Self-Mastery/Self-Realization Journey: Devotion and Trust

Interesting...Devotion and Trust.

I ask myself this morning how devoted am I really? What am I devoted to? Again this leads me to pondering which goddess am I serving? The one of my lower self or the one of my higher self.

We all have this spiritual quality of devotion. We all spend lots of time devoted to pour passions, interests, people, jobs, television programming, radio, the internet....we are all devoted to something.

What I feel led to explore is this question, "Is what I am devoted to taking me toward that which I desire or away from it?"

Seems to me that I am highly devoted to experiencing love. Sometimes I seek it from a place of my higher, expanded self and other times from my lower, victim self.

I feel highly devoted to writing.

What I know is that we are called to be devoted. The ultimate is to be devoted on a quest to understand the fullness of who we are with in the greater spiritual context.


Trust...what do I really trust? I seek to trust myself. As I continue to expand my understanding of myself, I feel that I do trust myself. I feel that one of the worse things that can happen is for a person to not trust herself.

Trusting myself involves taking risks. Sometimes I have to go for what my HEART, not what the WORLD is calling me to do but my heart...I have to trust my heart. Even if it does not land me where I desire to be at least I am beginning to give myself a chance to do more and better.

I remember when I did not trust myself. I trusted outside opinions of me more than I did my own. That is when I have created the greatest messes in my life.

But when I stay true to my heart and the voice of the great mother within me, I tend to land in places that are just right.

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Fall Fast 2010: Transform Your Life Through the Keys to Self-Mastery

September 1-22, 2010

Insights to Consider at This Time: Transform Youself through Self-Mastery

GODDESS ENERGY: OYAWISDOM OF THE FAST SEASON: Tehuti+, Sebek-

We are now going into the season of FALL. In the natural physical world, there are so many changes that are occurring. The temperature is beginning to decrease in certain parts of the Northern Hemisphere and the days are getting shorter.

Pretty soon many of us will see the leaves change color as the trees begin to go into conservation mode for the winter.

The wind. That is an element that we are all familiar with as we think about autumn. The wind is embodied in the goddess, OYA. Oya is known for Her winds of change.

What changes do we need to make in our lives? What changes do we need to make in our thinking, our consciousness? Change is the spice of life and quite frankly the only reality. Nothing ever stays the same, even when we think that it does. Trust me, nothing every really stays the same...except the Divine.

But in this physical reality, everything is up for transformation.

What is transformation all about really? We talk about being transformed but why?

For me this life is all about Self-Realization. I seek to know who and what I am and as I do then I am better able to walk out my destiny with grace and ease.

This Fall Fast is dedicated to transformation with the expressed purpose of Self-Realization.

One aspect of Self-realization is self-mastery. We often seek to master a subject or an activity and even people. But how many of us seek to master ourselves?

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Peace, Love and Harmony
Tirra-Olufemi

Nature Teaches Divine Omniscience: Tree Teachers are the best.....

If we will learn to be like the trees, oh how much better life will be. I desire to allow Universal Wisdom, the Omniscience, flow through me. In the past I have blocked it more than allowed its presence within my consciousness.

Then one day I looked up at the trees and realized the beauty of releasing control and working WITH the Universal Wisdom. It is so interesting how trees don't complain. They simply work in concert with the divine intelligence within them...

Read the full article below:

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THE MIRROR...What do you see? Hope it is all good.

I remember when I was young I was obsessed with looking in the mirror. There was a running discussion at Spelman College, my alma mater, about how much time I stood looking in the mirror.

At the time if they could have heard the dialogue in my head it would have been this:

"I need to make sure that I am perfect. I must stare into this mirror to make sure that I look perfect. I am searching everything about me to make sure that I am perfectly beautiful. I can't leave though I have been standing here for at least 15 minutes. If I stare long enough, maybe I will really believe that I am perfect."

I had a middle school friend call me vanity because I was so consumed by my looks...dag! Me and that darn mirror!

Once I began to study the Ancient Spiritual system called Ifa I learned of the goddess Oshun. She exemplifies BEAUTY! She is beautiful and needs all around her to be beautiful, too.

