the flowers, had died,and so last year I did my first
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transplantion and, oh my gosh,it was great.
Um, first of all I googled itand I went by the steps and
everything, and so I was soproud of myself.
So, anyway, over the years um,we went from me doing um well,
us doing the gardening, to, like, maybe the next season or two.
It's just been all about me,because some way, somehow she
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got um allergies from it, whichshe really does.
So that makes sense, okay.
So then we um eventually well,me myself I eventually went from
planting flowers to adding umherbs in it and, as you know, I
did do hemp.
It was one good year and thenthe next year, no and um last
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year, just nothing germinated atall.
Fuck, I don't know what's wrong.
And then I also tried to takeum doing food that didn't work
out.
My okra last year, um, Iplanted it wrong um because it
got too hot in Memphis Tennekeand it wilted and it wasn't in
my um garden.
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It wasn't in my um garden shedeither, my greenhouse, I mean.
So I don't know if that wouldhave protected it and stuff.
Um, I didn't have a greatseasoning at all, um, a great
season at all gardening lastyear.
Um, I'm waiting for it to becontinuously 50 degrees or
higher.
Um.
There's this other thing as faras gardening goes, um, I forgot
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what it's called.
I have one of them, I thinkit's called like a seed starter,
where you put the seeds inthere and if you do it around,
maybe February or March inMemphis, about time we get out
of the freezing zone.
That should be enough time foryou to transplant the plants.
But life got busy for me andstuff and I wanted to do it this
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weekend but we kind of caught acold shield, I mean a cold
season.
It wasn't freezing, but it waslike 49 and I was super nervous
to want to start my plants.
So I'm gonna look at my weatherapp again to see how that goes.
I'm all over the place, but youknow me, I like to give details
, all right.
So, um, last year I had plantedbasil, ok, and I learned how
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slightly spicy it is Not spicyin a bad way, but it definitely.
The leaf definitely tasteddifferent than the basil that I
had in my house and I knowthat's like duh, but my first
time eating the leaf I was supernervous off of it.
I'm an overthinker, germaphobefrom time to time, and it's
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weird as I say it out loudbecause, okay, going into the
grocery store where they haveall these herbs and who knows
how long they've been sitting onthe shelf, because until I got
with my boo thing, love of mylife, um, I never looked at
expiration dates and stuff whenit came to seasoning or whatnot.
So that's that, and it's driedon top of that.
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I didn't want to get the umherbs with the whole leaf to it
because I sometimes didn't knowwhen I was going to um, I didn't
know, I didn't know when I wasgoing to cook and so therefore I
didn't want the urge to go bad.
So sometimes I feel like um,dry herbs would be quote-unquote
better.
And so, again, like I said,it's weird that I had no qualms
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at all, qualms at all aboutgetting this food.
But the food, as far as fromthe seeds like I literally
planted, I know I didn't put anypesticide in it.
I know that in the basil thatwas inside of my greenhouse, so
I knew that no birds got into itor anything like that.
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So for the most part I knewthat it was 99% good for me
because no pesticides involved.
But you know, you just don'tknow sometimes what's in the
foods that we eat here and stuff.
But you know I'm going to get alittle bit better about when
I'm getting better abouttrusting myself when I grow
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things and eating off of it.
But I'll go more into all ofthis stuff a little bit later.
All right, so during my hoodoojourney I've learned a lot about
plants.
I learned that my mini me has agift of talking to plants can't
make this shit up y'all and sothat made sense that many years
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ago she wanted us to have ourown garden.
I also learned that differentherbs have healing medicinal
properties, of course, and theycan be used in different
workings, depending on what youwant.
So a thing that some peopletalk about a lot is that basil
is used can be used forprosperity workings, and I think
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it's also used for protectionas well, and for me, I always
like to include protection inanything that I do as far as my
workings, whether it'sprosperity, protection, duh
protection.
Of course, I want to have lotsof protection, but prosperity,
because that seems to be onethat a lot of people want, and
there's nothing wrong with that.
But even love, because thatseems to be a follow up number
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two that a lot of people want,and I always like to add
protection into it, because youknow, in my experience you have
to be very specific about thethings that you want and you
desire.
That's one, and then the otherthings that there could be other
forces, whether it's spiritual,family, friends, etc.
That could try their best toknock you off your path.
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So it would be nice to haveprotection and or to add your
spirit teams that extra oomph ofprotection.
Ok, and so I bought a herbalbook to learn more about what
plants I could plant.
Now, my first introduction towanting to start a hoodoo garden
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, if that makes sense, is when Iwas reading the book 365 Days
of Hoodoo by Stephanie K Bird.
I'm saying this off the top ofmy dome.
I feel 99% confident thatthat's her name.
Okay, so in there she wastalking about similar to what I
just said, about having your owngarden where you can go to the
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backyard and get your own itemsand stuff for hoodoo, and so I
wrote down all these differentherbs that I learned in the book
.
And then she had talked about abusiness that you can get the
herbs from, and I saved thebusiness.
I want to say Richter'sR-I-C-T-E-R-S herbs, but my
small issue with them and it'sjust me is that they give you a
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lot of seeds.
I don't have that big of abackyard to get a lot of seeds,
and at this point I don't knowmany family members that I'm
cool with, or even familymembers that I'm not that are
into gardening like I am sotherefore, it's difficult for me
to want to buy seeds, sincethere's about a hundred of them
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like what am I going to do withthem?
Of course I could save, but I'malways nervous about saving
them because I think the seedshave to be at a certain
temperature.
Now, look y'all, I have nottaken my meds yet.
I know I am all over the place.
Some of this is notes, some ofthis is from the dome, but I
promise you eventually it willmake sense and if I'm repeating
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myself from when I talked aboutherbs, when I first started
growing hemp last season orseason before that, y'all will
be okay, all right, okay, soanyway, um, I wrote down all the
things and, of course, Ilearned that you have to be in
different planting zones andthat'll help you out, which is
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why I have the greenhouse,because my part of being in
Tenneke we are planting zone 7Aor 7B, but I just pay attention
to 7.
