The Power is within all of us to choose, in every moment, even painful ones, to choose to search and find the Love or the Good in it. Even trials happen to make us stronger, more able to endure in patience, and wiser with better character. Even suffering teaches us to appreciate tenderness and pleasure all the more. The sout, the bitter, the salty teaches us to appreciate all the more the Sweet. And even the smell of flowers ("mas flores Mi Nina") covers the stench of Death-- which has no power to permanently subdue but who is an Elegant and beautiful teacher of Transition, Re-shaping, and Re-Unification.
We reject, scorn, fear, cheat, run from, and regret Death. Yet Death, unlike everything in this world never betrays or disappoints us. She is always waiting, patient, romantic, consistent in Her watch over us....She's the only one you can truly count on to show up. ...and another smaller Faerie voice whispers to me: "yet, also Love..."
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Meditation and Prayer 8/2/13
We should know no Duality. We should be fearless to do as Will in the Spirit of Love, the Name of Love, the Act and Deed of Love which is the Vanquisher of all Evil. Just as "no one makes an enemy of Water," all pain, struggle, hate, and evil is nullified by the very presence of surrendering, sweet, feminine, expanding, Universal Love. Doing as we please in the child-like Present-ness and Faith, does not imply or encourage selfish unchecked indulgence in all manner of whims, dark desires, greed, tantrums, whims, and arrogance as the Cold Elite do....I ask to be Courageous, not a Sadist. I ask to BE Life, not to steal it. I ask to be granted Divine Favor after my heart has been proven Worthy, not to "take advantage." I ask to be a Wise and Loving Leader to my Egbe in Orun, my comrades in Heaven, as well as the thirsty hearts on Earth-- yet I ask, my legacy left glowing for my progeny's inheritance, that when I arrive in Heaven, I will be Humble and warmly welcomed into the arms of my Mother, at the feet of Olodumare, the orisha, and touch the hem of the garments of the Christ Man-and-Woman Yashua/Jesus and Magdalene. Amen.
Musing on Sethe, 2013
Scene. Kitchen. 5 pm Sunset, pink silk seeping in through over-the-sink blind slats. Man and Woman at stove, woman backing away as man ignites the flame, minding baby on her hip. She swings the giggling sunset-pink baby girl, two altar shrines of Oshun and Magdalene barely visible, Spirit peeking in the background. The baby girl throws her head back in tickled gut laughter, milk-stained. The Mother quickly and ecstatically kisses the pale neck of the woman-child. Maybe a bit too lingeringly, a bit too sweetly, with an uncomfortably un-noticeable twinge of melancholy the Father subliminally picked up on unawares.
But he didn't know, for he hadn't read, that the Mother was so bittersweetly grateful that her child had no ring around her neck from blade or chain....
But he didn't know, for he hadn't read, that the Mother was so bittersweetly grateful that her child had no ring around her neck from blade or chain....
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Is Cheating Inevitable? Commentary on Jennifer Keitt's radio show
This afternoon, I am listening to a special 2 hour radio block with Jennifer Keitt and Karrine Steffans on Atlanta's Kiss 104fm. The topic is Cheating and The Other Mrs. Below contains my commentary via facebook:
Do I feel cheating is inevitable? The cynical side of me,t he bitter, fearful side, the side fueled by the arrogance and insecurity of the Ego...that side sits, head in hands, defeated, and concedes, "yes", thinking herself unworthy of unconditional love.
Do I feel cheating is inevitable? The cynical side of me,t he bitter, fearful side, the side fueled by the arrogance and insecurity of the Ego...that side sits, head in hands, defeated, and concedes, "yes", thinking herself unworthy of unconditional love.
