✦ Welcome to ✦

HOODOO U

Where tradition meets transformation

A scholarly, member-supported school devoted to preserving the Hoodoo tradition — ancestral knowledge, practical work, and personal power.

Free · Interactive herbal field lesson

What They Call Weeds, We Call Medicine

Your next step after orientation—or a place to begin today.

Meet 16 roadside medicine plants, learn the Root Doctor’s safety laws, begin a field journal, and complete a knowledge check. No membership or sign-in required.

Begin the free lesson

Free · Interactive conjure lesson

The Root Worker’s Correspondence Guide

Every herb has a job.

Explore plant correspondences, name your intention, build a paper working plan, and test your knowledge. No membership or sign-in required.

Begin the free conjure lesson

✦ Congo Square · We Want You at the Table ✦

Bring Something to the Cookout

Congo Square is a community table — and we are calling on practitioners to bring a dish. Teach 30–40 minutes in your specialty, live, to the family. No junk food. We want your collaboration and your community.

Bring your dish

Learn

Explore courses on Hoodoo history, herbs, candles, roots, and the ethics of the work.

Practice

Apply ancestral wisdom in your everyday life with guided coursework and a working ledger.

Empower

Step into your power, keep the record, and create a legacy worth passing forward.

Meet the Ancestors: Bakulu book cover

From the Head Auntie in Charge

Meet the Ancestors: Bakulu

The complete 60-page e-book by Auntie Tasha — teachings, stories, photographs, and practices for building your ancestor connection. Sold separately; not included with membership. No account needed to purchase.

Meet the Ancestors is a digital ebook, delivered instantly to your email after purchase.

Ps “Don't see it? Check your spam or promotions folder or send us a holler info@hoodoouniversity.com

$30

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This term's modules

All courses

HU 100 · Tradition & History

Orientation: Entering the Space

How to approach the practice and the space — spiritual etiquette, respectful study, and what it means to learn Hoodoo with care. Free for every student.

2 weeks · included

HOO 101 · Tradition & History

Hoodoo Foundations

Origins, migration, and the African American roots of the work — who kept it, how it survived, and why the language matters.

6 weeks · included

CON 201 · Conjure Studies

Conjure Studies

Roots, herbs, curios, and the green cabinet — sourcing, drying, and recording working materia with a field notebook you build week by week.

8 weeks · included

A Saint Louis Series · 7 Episodes

The Muddy Banks

Down south ain’t the only place big steppers in conjure came from

Diviners, Goopher Kings, buried Nkisi bundles, and the river that carried the work north — Auntie Tasha’s homage to Saint Louis and Missouri conjure.

Walk the Muddy Banks

Premium · Demonstration Lab

Spellwork, shown step by step

✦ Coming Soon: Filming in Progress ✦

Filmed demonstrations of real workings — setup, ingredients, timing, and disposal. The lab opens soon; when it does, unlock it for $19/mo on top of membership, or take a single module on its own.

SPL 320 · Premium

Candle Work: Dressing & Setting Lights

Filmed, step-by-step demonstrations of dressing, carving, and setting lights — with full ingredient breakdowns.

$49 single module

SPL 330 · Premium

Cleansing, Uncrossing & Protection

Demonstrated baths, floor washes, and protective work, shot in real time from setup to disposal.

$49 single module

Auntie Tasha, founder of Hoodoo University, in her red blazer and pearls

Welcome to Hoodoo University from the Founder

Auntie Tasha

Welcome home.

I built this space to build community, support, a resource for those who want to learn more about the way our Ancestors sustained through practices that connected them to the earth — feeding mind, body, and spirit. As children of the soil, this is our legacy and honor to carry on those traditions.