Saturday, September 18, 2010

"It's a Black Thing"

So, As I was expressing thoughts on sex being the soul's playground, the energy involved and how it is important to be discerning and discrete with whom you share that soul and those energies, as well as that body in which your soul has been made to or has chosen to inhabit in THIS life, yatta yatta yatta.... a sisPtah @satori06 posed a question:  

@EarthenStar peace I agree w/ ur last tweet, do u think vibrational altitude is displayed by melanation or lack of ( i do)


I'll start out with the basics of what I believe in reference to the initial question: 1. I believe in universal humanity and universal energy as we are all children of the universe and while our bodies are finite in each life, our energies/souls are not. 2. energy is never created nor destroyed, only changes form and is transferred. 3. there are different frequencies and vibrations that are emphasized in certain ethnicities.  4. although this may be a bit muddled due to colonial and imperial actions on the parts of certain peoples in order to exploit and fragment certain other peoples, HOWEVER, I still also believe that one's karmatic lineage stays in basically the same ethnicity.  The ancestors return to us and never leave us.  We are them. So obviously then I believe in 5. Karma.


I do not "know" by far and I am still at a point of learning and discovering, of course. But at this point, I do not believe totally that your soul was the sole factor in the choosing of its body to house in this current life.  I do believe that other energies were at work there as well, keeping the karmatic circle going.  I believe in ancient concepts of "knowledge" and "learning" and "understanding" in that each new manifestation of life for your soul is the opportunity to strive for even more excellence and in that praxis, your soul "learns" and "understands" certain things.  Perhaps you got some things wrong or did not get to them, whatever the case may be, all of that is what carries you into the next physical manifestation, carrying that "knowledge" forward and building on it (hopefully).  One's purpose for one's soul and for one's body in that life as the soul is manifested, should be realized somehow and the choosing of one's physical manifestation however that happens in each life, has a lot to do with all these factors I'm mentioning here. I believe our ancestors return to us and are always with us.  Again, we are them.  I believe in what Toni Morrison referred to as "re-memory", that it is in our DNA, what is quintessential "us" and our experiences, our sensibilities, what has happened to us, so on and so forth.  In terms of chakra, the main point involved in this is the Alpha-major  chakra (just behind the ears) for remembering past lives and the Heart Seed chakra (at the base of the breastbone) as the site of soul remembrance.  Also involved can be crown chakra at the top of the head, and soma at the hairline above the 3rd eye.  Even though some of us don't have rhythm to save our lives and there are some white women who can dutty wine way better than I ever could (some things can be "learned"), there's an undeniableness of the fact that when certain drums and rhythms are heard, for example, we Black folks can't help ourselves.  We make music with our bodies!  I'm not saying it's better than whatever those European descendants do per se, it's just what I prefer because it's what I am and what I therefore enjoy or call "home".  I have been a dancer.  I have a very articulated tongue as well; language comes easily.  I have tried to learn other European languages.  I do not pick it up as easily.  Here lately, as I study Ifa, every word I encounter in Yoruban sticks to my mind like glue, without effort.  Irish stepdance never took, but anything from any brown folks came easily, even Indian and Indigenous American.  There's a reason for this!  Certain things resonate from us and resonate with us.


HOWEVER: Similarly as scientists believe that there are parts of the human brain that we have yet to unlock with other types of abilities (even though some people have been able to do so individually), I believe the same is possible.  Perhaps in this life, some souls never become self-aware.  Therefore, that whole karmatic circle for one's soul is thrown off and takes much longer for knowledge to be attained and realized for those particular souls.  It is even more probable that that's the case, due to all the external factors of the effects of slavery and all that other "stuff" that's happened to us since European rape and pillage of Africa for the last however many centuries, or eons.  It is quite understandable that many of us have fallen away from ourSELVES, basically.  This is where I align myself with the sisPtah, @Eye_of_Kemet on her thoughts from yesterday.  It is undeniable, to me, that different peoples are just that, DIFFERENT.  I'm not saying better or worse but in my eyes, as a predominantly African descendant by blood (with some indigenous American and even some white as well in my lineage), my re-memory is predominantly African and therefore to me, "our" way is better lol.  I'm not gonna lie about that.  There is something about "us" that has labeled us "the blues people" and it's obvious.  Our knowledge and connections with the unbridled flows of energies, connections with all that exist and have existed.  Our spiritual natures.  The omnipresent ancient knowledge.  Ways that have not even been destroyed after all this time and all the things that have happened to us and regardless to which corner of the world we've been scattered and re-indoctrinated.  You are a part of wherever you came from, genetically.  Your body is equipped to be wherever it belongs.  This is why our health issues are what they are as Black people in this part of the world.  Example: lactose intolerance.  There's a reason why our bodies reject this cow's milk over here.  We were not made for the stuff.  Period.  Our bodies resonate as they have for millenia with the food, liquids and minerals from our homeland.  Your location of origin is all inclusive with the animals you eat, who in turn eat other animals and plants that you eat as well, that grew from the same ground you sleep on every night, containing the same natural minerals and chemical equations, with the same radiation, frequencies, magnetic fields, vibrations and so forth.  Your body and soul are used to the radiation and electromagnetic energies that emanate from the ground to which you belong.  Just like there is gold in some places in the world and there is none in others.  There is oil in some places and none in others.  There is heulandite in some places and none in others.  You literally are what you eat.  That earth that we come from is what we are.  To remove us from that place throws us off kilt almost completely.  In terms of chakra, involved here are the earth chakra and higher earth, as linkage points to the earth and its fields and ether.  We melanated, African diasporic peoples have our own frequencies on which we resonate.  Others who don't, are on some other type of program lol.


