EXPERIENCINGWICCA wrote:I am asking for help that is willingly given for free please.
i ... am really unsuccessful in doing on my own, and have just been asked and asked for money by casters, so that I just suddenly decide to search for free spellcaters
The reason you have been asked for money is that magic workers, like carpenters, doctors, and cooks, must use their gifts to make their way in the world. To pay for someone's skill, time and attention is perfectly legitimate.
Pagans who feel that spiritual services should be free generally come from traditions influenced by the Christian custom of not directly charging for religious services, but rather taking up free-will offerings or collections. Hoodoo is a magical system, not a religion, although most hoodoo workers are believers; Protestants, mostly.
since it really isn't hard to cast for a practitioner and isn't much of a hassle ... anyone here wants to help?
Well, this shows not only your inexperience of hoodoo but also of magic in general.
By analogy: Yes, it's easy for a cook to fry an egg and toast some bread. Eggs and bread are not terribly expensive, so you might be able to get fried eggs and toast for free, sometimes.
But if you have beri-beri, scurvy, or some other nutritional disease, you don't need a short-order cook: you need a doctor. If long years of bad diet have brought you into heart disease or pre-diabetes, you need a dietician. You need the benefit of their expensive educations and years of hard work. And you should pay accordingly, or if you can't, arrange for someone else to pay. (This is why you were referred to the AIRR Pro Bono Fund.)
Sometimes a "simple" spell like a honey jar runs into unexpected ramifications. Yesterday I spent five hours constructing a spell that usually only takes me a few minutes. Life - and magic - are funny like that.
I think your present lack of skill comes mostly from inexperience -- and learning will help. Even people who aren't Dr. Buzzard or Aunt Caroline Dye can improve their magical skills by reading, asking questions, and practicing -- and there is plenty of material here, for free.
Good luck,
Miss Michaele