All right, back to the herbalbook.
All right, this herbal book, ifI'm not mistaken, is called
Cunninghams, and in this bookthey have the different type of
herbs.
So, for example, let's go backto it being about basil.
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All right, so when it comes tobasil you.
It tells you the name of basil,obviously the scientific name
and also other nicknames ofbasil, which helps out a lot
Because sometimes, as you know,some people might not know the
scientific or the common name toit.
So if you're looking at othergrimoires or talking to your
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ancestors or whatnot, they mightcall it.
I don't know, I can't think ofoff the top of my head, but they
might call it somethingdifferently.
Or a book you read might callit something differently and it
could actually be basil.
Thanks to that, you have theother names that people call it
by.
It'll tell you if it's afeminine or masculine plant.
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It'll tell you what um planetit's associated with.
It'll tell you different waysto add other herbs to it.
It'll also tell you thedifferent ways of um things that
can help you with, like I said,basil protection, prosperity,
all of that.
So I really enjoyed.
Oh, and also a another line thatreally, really, really is
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important to know is that it'ssafe.
You know, um, there are some.
I want to say what is it called?
I think it's called foxglove.
That is poisonous to us, umhumans, so you don't want to
grow it, obviously.
So, um, there's also someplants that are um, let me see.
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If I'm not mistaken, there aresome plants I can't think the
name of them that you can grow,but certain parts of the plant
is poisonous to us and certainparts aren't.
So, again, the book helps outthat if you want to ingest the
plants by any way, you know, inyour teas or something like that
, or just want to eat the leavesor whatever it'll, let you know
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what you can or cannot do.
And again, I think that's veryimportant because you don't want
to pass away, obviously, fromeating this and stuff.
So I really like that and stuffand so, um, I did not know
prior to this that I had a knackfor working the roots.
Now, of course, I would notconsider myself a root doctor.
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I personally feel likedifferent titles within the
spiritual community means that aperson have lots of experience
and knowledge and at this pointin time I personally don't feel
like I don't.
Now some people might thinkthat I have more than a newbie
that's coming out, which is fineand dandy, but when I think of
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the word Rue Doctor, I honestlythink that this person is like a
doctor champion, which I'vetalked about before, who had
well RIP, but he had thebackground to learning about
using the different herbs androots in order to do the
concoctions.
That's well known within thecity of Memphis.
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So that's one thing.
And then another thing is thatI personally feel like they have
all of this different knowledgeof how the plants look if they
want to forage it and things ofthat nature.
And for me this is a journey,not a pit stop.
So I don't want to just stop atsaying, hey y'all, I'm a root
worker and stuff.
Now, if somebody else for somereason wants to give me that um
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title, I may or may not be okaywith it, but I don't want to
call myself that.
But I do get help from spirit asfar as how to use these
different herbs in my workings.
Would look them up on theinternet before I got the book
just to make sure that thethoughts that came into my head
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were correct, because I'm atrust but verify type of person
and spirit always gets on mebecause it's like I use the
quote-unquote wrong times tolisten to them.
But I just wanted to have somekind of self-assurance and so
99% of the time, the herb thatcame in my head was exactly what
I needed.
Now, because I've been doingthis for a while.
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I sometimes don't have to lookup the name of the herb that I'm
using because, duh, I've usedit before and I keep, uh, um,
reading written of all thewriting oh my gosh, writings of
what I use, how I use it and theand the reasons for it.
Because what I like to do withmy workings is, even though I
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know that again back to usingbasil, basil's protection.
Basil is used for prosperity.
I still tell the plant what'swhat it's going to do.
I still tell my spirit guideswhat I would like for it to do,
just so everybody's on the samepage of knowing what it's
supposed to be.
So, anyway, I would look it up99% of the time.
Like I said, it's what I need.
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Other times I couldn't find it,like, for example, a thought
came into my head about milk ormagnesia.
I couldn't find a spiritualreason for it, but I still wrote
it down anyway.
So you know, so you know, Iwould just still roll my
intuition after I couldn't findit.
You know, like I said earlier,I'm still nervous to eat plants
that I grow and or in and justherbs from it, regardless if I
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trust them.
So recently I have bought amixture from Memphis Conjurer.
It's um, the name of the teawas a psychic tea, and I trust
Memphis Conjurer, but just theweirdo in me that likes to
double check.
I looked up the herbs and therewas nothing wrong with the
herbs, but I was just so nervousto drink it.
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So instead I did go to my bookto make sure that it was OK to
be ingested, and it was so.
I decided to use it as a steamto be ingested, and it was so.
I decided to use it as a steam.
So once I steeped it and, um,once I used my cure rig full of
hot water, I put my tea strainerin it, let it steep and, as the
um steam was coming from it, ofcourse I inhaled it, and that
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was the best way that I could,um, the best way that I felt
comfortable with having it so,um, and it's been working.
Um, I already the best way thatI felt comfortable with having
it so, and it's been working.
I already have that ability,but I felt like this was a way
to reconnect me some more, notto say, in my opinion, that
spiritual gifts leave, but Ithink that sometimes, if you're
not taking care of yourselfspiritually, or crowded, or have
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a lot of other thoughts on yourmind, if that makes any sense,
that that can make it difficultfor you to use your gifts.
So for me, I kind of feel likeit's equivalent to my ADHD.
I have ADHD bad, which is whyI'm rambling all over the place,
squirrel, squirrel, squirreltype of way, where my boo thing
would talk about me.
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But this is normal to me.
But when I take my ADHDmedicine which I don't take it
on the weekends, but when I takeit, I'm calm, focused and I
know what's going on and I'mable to, um, sometimes
articulate myself a little bitbetter, because boo thing will
say, like, I think, what was?
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I think he was asking what's asliding scale?
Cause we were looking atJessica Jones and I gave him all
the roundabout way when he,when I could have, he got on me
and I don't care.
