Thursday, May 24, 2012

Annunaki Me, Bast and Oshun/



perhaps when they call me ancient it is beyond true.
realizing the High Priestess that is always emulated existed predating even the Egyptland, to its forbearers and creators, the Sumerians and Annunakis. I am surmising my identity by images that come to me that conform to pictures given to me from those with deep-set recessed and reset eyes to see. From Lilla who appeared to me as spirit when she died with a bucket; From Maria who I astral traveled to our ancestral compound where I was walking the village and asking all, "why arent you greeting me, do you not know who i am?" and who wiped my forehead three times as I sat at her knee, sayng, "teacher say you well smart", each time, meaning a different teacher; to the Michigan brother who saw me as and said I had the character of a cat and to now learn today the Egyptian Goddess of Cats is Bast, the protector of women, mothers and children. To the image above that delivered today, with two infant sons at her feet like the Michigan brother saw decades ago; both my sons, that i recently learned for all wombmen, once the womb conceives even if they never draw breath, the children's spirits stay with you. Sons or Douens* (look it up) of my countrymen - children in all forms, malformed, deformed, with distended empty malnourished starving bellies, head facing back, body forward, but feet turned reverse as well. Not a form to take you anywhere but standing still. makes me wonder now who created such a powerful image. who conjured up that description of douen.  All these parts are my true existence, my history, my purpose (in identity). The following writing is today;s revelatory piece of this puzzle.

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"some deep things are coming together. and i really wish for a new and better word than 'deep'. it is played out.

i just wrote a magnificent post, but it got deleted --when pages, instructions and processing froze.

i started writing of an insight/a lesson: how our marks, scars and maps of dissonance and emotionalpsychologicalmentalbrain disconnects entrench..and i was saying to myself, i dont ever want to be like that. that whatever challenges occurred in my childhood, let me never be a mature person being motivated by those invisible drives, and bogeymen and fear women of illusion.

this revelation hit me as I watch a seventy year old clearly have a deep obstruction towards food plants, growing, soil, agriculture...and i thought how thoroughly absurd, especially when we are in a time and place where food is of premium berth, at least just in the minds of those of us thinking and future mapping..

then i think of so many others, and how that appears to be the character of the humanimal form...to be driven by the unknown, the invisible and mostly the scars and disjointed that bridge internal traumas.

i have no idea what the trauma with the seventy year old --if it is she was forced to work land early in life, I did know she had to tote water, but the talk and mere prospect of turning her yard into a food basket brings silent rage and resolve to mash up and hide growing plants from sight...all in turn



and as i write, so many visions and remembrances come to me..i think of the dream i had with my grandmother when i was a mere child, less than 10, more close to 7, 8 and maybe 9. where she was walking up a steep hill, i was with her, and as i sensed danger, some man in some wood house seemed to want to rape us.. that dream always confounded me. but now, now i think i may have accessed the memory , knowing of my grandmother and maybe she of as a woman of secret powers, imbued me with her experiences for me to access as I grow roots and become star planet empowered--but just now as I thought of that hillside planting, for the first time i connected that dream with the truth that my grandmother, a payol from inside Maracas old hill Venezuela estates, did in fact farm hillsides and mountains with donkeys bearing the harvests. there are still old aunts who can retell those stories, Aunt Marian and Aunt Phyllis. perhaps this idea stupid humanimals have never to do what you see your parents do which seems like such blunt ignorance to me, especially when what they did still applies and gives health, wellness and survival...is what is revealing itself as a caution and abhorrence.

i had even written about a new generation; how those of single mothers refuse to live their lives single, cleaving and claiming any male to say they is father and husband, only to have young girl children, the age of 7, 8 and 9 --those years seems to be the time of greatest female wisdom. I must research that, keep that book open for observations, experiences and personal entries..the new 8 year old asking grandmother, "mama, how you let mommy marry daddy?" only the blind who make themselves blind cant see...and i write it like that (the new 8 year old) cause it was me at ten who told my mother, to lets leave my father, "i will go with you" as if me and what i represented to her was any love, arm or safety...but i did that then...having a knowing...but just as i write, I realize how my own future life and prospects would never have been the same had my mother listened to me. the life he afforded us is so far unseen by any i know in my circle. and outside my reaches. only on tv and famousity* surpasses.

i think too of those who grew up with proverbs 31 mothers who were great homemakers, homesteaders and nurturers, but eschewed all of that for their own lives and living in what intention? to be and accomplish what? leaving their children less attended, now grown with behaviors and patterns...that provide more reasons to be blind...



it made me realize, I dont ever want to be that. I, me, who was the child of a single mother for my first two years of life. said i never wanted to do the same, but I knew I did not have Felix, Maria, Marjorie, Mona, Leroy and Patrick; Lilla, Ruth and dozens of others...to help me, to give a hand. there was no delineation of home. I could have lived in either of their places. Once upon a time. and not could have, but did.