Yet, the empowered side of me, the humble and loving side of me, the Oshun side believes that if a woman loves herself unconditionally, passionately, and with nurturing, she will attract a man who will love her the same. The Law of Attraction is real, and speaking into existence, naming and claiming, as the christian mothers used to call it, that is all real. When you truly love yourself, pamper yourself, KNOW yourself, you raise your frequency by BECOMING from within yourself, the kind of woman that deserves to be loved exclusively. In other words, how can you find a man to love all of you, flaws included, and desire YOU if YOU DONT KNOW YOU, if YOU don't love you. If you are sitting looking at the magazines, feeling insecure about the next woman, succumbing to the pressures of media Idealization, you are sending out signals to the universe that you feel the OTHER woman (whether down the street in booty shorts or on the magazine or red carpet) is better than you and more deserving of the male gaze or even YOUR man's gaze. then you subconsciously defeat yourself before you even begin. you begin to emit an odor of insecurity that men subtly pick up on and take advantage of. the other thing is, people only do what you allow or what you make them believe you'll allow. if you love yourself fully, you will let every man know before you are even intimate with you, how much you are worth and that you are NOT worthy of being cheated on because you are INVALUABLE, PRICELESS. then from the get go, he will know you are not the one to disrespect and he will feel by the confidence you give out, that you are worth keeping exclusively. but it starts from within, your mentality, your come across, your charm, your confidence, your conviction. it starts with you building a firm foundation of esteem so that you won't worry about "rejection" and cling to unworthy cheating men out of desperation because on that firm foundation, you'll stand secure knowing that the man who loves you like YOU love you is out there and you WILL attract him into your life because HE exists because YOU exist and if you are his divine reflection, he must come to you to find his reflection. but if you reflect "raggedy" men by condescending to a raggedy level trying to keep up with the loose women of the streets, you'll never be the wife lain on satin sheets.
Women need to be PLEASABLE! Men run from bitter, complaining, frigid, demanding, unsatisfied women. Teach your men how to please you. Here's a secret Ladies, men WANT to please women, they are turned on MORE by knowing you are satisfied. If you are faking orgasm or constantly making him feel like he's not doing it right or always rejecting him and turning over, he will take his insecurities to the next woman who may pretend he's the king of the universe for those few moments. Women need to work to get themselves in order to leave their men unable to cheat. I told my husband "I am doing everything-- and I mean everything-- that I know the next woman can and will do. So I am leaving you NO excuse, NO good reason to cheat. If you still cheat, after I have done everything to please you, I know I have done my part and all my Wifely duties and at the end of the day YOU will have to deal with YOUR conscience and your God with what you know you did that you had no reason to" Since then, neither of us have cheated. "What you won't do, the next woman will" was a phrase my Mama said that always stuck with me and I determined never to let that be me.
You also have to have a man MATURE enough to know it is wrong to cheat even IF and when he does it. A man who knows with no illusion at the end of the day that the Other Woman is just a fantasy, not a reality. Let him know YOU the Wife or Main Woman you are the REAL THING!
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Crystal Relationships: Fluorite, Exorcising the Ego, and Expansion
For about 3 years now I have used Yoni Eggs.
featured here on my altar that includes Mary Maagdalene's meditation box with the red rosary and Rose Quartz Yoni Egg, and Paquet for Shilibo made by my dear friend and mentor Karma Zain...and my Spiral Tarot :)
These amazing tools of shamanism and excercise are usually referred to as Jade Eggs, because Jade was the stone most widely used for its properties so powerfully corresponding to All-Purpose Women's Healing. The stones do, in recent times, come in an abundance of crystal and gemstone choices. Some of my favorites come from The lovely JewelzOfComfort Etsy store. I feel the Shop Owner to be an encouraging and uplifting Kindred. Today I want to talk about the wonders of the Fluorite egg I ordered from her shop. Of course you know this substance is not fluoride the posion brain altering ADHD causing death flowing through your faucets that must be avoided at all costs however possible…but that’s another story…
These amazing tools of shamanism and excercise are usually referred to as Jade Eggs, because Jade was the stone most widely used for its properties so powerfully corresponding to All-Purpose Women's Healing. The stones do, in recent times, come in an abundance of crystal and gemstone choices. Some of my favorites come from The lovely JewelzOfComfort Etsy store. I feel the Shop Owner to be an encouraging and uplifting Kindred. Today I want to talk about the wonders of the Fluorite egg I ordered from her shop. Of course you know this substance is not fluoride the posion brain altering ADHD causing death flowing through your faucets that must be avoided at all costs however possible…but that’s another story…
Fluorite is a girl’s best friend. Well,
this girl at least. This woman. This Womb of mine now purring like a single
mother on a Calgon getaway at a luxurious tantric massage spa paid for as a
gift by her bestie. I've noticed using my large rose quartz yoni egg helped me
open to trust my lover more on a subtly influential level, helping me also to
open my heart more and thus my womb, also instantaneously stopping the mystery
of bleeding that used to occur every time I made love. But there were still more layers of healing to go through.
