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Matriarchs on My Mind: Cancer Full Moon
Happy Cancer Full Moon! This lunation came in strong. Planets transiting the sign of Cancer often give us an opportunity to dig deeper into our ancestry and family history. For me, this Cancer full moon showed up with many messages from my ancestral matriarchs, and my departed grandmothers and aunties were on my mind extra…
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The Legacy of Whitney Houston
“A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone” — Alice Walker Whitney Houston was already in recording studios providing backup vocals…
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Revolutionary Self-Care: Praxis for the Modern Spiritual Warriors
This transmission was made just for you, with love, to support our collective healing and ascension at this time. In the wake of widespread protests in the United States following the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others, many of us have had to go into “activist” mode–a natural response that in some…
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In Memory of Foremuthaz
Memory & reverence is one of the main ways we invigorate the spirits of those who have walked before us, which also sustains our posterity. The four women discussed in this post, Queen Nanny, Queen Njinga, Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa, & Nehanda Charwe, were all great African warriors whose energy must be remembered, commemorates, and…
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Couvade
Couvade — a term that refers to indigenous ritual acts performed by the male parent during the female parent’s pregnancy and postpartum period in which the male parent is subject to endure characteristics of pregnancy such as abstinence, pain, labor, or discomfort (Gross, 2005). This ritual has been practiced in indigenous nations in Africa, Asia, the…