For my own other cautionary tale is my father and mother, I said i never wanted to be married for the deplorable union of my parents. I said I never wanted a man like my father. but if it werent for my father and my mother who chose to bring me, I would not be here. And even as I decry the man my father turned out to be latter in life, not that he was so sterling before then because he wasnt, my father still rises heads and shoulders beyond so many if not all. And that complexity baffles me really, even as I know it to be true. the husband my mother got is far beyond any of her circle ever knew. My father left this speck of a place in 1960s late and went to Amerikkka to make himself into a business man entrepreneur, the likes of which saw him as the face of Small Business Administration pamphlet for NYC. i was too young to know what that meant at the time. only in hindsight could i see. I just knew i was privileged. always.

but what happened, the instruction and lesson led me to visions and thoughts, so as I began writing, i remembered so many apparently disconnected pieces that all seemed to weave and sew into a pattern, story and revealing.

like the guy i met in Michigan who was there to give a talk, and we went for coffee after but this guy seemed to have agency and some access to what power I do not know for he told me he saw me as a cat/that i was the character of a cat/ and then later he told me of two infants alongside me. this morning, just now, when I saw the photo of Oshun (below), with the two sons, as were/are mine, I wondered...if i could..i would show the brother that picture and ask him, is that who ...?

but that remembrance asked and led me to wonder who is the egyptian priestess of cats, and there is one. Bast, Bastet said to be the protector of mothers and children. and insert here that sonic boom blaster with reverberations...a new piece in the puzzle of identity remapping

But that is where i had ended in the piece that disappeared.

I read this morning how a generation of ills in a family can be rectified by just one within. I queried that, but realize I have written or surmised that before about myself. I think i have some particular peculiar energy for the mothers and women in my family. Something I came to do. to wipe out their karma, clean their curses, refuse their repetitions...

even refusing to let my father run over me as he has done his mother and his wife, my grandmother and mother...so how do you throwaway yet not emulate such an entangled story of great, good and bad? so the caution is we only become human and noble when we transcend the scars that marked us when young. when you refuse to be a mature person whose darkness, hurts and blindspots direct your thought action, choices and interactions. To be awake and not asleep. to not eschew all that is good for you/ in preference to fears and archaic illusions.

it seemed it was so well written and cogent the first time
but i recognized in the telling, something I wrote before, that i have come to correct the wrongs of the women of Carl and Marina. that i am the one come down to bring a stop to the cycles and for Justice. that when a seer man calls me the mother of the stars and tell me to them to pray..and I learn that the cat i am may be the spirit of Bast/Bastet, and that is the protector of women mothers and children; and Oshun is pictured this day with two infant suns sons beside her (as i was once seen by one with eyes). I just have to wonder what is the fabric being weaved here...

i regret I lost the first writing

just dont be your lies and illusions/. dont ride your hurts and scars like trains/ be an alchemist and make all gold for your highest evolution and guided terrain...

i wonder how am i to use and alchemize such a bag of mixed energies curses blessings that are all character of metals (mercurygoldplatinumironcopper) that was my parents and father? how and what madness would it be to eschew any of them/ so just as it is complete stupor to do so in complexity, it cant be any different in a frame and example of more simplicity...the simple might even be a decoy, more hidden. Nothing is simple. I just read from Gary Braden (name?) this morning/ that the work channels and wiring that presented to you as simple is indeed very intricate and complex. like a computer, mouse and cursor.

life is deep. this is deep. and i must find a new word. Deep is played out. but i am loving this journey. and all this repetitive writing. i keep thinking perhaps this is my purpose and goal to just sit here and weave knit crochet sew and darn the pieces, so after i am gone there will be a record. who really was this bird and what invisible work did she come to unfold. something about correcting familial record, cleaning ancestral karma, removing generational curses of and among the women and heal our path to the future/ doing it with the protective magick of cats, the moon and stars and infant children spirits, maybe even douens.

Sigh. I will clean up this piece one day. maybe later/ dont want something to lose while i try to clean up and attach images...."

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and i am going to leave this fresh killing just as it is for the hour; rambles and all. just to give some space, breath and clarity to how i might refine the thoughts in a future time.