**photo courtesy my beautiful fellow SLC alumni Jasmine Burems at Honey and Gold

The medium Carnelian egg was a playful but stablizing and excitable
fire friend inside me, increasing my desire….
...but the moment I slid the beautiful sea-green and ocean-blue swirling fluorite inside my yoni, I felt water.
my Fluorite snuggled in Moon's custom Rose Quartz wrap bracelet
Literally. I felt an almost cool, refreshing, swishing and swirling sensation almost of a cleansing soothing motion….I felt a huge increase in my sensitivity. It was almost unbearable at times because I would feel even the subtlest movements and a wave of arousal would come over me but not a burning frustrated aching desire but a yummy, sensual, languishing desire….I noticed great increase in lubrication during lovemaking the same day/night and so did my mate. I noticed I was also more sensitive and more easily gently and quickly aroused with my his member inside me. Now even the slightest touch gives me chills and sweetness gushes. I noticed also I could feel more wetness on the inside, the location of my g spot was much more obvious, I could easily feel pressing on it and a squishy feeling I’d never felt before and waves of uncontrollable laughter as well as the urge to block/hold pee would come (which, often confused, isn't pee-- it is the Holy Elixer of Life, the Amrita that is Female Ejaculatory fluid)….
...but the moment I slid the beautiful sea-green and ocean-blue swirling fluorite inside my yoni, I felt water.
Literally. I felt an almost cool, refreshing, swishing and swirling sensation almost of a cleansing soothing motion….I felt a huge increase in my sensitivity. It was almost unbearable at times because I would feel even the subtlest movements and a wave of arousal would come over me but not a burning frustrated aching desire but a yummy, sensual, languishing desire….I noticed great increase in lubrication during lovemaking the same day/night and so did my mate. I noticed I was also more sensitive and more easily gently and quickly aroused with my his member inside me. Now even the slightest touch gives me chills and sweetness gushes. I noticed also I could feel more wetness on the inside, the location of my g spot was much more obvious, I could easily feel pressing on it and a squishy feeling I’d never felt before and waves of uncontrollable laughter as well as the urge to block/hold pee would come (which, often confused, isn't pee-- it is the Holy Elixer of Life, the Amrita that is Female Ejaculatory fluid)….
...and I suddenly
realized many years I have resisted pleasure, I haven’t trusted it, because
this same feeling of surrender, of forced submission, of uncontrollable
laughter that brings the urge to pee was TICKLING. As a child I found this
frustrating, invasive, and traumatic when tickled because I felt my body wasn’t
my own, I felt violated, small compared to the big adult holding me, held against my will, and that my reaction even though
seemingly jovial was unwilling…but in the context of a relationship I'm in now
where I feel safe to expand and trust and give my body over, I can let that
unchecked, un-self conscious laughter and joy out that was strangled in the
throat of my twisted childhood where lines were often blurred between adult tenderness and outright predatory molestation.