"Oh yes! That is me! I am so Oshun!" I told myself. What I learned is that a physical object that helps one to connect with the energy of Oshun is the mirror...

Read the rest of the article here:
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Looking at the beauty that is YOU,
Tirra-Olufemi
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Martyrdom: What is it really? When is it rather toxic?

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. ~George Bernard Shaw

I have always enjoyed watching the last part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's historic last speech. Today as I listened to it I heard:

"He was a true martyr." Then I heard, "True martyrs don't grieve dying for their cause. They have no attachments. This is different from people who live as martyrs for love. Dr. King clearly shows that he knows that he came here to do a specific thing and that his work was done. He was not attached to him ACTUALLY SEEING the end result because he saw it spiritually first."

I will never grieve for true martyrs again. Sometimes we have to die to this physical world for the greater good. I give thanks for the true martyrs of this world.

To all of those who are martyrs with the expectation of sacrificing your dreams, your happiness and peace to get love from others, STOP! You are not doing the world any favors.

Once you see the big picture then you will stand and live. You will give of yourself freely knowing that the ultimate is your fulfilling your destiny within the Greater Divine Plan of Oneness.

Martyrs...yes..I do better understand them today.

~Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

Weekly Spiritual Reading: Tap the Power within YOU!

This week is proving to be one where we are to ponder and seek a greater experience with the quality of the Divine called Ominipotence. This very same quality is within you, though it may be latent or underdeveloped.

According to the oracle, this is a week to either connect to your inner power on a deeper level or to operate from a limited amount due to too much buying into the construct of limitation that is pervasive in this physical level of consciousness.

Weekly Spiritual Reading

The Oracle Speaks to the Goddess-Body-Mind-Spirit.com Community

Week of October 11-October 18, 2009Seker+, Sekert-KEYNOTES: Tap the Power Within, Chant, Patience, DIE, Release, Omnipotence

This week is all about you tapping into your spiritual power, the Omnipotence of the Great Mother within you.

I am all about the power. Who doesn't want to be powerful? What is important is for us to realize that we are powerful beings and that what we are called to do is to allow that power to emerge.

No longer should we give up and give away our power....

Read here for the entire explanation of the reading:
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In Light and Love
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

Gratitude as a Spiritual Path

I am in a mode of expanding my experience with gratitude. I have heard that gratitude is a powerful spiritual tool that can land a person in a sweet, sweet spot. That is what I need right now...a sweet spot.

I know what it means to be grateful. I have experienced gratitude and it is pretty darn delicious.

However recently I began to ponder it as a spiritual path. I was in a small group discussion with a wise woman and she began to talk about bows of gratitude.

Now let me set this up. Before I began to hear her speak I was in the process of doing bows of gratitude. This is when you literally do one bow after the other offering gratitude with each bow.

I knew full well that I needed to take this process deeper and right at that moment the wise woman began to speak:

"Slow down your bows. FEEEEEEEELLLLLLLL the gratitude with each movement in the bow....Can you do 100 bows of gratitude? What about 1000 bows of gratitude? Are you willing to be grateful until your knees bleed? Can you imagine being so grateful that you do 10,000 bows of gratitude?"

Sheesh! She then went on to tell a story that there are some people in the world who actually commit their life to doing bows of gratitude on behalf of all humanity.

All I could think was that I am so grateful for those souls because I know that I have been ungrateful a time or two.

But this got me to thinking about my gratitude level. Is gratitude a part of my lifestyle? How grateful am I really?

I have taken the last few days to go out of my way to be thankful for all that I can think of in that moment. It is amazing how much I take for granted.

Just writing this I am overcome with a deeply warm fuzzy feeling of gratitude for all of life, my life.

You know...This wise woman asked the following questions: "Can you be grateful for the things in your life that maybe didn't feel so good such as parents who didn't love you but still brought you into the world?

"Can you be grateful for that mate who walked out on you leaving you with a broken heart?

"Can you be grateful all the messes you created in your life that caused you to spiral down into situations that were just plain old bad?

"Can you be grateful for it all? How deep is your gratitude?"

I nearly passed out as I listened to her. When we CHOOSE to be grateful, then it is so. This year the primary energy speaking to the Goddess-Body-Mind-Spirit.com community is Maat.