I could have easily said, um,that the amount of money varies
of how much money you make, butI don't know.
I'd like to give details.
Whatever, whatever, whatever,whatever.
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So, um, again, I, I um inhaledthe herbs that came from the tea
and it worked for me and, um,I'm back to where I am.
So I also, as I said before, useherbs with spiritual baths or
on my candles and stuff, and soI used to have this big old tea
strainer and I would use that toput in a in a plastic cup or
whatever, as I use my spiritualbath, which is fine, but I also
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use muslin I think that's whatit is M-U-S-L-I-N, which is the
bags that I use for my spiritualbaths.
That's what I prefer to use ifI want to reuse them again and
stuff, and so I will put theherbs in there, let them steep
in the hot water and then thatwill be another safe not safer
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way, but another as far as mybath is concerned, another safer
way for me to use a spiritualbath in my shower and to ensure
that no herbs go down the drainor anything like that.
So, of course, you always wantto have a strainer so that you
won't make a mess in your umbathtub shower, what have you
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and stuff.
So that's what I use, um,because, again back to what I
said, you know I want to ensurelike what if the person who
bought these herbs didn't growthem themselves?
Or what if they did and theydecided to use pesticides so
that they can have an unlimitedamount of this certain herb and
stuff, because you know we're ina capitalistic society and I
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remember learning in scienceclass that you're not supposed
to to eat everything that youuse for science and stuff.
So it just brings mehesitations.
So, anyway, I do love theresults that come from my
spiritual baths and using herbswithin my candles and learning
the knack of it and stuff.
So back to reworking.
As know, that is someone whoworks the roots and they know
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how to use the works to achievethe goals.
And this, being a root doctrine, were very needed during
enslavement and Jim Crow lawsbecause, as you know, the
enslaved Africans, when theywere enslaved and even when they
became free, they did not haveaccess to have doctors.
They became free, they did nothave access to have doctors, so
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sometimes they had to use theherbs that were around them to
help them feel better.
And I think Native Americansalso use this, but I'm not very
familiar with Native Americanculture so I really don't want
to say the wrong thing, but I dofeel like Native Americans and
enslaved Africans really use theherbs they foraged around to
eat.
And, again from my learnings,when it came to the enslaved
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Africans, nasa would give themjust a little bit of this, this
and that, and so they had to usea garden to make it work and
make it do what it do and stuffyou know, taking a little bit of
nothing and turning it intosomething.
So, again, little bit ofnothing and turning it into
something.
So, again, people would usethese different things to help
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them survive and to last withinthese trying times.
So I think that root doctorsare still out there.
I just don't know if there's alot of them or if they are
moving in silence.
Again, I don't want to claimthat title because I'm not a
title chaser in the lifestyles Ilive.
Same thing for me, even thoughit's not the BDSM section.
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Same thing for me when it comesto BDSM.
I'm just a kinkster.
I don't want to be a master, amistress or anything because, as
we know, with titles becomes alot of responsibilities.
All right, um, and I also don'tfeel like um.
I'm educated enough to giveanything but my opinion.
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Okay.
So back to Alexis Nicole,because I think I had said in
the last segment I would talk alittle bit about this.
I learned about um, theloitering and foraging happened
after um, the emancipation fromAlexis Nicole.
Of course I'm paraphrasing, butthat's how I think that it came
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to be quote-unquote.
Wrong with people wanting to goto other parts of the land to
forage because you know, there'sthe, there's these plants of
duds that are out here for us touse and so to keep black people
, they started to have theseloitering laws and I remember
seeing uh, I don't know whichepisode it was, but looking at
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Naked and Afraid with my boothing we had saw that there was
a plant that someone had usedand I think there was a larger
reaction.
And so the Naked and Afraidperson has said that Mother
Nature usually provides antidoteto everything that's poisonous,
and so around that area was anantidote and the person was able
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to use that to to help theirpartner in the naked and fray
challenge.
Um, get better, and I've seen itso many times using plants when
it comes to looking at the showalone.
So again, it's out there, umfor us and I think, with these
laws that came to be before someof us in our existence, it
makes some of us not all of us,but I know I'm one of them
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hesitant to want to forge due tobreaking laws and not being
educated and knowing what isgood for you, what's not, and so
it's just quote-unquote saferand this is just me talking
about a quote-unquote safer forme to do what is okay to eat
versus just going out there andfinding it.
But a cool thing about AlexisNicole is that she always shows
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what is the right thing to getand things that look similar to
it, so you won't get confusedand, you know, get allergic
reaction or something like that.
Also learned here in Memphis,tennekee, from my friends that
the city used to allow peoplefrom growing their own food, and
I'm like what, and it's so sad,and I'm like how amazing things
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could be if we were allowed tobarter with our neighbors,
assuming that they grew their um, their fruits, vegetables and
the like correctly, we couldfeed ourselves because, as we
know, groceries bills aregetting super experienced.
I mean expensive, not notexperience, I'm sorry.
So before I end this segment, Ialso want to talk about a
documentary that I saw.
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It was directed by Chantrelle PLewis and it's called In Our
Mother's Gardens and itcelebrates the strength and
resiliency of black women andblack families through the
complex and oftentimes humorousrelationship between mothers and
daughters.
So, like I've said before, it'sbeen a while since I've seen it
but if I'm not mistaken, Ithink there were a couple of
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times where people were talkingabout gathering herbs and things
of that nature.
So you know, for me I alwaysbelieve that the ancestors find
a way that, even though we're soremoved from them that some of
us, knowingly or unknowingly,are repeating things that our
ancestors did.
So you know, check out themovie and walk around your
plants, garden your forest, etc.
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And be safe with it doing it,and see if anything resonates
with you, and maybe you couldstart a grimoire where you start
writing the workings down withthe plants that you used and the
date, the time, etc.
And maybe things will work outfor you.
Are you kinky or not?
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I'm a proud kinkster of theBDSM community.
Let me tell you about thislifestyle to see if you want to
come over to the dark side.
We got candles.