Ase"



Wednesday, May 23, 2012

To Be Beauty, Fruit, Flowers, & Plants, Where You Stand




now what i wake up with
i am not going any place
it is not for me to try and change a thing
i am only meeting frustration and yes, those empty images
at one point, the sane stops and asks, what is this?

but as my eyes teared up in recognition
imagining me telling the testimony, lived reality
i see something
it appears i have repeated a story that is a myth so much through out my life. that now when it is no longer true and i try to change the life to match the truth, the story still wafts in the ethers, and spheres of existence. not yet cleared. so stories too seem to have lives. like karma. and you merely changing course does not end the wake travelling behind the motion.

i told one story incessantly. that i was trinidadian. not even caribbean. that i came from this magnificent place of amazing people, and most of all, i was the favored child of a heavenly family;/ that the one thing that saved me through my life journies, depths and painfulslamdowns was the memory of that clan, how i was showered with love from birth and given a soul that cannot disburse. that love and family essentially making me indestructable. yeah. I told that. that was my story. that was my id card

my beloved friend daddy david said how deep it is that i was in a place believed loved when i was being destroyed. and i stayed silent for I had no words to echo how deep in such a depth of black hole truth. but this morning I wake up with the knowing in the soul of my being. for some reason, somehow, it is for me to stand in the very midst of where i am trying to run. for some unknown reason. and somehow. i would ask for strength but all entities know my spirit knows feel abandonment. i am left to stand, as if the last stand. as if all of my kind has been destroyed, killed or left in retreat. no explanation only what is.

this is deep too.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Emerging Heart

 
i dreamt of Ivet Mohammad last night Malachi Smith
He came and greeted me in a huge food and meeting court, just as someone was trying to snub me because i forgot their number or made them feel unimportant somehow. my woe.

Ethiopians figured big in the dream as if all I have ever met gathered last night to tell me something...of the land, the religion..the ancient huge red amber bead necklace that i should have never let sale in the estate

I wake up and the turtle painting tells me something new. the turtle is now the characteristics if a platypus like face of a duck, one side of its body, the flaps, its front and back, are the ducks's eyes. but before I saw a duck face, i saw a huge hand opening out to the viewer, me. the same turtle, the back of the fingers, somehow, curled and yet still, open gesture. Thinking if i ever did an exhibition i would need to make copies of each piece. and overlap drawing, either by laser or pen/pencil, outline each image, or depiction for people to be able to see. Embedded Image Seeing is not a common skill. I stare at the painting awhile for yesterday's image to come back to me: the faces. they did. but as I write it, and look up to see them, I see another one. It is really mind boggling. in one small space. The upper right side of the painting is a corner with many faces all morphed together, each into another...there is now a man, still with a roman nose, mustache, full bottom lp and jutting chin.
what kind of brain must one have to see these things? to do? the soul? within one there are many? Supposing I already am the Army I am always calling for?

I wake up thinking how illness changes you and you are never the same as before. Sometime. That is very common physically, but somehow, this time as I talk of physically, I think there is still a spiritual element and dimension, drive to it all.

A Memoir of Misfortune is a fanatastic book for me to be reading now. I have no idea how i chose it or it chose me, I was not deciding by title when I was selecting, but by subject, voice, story, writing, and thickness. It is perfect for me at this time. Seems like the author, man's life is mirroring mine. In some phenomenal mystical ways. His actions created blocks, but not in his life and Qi but in his wife's. It is too much to tell and outline here, in this post...but where I ended yesterday the male child had to meditate to access ancestral energy. of the mother. And the telling outlined the many ways he may have transgressed. Him writing a book and doing a film on China caused the problem. He transgressed the dragon, the devil. Did Taboo. He transgressed his mother. As you can imagine, they were all clues to me, indicators. And all apply. I denied my brother a return. I have cursed my mother. The book speaks of ancient Qi gong practitioners. They were all mystical magical natural healers.Obeah men and women. They dont use that word but they do the same thing. Alter this dimension for their healing, communication and purposes. I write all that for last night I slept hard and deep far away and dreamt solid. I was not here soon before writing...I was told to meditate. To stop trying to change the outer, accept all its unknown and mystery as Just Is and meditate on Light. on Water. The Cosmos. Let that fill my soul. But somehow to me my sleep and dreams are my meditations and prayers. Always has been. But I return to meditation. Something my over busy brain could never do. Which I think somehow was the purpose of vertigo. If I could not slow down and go internal, it was done for me. I envisioned me in the house I can be in for the hour. In the thick of port of spain not in the bush as I have been hankering...and just sitting still and eman\ating light. I think of the sister at Rajah Yoga Center who i used to commune with , with Vindra before she was murdered. So all your future is in your past perhaps. That maybe why they say Sankofa. You journey back to map forward.