Maat asks that we SEE THE BIG PICTURE. Gratitude is a way to help us step outward and see more of the big picture.

Ultimately ALL IS ONE. There is only the One Divine Source, The Great Mother/God which is Universal Consciousness. I am suspecting that gratitude is a way to arrive at seeing this Ultimate Truth, this Divine Oneness inherent in all things.

And if nothing else, gratitude is the fuel that keeps us living and allows us to seek more even if we are still figuring out most of reality.

I invite you all to journey with me down this gratitude path to see what we find.

In deep gratitude,
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

The Beginning of the End: When Your Inner Dialogue is Taking You SOUTH!

The beginning of the end starts with this type of self-dialogue:

"This morning I am too busy to pray so I will skip doing so and get busy doing all that I need to get done on my full plate today."

"I will skip going to church/mosque/temple/egbe this time. I go every week so one week of not going won't hurt. I am too tired from all of the other stuff that I have been doing."

"Shoots, I know it has been two weeks since I last read my spiritual book. I just feel so down that I can't do anything but sleep right now."

"I need to relax. I will go watch TV/surf the net/talk on the phone/play video games."

I am one who believes that one's spiritual practices are where our peace is recognized, love expands and our spiritual power unfolds.

For my entire life I have been one who is inclined to do spiritual things. But oh my, this physical realm of consciousness has been so enticing and fun and engaging that I have had my times when I thought, "Spiritual what?"

In the earlier part of this phase of my spiritual journey, I would be hot and cold with respect to having daily spiritual practices. There were times when I was so on doing my spiritual work that I would be soaring.

Then I would begin to feel "okay" and would think, "I am fine now." Slowly but surely my daily spiritual work would fall by the way side and I would be steeped in watching America's Next Top Model Marathons ALLLLLLLL day long. WHAT!?

Finally, I would DRRRRAAAAAGGGG myself back to my sacred space, blow the dust off all of my spiritual books and start my spiritual exercises from scratch always landing back in a place of spiritual fitness.

I repeated this cycle for years. Then one day I decided that I would not make any more come backs. I decided that I was committed to doing my spiritual work DAILY. Come hell or high water this sister would not compromise on getting my spirituality on.

Here lately I have found myself in a busy and active state. I feel like I am constantly working on this project, writing that piece or divining for a truth seeker. Not to mention I homeschool my children, teach fitness classes and have responsibilities around my home.

One night on my way to Bible study, I thought, "I am so tired. I really don't want to go. I just want to go home and rest."

Immediately I thought, "Uh-Oh! That is the beginning of the end. Skipping out on regular spiritual practices is the first step into a descent of living hell."

I put my car on the straight and narrow to that church and had some of the most poignant revelations while there.

Just yesterday I awoke needing to complete writing a spiritual reading for a client. Now this weekend I was engaged in very sacred and spiritual work helping four awesome women complete their initiation into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries.

If that ain't spiritual work I don't know what is. I am a little depleted in some way so doing my own personal work is important. I felt so pressed to get that reading done because I had to teach a fitness class that I almost skipped reading and journaling as I do every morning.

Again I said, "The beginning of the end is not nurturing self with your spiritual exercise."

As much as it pained me I sat and did what I was supposed to do. I felt refreshed, revived and was able to hear even the more what I was to write in that reading.

As busy as I am I am not crumbling. I feel good in general and all that I need to get done is getting done in a way at which I am amazed.

I encourage all who need this message to just go ahead and take the plunge into your spiritual practices. Stop making come backs. Ease your way by just doing it. Turn off the TV, the radio, the news, the internet and any other distracting activities. Step away from distracting relationships.


Set up a spiritual space and do SOMETHING to exercise your spiritual muscles. Say a prayer of thanks. Write in your journal daily. Meditate. Sing. Dance. Give praises.

It is not my job to tell you what to do but I do encourage you to make it do what it do! Your spiritual practice is your spiritual power!!!!

In love and power
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

A Solution to Your Problems: Clear the Chatter and the Static

For many of us there is so much chatter and static that we can not hear the divine wisdom of the Universe speaking to us. The Divine Energy governing this physical reality is wise and rich with solutions to all of our issues and seeming problems.

