Obara Odi (Baba Sango Speaks...)

(originally posted by Ifalola Sangoyemi Olatunji on August 28, 2009 at 3:15pm in Odu Ifa / http://humangrowthdevelopment.ning.com)


Iboru, Iboye, Ibosise.

So, I decided to do my do and see what Baba Sango wanted the good folks of eOsw to hear and this is the odu that fell:

Obara Odi
I I
II II
II II
I II

Obara speaks of Baba Sango and Ifa; and Odi speaks of Yemoja and Abiku. Obara speaks of poverty, good fortune to follow, hoovering thoughts, strength and inner transformation. Odi speaks of the 'seal', the blood, buttocks, women and rebirth.

Rebirth....inner transformation...strength...the 'seal'. Wow. In Ifa, and truthfully, in just living a life of TRUTH and being aware, you'll realize that you're constantly going through change...whether you resist it or embrace it. Embracing it from a perspective of growth and applying lessons will bring about an inner transformation...a rebirth in both Spirit and thought if you dig deep enough. That same inner transformation brings about a closing or 'sealing' to things of the past...situations, issues, habits, thought-processes, etc.

Birth itself is a very emotional and painful experience for women...and from what I have grown to understand from a spiritual perspective, traumatizing for the baby. So traumatizing, in fact, that it is said that we lose sight of our promises made in heaven and spend our whole lives trying to find and reconnect with that purpose (ASE!).

In a spiritual sense, channeling in and going through REbirth can bring about some of those same feelings all over again. You're a baby...in a new situation...with new thinking...aware of your surroundings...overwhelmed, to say the least. However, its the strength and DETERMINATION (Iba'se Irete Meji) that is inside each of us that keeps us moving forward.

I pray for each of us a rebirth in thought and Spirit. May we all give birth to purpose and walk upright in our destinies. Ase o!

Gbogbo Ire...
Iya Falola