Our Most Available Means|Suryah Studio

The cornerstone of transsexual and transgender oppression and erasure is the intentional grooming of children of all experiences to detach from their bodies mentally and spiritually.

To augment and disfigure the bridge built by their ancestors that carries them through the many crossroads of what will be their lived experience. A child who understands sovereignty of the mind, body, spirit, and a developed practice of consent and autonomy will grow into an adult with the power to transcend the brick, mortar, and iron ore of imperial imprisonment.

We understand the power and violence that are necessary to participate in your own creation.

The body is the vessel by which we express our spirit in this reality.

To protect this body against spiritual and political warfare, the “All That Is” has called us to:

1. Use our most available means to wash, nourish, and enrich our bodies daily.

2. Use our most available means to fast from labor and commerce in all its forms, proactively making intentional space to rest and recover.

3. Use our most available means to grow, build, and sustain a spiritual practice rooted in collective liberation, right relationship with the earth, and ancestral veneration.

4. Use our most available means to make intentional, curious, and compassionate physical contact with our bodies daily.

5. Do not consent to physical contact with anyone who is enacting or perpetuating harm against you. Love and abuse cannot coexist. Silence and neutrality are intentional choices.

6. Use our most available means to avoid the consumption of media that justifies the dehumanization and eventual defiling of our bodies and the bodies of the most at-risk in your community.

7. Use our most available means to protect ourselves and our community from illness of the mind, body, and spirit.

We understand ourselves as a part of a global diaspora of people targeted, exploited, displaced, and erased by systems of violence that separate and attack using phenotype and socioeconomic placement as a battle cry.

Throughout history, these diasporas have used salt, flowers, leaves, blood, roots, feathers, bones, proverbs, and spirit to transcend and disrupt the violent consumption and exploitation of mind, body, and spirit.

Using a hoodoo framework that centers on using our most available means to “make do”.

What’s about to be introduced is a short, non-exhaustive set of rituals, recipes, and workings to resist and hopefully survive the systems of oppression against the bodies of black transgender and transsexual individuals.

When showering or washing your hands. Turn inward and recite the following:

Spirit of the waters that cover my skin, I surrender to the power that carves the land and grows the seed. Guide me through roaring streams and uncharted oceans.

Hoodoo Salt Recipe

1. 1 Part Bay Leaves

2. 1 Part Rosemary

3. 1 Part Thyme

4. 1 Part Sage

5. 6 Parts Salt

What Now:

1. Carry this salt in your bag or pockets.

2. Use to create sigils and other symbols in your own rituals and ceremonies.

3. Place on your altar as an offering.

4. Use in mojo bags, sachets, or spell jars.

5. Use food-grade materials and add them to food recipes.

6. Include in baths and washes.

Simple Binding Spell

As a simple means to bind or “freeze” someone who is enacting or perpetuating harm against you, this spell binds them in place so their actions and intentions can no longer harm you.

1. On a scrap piece of paper, write down the name of the target of this spell and what you need to bind on the opposite side.

2. Spit on the side of the paper that describes what you are binding, and fold the paper.

3. Place the folded paper in a jar, fill with water and place in the back of your freezer indefinitely or until you are in a place where the target can no longer reach or influence you.

   
   

Simple Protection Spell

Using the Hoodoo Salt

1. Write and recite a short petition for protection over your space.

2. Spread a handful of hoodoo salt across the threshold of the main entrances and exits of your space.

Ritual and Ceremonial Uses For Hoodoo Salt

To best utilize this salt. Take a moment to step inward and find your ori, the “head” of your being, where your intuition, destiny, and higher self reside. Rediscover your purpose for this work and petition your needs so that you may conjure your path forward.

 In my practice, I’ve used Hoodoo Salt for the following:

1. Protection and Purification

2. Manifestation and Attraction

3. Prosperity and Abundance

4. Divination and Invocation

5. Decoupling and Unbinding

6. Spiritual Amplification

7. Memory and Learning

8. Reverence and Remembrance

9. Love and Relationships

10. Rest and Recovery

11. Spiritual Clearing and Cleansing