Are You New to Voodoo Spirits and Mysteries?

What You Might Not Know If You’re New to the Voodoo spirits and Mysteries

When people first come to the temple or receive their first ceremony, reading, or magical work, I often hear the same question in different forms:
“What do I get?”
“Can I tell the spirits what I want them to do?”
“Why didn’t it happen the way I pictured it?”

These questions come from a place of longing—and often, misunderstanding.

So, if you’re new to the Voodoo Spirits and Mysteries, allow me to offer some truth: the spirits do not follow. They lead.

Even I, as a high priestess, do not command them. I serve them. I listen. I offer. I ask. But I do not control.

The Spirits Are Not Tools — They Are Living Forces

One of the most damaging misconceptions is that you can “order” a result from the Mysteries the way you might place an item in an online cart. This is not how the divine works—and certainly not how the Lwa, the Mysteries of Time, Darkness, and Creation, operate.

When you enter into ceremony, when you are touched by ritual, when you receive magic—you are entering a relationship, not a transaction.

Yes, you may be blessed. Yes, healing and change are possible. But the form it takes may not look like what your human mind expected. The universe does not answer to emotion. It responds to alignment.

Devotion vs. Direction

In Temple de la Luna, and in the sacred lineages I hold, we teach that you are devoted to the spirits—not directing them. This is a sacred difference.

Devotion means:

• You show up with humility, not entitlement.
• You make offerings, not demands.
• You listen, even when you don’t like the answer.
• You trust that the Mystery knows what you need more than your ego does.

You are not the author of the ceremony’s power. You are its recipient.

And that requires trust.

The Frustration We Face as Spiritual Workers

Those of us who serve the spirits often find ourselves having to explain this again and again. The modern world has trained people to believe that everything spiritual is here to make them feel good or comfortable. But the Mysteries don’t exist for your comfort. They exist for your transformation.

We aren’t doing cosmetic soul work. We are moving through forces that existed before time began.

We serve the darkness and the light.
We walk with forces that live in storm, silence, ash, and ocean.
We speak with spirits that are older than language and act with divine intelligence, not human emotion.

So no, you don’t get to decide what happens in a reading, in a magic working, or in a ceremony.
Neither do I.
Only the spirits do.

Can You Trust the Universe Voodoo Spirits and Mysteries Without Trying to Enslave It?

There is a real question beneath all spiritual seeking:
Can you trust the Mystery?
Can you sit in not knowing and still believe that something sacred is working on your behalf?
Can you stop trying to bend the divine to your will, and instead bow to the rhythm of something greater?

This is where real magic lives. Not in control—but in communion.
Not in commanding—but in surrendering to the greater pattern.

When you stop treating spirit like a vending machine and start treating it like a teacher, everything changes.

Final Words for the Newcomer

If you’re new to the Mysteries, here is what I hope you carry with you:

• Be humble before the unseen.
• Don’t confuse devotion with ownership.
• Let the Lwa lead.
• And let the Universe be as vast and untamed as it truly is.

And know this: if the spirit chooses to help you, it is undeniable.
When the Mysteries decide to move, they move with force, grace, and precision. There is no mistaking it.

If you ever have the chance to see the Lwa come through a real Cabildo de Mystério—a temple where true possession, ceremony, and spirit manifestation take place—you will not leave the same. You will see it. You will feel it. You will know deep in your bones that this shit is real.

Not because someone told you. Not because you read it in a book. But because your soul will recognize it in the room, in the wind, in the fire, in the tears falling down your face. And that moment? That is the moment the Mystery begins to walk with you.

The spirits are not here to serve your will.
You are here to align with theirs.

And that, beloved, is where the true miracles begin.