“Love takes off masks we fear we can’t live without and know we can’t live within.” – James Baldwin
“Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi
Month: December 2014
From Fomilayo Deji Lesi
The Stanzas from EJIOBGE cited by LUADU in his ORUNMILA runs thus: “BI A BA DUPE ORE ANA, A GBA OMIRAN: A DA A F’ORI, NLO SI AWUJO GBOGBO IRUNMOLE LO I-P’OBI ORE”. This translates roughly as: “If we say thank you for yestuday’s [sic] kindness, another kindness comes our way: this was foretold to ORI when it was going to join the other lRUNMOLES to try to split the kola-nut of creative speech.”
On my knees
Alafia,
Osun has such a wealth of lessons to teach me. Her wisdom is a wellspring that never runs dry, and I cannot live without it. She quenches my thirst. She makes me whole. She makes me true to the Source again. She is indescribable, limitless, love. She is so sweet, and her sweetness is strength. Maferefun Osun.
Thank you for the principle of self-reflection, Yeye Osun. Thank you for the reminder to turn the mirror on myself, keep the focus on my actions, thoughts and words, to look inward. Thank you for your love of yourself, for modeling self-care. Thank you for being my mother. Thank you.
Thank you, Olodumare
Indestructible
stay warm and love each other
Thoughts for the coming week
Alafia,
I was told yesterday that “everything is a gift.” Am I seeing the statue in the stone, the blessing in the “burden?” Whenever I resent someone, am I seeing how I do the same thing to others?
Meditation for the next year of my life on this planet: Aiya Loja Orun N’Ile (“The earth is the marketplace, Heaven is home.”) What am I meant to give here, what am I meant to receive?
Igbá olóore kì í fọ́; àwo olóore kì í fàya; towó tọmọ ní ńya ilé olóore.
The calabash of a kind-heated person never breaks; the china plate of a kind-hearted person never cracks; both riches and children ever converge in the home of a kind-hearted person.
Ore, yeye o!
What a beautiful story of Osun.
This is found in the Odun of OseChe (9-5) where Oshun, in her efforts to help the world lost her fortune. After this she began to wash clothes at the river and people would pay her with coins. One day , her coin fell in the water and the current took the coin to the sea. She began to beg Yemaya and Olokun to return her last coin , for it was all she had to buy food for her children. The Gods she begged when they saw her, where moved by her story and pulled the great seas back till Oshun could see the riches at the bottom of the seven seas. But , Oshun only picked up her coin that she had lost and turned away. The Gods not understanding why she would only take her coin and nothing else , Said :
“For your honor and honesty we will give you part of our riches and the river as your home , But never again give it all away .”
There is a Pataki that shows the importance of the goddess: When olofi created the world , the heavens and earth would communicate through the Ceiba Tree. But , man defrauded the confidence of Olofi and he separated the heavens from the earth. From the beginning Olofi had given man everything to human kind . They had not plowed nor planted anything . For this man began to die of hunger. Oshun, seeing this transformed into the vulture and took a full basket of bread and black eyed peas to the heavens. There she found Olofi with hunger, And she fed him . Thankful for the food Olofi, asked what is it that she wanted in return for her favor. This is where she interceded for mankind.
Olofi, said those that defrauded me he could not do nothing for them . But , for her offering of the food he ate, but half way back down to earth there was a man that could help her. Upon reaching halfway down Oshun came upon Orisa Oko who farmed and saved.
Oshun grabbed all she could that he had grown for hundreds of years that he gave her . She returned to the earth , with all she could carry . And fed her people. For her act of generosity they crowned her queen .
The shade tree 