So bringing it all forward, YES I do believe that your "vibrational attitude" and melanin are connected, as well as being connected with the house your soul inhabits in any life.  What affects those things are 1. who or from whom you are and; 2. the situations in which you find yourSELF.  And to the queen who posed the question, I thank you and I hope that suffices as a response :-).

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Omo Oshun Adornments

This summer has marked a summer of growth! This is what I sensed, what I planned and what I put into action! Becoming the higher me! But more on that later...

I have always been an artist. I have always had a love for the natural, the beautiful, the aesthetic. I'm good with my hands and have always been what I call a "creator". So with that, I have begun crafting my own jewelry and adornments. The possibilities are endless! There are always more colors to play with, materials, things to re-create, recycle, create, so on and so forth. I am overjoyed!

How it all started was a simple desire to make things. I have dabbled in making jewelry and other types of craft over the years for my entire life. I used to make friendship bracelets, all types of keychains and embroidery. Then I branched into beadwork with which I made waistbeads. I made a few for myself, some for friends, etc. Culture has also always interested me. I love expression, colors, uniqueness!

So with that, I began gathering materials and creating my own custom designed and hand-crafted earrings and the like, but earrings especially. I posted them on facebook and got rave reviews, as well as requests. So hey... the journey began that is now known as Omo Oshun Adornments. www.facebook.com/OmoOshunAdornments, http://www.artfire.com/users/OmoOshunAdornments, http://www.twitter.com/OmoOshunAdorn (pictures to follow in the next post)

Find me! Follow me! Support me! communicate with me! What would you like to see created? How could some designs be improved! I'd love to hear what you all think! And of course as always, thanks for spending the time to send me back even a fraction of the love that I put into all my hard work!

Monday, June 7, 2010

HIStory (part I)

(a work in progress)

Set to unplug I was happened upon by a magnificent creature
Who sought to share vibes over virtual space in awe of my mystery
Stopped in my tracks I took a chance with no expectations
And this caramel king was like nothing I had ever known
Said I was a figment of his imagination
so he became my inspiration
And he attempted to crown me with all of his fantasies and aspirations
When I was deserving but not yet ready

And I gladly accepted
because he was the answer to every thirst
Where all others had only trifled
He allowed my mind to breathe when it had only been stifled
admired but couldn’t fathom
And showed me he could cultivate my mental garden
Made me feel like the worthiest queen
when he was infatuated
With my napturally nurtured crown
We aspired to show each other things
our beautiful minds could only concoct in verse and dreams

the curl and fullness of his soft lips I couldn’t wait to feel
and when his met mine
there was no concept of time
no caution was even conceived
as he anointed my skin and stimulated abandoned senses
he tasted my strength and spoke truth to my most sacred of spaces
he loved to have his warm tender places drenched in my essence
our bodies would unite in percussion
Shango and Oshun met and danced
I was the sweet raging river water
he was the unyielding lightning
Making my voice ring out in night piercing exclamation
And spending most of our time apart
we longed for each other’s warmth
Like two severed nerve endings

Where others had sought to possess my body
he labored to free it
Before I could desire
he reached inside my thoughts and embodied it
He could strip me down until there was nothing left
Bare and naked, my rawest self
I was so certain our souls had passed through each other millions of times
And that this kindred spirit would journey me back
through rememory Of adinkra, Heru and ancient kingdoms
While transcending into
the foundation of our new nation
We were making “it” how it should be
He was showing me why my soul had wandered
by traveling beside me

Not knowing from whence he came
I only wished to express
Myself and appreciation
through every mode of communication
Soothing and pleasing his body with every sensation
Giving truly for what a king was deserving
Not desiring return but only to show him the same love
My upbringing instilled in me… That this is what eternal was supposed to be


(to be tweaked n continued)

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Just Like A Star Across My Sky...

