# black medicine // black magic conjuring ungovernable black feminism(s) through healing rootwork, mediumship, divination, and ancestral literary traditions. Page: Feed: --- ## [Now Enrolling: 2026 Playing Card Divination Intensive](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/now-enrolling-2026-playing-card-divination) _2026-08-17 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ A 4-week intensive for Black people who want to deepen their ancestral practices through close study of playing card divination this September ## [You Can't Predict the Joker](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/you-cant-predict-the-joker) _2026-08-10 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Entropy, Capitalism, and What Can Be Seen In Chaos ## [Black Like the Face of God](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/black-like-the-face-of-god) _2026-08-02 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Black (W)holes, Black Cards, and What We Cannot Know ## [Ancestral Elevation for Black Liberation](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/ancestral-elevation-for-black-liberation) _2026-07-03 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Patrice Lumumba Alive, Lifting Up Our Ancestors, and 250 Reversals ## [Your Luck is Tied to Second Sight](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/your-luck-is-tied-to-second-sight) _2026-06-21 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ On Fortune, Intuition, and Seeing What’s Right TF In Front of You ## [The Care + Keeping of Your Two Heads](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/the-care-keeping-of-your-two-heads) _2026-06-14 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Plus: Free Workshop Series + Paperback Playing Card Divination: An Ancestral Intro ## [Rebellion + Celebration on Ancestral Grounds](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/rebellion-celebration-on-ancestral) _2026-05-27 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Who draws the line between the dead and the dead? ## [With Love, a Pinkster Hoodoo](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/with-love-a-pinkster-hoodoo) _2026-05-15 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Peter the Doctor, Afro-Dutch Descendants, and the Oldest Black American Holiday ## [🪷 Mother Beautiful: Honoring All Our Ancestral Mothers](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/mother-beautiful-honoring-all-our) _2026-05-06 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Big Mama’s, Madamas, and Mothering Yourself ## [Hoodoo is a Futurism](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/hoodoo-is-a-futurism) _2026-04-29 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ 🃏 Future Telling, Ancestral Aesthetics + Black Life Everlasting (amen) ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6l4JfHjLtUcN) _2026-04-29 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [We Long for the Root Lady](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/we-long-for-the-root-lady) _2026-04-03 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ 🌿 Black Medicine, Ancestral Memory + Unbroken Lines of Practice ## [Does Disabled COVID Shame Matter?](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/does-disabled-covid-shame-matter) _2026-03-29 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Disabled Buzzkills Nurturing Ourselves Amidst COVID Cynicism & Cultural Amnesia ## [Oh Great, Another "Leftist" COVID Take So Bad it Literally Fucking Stinks](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/another-leftist-covid-take-so-bad) _2026-03-20 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ "Y’all Make It So Fucking Embarrassing to Be Disabled" and the conservative co-conspirators in leftist spaces ## [Spiritual Elders in the Age of Instant Everything](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/spiritual-elders-in-the-age-of-instant) _2026-03-08 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Celebrating My Elders and Twenty-Five Years of Practice ## [Prediction and Grief](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/prediction-and-grief) _2026-02-08 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Nat Turner’s Prophecies, Political Prediction, and Consequences ## [Ancestral Dreaming: A System of Survival](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/ancestral-dreaming-a-system-of-survival) _2025-12-14 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Gambling, the Great Migration, and Grandmothers who dream of fish ## [There's Nothing Spiritual About Hating Yourself](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/theres-nothing-spiritual-about-hating) _2025-12-08 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Reader, I presume that you, like me, were raised in a society that believes a knowledge of god (or any other divine presence) must also come with a leaden temperament, a severity masquerading as seriousness. ## [Afrofuturist Prediction](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/afrofuturist-prediction) _2025-11-23 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ towards an optimistic fortune telling ## [Kongo to Hoodoo](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/kongo-to-hoodoo) _2025-10-19 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ Diasporic Remembrance + Solidarity as Return ## [Pirate.io on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RBylg1TghCFr) _2025-10-19 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Pirate.io listing on Google Play to view the app’s details. ## [The Ace of Diamonds: A Burst of Light](https://blackmedicineblackmagic.substack.com/p/the-ace-of-diamonds-a-burst-of-light) _2025-10-05 · Cyrée Jarelle Johnson_ also, enrollment for Playing Card Divination: An Ancestral Intro closes this Wednesday 10/8