Afro-Brazilian Numerology: Awakening Your Better Self with the Wisdom of the Orishas - Softcover

De Oxóssi, Diego

 
9781644115947: Afro-Brazilian Numerology: Awakening Your Better Self with the Wisdom of the Orishas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1644115948 ISBN 13: 9781644115947
Verlag: Destiny Books, 2022

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A complete guide to working with the Birth Odus of your Orishas Birth Chart

• Offers step-by-step instructions to calculate your Birth Odus and cast your full Orisha Birth Chart

• Presents detailed interpretations of each of the 16 Birth Odus, showing how their energies manifest in an individual’s personality, relationships, financial status, and general approach to life

• Shares self-transformation techniques to help you improve the positive qualities of your chart while embracing, integrating, and neutralizing negative energies and tendencies

Much like the celestial influences revealed by a natal astrology chart or the numerology of your birth date, African spiritual traditions believe that every person has specific personal energies ruling how we relate to each other and the way we foresee and achieve life goals. Called the birth Odus, these inner energies influence your choices and decisions throughout life, defining and differentiating you from everyone else--and revealing the best ways to maximize your potential and meet the challenges you face.

Offering a complete guide to discovering, interpreting, and working with your birth Odus, Diego de Oxóssi details step by step how to calculate your birth Odus and cast your full Orisha birth Chart. He explains the Afro-Brazilian concept of numerology and its relationship with the 16 Odus and their related Orishas, the deities of the Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition. He explores how to determine the influences in the major and minor houses of your Orisha birth chart, including those related to personality and identity, career and success, relationships and love, and challenges and personal evolution.

Presenting case studies from his practice, the author offers detailed interpretations of each of the 16 birth Odus, showing how their energies manifest in an individual’s life. He looks at the positive and negative aspects of each Odu, including how the negative aspects represent the shadow forces that one has to overcome to succeed in life. He offers self- transformation techniques to help you improve the positive qualities of your chart while embracing, integrating, and neutralizing the negative energies and tendencies.

Revealing how to better know yourself and understand the spiritual dynamics behind your choices and behaviors, this guide shows you how to work with the energies of the Odus and the strength of the Orishas to improve your communication and relationship skills, overcome life’s challenges, and ensure success and happiness on your life’s path.

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Diego de Oxóssi is a Chief of Kimbanda and Orishas Priest. For more than 20 years he has been researching and presenting courses, lectures, and workshops on pagan and African-Brazilian religions. He is the publisher at Arole Cultural and the author of Traditional Brazilian Black Magic. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil.

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From Chapter 1: If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Can Take You There

First of all, welcome and congratulations! If you are reading these words, it is because you have made one of the most important decisions of your life: to look inside yourself, understand what makes you exactly the way you are, and, especially, dive deep into the mysteries of your soul to unveil what prevents you from achieving happiness! Talking like that may seem magical or easy but believe me: it takes a lot of courage to truly take this step, and I believe you have that courage, even though it may feel like it’s asleep.

From now on, I will guide you on a journey of self-knowledge, and in the end, you will certainly not be the same person who is reading these words now. However, you need to make two lifetime commitments to yourself.

THE FIRST AGREEMENT

Our first agreement is that you will never again believe the biggest lie that exists and that, I am sure, you have been saying repeatedly throughout your life: Things happen to me because the world or someone did (or said or felt or thought) something.

Other versions are: I am not lucky in life because the world or someone did (or said or felt or thought) something to me. Things in my life go wrong because the world or someone did (or said or felt or thought) something to me.

Never again allow yourself to believe any lying phrase that shifts responsibility for what happens in your life to anyone other than you.

You are solely responsible for the life you’ve been living!

I’m not saying there are no external factors that influence our lives, whether they are of a practical nature, such as moving to another city or losing or getting a job, or subtle and subjective issues, such as jealousy or envy of others or even the effect of negative spells against us. But even if in many situations we have no control over what happens to us, in absolutely every situation we have numerous alternatives about what we do and how we feel about what happened.