All we need to do is to attune ourselves to the correct frequency which is that of our divinity.

It is important to clear the static called runaway thoughts, judgment and living in the past or future.

When we are attuned to the frequency of the Divine Presence, we live in the moment, we feel good and what we see with our eyes is not the ultimate truth.

It is essential to implement daily spiritual practices that help keep our minds clear and our beingness steeped in truth. For when we are clear magic abounds, our trust in the Divine increases and we live fully supported by the God/The Great Mother who most certainly can do a better job than any other being including our limited ego self.

Attune your inner radio to the station called the Divine.

Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

Mundane vs. Magic: Which one are you choosing?

How is it that we miss out on the fact that there is a world that is alive, vibrant, magical and overflowing with good stuff?

It seems that so many of us are numb to the greatness of The Divine.

We get lost in our mundane world of work, raising family, social networking sites, relationships, neighbors, political causes...and forget that there is a magical and mysterious world that is going on all the time for our own pleasure.

Take some to time today to see that there is so much more going on than we realize.

Open your senses to take in more of the breeze, the trees, the flowers, the air, the buses. Isn't it wonderful to see children playing with smiles on their faces?

How neat is it to see people living their passion.

Get excited about life by taking time to stop and take in the wonder and glory of ALL of Creation.

Basking in the Magic and Mystery,

Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

Fasting Journal: I give up.

September 10, 2009

Well, this fasting season, this season of release has left me in Oya's sweet space of surrender. I am so over all of the voices in my head that tell me how badly things are going to turn out. I am over trying to MAKE anything happen.

I have no judgment of my life as good or bad. I have released myself from the need to make others happy.

I have fallen in this place: I am who I am. Like me or not because the only opinion of me that matters is my own. Period.

I am here also: So what? I give up. If Divine law is truth then let it be so. All I can do is go with that and do my part which is follow the freakin' yellow brick road called my Ori, Higher Self, Ganesha, Ausar, Holy Spirit.

I don't feel numb; I feel present. I just feel. When negative thoughts and emotions arise I shrug my shoulders and say, "So what." and I go back to the task at hand.

Surrender. Truly I give up. I look for the miracles but if they don't come, so what. It is all good either way.

I stand at the door called spiritual death. Take me or leave me. YOu know when you are there it really doesn't matter. At death what can you do but relax into it?

Can't even begin to say what all of this means. Just writing as a spiritual aspirant on my way to a more enlightened me.

I write humbly just as I am. If you get something from this, then it is worth sharing. Otherwise, please excuse this spiritual self-talk.

In Surrender

Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

Fasting Journal: Don't Fight the Emotions....Get to the Now-Moment

September 6, 2009

I hope that during this fast when you feel the emotions rise that you let them come and then release them. I have been more cry-y lately and am a bit shocked. When I allow myself to be aware, I think, "Oh, something is needing to come out of me." So I get relaxed about the emotions, stop thinking that something is wrong and I release them.

No matter what you feel don't stuff it. Find a way to release it. Do you need to address something awful that your mother said to you? Are you angry because you think your daddy was no good. Are you mad because your child died to soon? Do you have unforgiveness in you because of your spouse?

What in the world are you so mad about? Why are you in despair? Sometimes if we don't ask the question then we just stay where we are. You have to ask the question in order to even get things moving.

But in a fast situation it is not all the time bliss. Sometimes it is a big detox. YOur body hurts. Your mind becomes foggy. Your emotions become amplified.

WHY? Because we decided to step up our game to do the work in order to get to our enlightenment, our buddhahood, our christ consciousness, our nirvana, our hetep.

So be present with it all. It is the now-moment experience that allows us to choose moment by moment how we feel, think and live.

Let the emotions come. It is all good!

Tirra-Olufemi

www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

Fasting Journal: I am lazy and a whiner. Is this REALLY the legacy I want to leave?

September 5, 2009

I awoke this morning and prepared to teach my water aerobics class. I was just a huffing and a puffing thinking about having to go and teach class and thinking about all that I have to do. I was getting lost in my thoughts about having to clean the house when I heard: "What is the legacy of your Ancestors?"