For awhile now, I notice my understanding of
expansion has been internalized and associated physically and psycho-sexually with handing myself over, as the agony/ecstasy sung about
in Bjork’s "Pagan Poetry". In my most intense orgasmic moments, I notice it is
during an internal dialogue, an internal battle wherein I feel sometimes my
lover is the knight and I am the damsel who resists being a conquest. One of
the most powerful orgasmic moments early in the relationship...I felt the pleasure through the pain, the point
of surrender, literally being loved into submission, but, trembling
and resisting with all my might, “running”, all my muscles taut with
guardedness, I screamed in my mind “why do you have to take all of that, all of
me?!” from the depths of my soul. The healing and enlightening orgasm only arrived when I finally broke and surrendered, not caring about the "gender politics", him "judging me", or subconscious programmed "guilt" over some false feeling of being "too open" or "too loose" connected to being raised with the concept of being a composed Lady... I notice the more I feel myself giving into
my love for him, the unconditional, serving, forgiving love despite my ego, I
feel a battle, a shattering, as my ego feels threatened by having to “hand
myself over”, or let him “take” something from me, due to past assumptions and
programs about men’s superiority complexes…It's almost as if denying my ecstasy was somehow
letting me “win” or somehow if I gave into my ecstasy at his hands I was
somehow “weaker” as a woman and letting him “have the upper hand” which is a
fallacy, an illusion that keeps many women from reaching full orgasmic
potential.
“I can’t let him see how crazy he makes me feel cuz then he’ll know
he ‘got’ me”…why is this a problem?
Oh. That’s right.
Only because these girls
have degraded themselves to empty relationships with casual dusty common niggas who will take advantage of you in such a vulnerable orgasmic state, instead of being joined in the alchemy of Divine marriage or Sacred committed union.
At each
level, I open wider, my legs, my mind, my heart, my soul…to him, to love, to
bliss, to Spirit, to Source, to God/dess. I am the vessel—his, my ancestors’, and the
divinities’….I open wider and I feel more and hand over more of me, or really
of my ego or illusion of separation (as opposed to loving sense of selfless
Oneness and Unity)….
I give more of what I’m afraid to give. I show more that
I’m embarrassed to reveal. Only in truth and ugliness can true liberation and
acceptance be found. If you’re making wild, maenad, demoness, excorcist faces
during the throes of ecstasy don’t be embarrassed. That is the real you. The
honest you. Are babies self-conscious? Do babies wonder with shame what their faces
look like when they sneeze or cry or yawn or laugh? Just be you. Just BE.
Experience your orgasm without resistance, without shame, and trust your
partner’s love for you or better yet your love for YOURSELF because the man you
have now, good or bad, is the man YOU chose for yourself on a conscious or
subconscious level. Your frequency has subtly attracted this man to you so
whatever he is, is in you as well. Our partners reflect parts of ourselves so
we must take care and be mindful of who we intertwine our lives with because it
could say more about YOU than them…. 7:07pm 3/5/13
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Lessons in Giving
I want hands all over me, reverently, adoringly; I want kisses
caressing me, cherishing…but I want as well to give you the same.
I cannot stand the
things I don’t say…
I should have stopped
you there. I keep hoping every time will be better than the last time. And
sometimes the next time is better than the last time…but really I let you even
though I know I’m not ready and that I don’t want to because I’d hate to refuse
you and give you the excuse to search for another…but truly because I keep
hoping every time will be THE time, the time I shake, the time I squirt, the
time I see God.
But it never is. And I
know it could be so much better. And I keep telling you, softly imploring you,
hinting at you…to please please me. To take the time, not just take your time.
The times I need you to go slow and open me gently and completely, you go fast,
break rhythm, pound too soon leaving my sacredness bruised. The times I pray you’ll
speed up, you’re either right there at my spot and I’m close to cumming if only
you’d slam relentlessly into Her because She’s ready but you don’t and the
feeling fades—that, or I’m just praying for it to quickly be over because I
don’t want to pretend but I also don’t want you to recognize the boredom in my
face and, besides, my legs are tired from staying up that high.
Why can’t we look into
each other’s eyes, get to really see? Why won’t you let me, let me, let me
softly kiss and lick and rub you up and down—and you do me the same?
I don’t know what of
me I resent the most: my lack of courage to say, to admit, I just want to stop
and that I feel nothing…or my heart so big and my care for your fragile ego so
much that I’d hate to place the shame in your heart of knowing you’re not as
much as you thought.