Who knows the mysteries of the life and universe. Yahweh, the Invisible is Truly more Powerful than anything in this Realm

Good Morning
I am coming to come
the world is gonna be the world,
you become light, life and water

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i keep wanting to retreat. but it is the very belly of the beast i must sit, reside, and enter. from that very still / very same place to emanate.

i keep wanting to be a student, to sit at the feet of a grand elder, as my Ma'Mere, Maria, in the dream/astral traveled to my ancestral compound..and she rubbed my forehead three times saying, "teacher say you well smart" and each time was a different teacher, the first, her son, my Uncle Pat and Godfather. the second was a seer soothsayer of some sort, and the last was God whomever and however she may be contrived. But it is not that. i am to be the teacher. {even if I see my way and know the path by feeling the stones} - that line is from Memoir of My Misfortune. see what i mean?

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this reads repetitive somehow, as if I posted or wrote it before...but today, now, the "venues" take on a new meaning...

"Today's Gemini Sun-moon supports you in exploring new venues that get you into closer alignment with the person you actually are. "The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made," Wendell Berry reminds us. "It is the one we must be choosing and making." It's our choices that show what we really are, far more than our abilities. You owe it to all of us to get on with what makes you happy and strong."

the venues is 'the belly'' "the house in port of spain"; "the seat of meditation" "within":

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Ant Bites: #BlackWombmyninModernFilm

  • I liked Duplain Robert's status so much, I had to borrow it: "A philosopher said as we live life, it looks like random anarchy, one event smashing into another. But when you look back, life looks like a finely crafted novel." Joe Walsh of the Eagles. As you look back on your life, does it look like a novel yet? If so, what kind of novel would it be? 
    Maven Huggins sci fy magical realism of an african traditionalist moving back through time to original systems. is there such a genre?
      • David Simmons ever seen the movie Sankofa

      • Maven Huggins
        the ethiopian academic filmmaker.? he showed at MSU...were you there still? yes I do. would you believe i dont remember that film very much. Need to see it again.

        Yeah..but interesting enough I am not going back to move forward, but just to gather and correctly orient myself. It is like i am moving forward but making taking time to pick up and gather all that were cast away by my ancestors on their way to arrive me here...that needs another name, doesnt it...?

        a Re Membering...

      • David Simmons re membering is good. sankofa = go back and fetch it, the idea that we have to know our pasts to move forward confidently. and yes, i was there to see it, though i first saw at a screening in accra when it first came out. powerful seeing it on african soil.

      • Maven Huggins well. i might be talking out the side of my neck cause you know what..i may look back on my life and realize that was this period of time here and now...returning to Trinidad was my Sankofa,...and i dont even have to do it then, i see it now..so maybe...in time i will accept that is all it is. but i was reaching for something else, maybe something else, overreaching maybe...

      • David Simmons do you see trini as a chapter in your novel, or is it the whole book?

      • Maven Huggins
        oh my goodness, a chapter, an episode, an epoch, only,. the whole book of my life? it can never be...or maybe cause it is and was always present, just in different ways, recessed in nyc, and prominent now. and an orbit of two others when i was in africa...it will be interesting to see who it is afterwards, after now...peculiar. You ask me things/ questions and i think i know the answer but perhaps i muse it might be another way; yet to be determined and deciphered'

        I did write a book about my trinidad now. i was trying for fiction. only a memoir emerged; all my own experiences since 2003. each chapter an experience. I called it ant bites cause i got dreadfully ill of 23 ant bites that i thought was grass on my feet. ended up with undiagnosed insect poison/ it is a wonder i survived...anyway the idea of me thinking i am being loved when in fact i am being destroyed...??? and after i got to over 100 pages, i realized it would make a fascinating film. it is a script more than a story,. I think it would be amazing. think about it: when do you ever see a black women in total flight and self realization, reflection, and not beset with a lot of ugly drama or tragedy?

      • David Simmons that's deep: being destroyed while you think you're being caressed, loved.

Woeman to Woman to WombMan to Wombmyn...In Hope


‎"For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;"
i heard /read that in a French film just now and it Struck me like never before...{they had to write that to cover the most blatant lie} and yet so many believe contrary to their lived lives and birth of pain experiences. i guess the character of a humanimal from all others is not as paragon but the capacity for dissonance.

All animals know the truth of their pain; humans, just belief and indoctrination; or apart thereof.


