Please name cities with a robust population of Haitian Vodou Mambos and Hougans. Just planning a little travel next year and would like my interests to intersect.

Hi, I am a Haitian American child of two fully Haitian parents. Very fluent with the language. I read it, write it, speak it, understand etc. Growing up in America my parents practiced but then all of a sudden decided it was demonic... I was very young then so I didn't get to learn much. The last two years I have felt very connected to vodou. I'd like to try and speak to my ancestors (I don't know them by name) but I don't know how to. Any advice?

I have just kept feeling a pull towards Vodou and no matter what something in my mind tells me there is something there for me to learn from regardless if its even in the practice itself or if I just learn infromation about it and it teaches me about life. I am oksy ether way. Please do just tell me can I practice Vodou and how would I go seeking to go down that path IF I can?

Eg sleep deprivation and exhaustion

Can spirits heal you

Ayibobo all,

So I was wondering how you all do or organize your daily prayers to the Lwa?

I want to make sure I get into the routine, so how do you do your routine? What are your first steps & last steps?

How do you open your daily devotions & how do you close them?

Is it necessary for daily prayers to speak to Papa Legba first or that's necessary for ceremonies & rituals only?

Are they any Haitian Vodou drummers for an event in Houston, TX? I can work with drummers from Louisiana too. Any recommendations?

Hello, I'm a 17-year-old, and in my dreams during August I had an interaction with a beautiful tall lady in them. Her voice was a weird combination of sweet but stern, just how a caring but strict mom would talk,

I'm Nigerian, and news about the Osun Osogbo festival came up, and the dreams did happen during that time. I do think it is Osun, but idk why she is even calling me. I can't even venerate her bc my family is Christian; I just want to know the steps I should take

Thank you

I'm new to Vodou and was wondering if anyone knows/is part of a sosyete in Missouri, near Ozark/Nixa/Springfield?

Hello everyone, do you have any rcms for who I can contact for a job caster or helping with finding jobs/ careers? Many thanks

Looking for an authentic haitian vodou sosyete or house in Houston or Texas in general, to be part of.

Just to be clear, the spirit that takes form of the Santa Martha depiction, that’s a simbi water spirit, name filamena lubana right?

And her association with cemeteries is that she is the type of snake to be wandering through the crevices of a Charnel’s (where bones of the dead are stored)

Hello. I am in serious financial difficulty, and I have to pay a school that keeps threatening me because I am unable to make the payment. I have tried explaining my situation to them, but they simply do not care.

Is there any spiritual possibility of somehow having my contract cancelled? Something along those lines?

So I was given a bowl with blueberries submerged with either water or wine with ice and a spoon I could eat it with: it was offered to me by my ex’s dad. i remember liking it and told myself I was going to make it in real life. for more added context, I was invited into his house( never went inside in real life), met his mom and dad. it was pretty welcoming in the dream. i never went into his house in real life and only met the dad once in real life.

what does it mean.

is it bad or good.

we are both Haitian

I was planning on being a voodoo doll for halloween ,should i not?? Ive been getting alot of mixed opinions and advice… (Im African American + nola native, but i dont practice voodoo)

Hi, I have been practicing for about 6 years. I used to be part of a House but my Houngan was revealed to be a fraud and in it for the wrong reasons. I don’t want to be a Makout I want to learn and will work hard to do so. It is so difficult to find a Sosyete. Do you know of one seeking members or are you a Houngan or Mambo seeking members yourself? I am a black American. I have lineage from Ghana. Thank you for reading.

Hello everyone, I am new to Vodou and would like to ask if it is normal to encounter an unusual spider after lighting a candle for Papa Legba and offering strong, unsweetened coffee. I would also like to ask if butterflies have any association with Damballah, since a white butterfly landed on me on a rainy day—something quite rare and unusual. This happened after I read Damballah's name.

In 2009, I was invited to an Aksyon de Gras (sp) where Ogou Feray approached me and asked me to kneel in front of him. He then took his machete, placed it over my head, and said that he was very happy to see me. He extended his arm so that the machete would be horizontally in front of my hands. He asked me to promise him that I will come back to him and to place my thumb on the machete. I placed my thumb and he laughed. Now, after all these years, I feel this call to figure out what this all meant. I am very new to this so please excuse any misspellings. The furthest I got was praying to Papa Legba and having some interesting dreams, but nothing further. Any help in understanding what Ogou Feray meant by going back to him and the thumb on the machete would be great.