This is a journal entry from an anonymous repressed woman, a woman with desires that has kept quiet to "keep the peace." This is
a woman’s cry for help, for intimacy
from her mate. Unfortunately, this is a silent cry for help. This will remain
an unanswered cry for help, deepening
her resentment and bitterness, until the time she feels she should open up and
bravely admit these things out loud in the light of day, cards on the table, to
herself and her man. If a woman does finally make her feelings known to her man
and he still seems not to catch on, how does the dissatisfaction resolve
itself?
Lessons in giving:
Give to your love what you’d want them to give to you…do
unto others as you would have them do unto you…love each other as yourself. But
this of course has no merit if one does not absolutely powerfully love oneself
completely first! Be your own lover. Try sensual rituals with yourself where
you love and cherish and caress and arouse yourself. You can’t learn how to
seduce and intoxicate someone else if you don’t know what causes arousal in yourself, let alone another. You also
can’t show someone how to seduce and intoxicate you with their touch if, again,
you yourself don’t know what excites you…what do you feel like when you’re
aroused? What do you feel like when you’re writing in ecstatic anticipation?
What do you feel like when languishing in a sweet smelling and luxurious bath,
running your hands softly over all of your body—getting to know yourself? You
have to be able to respond to your touch before you can truly have the body sensitivity
to respond to someone else…also, you have to be able to know what touch of
yours incites a reaction before you can expect someone else to respond,
ecstatically and not just respond in revulsion, aggravation, or agony…now shock
is another arena, and can be tantalizingly delicious, but you don’t want to tow
the line between making a lover gasp in pleasant surprise and making them collapse
into hyperventilating tears or screaming and running for the hills.
When you feel frustrated that your lover is not giving you
the thrill you expect or crave, a great turn of the tables and what may be an
unexpected way to actually get what you want is indeed to GIVE IT! The law of
attraction maintains that what is put out is received. If you are giving out
neediness and lack of satisfaction, you will undoubtedly and inevitably continue
to manifest it. If you give satisfaction and pleasure, your frequency maintains
a level in the sphere of bliss and love even if—especially if—it is someone
else experiencing it at your service. The great Christ Yashua or Jesus and his
consort Mary Magdalene are two perfect embodiments of this empowering
servitude. [insert: the alabaster jar initiation which allowed, in turn, Jesus
to more fully give of himself to the world]
So give exactly what you want to your lover and it will be
returned to you. Kiss them the way you want to be kissed; lick their
collarbone, nibble their nipples, caress and rub and suck all the parts of them
as if it were yourself. Even outside the bedroom—serve them decadent drinks,
cook expertly for them and feed them comfortingly, assist them in cleaning up,
draw their bath, open their door (ladies even you can open the door for your
man especially when he has his arms full of heavy boxes or both hands full of
those trash bags you don’t want to take out!) but give them also compassion,
empathy, an open ear, hugs, compliments, encouragement, honesty, truth, and
education.
I know you might say “forget him! He doesn’t care about me.
He doesn’t take all that special time and effort for me so why should I do it
for him?” precisely because he does not. You need to give him a reason to see
you are worthy of that attention.
The woman in her naturally surrendering state (surrendering,
NOT submissive) is meant to literally “love you to life”.
She, Woman, is the maker of kings. Her thighs are the
doorways to initiation into the Mysteries of Wisdom’s Grace and Compassion’s
Strength.
She, Wom(b)an, is Water Bearer, washer of head and foot with
the tears of Mother and Lover; Sweet Healer adorns one’s head to beautifully
bear a heavy, stinging crown.
Like Mary Magdlene,
woman’s service of love is the highest and noblest power known to man.
It awakens one’s greatest strength and potential. It literally makes kings and
prophets of men like Jesus/Yashua, like Shango who received his crown and
kingdom from Oshun, like any king from the beginning of time has received his
blessing of installation to the throne from women or mothers. Even if not their
own mother, every woman by virtue of having a womb is a mother even if she has
not borne her own physical children. The womb is the potential for creation of
all kinds.