I thought about it. Well, many of them had no nicely air conditioned home with running water. They had to walk to where they wanted to go and did so joyfully... unlike me who was getting ready to get in my car and drive to my job.

And the women...housework...what? There is no question. You do it and because that what you do. No need to whine and complain.

DAG! OUCH! OW WOW WOW!

So I realized something about myself that I have known for a while: I am LAZY! I am a WHINER! I miss how blessed I am because this lifestyle is the only reality that I have known.

YIKES! I then shifted my energy, gave thanks for this fast and joyfully went and taught my class.

I have missed the legacy of my Ancestors to a certain extent because of the luxury of modern day conveniences. It is my work ethic that needs addressing in my life.

Can I and do I work hard? Sure. However, I know that I take for granted this easy life that I live. I take for granted that so many of my Ancestors and people around the world have NOTHING compared to my material acquisitions.

I am in a place where I am raising myself out of my numbness to a place where I see the vibrancy of the world and realize that I am called to make a difference in my own way.

I am feeling that there is no way in the world I can allow Those souls who incarnated before me to have done all that they did, whether they did a good job or not, and me not pick up their legacy and run with it.

There is a shift taking place in my consciousness. I feel the energy of the Enlightened Ancestors flowing through my consciousness. It makes me stand taller and feel that much more enlightened.

If it be that we need to transform a legacy of pain. Then let it be so. If it be that we come to pick up the legacy of greatness, then let it be so.

The bottom line is that we need to make a choice. There is a legacy. What are you going to do with it? Those who are down the line from you are looking to you to ease the way for them. They say, "help us to see the legacy more easily. please do what you need to do. That way we live our purpose without getting lost in the lie of the physical world first."

Tirra-Olufemi

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Fasting Journal: Let's Go Ahead and Deliver this Baby!

September 4, 2009

I don't know why I do these fasts anymore. It is just like with pregnancy for so many women. We get pregnant with all that goes with that, have the baby... the labor pains are kickass, the late nights are exhausting and the come back from a pregnant body is no joke.

Then the baby gets bigger and what? We start to forget pregnancy and the early days. As the baby gets older we start feeling the urge to have another baby.

So many of us will get pregnant again, we will even be excited, until we start feeling morning sickness and feel those labor pains and go back to the early days of caring for a little baby.

I have heard women say time and time again: "What in the heck was I thinking? I totally forgot about all of this. All I could think about was getting a new little baby and forgot about how hard it is to start all over."

That is me and fasting. I fast four times a year and at each interval, I am excited about fasting. But then the detox starts. And I say, "Why in the world am I doing this? This is hard!"

That is where I stand this morning. These fasts are where I take away my quarterly crutches so that I can keep my relationship with my Self and Divine balanced, clear and first and foremost in my life.

Soooooo...the tears flow, the emotions rise, the wrong thinking and mindset become very evident to me.

BUT...I am knowing, like every mother knows, that it is all worth it in the end. My baby at the end of the fast is that I am just that much more open spiritually and more on point.

I am becoming more and more clear that the more I keep my consciousness set on things above and not things below, the more that I seek enlightenment, spiritual liberation and self-realization, the happier I am, the less I am moved by the world and I am able to truly maximize my gift called life in the physical plane.

So fasting is worth it. Detoxing is worth it. All of the removal of the crap that keeps me weighted down in the lie that I have told myself for so long...it is so freakin' worth it.

I wish you a great fast. May you see the prize that awaits you in the end in order to stay in this fasting game.

Peace and Love

Tirra-Olufemi

Fall Equinox Fast Invitation

Fall Fast 2009: What Legacy Are You On Tap To Leave?

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The Fall Fast is September 3-22, 2009

Insights to Consider at This Time: What Legacy Are You on Tap to Leave? It Is Your Choice!

"We did not come to play, to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle 'tis God's gift. Be strong."

~Benjamin E. Mays

This is what the Ancestors speak to during this fast. They speak to the fact that we are here with a purpose; we are here to leave legacy.

It is so interesting how we get so lost in others' lives. We watch documentaries on their lives. We read about them in entertainment magazines. We even join fan clubs, groups and conferences surrounding these popular figures.