Let me talk about a kink thatmakes me hesitant to participate
, but lovely to see from anartistic point of view natamori.
It means eating sushi off aperfectly still woman in
japanese.
Now, in my opinion, women umincludes trans women, because,
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duh, trans women are women.
Um, natamori.
Yeah, natamori is the nakedadult, is a man, but you know me
, if it's an adult consentingwith other adults, bon appetit.
Let me educate you from thegarden the guardian in 2019.
The woman is the plate and thesushi is on her.
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There are leaves to separatethe sushi from the skin.
The author also talks aboutthis scene being in pop culture.
Samantha from Sex and the City.
I remember that scene and that,if I'm not mistaken, when I
found, when I did see it, Ithink I was not kinky at the
time, so I was just like oh,okay, whatever.
And then, being amongst my exkinky community, they had talked
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about it as well, but I don'tthink there had ever been a time
within that particular kinkycommunity that they had an event
where a person was the platefor sushi, but they had talked
about how cool it was orwhatever, and I kind of had this
face like.
But then they started toexplain about the barrier.
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So I was like like, okay, okay,okay.
So, um, if someone that enjoysbeing naked, I will consent to
this, but I have to be coveredwith barriers, okay, cause, as
I've said before, I'm a freakand also a dermaphobe.
All right, I would need abodyguard, literally, so that no
one will put their hands orchopsticks where they don't
belong.
Oh, and wasabiabi gotta be on awhole nother table.
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All right, because chemicalplay is not my kink, all right.
So the the delish ironicallywrote about this in 2023 because
it was for kanye west birthdayparty and he had a naked body
being the plate and sushi on top, and the um author shared some
food concerns.
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So let me paraphrase this aswell the model's body should be
clean, not just soap and water.
I took a bath.
Clean, but like.
Clean like hydrogen peroxide orrubbing alcohol.
Clean because the germs cancome from the hair, and you know
what kind of hair we all haveon our body.
We have underarm hair, chesthair, hair on our head and our
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genital area and let's notforget that germs can come and
creep into our fingernails tooand you can have hair from
others.
Ew, because you know peoplearound you.
They're treating you like youare a buffet, so they probably
don't have the little barriersor making people have masks and
things like that.
So, um, our rising bodytemperatures can fuck with the
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sushi, because you know sushi isseafood and you can't have your
seafood too hot because you canhave pathogens from that as
well, but you know what?
I am not gonna yuck your yum.
Okay, if you have participatedin this, you know.
Let me know about it.
Um, if you're curious, it seemspretty easy.
You use sushi sashimi make sureeverybody's a consenting adult,
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you have barriers, whether thebarriers are these sanitized
leaf type of things that youwould see at a sushi restaurant.
Or you wrap yourself and, um,what is that?
Oh, my goodness, yes, the wordescapes me, not aluminum foil,
but what's the other one?
Um starts with s.
Oh my gosh, I cannot think ofit, but anyway it's.
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Oh, there we go saran wrap, soyou can wrap yourself a saran
wrap.
Obviously, do not cover up thenose or your mouth, because you
got to be able to breathe, okay,um, make sure no one has any
allergies.
Um, please, please, use facemasks, because, again, germs.
So happy snacking, don't die.
M-O-M-A-Q-W-E W-E, that's my name.
Mama Q M-O-M-A-Q-W-E, w-e,that's my name.
Mama Q, Say it fast or slow,don't really matter, though the
U-E gets them in the tongue.
Tizzy yo Head, kinda dizzy bro.
Who was she?
(00:25):
Mama Q, slow, don't reallymatter, though the ue gets them
in a tongue.
Tizzy yo head, kind of dizzybro.
Who was she?
Mama q, mama gave birth littlewaste, no girth several years
ago.
No, I don't want mo q is a lieand I tried to align this double
entendre.
Petty ha is one of my mantras.
Mama q, I'm the first one inand the first one out.
Memphis Tenneke is mywhereabouts.
(00:46):
Don't complain, man Say, stickto one topic.
I reply your mind is verymyopic with Mama Q.
You need better optus pickingand choosing company.
Are you uninspired?
Um, definitely no need towhisper gracefully.
I like it better off key.
Now let's see.
Um, do you remember me?
M-o-m-a-q-w-e, w-e, that's myname.
Mama Q M-O-M-A-Q-W-E W-E,that's my name.
(01:20):
Mama Q, that's my name.
Mama Q hey, hi, it's me.
Mama Q, I welcome you toMoments in Q, in Q today.
Hi, why black business?
Who do, who do, and are youkinky or not?
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Hi, why I give you the greetingof the day, day and I'm
explaining the why of thisepisode Happy 420.
Smoke if you got them.
Now, look, I don't smoke at all.
And I do understand that todayis the day after 420.
I had every intention of doingmy episode, but what had
happened was I fell asleep.
Now is today Earth Day, becauseif it is, see, I'm still
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keeping it real Earth Day for 20.
Same thing.
So smoke if you got them.
I don't smoke at all.
I get drug tested, so Iprobably light up some incense
or something like that.
Ok, speaking of herbs, I want tohighlight a black person that
educates me and others on MotherNature's beautiful me and
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others on Mother Nature'sbeautiful, bountiful blessings
in our backyards and our forestsfor the free, eating off the
body and using herbs.
And you're working.
It's all about Mother Earth.
For the most part, this episode, black business.
I highlight a black business tobring awareness and my
experience with said business.
Unless, I say it, it isn't apaid ad.
I highlight a black business tobring awareness and my
experience with said business.
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Unless I say it, it isn't apaid ad.
I'm open to paid ads, but Idefinitely want to highlight
black business.
There's enough money for all ofus to get it.
Alexis Nicole, aka Black Forager.
She is a foraging teacher,environment science enthusiast,
vegan food concocter from Ohio.
Let me paraphrase to you thisBon appetite article that was
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written about her.
She considers her online fame aquote-unquote fortuitous
accident that occurred duringthe pandemic whilst working as a
social media person for acompany.
