Overview

The purpose of Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust. The Decomposition of Spell Work, is to explain the metaphysical and alchemical processes involved in burying spell workings or remains in the earth. This course, brought to you by Mirrored Moments With Tia DeShay, a trademark of The Selah Leadership Academy for Creative and Intuitive Studies, LLC, analyzes and compares the decomposition of the human body to the alchemical process a spell undergoes when it is complete and buried in the earth. According to the article, "Laying Down Tricks and Disposing of Ritual Remnants in the Hoodoo Tradition", "in African-American hoodoo practice, working a spell in which materials such as powders, roots, or herbs are deployed in specific locations where they will be touched by the victim is called laying down a trick, tricking, or throwing down for someone (as in "he throwed down for her"). One of the basic aphorisms passed along from teachers to students is, "Lay your trick, walk away, and don't look back." Looking back can have the effect of undermining the careful deployment of curios meant to set the trick to working. It demonstrates a lack of faith or will. On the other hand, disposal is bringing the work to a conclusion with a final and forceful push for the desired outcome." One way to lay down tricks and dispose of ritual remains in the hoodoo tradition is the burial of the working in the earth. Allorah Rayne states, "the earth is strength, stability, and slow which aligns best with workings you want to work over the long term."

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