Truthfully speaking, earnestly searching

I should be doing school assignments right now but my heart must speak. On my current journey in search of me, to reclaim me and act like I even know what that is. Getting it together, getting it back together. Being focused. Fulfilling all potential and purpose. There's a pureness and expression and precision with freedom that I am aiming toward. So this all needs updating. I need to write, I need to draw, I need to design, I need to sing, I need to think, I need to analyze, I need to create. It's bursting forth. So with that, enjoy this. I wrote it not too long ago.

(p.s. to he who shall not be named, I got it. I get it. And no matter what, there are just some souls that once your hearts are linked, that lifewater will never cease to flow. The souls may drift but continue to share essences. We feel each other's vibrations. Sunshine will "smile" today for you)


"A Voice"

I speak for those whose scalps are tortured
Whose convoluted curls are
Demanded be cut and chemically altered
Whose roots reach back to the first ancestors
The ones who first mapped the rock of Gibraltar
Whose first knowledge constructed the pyramids
Whose hands built this failed great American experiment
Only to be taught that we’re less than human
That our beautiful tresses
That donned the first adornments
Are grotesque and at best repugnant
That our mental vessels are barren
And unfit to develop intelligence
And since we got a brutha as president
That this had better be the winter of our discontent
Disgusted with our defiant dissent
They’ve plotted for generations
With conspiracies, bullets and toxins
To silence all our past prophets
But we as those who claim to have been awakened
Are charged with this struggle as poets
To speak for those who are speechless

For the ones who won’t be acknowledged
Whose citizenship is denied
Whose rights are disenfranchised
Whose own eyes have been made blind
By their own bitter words that
Their pains and desperations hide behind
Who can’t stomach any more truth
Poisoned from hundreds of years of lies

Those for whom the conventional systems
Failed to be educational
For whom Macbeth and hamlet are impalpable
For whom a year abroad at oxford seems untangible
And Stafford loans are a bit unreasonable
So their minds develop in ways you’re not used to
And they escape their realities by preaching them to you
In verses that form from talents
That seem almost supernatural
So when they speak their truths
It’s dismissed as controversial
So they’re sold as commodities or rendered invisible
And even that they make profitable
Showing them to truly be invincible

Friday, October 30, 2009

Back for the First Time

Well... it seems I've made a slight reputation as a loud mouth, and a rather good/intelligent/longwinded one.... so I've decided after not much deliberation to actually use the blog page I have and say stuff of no consequence

but hey, that's what all blog pages do, don't they?

Thursday, January 29, 2009

FUCK army recruiters!

so i'm on my jobhunt, grinding hard on that. this is the 2nd time someone called me from getting my information off a jobsearch site, from the damn army. the first time it was a guy and he was actually really nice. but today this chick calls. first of all, i have a problem with them marketing themselves as jobs and careers. look, you are not a damn career opportunity! it's the army for crying out loud! i dont want to speak with you about anything. they market themselves as a job opportunity for secretary or administrative assistant or whatever. then you read further or wait until they call and ask and you find out that you have to ENLIST! GET DA EFF OUTTA HERE!

ok so to top it all off, i said no thank you and she asks if i mean not to talk this morning or not to talk at all... i said no thank you to the army. in more flowery words of course. THIS CHICK says have a nice day and enjoy your freedom in this pissy little tone. i said you too and hung up. dat mess made my blood boil and i had a mind to call back and read her and her supervisor the damn riot act!
no offense to any of our gallant service men and women, many of whom i know or have known or am related to. but those recruiters can kiss the fatest part of my backside! enjoy my freedom?! chick you aint got a single thing to do with my damn freedom! and i will enjoy my freedom as long as you have nothing to do with it. they aint been protecting shit i gotta worry about since... WWII. if that! maybe besides protecting us from ourselves here and there and even that is highly debatable!
the nerve! aww man i wouldnt even know where to end or begin on that lol