Her family introduced her toforaging, being outside and
plants when she was younger.
She she loves singing, which iswhere you'll find her doing a
lot of her social media accounts.
Her wife for your friends,which matters to the story,
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never gets questioned like Alexdoes.
Not surprising.
Initially, the idea to shareforging education came during
the pandemic because people werenervous to go outside and some
people live in food deserts.
Alexis showed people you canfind food in your backyards and
or your neighborhood.
Now I can't remember how I wasfirst introduced to the black
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forager, but I'm glad I followher.
She makes chicken of the woodslook so freaking good.
I remember learning about cactiwhen she sung about them.
She let us know when to eatthem and when not to eat them.
As always, to me, representationmatters, so I love seeing
someone that looks like me, andeven quirky too, talking about
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finding and eating plants forfree, making recipes from the
findings too, because I'm notthere yet, but I do love
following her recipes because Iam open-minded and I enjoy
learning about different foods,and to me, she does an amazing
job of putting together therecipes and making the food
looks good.
Okay.
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So, of course, she isn't theonly black person out here
eating from Mother Earth, buther introduction allowed me to
learn and look out for othersthat look like me.
More about her will be in theshow notes.
Who do?
Who do I get to the root of?
Who do conjure up thoughts thatpop into my mind about
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spirituality.
Come on, get this work allright.
So I'm thinking about plantingagain this year, not the hemp,
though I plan to take a breakfrom that.
So here's a brief reminder ofhow I got into being a gardener.
And how does all of this haveto do with hoodoo?
All right, so my mini melearned about germination back
in high school and she was likeyo, mom, let me tell you about
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germination, yada, yada, yada.
And I was like, okay, let's.
She was like let's have agarden.
So I'm like, all right, cool.
So we started doing um, plantsand stuff, and so at this time I
was living at the spot wherethe woman that gave birth to me
is, and even now, some of theplants I planted are still
coming back, which is kind ofcool and weird to me, because I
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planted oh my goodness, I thinkthey're iris, I can't remember,
but I know for sure greenelephant ears and they're
supposed to be.
The green elephant ears aresupposed to be annuals, which
means they come back.
I mean, they only do one seasonand then they don't come back.
But for some reason, I guess,with us living um where we, then
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maybe that's why it's able tocome back every year.
But yeah, so it's pretty cool.
And so I did transplant.
Didn't do so well with that thatfirst year, because I didn't
know how to do it correctly.
I thought it was just easy Digit up, put the plant in there,
but they, the flowers, had died,and so last year I did my first
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transplantion and, oh my gosh,it was great.
Um, first of all I googled itand I went by the steps and
everything, and so I was soproud of myself.
So, anyway, over the years um,we went from me doing um well,
us doing the gardening, to, like, maybe the next season or two.
It's just been all about me,because some way, somehow she
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got um allergies from it, whichshe really does.
So that makes sense, okay.
So then we um eventually well,me myself I eventually went from
planting flowers to adding umherbs in it and, as you know, I
did do hemp.
It was one good year and thenthe next year, no and um last
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year, just nothing germinated atall.
Fuck, I don't know what's wrong.
And then I also tried to takeum doing food that didn't work
out.
My okra last year, um, Iplanted it wrong um because it
got too hot in Memphis Tennekeand it wilted and it wasn't in
my um garden.
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It wasn't in my um garden shedeither, my greenhouse, I mean.
So I don't know if that wouldhave protected it and stuff.
Um, I didn't have a greatseasoning at all, um, a great
season at all gardening lastyear.
Um, I'm waiting for it to becontinuously 50 degrees or
higher.
Um.
There's this other thing as faras gardening goes, um, I forgot
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what it's called.
I have one of them, I thinkit's called like a seed starter,
where you put the seeds inthere and if you do it around,
maybe February or March inMemphis, about time we get out
of the freezing zone.
That should be enough time foryou to transplant the plants.
But life got busy for me andstuff and I wanted to do it this
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weekend but we kind of caught acold shield, I mean a cold
season.
It wasn't freezing, but it waslike 49 and I was super nervous
to want to start my plants.
So I'm gonna look at my weatherapp again to see how that goes.
I'm all over the place, but youknow me, I like to give details
, all right.
So, um, last year I had plantedbasil, ok, and I learned how
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slightly spicy it is Not spicyin a bad way, but it definitely.
The leaf definitely tasteddifferent than the basil that I
had in my house and I knowthat's like duh, but my first
time eating the leaf I was supernervous off of it.
I'm an overthinker, germaphobefrom time to time, and it's
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weird as I say it out loudbecause, okay, going into the
grocery store where they haveall these herbs and who knows
how long they've been sitting onthe shelf, because until I got
with my boo thing, love of mylife, um, I never looked at
expiration dates and stuff whenit came to seasoning or whatnot.
So that's that, and it's driedon top of that.
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I didn't want to get the umherbs with the whole leaf to it
because I sometimes didn't knowwhen I was going to um, I didn't
know, I didn't know when I wasgoing to cook and so therefore I
didn't want the urge to go bad.
So sometimes I feel like um,dry herbs would be quote-unquote
better.
And so, again, like I said,it's weird that I had no qualms
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at all, qualms at all aboutgetting this food.
But the food, as far as fromthe seeds like I literally
planted, I know I didn't put anypesticide in it.
I know that in the basil thatwas inside of my greenhouse, so
I knew that no birds got into itor anything like that.
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So for the most part I knewthat it was 99% good for me
because no pesticides involved.
But you know, you just don'tknow sometimes what's in the
foods that we eat here and stuff.
But you know I'm going to get alittle bit better about when
I'm getting better abouttrusting myself when I grow
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things and eating off of it.
But I'll go more into all ofthis stuff a little bit later.
All right, so during my hoodoojourney I've learned a lot about
plants.
I learned that my mini me has agift of talking to plants can't
make this shit up y'all and sothat made sense that many years
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ago she wanted us to have ourown garden.
