Words are a Path,
Life is the Divination.
Post 10 :: *ROOTVlog* :: How Not to Spiritually Bypass with Ancestors
Wohoo! Welcome to the first-ever ROOTVlog! In this video I dive into:
What spiritual bypassing with ancestors can look like and
What to do instead.
Only calling in and on Ancestors of “love and light” is a missed opportunity for healing. I’m going to tell you why and just kick up some different perspectives on the “darkness” than the ones I typically see in the ancestral healing space.
I hope you find this to be useful medicine for your path.
ENJOY!
Post 9 :: “We never come to creative work alone.”
Post 8 :: {From the Archive} How to Heal as a Black Woman
How to Heal as a Black Woman - August 24th, 2018. 1) Go to the river. Baptize. Sit and write. Take a nap. Find the rock in the sun and lay there eating oranges. 2) Write. Think. Think about your body. Ask each other how your bodies are. Talk endlessly about your...
Post 7 :: As Below, So Above: The Roots are the Key
I’ve been experiencing awe and wonder when putting my head to the earth; my hands and arms in the same posture as a galactic event gracing my presence. I’ve been asking: what is happening below? What is down there to be learned?
Post 6 :: Songs have saved my life
music is always present and sometimes it enters the realm of the heard, but it is not that when there is silence there is “no music”, or, when there are words that are not readily identified and qualified as “music” in the dying over-culture, that means that there is no song. There is always song. Song is entered and re-entered like river water.
Post 5 :: On the Godspace: What it is and how to find it.
The Godspace is the loosening of the tongue for truth. This is where body prophecy can fountain out and place us back in the space of the guttural, the wild—the speakeasy of the spirit
Post 4 :: Returning to the Root: When the Motherless Child Comes Home
In one of her most renowned songs, Marian Anderson sings, “sometimes I feel like a motherless child/a long ways from home/a long ways from home.” Saidiya Hartman writes in Lose Your Mother: “I realized too late that the breach of the Atlantic and the routes traveled...
Post 3 :: The Next Level of Black Feminism is Ancient
I’m thinking this morning about how much of our Black feminist politics of refusal do not take into account the ancient world before the onslaught of the transatlantic slave trade. It’s understandable that we spend lots of time in that historical portal. There are...
Post 2 :: The Quantum Physics of Divination
And then, And then — And then you give it a title. THE QUANTUM PHYSICS OF DIVINATION And then, And then, you begin to see what it means. Or, you don’t. You start some other Way, or, you never “start.” You never take a first breath; have a beginning, because continuity...
Post 1 :: Why I Answered My Calling
the list of reasons I made for myself the day before beginning my initiation WHY Because I believe the reclamation of indigenous knowledge is core to creating better futures. Because I want to be happy, aligned and healed. Because climate justice. Because “remember”...
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