Right Wing Extremism is Shriveling in its Coffin

Join a voodoo hex to shift global energy back to human rights

Like many people, I’m deeply disturbed by the way things are going in the United States. We have thugs with guns lurking around ballot boxes, intimidating voters; the male Supremacy Court taking away women’s rights to sovereignty over their bodies; election deniers; conspiracy theorists; states working in the open to disenfranchise huge swaths of voters; people willingly choosing fascism over democracy; assaults on libraries; book banning; assaults on LGBTQ people; assaults on Black people; homelessness; gun violence; racism; poverty; lack of affordable health care; widening income inequality, and giant corporations ignoring climate change and risking the planet so the billionaire class can buy yet another super yacht or take a joy ride to space. It’s a mess!

But what is a powerless person to do?

I give money. Sure. I give as much money as I can to political groups, dozens of which pester me daily via text. But it doesn’t feel like I’m doing enough when our whole ship of fools is going down.

So I decided to perform a hex on the ills that beset us. My first hex, motivated by the brutal killing of Mahsa Amini by morality police in Iran (for not covering all of her hair with her hijab), was against the patriarchy.

A lot of people got involved in that hex. My husband built me a coffin. I found a ritual in a book about New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau, gathered the indicated materials, made a number of voodoo dolls, and performed a ritual with many others at a party.

When I woke up the next morning, I hoped something drastic would happen to the patriarchy. Sadly, it did not. But about a week later Bolsonaro, the right-wing leader of Brazil, lost his election, and I decided that the energy generated by our ritual had contributed to that.

For that first ritual, I made voodoo dolls for Patriarchy, Fascism, Income Inequality, and White Supremacy, as well as Shame, Regret, and Judgement. All got buried that night.

For today, though, I just have one ill to bury: right-wing extremism.

Today is election day in the U.S., so I hustled to get this hex ready in time. First I ordered a dozen little coffins from Walmart. Then I painted them black and lined them with red tissue paper. I painted white crosses on their lids, since New Orleans voodoo often utilized Christian imagery in its ceremonies, and I wanted to invoke the power of that symbology. Also, since the hex calls for burying the coffin “under a cross.” Finally, I made a little doll to torment.

Then this morning, I constructed an altar, covering a table with a red cloth. I laid out carefully-selected tarot cards from a New Orleans voodoo deck, and a picture of Mahsa Amini. I placed my figurine of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the altar along with the coffin. I was happy to put her back to work.

I didn’t have some of the ingredients called for by the book, like Spanish moss and graveyard dust, so I improvised. I used Goo Gone, Wart Remover, lemon juice and the herb mullein.

Next, I donned white clothing and put on a drum track. Then I danced around the alter calling for the death of Right-Wing Extremism. I poked a black pin into the little doll’s red heart again and again. I put a wart remover strip over his genitals, to suck that power out. I put Goo Gone on his face and body, to banish every part of him from human society. I sprinkled the mullein and squeezed the lemon all over his body. Then I closed the lid.

A black candle is burning on top of that coffin now.

Won’t you join me in hexing right-wing extremism? You don’t need to have every element I compiled. Just light a candle and state your intention. Keep it burning all day, until it burns itself out.

UPDATE: Although the hex didn’t precipitate a blue wave in the election, it may have contributed to the right-wing extremists doing worse than expected. The candle burned for several hours. I buried the coffin the next day. May the dissolution of bigotry, hate, violence, and right-wing extremism accelerate as its voodoo doll rots underground.

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