Conception is more than just the first stages in a child’s
growth and development, the birth of a human being…conception can also be
another kind of phenomenon: it is the ecstatic epiphany, divine inspiration
towards the carrying out or manifestation of an idea. An idea is indeed a
Concept—hence, conception. Many
regard this term as only applying to pregnancy, however, its truth is in
understanding that it speaks of creation from a thought. The Big Bang theory.
Our thoughts are very powerful. Science has proven thoughts affect
circumstances and spiritual teachers have taught “as within, so without” or
rather what one imagines or cultivates from the inside will reflect on the
outside.
Thus, again, the law of attraction. If a woman cultivates
and masters love from her inside—loving herself, pampering herself, loving her
womb enough to make it healthy and vibrant and clean through yoni exercises,
right eating and living—she will all the more radiate love to everyone and
everything around her. Then everyone around her will be compelled to give that
love back—maybe not directly to her, but at least to someone or something around
them—and literally send love all around the world in subtly increasing degrees.
It takes one to enact change—“be the change you want to see the world” like the
old saying: “show and prove”….show that you are capable of giving all the love
and affection possible, and the universe and everyone around you will show
that, yes, you deserve to receive back all the love and affection possible in
divine reflection and you will receive it. “give and it will come back to you/good measure/ press down/ shaken together/ and running over”
A woman’s service of love is multi-faceted: it is at once a
lover’s love, a wife’s love, a friend’s love, sometimes even a child’s love if
a woman really admires her lover and respects him as a man who can mutually
care for and teach her similar to a father figure. But the most important
aspect of a woman’s love is the maternal love. This is not to be confused or
taken the wrong way: this does not mean treat a man like a child or YOUR child.
This does not mean talk down to him or nag him or instruct him what to do. This
does not mean give him harsh words, criticism, or insult his intelligence. A man does not want to marry his mother—Freud
was a Eurocentric pervert whose doctrines do not apply to the indigenous
Afrikan or otherwise non-european mind so we need to stop applying his sick
theories to people of color when it only speaks to a culturally informed
psychological profile evolved over many centuries of euro-centric circumstances.
A man does not want to marry his mother, yet he wants a
woman to be maternal. This means nurturing, giving, devoted, unconditionally
loving, patient, indulging, and comforting. This maternal love is what will
bring the greatness out of this man. Like your mother, when she loves you
sweetly and believes in you and supports you and guides you gently to grow and
gives you a safe accepting place to be yourself—don’t you want to make her
proud? Don’t you want to do the best for her to live up to her best image of
you? This is what happens when a man receives love from a woman that cares for
him (this doesn’t mean CARRY him when you know he is just sitting on his ass
and deliberately casting his burdens onto and INTO you) and believes in him—not
one that points her finger in his face and snaps her neck and rolls her eyes
and says “nigga you aint shit!” all the time while simultaneously holding her
hand out for her “bills bills bills” to be paid.
A man comes to his greatness with the encouragement of a
great woman—the true embodiment of the biblical “help meet”…hence HELP, hence
assistance, hence service. [proverbs 31]
Women, it takes more strength to serve than to command. Takethe note from Destiny’s Child: Cater to your man and he’ll cater to you!
Who What Why....Name and Intent
Gloria was my given name. The Glory. Glorious. Evocation of Supreme, indeed, Divine heights. Glory Glory Hallelujah.
According to Kabalarians, just the name would indicate:
Marie was my middle name, already at my birth connecting me to the Great Mother and the Great Whore, embodied by Mary Mother of Yashua (otherwise known as Jesus) and Mary Beloved Consort-Wife of Yashua.
Bunmi is more than just a given spiritual name, determined by Ifa’s casting; it is now not only some “new personality” or alter-ego—it is indeed my Brand. Bunmi is Yoruba for The Gift [of/from...]. I must carry myself as a Gift to humanity, a gift is something bestowed upon, something inherited sometimes, something given as great sacrifice, something that, like the essence of all that is Yeye Osun, what makes life worth living.
