No Gates Kept

      In part one [ link here ] we went over the seven colors or aspects of Santa Muerte (black, white, red, gold, green, blue, and purple) as well as magical color theory. You may have noticed some colors missing from that post like pink or bone color or the 7 color. Let's dive right into it. Brown      The brown aspect of La Santa Muerte is like the trunk of a tree, it's gives strength and stability. Brown is also associated with the earth, that's earth with the lower case e that is to say dirt, the physical world. Because of it's correspondence to physicality it works well to help manifest what you desire especially things of the earthly plane like a house, a car, food, a new computer etc. If you're looking for money then brown may not be the best choice however if you want money so that you can use it to buy a product, brown reminds us that we can skip the middleman and just manifest the item itself.      The brown Santa Muerte is great for growth and developmen

     You may already be aware that magical folk, magic-makers, practitioners, witches, or whatever term you prefer, have used colors as a way to describe different practices throughout history. Modern examples may look like, magia verde for money magic, magia roja for love magic. This is a way to help our conscious and unconscious minds to understand different modalities of magic to better help us focus on the desired  outcome. It is well documented in Psychology the effects of color on the mind and mood. Warm colors are exciting while cool colors have a soothing effect. This is also why different colors are used to impress or manipulate the mind. In terms of magic, some people will call this color correspondences, this term may come from the idea of correspondences or sympathy. That is to say something that is like another has a correspondence or sympathetic link to another similar object. Long ago this would simply mean similar things are correlated, so if I had a doll or poppet th

      To ask if everyone is allowed to worship or if everyone is allowed to work with Santa Muerte may seem a bit strong but I think you get the point. I think it's interesting because I know you noticed this kind of behavior before. Someone questioning your practice, the way you show devotion or if you work with her or do workings with her. Questioning the validity of your choices, your practices even you as a person like your heritage.     I think it's worth pointing out why some people might behave like this. I think people hold Santa Muerte very close to the heart, she really means a lot to her devotees. Some people have been on the brink of death before she brought them back. She's helped so many people to cope with their own existential dread and  helped them off the edge. Naturally, people will take her and anything related to her very seriously and will have a very strict devotion to her. This could lead to clashes when someone else may not able to match or exceed t