But what about our own lives? When we die what will be said about us? What legacy are we leaving for those who come after us?....

Read the rest of this Fall Equinox Fast Reading here.

No matter how you do it, this equinox is a time to shed the old, to feel the winds of change upon you, to align yourself with the natural cycles of the Universe.

Happy Fasting, Happy Healing,
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

Forget about the Superstar, Just BE who you are!

Weekly Spiritual Reading

The Oracle Speaks to the Goddess-Body-Mind-Spirit.com Community

Week of August 30-Sept 5, 2009Ausar HetepKEYNOTES: "I AM"; Just *BE*; Who are You Really; FORGET THE SUPERSTAR, JUST BE WHO YOU ARE"I Am Ausar."

I have learned that this is what the ancient people of Egypt/Kemet said. What this means is that they understood that they were not their personality, they were not a role, they were not even a culture.

This meant that they understood that they were divinity, pure potentiality, consciousness.

Ausar is the part of ourselves that is not conditioned by the physical level of consciousness. It is the most expanded part of our differentiated self. One step beyond Ausar is the Divine Oneness.

A way to think of this is consider the Ocean. If we take a glass and scoop some of the water out of the ocean, it is is now ocean water in a glass.

This is The Divine and Us. We are parts of the Universal Consciousness individuated into seemingly separate beings.

Ausar is the first level of individuation. Ausar has no conditionings, no labels, no roles. Ausar just is. This is the place that we all strive to achieve.

One of my favorite scriptures from the Bible is,

"Let this mind be in (me) which was also in Christ Jesus."

I use this scripture to invoke remembrance that I have the same mind of God/The Great Mother within me. It is this Mind and only this Mind that I seek to connect with.

When I do so I begin to lose track of time and space. I am not limited by this physical level of consciousness.

I feel complete and utter peace at all times. The Divine is my source and my supply.

It is the Avatars and the Yogis who have achieved this level of beingness. The good news is that awareness of this state of consciousness is all of our destinies.

It is our birthright to walk fully enlightened in a body.

What happens for most of us is that our body distracts us, our environment does not support healthy ego development steeped in the truth of our identity.

For most of us "I AM..." is followed by a role, a condition, a wound or some dogma.

Can we just say, "I AM"? Period. That is what we are being called to do this week. Walk as I AM. We are being called to transcend our conditionings, labels and titles.

This is how I have heard it to say to us: Who are you beyond your Super-Star-Made-Up-Self? Who are you beyond the facade that you put up day in and day out to save face? When you take away all of the make up, the nice clothes and stand naked before the mirror, who are you really?

A wise traditional African priest once said to me:

The least of your real self is greater than 100% of your super star made up self.

I remember feeling like he knocked me out when he said it. But it is true. If you seek to only be who you are, therein lies the power that you have been searching for for years now.

May our children never forget who they are so they don't have to make the long trek back home. May all of us who have forgotten come back home to Self, I AM.

May we all just Be this week. Be Peace. It is who you are.

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I remember the first reading Priestess Olufemi gave me. I was extremely anxious and in need of some serious spiritual guidance. She was very prompt, for one, in getting back to me with the reading, which that in itself was deeply meaningful for me, because it spoke of her integrity as a Diviner -that she respected my time and me as a person. Also, as always, when you speak with her, she is so full of love and earthiness, that you immediately feel " at home" and at-ease with her. Also, she told me some things that no one had told me before, and during our session, because she is such an "open sponge" for psychic energy, she also revealed other impressions that came up during that conversation. I instantly felt I had reconnected with a long lost friend, and every other reading she has given since has always been a reflection of my immediate needs at that time.

-Angel (Tennessee)

The Ancestors Have Spoken: You need your *WHY* big enough.

When I was in the early stages of learning in my network marketing company, I once heard:

"You have to have a big enough WHY. If your WHY is big enough, you will keep going when times get tough."

I thought about this wisdom as I pondered this morning:

WHY do I get up every morning?

Why do I continue to live each day?

Why do I even try to do anything of value or that is worth while?

I have lived in mediocrity for a while now and I tell you, mediocrity is so much easier than moving against this inertia into action.

I tuned into my Ori, my higher self, and into the wisdom of the Egungun, the Ancestors. I heard...

