Why a mojo hand goes quiet and what the tradition does about it: lapsed tending, exposure, finished work, and hands that were never fixed.
A mojo hand that once felt alive in your pocket can go quiet, and the tradition treats that the way a gardener treats a wilting plant: as a question with a short list of answers. Here is the list, and what to do at each stop on it.
The tending lapsed
The most common answer and the easiest fix. A mojo is a working thing that gets tended on a rhythm, and a hand left forgotten in a drawer goes dormant like anything neglected. Ours ships with the tending schedule on the ritual card, so the fix is simply resuming it, consistently, and giving the hand a few weeks of faithful attention before you judge the result.
It was exposed
The old teaching is strict here: a mojo stays private, and a hand that strangers handled or saw loses force. I covered the whole seal-and-secrecy teaching in Why You Never Open a Mojo Bag. If yours got passed around at brunch because somebody asked what it was, that is likely your answer. Resume the tending, return it to privacy, and let it rebuild. Some exposed hands come back. Some are done, and the tradition respects both outcomes.
The work finished
Some hands are fixed for a season or a specific matter, and a hand that carried you through the thing it was made for may simply be complete. A finished hand gets thanked and retired respectfully, never trashed casually, and the ritual card covers the retirement. Completion is not failure. It is the whole point.
It was never fixed
The hard truth for the mass-market bag: a pouch of loose herbs assembled in a warehouse was never a mojo, because the fixing is the mojo. No prayer went in, so nothing went quiet, because nothing was ever awake. The full teaching on what a real hand is lives in What Is a Mojo Bag, and Touch Not is ours, sewn, loaded, sealed, and prayed over before it ships.
Run the list in order
Tending, privacy, completion, provenance. Most quiet hands wake back up at the first stop, and the ones that retire earned it. The mojo teachings go deeper on the email list at the bottom of this page.