Many people today think of the church as a building. Bricks. Stained glass. A steeple scraping the sky. But that’s not the biblical understanding of church at all.
Church is not walls and mortar... it’s people. Flesh and spirit. Souls gathered together, seeking truth.
SUNDAY SCHOOL: THE CROSS & HOODOO
A lot of people still think of the cross as just a Christian symbol... something you see on a building or hanging in a sanctuary.
But long before it became tied to one religion, the cross was a map of the spirit world.
Four directions. Four elements. Heaven touching earth.
A meeting point between what we can see and what we can’t.
The cross has always been a crossroads.
In the old cosmologies, you saw these patterns everywhere; in Kongo belief systems, in European folk rites, in Indigenous medicine wheels, in circle-cross carvings going back thousands of years.
Everyone had a different language for it, but the structure was the same:
North. South. East. West.
Air. Fire. Water. Earth.
Spirit moving through matter.
When Christianity rose, the symbol shifted, but the root stayed the same. Early Christians still kept the circle around the cross because they understood it as the eternal soul meeting the physical world. They didn’t see contradiction. They saw continuity.
And in Hoodoo, we carried all of that forward.
Our ancestors prayed the psalms, sang the hymns, and kept their Bible close because that was the faith they had access to. But beneath those prayers, they were still working the old knowledge- the power in the land, the crossroads, the dirt, the elements, the candle flame, the breath.
They hid the old ways inside the new ways, and that’s how the tradition survived.
That’s why you’ll see saints, psalms, and conjure moving together like one rhythm.
It’s survival.
It’s inheritance.
Now here’s where I want to bring it home:
The crossroads isn’t just a place out in the world.
The crossroads is inside you.
Every time your heart has to choose between fear and faith, ego and spirit, survival and becoming... you’re standing at a spiritual intersection. And that space in your chest, that small tight place where decisions live, where truth whispers, where your future is born… that’s a crossroads too.
The heart is where the vertical and the horizontal meet.
- Spirit coming down.
- Your life moving forward.
- Your choices shaping your path.
- Your prayer becoming direction.
So when you use the cross in your work... when you pray at the crossroads, when you draw a cross over a candle, when you anoint yourself at the four points, know this:
✝️ You are activating the oldest map humanity ever drew.
✝️ You are opening roads in the spirit and in your own body.
✝️ You are meeting yourself at the place where destiny turns.
The crossroads are a ritual and a reminder:
Your heart is the altar.
Your body is the temple.
And you are the place where heaven and earth meet.
So yes.... use the cross in your magick. At the crossroads. For road opening. For protection. For working with spirit. Because it’s more than just a religious emblem, it’s a cosmic intersection where matter and spirit meet, and where your prayers become power.
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?”
— 1 Corinthians 3:16