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Weekly Spiritual Reading: Address the Dark Areas in your life, Go Play in your Imagination

KEYNOTES: Address and transform the dark areas in your life, Imagination, Joy

Week of August 23-29, 2009Dark Deceased, Het Heru+

One of my greatest challenges is dealing with the Dark Deceased. Often times when this card is pulled, we think that there are dark deceased spirits hanging around us causing us problems.

This is true. However, it is important to address the dark deceased parts of self.

How many of us need to let certain parts of us die? We need to go to the cemetary TODAY and bury anger, unforgiveness, self-hatred, judgment, bitterness, despair, lack of self-esteem, old memories, attachments to unhealthy relationships...have I listed enough?

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Joyfully Imagining,

Tirra-Olufemi

www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com

UPDATE: Addendum to Your Weekly Reading...Wisdom of the Oracle

ADDENDUM:

August 20, 2009

This week has been very challenging for me. Amen says get sleep. But what have I done? Gone to bed late and gotten up early everyday. So I have not been optimal in my body and my mind.

I have also been experiencing mood swings that are crazy. One moment I am high and the next I am searching for a ray of light in all of my darkness.

I have been taken back to negative emotions that used to be my normal way but have been dissolved as I have grown in my spiritual awareness and consciousness.

I have felt fear, jealously, lack, anger.

Last night I was lying down seeking to give myself a break. I tuned into my body and mind to see what was really going on with all of my emotion and negative feelings.

I realized that I was in a place that I have been before. It is called release and transformation.

Each time I get ready to step into a new phase of enlightenment and self-realization, I go through a period of feeling like I am having a nervous breakdown. I feel like crap. All of my insecurities resurface.

I have learned to surrender in those moments. The way I like to describe it is through the transition phase when a woman gives birth to her baby.

The first part of labor is all about getting the door open to get the baby out. These contractions are specific to this first stage of labor.

The second stage of labor is all about the baby coming through the door. These contractions are totally different from the first stage contractions.

In order for the woman's body to move from first stage labor to second stage, a major energetic push occurs. It is called transition. For most it is the craziest part of labor.

This is a time when the mother feels most out of sorts. It is like nothing that I have ever experienced but let's just say it feels like a roller coaster ride. One second she is hot, the next cold. She may vomit. Literally it feels like chaos on the inside of you.

The good news is that this is the shortest part of labor and it gets us to the prize: THE BABY COMES OUT!

This is what occurs in our spiritual journey called life. We transition from one way of knowing ourselves to a more expanded view.

In order to grow bigger in our awareness of ourselves, we must go through transition. We must go through a time of feeling like we are losing everything. The spiritual quality that is key here is SURRENDER.

If we surrender to the process, if we release the old in order to step into the new, then we are able to do so more easily and with grace and ease.

It is when we hold onto the old while at the same time our soul is seeking to release it that we have a harder time.

My point to all of you is that we are in the phase of the moon where we are moving from the old to the new.

We just ended the waning moon phase, the time when we do releasing work, and are now at the new moon today where we set intentions to make manifest our dreams and desires.

I encourage us all to allow the release of the old in order to create more good in the new.

I encourage us all to not judge our process as bad or good. Just be with it and stay aware. Seek peace in all things and be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Peace and Transformation,

Tirra-Olufemi

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Spiritual Technology: Wisdom Regarding Debt

Spiritual Technology: Wisdom Regarding Debt

http://www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com/how-to-eliminate-debt.html

I am now realizing that in order to maintain debt and/or poverty, we must have a relationship with it. I do not apply this to children but for adults, in a way debt/poverty becomes part of our identity. We also get to a place where we have a form of addiction to it...both probably help us to get a fear fix.

The way to transcend it is to shift the focus from what we lack to what we do have and to establish proper relationship with the True Source of Abundance. We do this through transforming our mind and infusing it with abundance wisdom throughout everyday. We do this through releasing wrong thinking and any attachments we have to errors in thinking.

I now know that abundance is our true nature and anything else is an abnormality.

I give thanks to the ancestors who gave this wisdom to me this evening. ASHE-O!

Awakened and Free,

~Tirra-Olufemi
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