Let me tell you a real story: about five years ago, a woman came to see me for a consultation with cowrie shell divination. She had assumed a leadership position at work and complained that every day her colleagues and subordinates would not accept her position and persecuted and humiliated her. During the divination, the Odus Oshe and Owarin--both in their negative aspect--confirmed her complaint, indicating exactly the situation she described. Furthermore, she had Odu Ossa as a regent Odu in the two main positions of her Orisha birth chart: Odu Ori and Osogbo Ori (don’t worry, you’ll learn what this means later). This indicated a perfect scenario for having conflicts and power struggles with other women in her efforts to consolidate her life.

Once the problem was identified, which in this case had an external origin, we waited a few days and later did the necessary rituals to neutralize the negative influence of the Odus, which the divination had shown. The conflicts at work calmed down, her authority was once again recognized by her colleagues, and her life got back on track.

From then on, every three or four months the same woman came to see me for a new consultation. Each time she came with complaints similar to the original one but with new characters and plots. On her next consultation, she reported she was dating the director of the company and now, in addition to professional issues, she added persecutions and disputes caused by coworkers’ and subordinates’ jealousy of her relationship with the director. In these new divinations, no Odu appeared to provide spiritual care; instead, all the advice offered was for emotional matters, guiding her on how to respond to the adverse events happening to her.

Almost a year and a half after the first consultation, Eshu--through Odu Obara, the path of prosperity and happiness--indicated that she should leave her job for new opportunities that had risen, among them to be a project consultant in her area of expertise. This time, we conducted a huge ritual to Odu Obara to enhance the professional growth indicated by the cowrie shell divination.

For the next two years I didn’t hear from her. Then she appeared, wanting to consult the cowries again with familiar complaints about the same people from the same job. The relationship with the director had ended, and the persecutions and humiliations were happening again. The situation had actually worsened. We started the consultation, but no cowrie shell opened. Eshu had nothing to say about the situation!

“How can that be?” she asked indignantly, caught between anger and tears. “I am having a serious problem! I can’t take another day being so humiliated, and the Orishas don’t say anything?” I asked Eshu for permission to pose a new question, despite His initial negative response, and Eshu bluntly answered: What I have to say has already been said. What had to be done (spiritually) has already been done. What has she done with everything I have given her?

Even considering the bad character of some of her co-workers... Even considering the woman’s Birth Odus, which really brought constant persecution in all areas of her life since childhood... And even considering that, in this period of almost five years between the first and the last consultation, numerous positive and negative situations happened to her. . . . Who, after all, chose to continue living a toxic and destructive reality?

Can you see how, despite outer influences, ultimately, we are solely responsible for everything happens to us? It’s like my father used to say: not to make any decision is, also, to make one!

The truth is that the events of our day-to-day lives are not fatalities or coincidences of fate: they are more or less positive results of the decisions we make--or fail to make--and this whole process has a name: self-responsibility!

Maybe I shouldn’t say it like that, so openly at the beginning of the book, but it’s for your sake: I’ve been exactly where you are today, with the same anxieties and the same bunch of questions that you have at this very moment. I also doubted it when I first heard that I am responsible for everything that happens to me. And I also hoped that working with the birth Odus and the Orisha birth chart would magically solve my problems without me having to consciously examine who I was until I could become who I am.

All the stories and experiences you will read in this book are real, and everything you will learn here was experienced in practice. Our first agreement is the most important lesson so that what we’ll see next makes sense in your life--as it did in mine. Of course, the first time that I swallowed my complaints about the outer world due to my frustrations and I stopped for a few minutes to understand what my responsibility for all of that was, it was painful--but also liberating! When I started to understand that if pain was inevitable, suffering was optional, I became able to avoid mistakes and frustrations before they even happened. And that feels like magic.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always loved fantasy movies like the Harry Potter series or those with magical and esoteric themes. In fact, I must confess, even though I come from a spiritualist family, the great trigger for me to start studying and practicing magic was the film The Craft. It was exciting to see those girls in the middle of the forest performing rituals, materializing their desires through spells and achieving their desired goals, no matter how silly those goals seemed to be. But, as inspiring as that could be, it was necessary to admit it was just a movie and in real life...

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Verlag
Destiny Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1644115948
ISBN 13 
9781644115947
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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