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Good news, railroad fans! The 32nd National Garden Railway Convention is being hosted in California this year and it's coming to a railroad near you. In fact, it's coming to the Lucky Mojo Curio Co! As part of the pre-show tour, Miss cat and nagasiva will be hosting an Open House July 2nd - 3rd and you're invited. There will be free food and drinks, and the shop will be open as usual for anyone who wants to pick up some lucky mojos during their visit. Check out one of the earliest videos of the Garden Railway at Lucky Mojo here!

G-Scale 17-Car Consist Test Run at Lucky Mojo

 Letter from the Editor:

What's New at Lucky Mojo

The new custom billboard installed for the Pre-Show Tour of the National Garden Railway Convention 2016.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and putting some tips and tricks that they picked up from the Hoodoo Heritage Festival to good use. There certainly is a lot that is new at Lucky Mojo right now! We put out four books, have a fabulous ovoo on the property, have also created a new section in the forum for students of Miss cat's Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course, and also have two new employees in the shop. 

Drum roll please! We are proud to introduce the two newest faces at Lucky Mojo... Suki Petit & Nicole Carevich! Suki is our train conductor (most important job in the house) and helps make sure that everything is running smoothly by making products and packing orders. She'll have a big task ahead of her as Miss cat and nagasiva prepare for the 32nd National Garden Railway Convention this month. Nicole works in the office processing orders and helps out in the shop and lab whenever she can. Welcome aboard, Nicole & Suki!

Suki and Nicole

Besides the four new books that were published and distributed last month by Lucky Mojo, we're also gearing up for a reprinting of Paper In My Shoe by Miss cat. This particular book only came out last year, and it's ready for another 2000 copies! Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic is also due to be reprinted (for the eighth time), reaching 25,000 copies! Not too shabby! Also to be reprinted soon (in a third edition) is The Black Folder. There are tons of gems by lauded Hoodoo doctors in this book, covering everything from so be sure to check it out!

Paper In My Shoe, Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic,
and The Black Folder

(What's that you ask? You haven't heard about the four new books that came out last month? Let me tell you! Help yourself with Hoodoo from the streets to the sheets with The Sporting Life by Professor Charles Porterfield. This gem covers some of the ways in which marginalized communities have found ways to empower themselves thru conjure and rootwork. Or perhaps North Asian Magic is more your style; in that case, be certain to get a copy of this extraordinary book written by David Borji Shi. You'll love his fascinating coverage of the folk traditions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberia. Also available is the reprinting of the conjure classic, Legends of Incense, Herb and Oil Magic, written by Lewis de Claremont and restored, revised, and edited by Miss cat. Heralded as one of the first and most trusted instructional books on the works of conjure, this beloved text is back in print for the first time since 2006. Finally, we are introducing Crystal Magic by Jon Saint Germain. Learn how to enhance your practice by using crystals in healing, divination, and spellcraft.)

Also new is the special student's section of the Lucky Mojo forums, which recently migrated from Yahoo. If you're enrolled in or have graduated from Miss cat's Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course, then definitely go scout out this area. There's loads of useful information that you can get access to as a student. If you haven't signed up for Miss cat's course then this is just one more big reason to do so. Also posted in the student section is the African-American video of the day, in which you can see videos covering everything from professors speaking about African-American history to vogue battles among of the drag houses of the South. View a sample here!

Clip from 1894 of three black men dancing the jig.

Finally, if you get a chance to stop by the Lucky Mojo grounds, make sure to get a picture with our ovoo. This most recent installation came to us via David Borji Shi at this year's Heritage Festival. Maybe some of its good luck will rub off on you! 

Love & bones.