I also learned that differentherbs have healing medicinal
properties, of course, and theycan be used in different
workings, depending on what youwant.
So a thing that some peopletalk about a lot is that basil
is used can be used forprosperity workings, and I think
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it's also used for protectionas well, and for me, I always
like to include protection inanything that I do as far as my
workings, whether it'sprosperity, protection, duh
protection.
Of course, I want to have lotsof protection, but prosperity,
because that seems to be onethat a lot of people want, and
there's nothing wrong with that.
But even love, because thatseems to be a follow up number
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two that a lot of people want,and I always like to add
protection into it, because youknow, in my experience you have
to be very specific about thethings that you want and you
desire.
That's one, and then the otherthings that there could be other
forces, whether it's spiritual,family, friends, etc.
That could try their best toknock you off your path.
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So it would be nice to haveprotection and or to add your
spirit teams that extra oomph ofprotection.
Ok, and so I bought a herbalbook to learn more about what
plants I could plant.
Now, my first introduction towanting to start a hoodoo garden
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, if that makes sense, is when Iwas reading the book 365 Days
of Hoodoo by Stephanie K Bird.
I'm saying this off the top ofmy dome.
I feel 99% confident thatthat's her name.
Okay, so in there she wastalking about similar to what I
just said, about having your owngarden where you can go to the
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backyard and get your own itemsand stuff for hoodoo, and so I
wrote down all these differentherbs that I learned in the book
.
And then she had talked about abusiness that you can get the
herbs from, and I saved thebusiness.
I want to say Richter'sR-I-C-T-E-R-S herbs, but my
small issue with them and it'sjust me is that they give you a
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lot of seeds.
I don't have that big of abackyard to get a lot of seeds,
and at this point I don't knowmany family members that I'm
cool with, or even familymembers that I'm not that are
into gardening like I am sotherefore, it's difficult for me
to want to buy seeds, sincethere's about a hundred of them
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like what am I going to do withthem?
Of course I could save, but I'malways nervous about saving
them because I think the seedshave to be at a certain
temperature.
Now, look y'all, I have nottaken my meds yet.
I know I am all over the place.
Some of this is notes, some ofthis is from the dome, but I
promise you eventually it willmake sense and if I'm repeating
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myself from when I talked aboutherbs, when I first started
growing hemp last season orseason before that, y'all will
be okay, all right, okay, soanyway, um, I wrote down all the
things and, of course, Ilearned that you have to be in
different planting zones andthat'll help you out, which is
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why I have the greenhouse,because my part of being in
Tenneke we are planting zone 7Aor 7B, but I just pay attention
to 7.
All right, back to the herbalbook.
All right, this herbal book, ifI'm not mistaken, is called
Cunninghams, and in this bookthey have the different type of
herbs.
So, for example, let's go backto it being about basil.
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All right, so when it comes tobasil you.
It tells you the name of basil,obviously the scientific name
and also other nicknames ofbasil, which helps out a lot
Because sometimes, as you know,some people might not know the
scientific or the common name toit.
So if you're looking at othergrimoires or talking to your
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ancestors or whatnot, they mightcall it.
I don't know, I can't think ofoff the top of my head, but they
might call it somethingdifferently.
Or a book you read might callit something differently and it
could actually be basil.
Thanks to that, you have theother names that people call it
by.
It'll tell you if it's afeminine or masculine plant.
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It'll tell you what um planetit's associated with.
It'll tell you different waysto add other herbs to it.
It'll also tell you thedifferent ways of um things that
can help you with, like I said,basil protection, prosperity,
all of that.
So I really enjoyed.
Oh, and also a another line thatreally, really, really is
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important to know is that it'ssafe.
You know, um, there are some.
I want to say what is it called?
I think it's called foxglove.
That is poisonous to us, umhumans, so you don't want to
grow it, obviously.
So, um, there's also someplants that are um, let me see.
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If I'm not mistaken, there aresome plants I can't think the
name of them that you can grow,but certain parts of the plant
is poisonous to us and certainparts aren't.
So, again, the book helps outthat if you want to ingest the
plants by any way, you know, inyour teas or something like that
, or just want to eat the leavesor whatever it'll, let you know
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what you can or cannot do.
And again, I think that's veryimportant because you don't want
to pass away, obviously, fromeating this and stuff.
So I really like that and stuffand so, um, I did not know
prior to this that I had a knackfor working the roots.
Now, of course, I would notconsider myself a root doctor.
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I personally feel likedifferent titles within the
spiritual community means that aperson have lots of experience
and knowledge and at this pointin time I personally don't feel
like I don't.
Now some people might thinkthat I have more than a newbie
that's coming out, which is fineand dandy, but when I think of
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the word Rue Doctor, I honestlythink that this person is like a
doctor champion, which I'vetalked about before, who had
well RIP, but he had thebackground to learning about
using the different herbs androots in order to do the
concoctions.
That's well known within thecity of Memphis.
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So that's one thing.
And then another thing is thatI personally feel like they have
all of this different knowledgeof how the plants look if they
want to forage it and things ofthat nature.
And for me this is a journey,not a pit stop.
So I don't want to just stop atsaying, hey y'all, I'm a root
worker and stuff.
Now, if somebody else for somereason wants to give me that um
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title, I may or may not be okaywith it, but I don't want to
call myself that.
But I do get help from spirit asfar as how to use these
different herbs in my workings.
Would look them up on theinternet before I got the book
just to make sure that thethoughts that came into my head
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were correct, because I'm atrust but verify type of person
and spirit always gets on mebecause it's like I use the
quote-unquote wrong times tolisten to them.
But I just wanted to have somekind of self-assurance and so
99% of the time, the herb thatcame in my head was exactly what
I needed.
Now, because I've been doingthis for a while.
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I sometimes don't have to lookup the name of the herb that I'm
using because, duh, I've usedit before and I keep, uh, um,
reading written of all thewriting oh my gosh, writings of
what I use, how I use it and theand the reasons for it.
