Posts filed under: The ORISHA

Ibeji The Ibeji are the sacred twins.  Like the Marrassa of the Vodun pantheon and even the Gemini when dealing with astrology, they are both correlated to the Ibeji. The word Ibeji or Erin Ibeji (the actual statues), is composed...
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Orisha Initiation You’ve discovered the magic and power of African spirituality, and now you want to be initiated into it’s mysteries.  But what is initiation? Initiation is a spiritual process.  You go through a spiritual initiation. You cannot go through...
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ORISHA “ORI”- Head “Sa” – Selected Orisa is a selected conscious within the realm of the supreme intelligence; an expression of a cosmic archetype. The direction and the intent that you charge the spirit and the orisha with is what...
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Osoosi is the tracker and master astral traveler. Osoosi is the tracker who has the keen ability of astral travel.  This allows us to see the solution that lives within the unseen.  One of the tragedies that occurs with Osoosi...
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The Orisha This article’s intention is to shed light on the actual nature and original purpose of the cosmic energies known as Orisha. The Orisha concept was developed in West Africa although the idea of cosmic entities governing evolutionary process...
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The Orisha – From Internal to External This article is a follow-up to my initial article, “The Orisha” article and an extended contribution to the Orisha chapter in “Grasping the Root of Divine Power”. When you try to assimilate all...
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The Orisha – Transformation and Evolution As we further explore the thought forms of “The Orisha” as describe in previous articles, it’s important to acquaint ourselves with the actual trans-formative nature of these cosmic forces. Note: ALL things have the...
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SHANGO Shango is an ever evolving energy.  It is an energy that lives in the North.  It is the energy that represents intellectualism as well as evolution.  It’s constantly moving and growing.  Shango possesses the red of the root chakra...
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OYA Oya deals with fear because she deals with the Egun or the dead, the ancestors.  They knew that we are afraid to live in the dark because it would mean death to our identity, death to the ego, or...
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Ogun is one of the fiercest, quickest, most aggressive, expanding forces of the planet.  He is an expanding force. That’s why we refer to Ogun as “he”.  It doesn’t denote that the Orisha are particularly male or female, but we...
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