My Mission, you may ask? I had never thought about any concreted, accurately definable plan or purpose. However, I recently sent a message out to a Sister in the Holistic Community and found as my fingers hit the keys, some feelings I'd never even addressed within myself came pouring out and I realized I'd just articulated some of what I felt, feel, and strive for in my organization. An excision from the letter follows:
I read your mission statement and I felt your words as if they were my own. I know you are a kindred spirit, a Healing Woman like me. "I am my Sister's Liberator" is a beautiful affirmation and I know you won't mind if I use this is my daily manifestations :) I'd like to invite you to check out a campaign I'm running to come up with a fantastic sexual and reproductive health product just for Black women specifically. I am a sexual and holistic health counselor and sensuality coach. I too am a very spiritual woman, exploring the Divine Feminine archetypes across many different races, cultures, tribes, and aeons. I have long desired to connect with, understand, and help heal my fellow Sisters sexual and psychologically as well as spiritually and emotionally. I'm glad to see since the 2012 Ascension, so many more synchronicities are at work manifesting to confirm that it is now time for the Women of Earth and the Wombniverse to rise! I hope you'll join me in continuing to help our Sisters....
As I re-read that small paragraph, I realized this was very appropriate for this blog to present my intention and my Vision for The Honeyed Labyrinth Spiritual Services and The Oshun Lifestyle.
According to Kabalarians, just the name would indicate:
- Your first name of Gloria gives you a poised, gracious, and reserved nature.
- You are capable and clever and would excel in executive positions.
- As you are a private person, it is a challenge for others to get to know and understand you.
- Your reticence has caused you to suffer aloneness and misunderstandings.
- You would like to be easy-going and spontaneous but it does not come easily.
- You can express yourself better through writing than verbally.
- The mysteries of life appeal to you in your search for an understanding of the greater picture of life.
- You love to read and can develop great powers of concentration.
- There is also an over-sensitivity in the heart, lungs, and bronchial organs which could lead to related health weaknesses.
Marie was my middle name, already at my birth connecting me to the Great Mother and the Great Whore, embodied by Mary Mother of Yashua (otherwise known as Jesus) and Mary Beloved Consort-Wife of Yashua.
Bunmi is more than just a given spiritual name, determined by Ifa’s casting; it is now not only some “new personality” or alter-ego—it is indeed my Brand. Bunmi is Yoruba for The Gift [of/from...]. I must carry myself as a Gift to humanity, a gift is something bestowed upon, something inherited sometimes, something given as great sacrifice, something that, like the essence of all that is Yeye Osun, what makes life worth living.
My Mission, you may ask? I had never thought about any concreted, accurately definable plan or purpose. However, I recently sent a message out to a Sister in the Holistic Community and found as my fingers hit the keys, some feelings I'd never even addressed within myself came pouring out and I realized I'd just articulated some of what I felt, feel, and strive for in my organization. An excision from the letter follows:
I read your mission statement and I felt your words as if they were my own. I know you are a kindred spirit, a Healing Woman like me. "I am my Sister's Liberator" is a beautiful affirmation and I know you won't mind if I use this is my daily manifestations :) I'd like to invite you to check out a campaign I'm running to come up with a fantastic sexual and reproductive health product just for Black women specifically. I am a sexual and holistic health counselor and sensuality coach. I too am a very spiritual woman, exploring the Divine Feminine archetypes across many different races, cultures, tribes, and aeons. I have long desired to connect with, understand, and help heal my fellow Sisters sexual and psychologically as well as spiritually and emotionally. I'm glad to see since the 2012 Ascension, so many more synchronicities are at work manifesting to confirm that it is now time for the Women of Earth and the Wombniverse to rise! I hope you'll join me in continuing to help our Sisters....
As I re-read that small paragraph, I realized this was very appropriate for this blog to present my intention and my Vision for The Honeyed Labyrinth Spiritual Services and The Oshun Lifestyle.
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