Because what I like to do withmy workings is, even though I
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know that again back to usingbasil, basil's protection.
Basil is used for prosperity.
I still tell the plant what'swhat it's going to do.
I still tell my spirit guideswhat I would like for it to do,
just so everybody's on the samepage of knowing what it's
supposed to be.
So, anyway, I would look it up99% of the time.
Like I said, it's what I need.
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Other times I couldn't find it,like, for example, a thought
came into my head about milk ormagnesia.
I couldn't find a spiritualreason for it, but I still wrote
it down anyway.
So you know, so you know, Iwould just still roll my
intuition after I couldn't findit.
You know, like I said earlier,I'm still nervous to eat plants
that I grow and or in and justherbs from it, regardless if I
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trust them.
So recently I have bought amixture from Memphis Conjurer.
It's um, the name of the teawas a psychic tea, and I trust
Memphis Conjurer, but just theweirdo in me that likes to
double check.
I looked up the herbs and therewas nothing wrong with the
herbs, but I was just so nervousto drink it.
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So instead I did go to my bookto make sure that it was OK to
be ingested, and it was so.
I decided to use it as a steamto be ingested, and it was so.
I decided to use it as a steam.
So once I steeped it and, um,once I used my cure rig full of
hot water, I put my tea strainerin it, let it steep and, as the
um steam was coming from it, ofcourse I inhaled it, and that
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was the best way that I could,um, the best way that I felt
comfortable with having it so,um, and it's been working.
Um, I already the best way thatI felt comfortable with having
it so, and it's been working.
I already have that ability,but I felt like this was a way
to reconnect me some more, notto say, in my opinion, that
spiritual gifts leave, but Ithink that sometimes, if you're
not taking care of yourselfspiritually, or crowded, or have
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a lot of other thoughts on yourmind, if that makes any sense,
that that can make it difficultfor you to use your gifts.
So for me, I kind of feel likeit's equivalent to my ADHD.
I have ADHD bad, which is whyI'm rambling all over the place,
squirrel, squirrel, squirreltype of way, where my boo thing
would talk about me.
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But this is normal to me.
But when I take my ADHDmedicine which I don't take it
on the weekends, but when I takeit, I'm calm, focused and I
know what's going on and I'mable to, um, sometimes
articulate myself a little bitbetter, because boo thing will
say, like, I think, what was?
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I think he was asking what's asliding scale?
Cause we were looking atJessica Jones and I gave him all
the roundabout way when he,when I could have, he got on me
and I don't care.
I could have easily said, um,that the amount of money varies
of how much money you make, butI don't know.
I'd like to give details.
Whatever, whatever, whatever,whatever.
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So, um, again, I, I um inhaledthe herbs that came from the tea
and it worked for me and, um,I'm back to where I am.
So I also, as I said before, useherbs with spiritual baths or
on my candles and stuff, and soI used to have this big old tea
strainer and I would use that toput in a in a plastic cup or
whatever, as I use my spiritualbath, which is fine, but I also
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use muslin I think that's whatit is M-U-S-L-I-N, which is the
bags that I use for my spiritualbaths.
That's what I prefer to use ifI want to reuse them again and
stuff, and so I will put theherbs in there, let them steep
in the hot water and then thatwill be another safe not safer
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way, but another as far as mybath is concerned, another safer
way for me to use a spiritualbath in my shower and to ensure
that no herbs go down the drainor anything like that.
So, of course, you always wantto have a strainer so that you
won't make a mess in your umbathtub shower, what have you
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and stuff.
So that's what I use, um,because, again back to what I
said, you know I want to ensurelike what if the person who
bought these herbs didn't growthem themselves?
Or what if they did and theydecided to use pesticides so
that they can have an unlimitedamount of this certain herb and
stuff, because you know we're ina capitalistic society and I
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remember learning in scienceclass that you're not supposed
to to eat everything that youuse for science and stuff.
So it just brings mehesitations.
So, anyway, I do love theresults that come from my
spiritual baths and using herbswithin my candles and learning
the knack of it and stuff.
So back to reworking.
As know, that is someone whoworks the roots and they know
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how to use the works to achievethe goals.
And this, being a root doctrine, were very needed during
enslavement and Jim Crow lawsbecause, as you know, the
enslaved Africans, when theywere enslaved and even when they
became free, they did not haveaccess to have doctors.
They became free, they did nothave access to have doctors, so
(24:24):
sometimes they had to use theherbs that were around them to
help them feel better.
And I think Native Americansalso use this, but I'm not very
familiar with Native Americanculture so I really don't want
to say the wrong thing, but I dofeel like Native Americans and
enslaved Africans really use theherbs they foraged around to
eat.
And, again from my learnings,when it came to the enslaved
(24:44):
Africans, nasa would give themjust a little bit of this, this
and that, and so they had to usea garden to make it work and
make it do what it do and stuffyou know, taking a little bit of
nothing and turning it intosomething.
So, again, little bit ofnothing and turning it into
something.
So, again, people would usethese different things to help
(25:05):
them survive and to last withinthese trying times.
So I think that root doctorsare still out there.
I just don't know if there's alot of them or if they are
moving in silence.
Again, I don't want to claimthat title because I'm not a
title chaser in the lifestyles Ilive.
Same thing for me, even thoughit's not the BDSM section.
(25:25):
Same thing for me when it comesto BDSM.
I'm just a kinkster.
I don't want to be a master, amistress or anything because, as
we know, with titles becomes alot of responsibilities.
All right, um, and I also don'tfeel like um.
I'm educated enough to giveanything but my opinion.
(25:47):
Okay.
So back to Alexis Nicole,because I think I had said in
the last segment I would talk alittle bit about this.
I learned about um, theloitering and foraging happened
after um, the emancipation fromAlexis Nicole.
Of course I'm paraphrasing, butthat's how I think that it came
(26:08):
to be quote-unquote.
