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Have you ever had a dream that perfectly coincides with current events? You wake from sleep holding an image, a message, a sense of urgency—and then the world seems to follow the same script. That’s what happened to me the week TikTok lit up with predictions that the Rapture would occur on September 23 or 24, 2025.

It was sometime in 1965 when I was first introduced to the Mysteries. I was a little girl then, visiting my grandmother who lived on a Mississippi bayou.

Madame Murray was a conjure woman known far and wide for her healing baths, powerful spells, and deep knowledge of Hoodoo and rootwork.

Lala was a fantastic, eccentric conjure woman and Hoodoo priestess. She was dirt poor, but boy was she proud.