Good Early Morning

    • Maven Huggins and when that did not work sufficiently, then we had/have this:

      "Single Mothers are the reason large numbers of Men growing up calling women bitches."- Erik Moore./

      match the pieces



    • Mo Moshiri Mother is slowly showing us all the truth


    • Vrinda Puja
      Women's concept of subservient love... has made her the slave of her own boy child. Raising men to Godhood without taking care to claim that they see Goddess and Creator in Women/Mothers has is what I consider the crux of our collusion with male oppression. I believe that most women collude with male oppression because:

      1) just as an alcoholic or any other addict cannot heal until after s/he acknowledges that there is a problem, unempowered women who blame men, when women IS THE SOURCE OF ALL POWER, are unable to change, much less heal the situation,

      2) only then, after recognizing the error points and being open to learn the ways to change this addiction to be subservient in the name of LOVE, can women move to the next step,

      3) if women ourselves never used the demeaning language to refer to a sister woman, our sons would have dropped it long ago. But women who believe that a man is a "prize" to compete wtih another woman... have polarized the honor and value of our sisters into cheap filth.

      4) learning and listening from women who LOVE with RESPONSIBILITY to BUILD WOMEN HONORING MEN and SOCIETIES.

      BEST WISHES MOTHERS, SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AUNTS!



      Maven Huggins you write great things to and for me Vrinda...a mine of wonderful

      Vrinda Puja You and all constructive and creative women, mothers, sisters, grandmothers, grandaughters solidarities are the Hope... 50% of the Hope for a legacy of life on Earth... we also need to encourage the characters of deserving brothers, fathers, friends, lovers, grandparents and grandson solidarities for egalitarian societies building!
       
      Vrinda Puja You carry an appreciation movement which is women's antidote to all wars. It is my joy and privilege to encourage the good !

Diamantine Shading Tree

i like this. i had to stand ground for somebody today. i gave them /offered them- what I would have wished for, were I in their shoes---my space, a way out, an answer, help...my hand..what ever i had to share

and it made me think to myself...i have always extended a hand to those i see in need and heartbreak. the first one I offered it to was my mother, I told her, "lets leave and go away from my father," " I will go with you I said" I was then not older than ten. Perhaps that is part of what I came to do
imagine that wherever you are today you will encounter at least one person who is engulfed in the flames of grief. and imagine that just one word or thought from you will further ignite or extinguish the flame. choose what that word or thought might be. good. hopefully it's the one you long to hear yourself.

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    • Vrinda Puja how beautiful to know that you where there and were available to help your mom step out of an oppressive relationship! My Yoga teacher played that role on other women's lives, and they will forever be grateful. Goddess bless you!

    • Maven Huggins Oh Vrinda. I did not do that. She stayed there until it killed her. She ignored that ten year old child..
      Thanks though...;) for the benediction ;)

    • Vrinda Puja
      What a blessing to hear such a young child empowered to know that the door to that prison was open, that she could go with you.. ! I understand her fear, once outside, how could she support her children if she had to stay home to care for you and siblings? A mother's identity is carved by patriarchy in a way that only a powerful woman with the means to offer a refuge can effectively intervene. I saw these dynamic playing in me, and how She, the spiritual Mother, pulled me out by ending all fears... How she did it? She offered arts, engagement in community work, cooking sessions, sewing at 5:00 am, juicing at 4:30 am... a spiritual community and spiritual practices which took up 20 hours a day... to transform the little me, scared of men, the baby boy of woman, into a storyteller of the teachers ways.

      The ten year old child in you holds now the diamantine will born of that offer to go away from oppression, you have evolved an every growing protective dome, like a shade and fruit yielding tree where others can stop for refuge, nourishment and inspiration... Wherever your mother is, she IS forever proud of you! Blessed be!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

MyCaption {Thoughts and Memories of South Africa}









Maven Huggins the endless land...land as far and beyond what the eyes can see...the imbalance of ownership...i speak of visits to farms/ family owned nature reserves/ the mix of cultures, lives and living; I never got to Cape. And the failed experiment the last of our freedoms proved to be.

I lived in Zimbabwe from 1990 and was personal and up close to many exiles, of ANC and PAC..and all the hopes and dreams from when Mandela was freed./.and how so much has stayed the same these many years since...they had the benefit, SA DID, to learn from the failures of so many countries in the African diaspora and continent...and seems it was all for nought

I also remember the opposition that grew to foreigners , black African foreigner professionals being in SA right after 1990. That grew to the heinous refusal and violence against their Zim brothers and sisters under Mugabe...It has been horrific to watch it all. Phenomenal question and prospects you raise by simple asking of memory

al luta continua, but all the warriors were bought and out.


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