Wrong with people wanting to goto other parts of the land to
forage because you know, there'sthe, there's these plants of
duds that are out here for us touse and so to keep black people
, they started to have theseloitering laws and I remember
seeing uh, I don't know whichepisode it was, but looking at
(26:32):
Naked and Afraid with my boothing we had saw that there was
a plant that someone had usedand I think there was a larger
reaction.
And so the Naked and Afraidperson has said that Mother
Nature usually provides antidoteto everything that's poisonous,
and so around that area was anantidote and the person was able
(26:54):
to use that to to help theirpartner in the naked and fray
challenge.
Um, get better, and I've seen itso many times using plants when
it comes to looking at the showalone.
So again, it's out there, umfor us and I think, with these
laws that came to be before someof us in our existence, it
makes some of us not all of us,but I know I'm one of them
(27:17):
hesitant to want to forge due tobreaking laws and not being
educated and knowing what isgood for you, what's not, and so
it's just quote-unquote saferand this is just me talking
about a quote-unquote safer forme to do what is okay to eat
versus just going out there andfinding it.
But a cool thing about AlexisNicole is that she always shows
(27:40):
what is the right thing to getand things that look similar to
it, so you won't get confusedand, you know, get allergic
reaction or something like that.
Also learned here in Memphis,tennekee, from my friends that
the city used to allow peoplefrom growing their own food, and
I'm like what, and it's so sad,and I'm like how amazing things
(28:01):
could be if we were allowed tobarter with our neighbors,
assuming that they grew their um, their fruits, vegetables and
the like correctly, we couldfeed ourselves because, as we
know, groceries bills aregetting super experienced.
I mean expensive, not notexperience, I'm sorry.
So before I end this segment, Ialso want to talk about a
documentary that I saw.
(28:21):
It was directed by Chantrelle PLewis and it's called In Our
Mother's Gardens and itcelebrates the strength and
resiliency of black women andblack families through the
complex and oftentimes humorousrelationship between mothers and
daughters.
So, like I've said before, it'sbeen a while since I've seen it
but if I'm not mistaken, Ithink there were a couple of
(28:41):
times where people were talkingabout gathering herbs and things
of that nature.
So you know, for me I alwaysbelieve that the ancestors find
a way that, even though we're soremoved from them that some of
us, knowingly or unknowingly,are repeating things that our
ancestors did.
So you know, check out themovie and walk around your
plants, garden your forest, etc.
(29:04):
And be safe with it doing it,and see if anything resonates
with you, and maybe you couldstart a grimoire where you start
writing the workings down withthe plants that you used and the
date, the time, etc.
And maybe things will work outfor you.
Are you kinky or not?
(29:24):
I'm a proud kinkster of theBDSM community.
Let me tell you about thislifestyle to see if you want to
come over to the dark side.
We got candles.
Let me talk about a kink thatmakes me hesitant to participate
, but lovely to see from anartistic point of view natamori.
It means eating sushi off aperfectly still woman in
japanese.
Now, in my opinion, women umincludes trans women, because,
(29:48):
duh, trans women are women.
Um, natamori.
Yeah, natamori is the nakedadult, is a man, but you know me
, if it's an adult consentingwith other adults, bon appetit.
Let me educate you from thegarden the guardian in 2019.
The woman is the plate and thesushi is on her.
(30:09):
There are leaves to separatethe sushi from the skin.
The author also talks aboutthis scene being in pop culture.
Samantha from Sex and the City.
I remember that scene and that,if I'm not mistaken, when I
found, when I did see it, Ithink I was not kinky at the
time, so I was just like oh,okay, whatever.
And then, being amongst my exkinky community, they had talked
(30:32):
about it as well, but I don'tthink there had ever been a time
within that particular kinkycommunity that they had an event
where a person was the platefor sushi, but they had talked
about how cool it was orwhatever, and I kind of had this
face like.
But then they started toexplain about the barrier.
(30:53):
So I was like like, okay, okay,okay.
So, um, if someone that enjoysbeing naked, I will consent to
this, but I have to be coveredwith barriers, okay, cause, as
I've said before, I'm a freakand also a dermaphobe.
All right, I would need abodyguard, literally, so that no
one will put their hands orchopsticks where they don't
belong.
Oh, and wasabiabi gotta be on awhole nother table.
(31:15):
All right, because chemicalplay is not my kink, all right.
So the the delish ironicallywrote about this in 2023 because
it was for kanye west birthdayparty and he had a naked body
being the plate and sushi on top, and the um author shared some
food concerns.
(31:36):
So let me paraphrase this aswell the model's body should be
clean, not just soap and water.
I took a bath.
Clean, but like.
Clean like hydrogen peroxide orrubbing alcohol.
Clean because the germs cancome from the hair, and you know
what kind of hair we all haveon our body.
We have underarm hair, chesthair, hair on our head and our
(31:57):
genital area and let's notforget that germs can come and
creep into our fingernails tooand you can have hair from
others.
Ew, because you know peoplearound you.
They're treating you like youare a buffet, so they probably
don't have the little barriersor making people have masks and
things like that.
So, um, our rising bodytemperatures can fuck with the
(32:19):
sushi, because you know sushi isseafood and you can't have your
seafood too hot because you canhave pathogens from that as
well, but you know what?
I am not gonna yuck your yum.
Okay, if you have participatedin this, you know.
Let me know about it.
Um, if you're curious, it seemspretty easy.
You use sushi sashimi make sureeverybody's a consenting adult,
(32:41):
you have barriers, whether thebarriers are these sanitized
leaf type of things that youwould see at a sushi restaurant.
Or you wrap yourself and, um,what is that?
Oh, my goodness, yes, the wordescapes me, not aluminum foil,
but what's the other one?
Um starts with s.
Oh my gosh, I cannot think ofit, but anyway it's.
(33:01):
Oh, there we go saran wrap, soyou can wrap yourself a saran
wrap.
Obviously, do not cover up thenose or your mouth, because you
got to be able to breathe, okay,um, make sure no one has any
allergies.
Um, please, please, use facemasks, because, again, germs.
So happy snacking, don't die.
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