Though tarot, pendulums, and other methods of divining are powerful tools in their own right, they will never be able to reach the orisha. Once you start mixing things that don’t really need to be mixed is when confusion will start.
True cultural sensitivity is understanding and respecting these differences! There is a time and place for tarot. Please respect our religious practices by not contributing to this or allowing others around you to contribute to this. Let’s strive to be more informed in 2021!
The traditional methods of interacting with the orisha are methods that cannot be learned online but at a foot of an elder.
One of these tools is Erindiloggun. Cowrie shells that are blessed of the orisha and allows for communication and prescriptions to be given.
These are opele and ikin. Both of these tools are specifically tied to Ifa. While Erindiloggun has a possibility of 16 combinations, these have 256 possible combinations.
The story of Orunmila and Osun who are skilled diviners tells us why this is.
And this is obi (kola nut), we can also divine with the obi to ask simple questions at the foot of the orisha. Usually used to ask if offerings, prayers, have been accepted and quick questions if needed.
Most of these tools listed here take many years to become truly skilled in proficient communication with the orisha. This cannot be jumped over in replaced of tarot.
There’s a method and reason of why we do things, let’s respect traditional practices in 2021.
Those that insist that tarot can reach the orisha, please answer these honest questions:
• Can tarot give you ebo sacrifice materials that are used to appease and rectify situations?
• Which elder taught you how to use tarot to communicate with the orishas?
• Is the method of communication with the orisha the same everywhere?
I ask these questions not in a condescending way but I’m really curious!
Orunmila could actually divine without using any tools at all. I ask these questions because tradition doesn’t mean unchanging. However the only people that should be spearheading these changes are actual initiations who are practitioners of the Ifa & Orisha tradition.
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Since Esu is gaining more popularity on the socials, let’s talk about how due to religious imperialism in Nigeria, they decided to link Esu to Satan. Esu is not Satan.
Linking traditional divinities to Christian demons is spiritual warfare and religious genocide.
Esu is not a devil, a demon or anything related to Christianic frameworks.
This all happened because of the translation done by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a Nigerian linguist and the first bishop. In his Yoruba to English dictionary. He translated Satan to Esu.
With the rise of Islam & Christianity, this has led for Esu to be translated as Satan in Yoruba Bibles continuously.
Esu acts at the will of the Creator. He is not Satan. And the slander against one of most important divinities in the Orisha traditional religion is a shame.
I love listening to stories of people who tried shrooms, because they really found the meaning of life on their trip.
I had one very profound trip last year that changed the way I viewed life forever.
When I tripped, I had my window wide open because it made me feel closer to nature. But for some reason, I felt anxious having it that open and went to close it.
When you trip on shrooms, you end up thinking. A lot.
It was like someone told me, “What are you afraid of?”
Which I replied, “I’m scared of a bird flying through my window.”
My thoughts said, “Why would a bird who has total freedom outside, come into your room of captivity?”
On the continent there’s also more than just ‘guardian’ orisha. There’s lineage orishas, orishas that see over certain villages, and orishas for certain occupations. When children get born there’s certain divinations that are also done to see which divinity will assist that child
And the guardian orisha can actually change throughout certain phases of your life before initiation. This is why the orisha you may be told in Divinations change to a totally different one when you are getting the ase on your head during initiation.
If you’re truly at peace with yourself, it’ll be hard for you to feel threatened by the success of others.
Feeling threatened is contributed to the idea of scarcity.
If you’re content with yourself, what you offer, and know that there will always be enough, you’ll be able to create long-lasting relationships that aren’t threatened by jealousy.
A lot of people sabotage great relationships because of envy or jealousy.
Those emotions create a type of resentment that is sticky and heavy, because it’s truly fueled by the person’s lack of esteem, belief, or faith in themselves. And they end up projecting that outwards.
The child who is taught that their emotions do not matter, becomes the adult who struggles with acknowledging their feelings.
The child will become the adult who lacks emotional awareness. Who does not know what emotion feels like in their body. Will feel emotions like it’s their first time experiencing it, every time.
Imagine that you’re filling water in a glass. Water is your emotions, the glass is your body.
Someone who doesn't have good emotional awareness will only see the problem when the water finally overflows, and *not* when it’s dangerously reaching the brim.