Santa Muerte Devotion 101: Answers and Explanations for Curious Readers and New Devotees
Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
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Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
Buy the paperback at https://amzn.to/41gmMKg
What Problems Does Santa Muerte Help With?
Any problems you can think of.
Part of the reason why the following of Santa Muerte is growing so much is because she will hear all petitions without judgment against those who make the petitions. From the restoration of health to a sexual fling with a married man, there is nothing that we can’t ask the Santa Muerte to deliver. The Santa Muerte may be asked to deliver a blessing just as easily as she can be asked to deliver a curse against an enemy. Where major religions see the world in black and white and may hold it against the person asking for something like a curse to an enemy, or for protection in a criminal enterprise, the Santa Muerte understands that the world is full of shades of gray, and therefore considers each petition on its own merits.
If a devotee has a strong relationship with Santa Muerte, it is very possible that Santa Muerte would grant a petition considered taboo by society. To the Santa Muerte, the matters of human beings are the matters of human beings. She is known to grant petitions, but she does not seem to concern herself with what is right and what is wrong by the standards of our human society - that’s what human constructs are for, like the criminal justice system.
For example, a criminal may ask Santa Muerte to protect a shipment of illegal goods, and the Santa Muerte may decide to grant the petition, but it is not a guarantee that the police will not eventually catch up with the criminal on another day. Likewise, a person may ask Santa Muerte to deliver a sexual fling with a married man, but it’s not a guarantee that the jilted spouse won’t find out and want to seek revenge of her own. In other words - be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it.
Part of the reason why the following of Santa Muerte is growing so much is because she will hear all petitions without judgment against those who make the petitions. From the restoration of health to a sexual fling with a married man, there is nothing that we can’t ask the Santa Muerte to deliver. The Santa Muerte may be asked to deliver a blessing just as easily as she can be asked to deliver a curse against an enemy. Where major religions see the world in black and white and may hold it against the person asking for something like a curse to an enemy, or for protection in a criminal enterprise, the Santa Muerte understands that the world is full of shades of gray, and therefore considers each petition on its own merits.
If a devotee has a strong relationship with Santa Muerte, it is very possible that Santa Muerte would grant a petition considered taboo by society. To the Santa Muerte, the matters of human beings are the matters of human beings. She is known to grant petitions, but she does not seem to concern herself with what is right and what is wrong by the standards of our human society - that’s what human constructs are for, like the criminal justice system.
For example, a criminal may ask Santa Muerte to protect a shipment of illegal goods, and the Santa Muerte may decide to grant the petition, but it is not a guarantee that the police will not eventually catch up with the criminal on another day. Likewise, a person may ask Santa Muerte to deliver a sexual fling with a married man, but it’s not a guarantee that the jilted spouse won’t find out and want to seek revenge of her own. In other words - be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it.