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Solar Return + Barcelona Àṣẹ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Greetings Beautiful Beings!My birthday was April 27. Ekaabo (welcome) 42! I am still sitting in and celebrating my solar return season and I extend all of that àṣẹ—which is the culmination of all that I have been cultivating, alchemizing, and harnessing over the entirety of my 42+ years of incarnation on this Earth—to you! I send you sweetness and soothing. I pray for elevated joy, peace and awareness in your lives. I pray you use the reflection of everything happening on the “outside” for a positive benefit. May your hearts and minds open and expand. May your bodies be strong, healthy, and supported. May your spirits be lifted. May you remember that abundance is all around and within you. May you love and be loved fiercely. May you remember your freedom to choose. May you concur with the life you chose and came here to live.
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I chuckled the other day while watching an Instagram reel by Farah Saddiq. Everything about the video, including her delivery of the messages—around the transformative energy reflected by the most recent full moon, and the past month or so—just sent me. It feels counter-intuitive to experience humor in the midst of the message, “You should be either decomposing, dying still…”, given the terror and negative behavior we adopt around anything to do with death.
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It’s beautiful and freeing to be grounded in the recognition that death—the completion of one thing in order to make way for another—is an integral part of life’s cycles in this existence and can be met and considered with feelings other than anxiety. I related with all of what she said, including the last parts of the sentence (omitted above): “…or reborn—in renewal mode.”
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I have been moving through many deaths this season. The dissolution of and detachment from versions of myself that were holding onto old stories, scripts, beliefs, and behaviors has been absolutely necessary in paving way for what my spirit and Spirit as a whole is asking me to step into. It has been uncomfortable, at times painful, and absolutely necessary. Grief has visited me at every moment I took action to release something, even with me knowing the decision stemmed from or was moving towards joy.
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Grief can be surprising. While it’s not always necessary, sometimes it’s unavoidable. Space created by the leaving/shifting of someone or something will always have an impact. How we acknowledge, honor, and tend to Grief when it shows up is what creates a difference. What we fuse with it determines our experiences.
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Sadness and Grief are not the same, though they can call and hold hands with each other if we allow them. However, if Grief is recognized and given its proper space and time to be, and we allow ourselves to be in the vicinity of and anchored by the bliss and joy that is always around (regardless of what is happening), then Hope come and will usher us into another and brighter side. Àṣẹ
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Speaking of other sides…I’m going to Barcelona! Yasss! I am taking a pretty big leap in order to ground more fully in my trust and faith, and I am asking for your support. I am planning a trip to answer the call of my spirit. I visited Barcelona in 2017 for a week and felt something there that has stayed with me since. I didn’t think too much about it beyond simple nostalgia until the last year or so when I was getting pretty strong hits to return. For those who know me or understand the nature of what I do, you know it’s important for me to follow these nudges. When I start seeing and hearing things repetitively, I pay attention. Regarding travel, I have been told in divinations across traditions that it is crucial for me. I become a better person and the work I conduct is enhanced when I travel. Basically, going to Barcelona is necessary. Having the finances needed to ensure all is in order there (and home) during my trip would bring me more ease and peace of mind. I thank you in advance for anything you are able to do from your joy and excitement!
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Other ways to send monetary contribution: Other ways to contribute: Share this fundraiser Commission me for healing work, recommend me to others Connect me with resources (people, places, events) in Barcelona Send me your prayers and positive thoughts
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I pray you approach and rest in May with ease and joy. May you follow and be dedicated to your highest excitement—taking it as far as you can, with no insistence on the outcome—and allow the beautiful synchronicity that is always around to be your guiding light and the affirmation that you get to just be who and what you prefer. May you be well. Love, Onyi
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Floral crown by Mud Baron. All images above captured during Sōl DAY, a community event by Hands In The Soil.
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