Making a mojo: choosing materials, and making it specific to the person

What a mojo is, and what it is not

A mojo is a small, made thing, carried or kept close, that holds a working in physical form. It is not a shop-bought charm with a generic blessing, and it is not a bag of pretty ingredients thrown together because they looked right on a shelf. The difference between a mojo that works and a mojo that merely looks the part is the choosing. Every item in it should be there for a reason you can state, and the whole should be made for one person and one purpose, not for anybody in general.

That is the heart of this course: how to create mojos for yourself and for others, above and beyond the mass produced ones you find in stores. Mass production is not a moral failing, but it cannot do the one thing a mojo most needs, which is specificity. A mojo made for you, for a named purpose, with materials chosen for that purpose, is a different kind of object from one made for a shelf. Learning to make that difference yourself is the skill the course teaches.

Choosing materials, and why the choice comes first

The course covers the selection of materials, the type of materials to gather, and how to decide which items to use for each mojo. That order matters. You do not start by buying a bag and then inventing a purpose for what happens to be inside it. You start with the purpose, and the purpose tells you what kind of materials belong in the bag, and what kind do not. A mojo for protection and a mojo for money may share a container and a general shape, but they should not share the same contents simply because both were to hand.

Learning to choose also means learning to leave things out. A beginner often wants to add everything that might help, on the theory that more is stronger. In practice, a crowded mojo is a muddled statement. Each extra item is another voice in the working, and if those voices are not in agreement, the working is harder to read afterwards. Part of the craft is restraint: choosing a small number of items that agree with each other, and trusting that agreement to carry the work.

Making it specific to yourself, or to another person

A mojo is made specific to yourself or to another person, and that specificity is more than writing a name on a tag. It means thinking about the person the mojo is for: their situation, their habits, and the way the working will actually live with them. A mojo for someone who works outdoors will be carried differently from one kept by a bed, and a mojo for a person who needs quiet steadiness will be made differently from one for a person who needs to act quickly. The course works through those decisions, so that the finished mojo fits the life it is going into.

Making a mojo for another person carries an extra responsibility. You are choosing on their behalf, and you should be clear with them, and with yourself, about what the mojo is for and what it is not for. A mojo is a tool for a working, not a substitute for the ordinary steps a situation requires. Say so plainly when you hand one over. The person receiving it should understand the purpose, how to carry or keep it, and that their own actions still matter.

The many reasons a mojo can be made

That breadth is worth pausing over, because it shows that a mojo is not a single recipe with a single use. It is a form, and the form takes its meaning from the purpose you give it. The same hands, the same basic method, and a different set of choices will produce a mojo for protection that has little in common, in its contents, with a mojo for success.

That breadth is also a warning against treating every purpose as interchangeable. A mojo for luck at gambling and a mojo for steady wealth are not the same working, even though both concern money. One is about a moment, the other about a pattern. Learning to tell those apart, and to choose materials accordingly, is the difference between a maker who follows recipes and a maker who understands the craft. The course aims at the second kind of maker.

Practice, record, and judgement

Like any craft, mojo making improves with practice and with records. Keep a note for each mojo you make: the purpose in one sentence, the person it was for, the materials chosen and why, and what you noticed afterwards, over weeks rather than hours. Over time, those notes become your own reference, far more useful than any list copied from a book, because they record what you actually chose and what actually followed, in your own work.

Do not judge a mojo by a single day, and do not remake the same mojo endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Make it properly, once, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second working, a different set of materials, or no further working is the right next step. That judgement, practised over many mojos, is what turns a course into a craft.

Mojo Making course

This course teaches how to make mojos for yourself and for others, above and beyond the mass produced ones in stores.

We will cover how to make mojos, including the selection of materials, the type of materials to gather, how to decide which items to use for each mojo, and how to make the mojo specific to yourself or another person. Mojos can be made for many reasons, including protection, healing, money, happiness, luck, energy, wealth, ill fortune, gambling, and success. I make no promise about what a mojo you make will do, only that the course teaches the choosing and the making, in a magician’s voice, from practice.

If you want to learn this craft, this is the course I offer: Mojo Making course, $216 CAD. View the product

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