House of Roots and Bones: Fixing Department

VI. FIXING — CONJURE CONSTRUCTION & MATERIAL PRACTICE
HORB FIX 311 — The Art of Fixing
Introduces fixing as the deliberate construction and preparation of spiritual work for a specific condition and purpose. Students learn how materia, prayer, intention, preparation, placement, and handling come together to make a complete working. Establishes the practical foundation for all subsequent fixing courses.
HORB FIX 312 — Dressing, Feeding & Maintaining Work
Teaches the preparation, dressing, feeding, and ongoing maintenance of spiritual work. Students examine oils, powders, herbs, liquids, smoke, prayer, and other traditional methods used to prepare and sustain a working. Emphasis is placed on understanding when work requires continued attention and when it should be left alone.
HORB FIX 313 — Bags, Hands, Capers, Jacks & Personal Conjure
Studies portable and personally carried forms of conjure, including bags, hands, jacks, capers, and related constructions. Students examine selection of materia, personal concerns, assembly, carrying, feeding, secrecy, and maintenance. The course emphasizes constructing work according to purpose rather than relying on standardized recipes.
HORB FIX 314 — Bottle Work & Container Conjure
Examines bottles, jars, and other containers as structures for holding, concentrating, preserving, restraining, sweetening, protecting, or directing a condition. Students study ingredient selection, layering, sealing, petitioning, placement, and maintenance while learning to reason from the purpose of the work to its construction.
HORB FIX 315 — Candle Work in Southern Hoodoo
Studies candles as tools of prayer, petition, illumination, timing, and spiritual work within Black American conjure. Students learn preparation, dressing, inscription, placement, burning practices, observation, and disposal. Emphasis is placed on traditional working logic rather than elaborate modern candle systems.
HORB FIX 316 — Powders, Sachets & Dusting Work
Examines powders and dry preparations used for laying tricks, dressing spaces and objects, carrying work, protection, drawing, and other practical purposes. Students study grinding, combining, storage, application, concealment, and appropriate placement. Particular attention is given to contact, movement, and the physical logic of dusting work.
HORB FIX 317 — Conjure Oils, Washes & Waters
Teaches the construction and practical use of oils, washes, waters, and other liquid preparations. Students study carriers, botanical ingredients, steeping and infusion, prayer, storage, shelf life, safety, and application. The course emphasizes matching the form of a preparation to the condition being treated.
HORB FIX 318 — Personal Concerns & Linking the Work
Examines the use of names, handwriting, photographs, clothing, hair, bodily concerns, footprints, possessions, and other links connecting a working to a person or situation. Students learn degrees of connection, collection, handling, substitution, identification, and the role of personal concerns in directing work toward its intended target.
HORB FIX 319 — Disposal, Deployment & Completion of Work
Studies what happens after a working has been constructed or completed. Students examine burial, crossroads deployment, running water, throwing away, leaving, carrying, placing, hiding, returning, and other traditional methods of deployment and disposal. Students learn that where work goes is part of the work itself.
HORB FIX 320 — Advanced Construction & Building the Work
Capstone course requiring students to construct complete workings from diagnosis through completion. Students must determine the condition, objective, jurisdiction, materia, form, petition, prayer, preparation, deployment, maintenance, and disposal appropriate to a case. Completion demonstrates the ability to build coherent conjure from working logic rather than simply copying recipes.