Ori: I need you.

Almost two months have passed since the last article published on this blog.

We left ourselves with reflections on mindfullness, meditation and Candomblé as a proposal to contact ourselves in an authentic way.

Many of you have already asked questions (if you have others, write here!) about "how to do" to get to know oneself.

Certainly the first step is the cowry shell divination, to learn who is the ruling orixa, where our spiritual roots are, what is our Odu (destiny) and if we are following the right path.

Sometimes the answers we get from the cowries are so amazing that we strive to accept them.

Here faith (in the orixas) and trust (in the Pai de Santo) come into play.

As for the first, I have no advice to give: faith is a spark that we all have, it is up to us to blow so that it becomes a flame.

Believing can be scary because it makes us feel irrational and vulnerable, but faith cultivated with consciousness is a powerful weapon in our hands to evolve spiritually and improve our material conditions.

On trust in the Pai de Santo I feel instead of spending a few words, because there are circumstantial elements, beyond instinct, that allow us to evaluate the person with whom we are talking (I refer to the article "ancestry and trust" published in this blog).

But if we believe in the help of the orixas and have confidence in our Pai de Santo, what then prevents us from taking the necessary steps to abandon all that does not work and begin to walk our true path?

Simple: our own Ori.

No Orixa can do anything in our life if our Ori, our head, doesn’t allow it.

This pre-eminence of free will is very important and often neglected.

Many people make the mistake of asking for help by thinking they are passive subjects of the energy of the orixas.

It is not so: if our Ori do not allow it, no change can happen in our lives.

Ori is our head, our intellect: our will.

We have to take care of our Ori even before our orixas, because only a balanced Ori full of positive energy will allow us to make the right choices and let the orixas enter our lives.

I remember that the first time in my life that I went for the cowry shell divination, Pai Odé told me that I had to make an Ebo (an offer), and soon after advised me to do an important ritual to feed my Ori.

I knew nothing, I understood nothing, but I had faith and trust.

Taking care of my Ori was the first step toward a new life.

Can I say I know myself now? Certainly not yet, but at least I know that in my life there are no more unanswered questions: everything happens for a reason, everything happens because my Ori allows it.

Axé

The gentian is the symbol of determination.