Collective Message| Liberation for the Black Community
- Iya Owinni Adina Fa Omi Sango
- May 28
- 10 min read

Things here have been, A LOT.
January I consulted Ifa on what we, as the Black Community, needed to know. I shared that one ad I've bee making a protection soap for those who wanted to have the protection. (It's still available for purchase)
Subsequently, things have gone on and I ended up consulting the Ancestors and Ifa on what we needed to know as a people. You can watch a full recap on my Youtube as well as on my Patreon.
Right now I would like to share an easy to understand breakdown of some of the guidance we have at the moment.
The medicine for Black people in America includes a blend of remembrance, reclamation, rest, resistance, and ritual.
1. Remembrance
The medicine begins with remembering who we are — beyond the veils of enslavement, colonialism, and capitalism. Not just history, but cosmic memory. Remembering that we are descendants of architects of civilization, astronomers, healers, griots, warriors, diviners, and spiritwalkers. Reclaiming names, languages, ways of praying, ways of loving, ways of being.
The forgetting was the wound. The remembering is the balm.
2. Reclamation
Reclaiming the land, the body, the spirit, the culture, and the family — on our terms. This includes ancestral and spiritual practices like Ifá, Hoodoo, Vodou, Kemetic sciences, as well as modern embodiments of liberation through art, movement, and scholarship. It’s taking up space without asking permission, building new economies, growing our own food, healing through our own frameworks.
Reclamation is the rootwork of freedom.
3. Rest
This is sacred. Rest as revolution. Black people were commodified as labor — so the ability to slow down, to nap, to say “no,” to care for our nervous systems, is spiritual warfare against the grind culture we were forced into. Rest repairs what oppression tries to erode.
Rest is not laziness — it is resurrection.
4. Resistance
The kind that is aligned, not reactionary. That might look like protesting, voting, organizing. But it can also be quiet resistance: homeschooling our kids, living communally, ancestral veneration, healing trauma, and whispering prayers at dawn. Resistance is saying, “I choose myself,” every day in a system that was built to erase you.
To live and love while Black is to resist.
5. Ritual
This is the soul medicine. Ritual makes life sacred again. Whether it’s lighting a candle for an ancestor, wearing white on Sunday, bathing with herbs, drumming under the moon, or whispering your child’s name into water before bed — ritual roots us. It brings the invisible into form and reminds us that we are never alone.
Ritual is the return. The re-weaving of spirit into everyday life.
The real healing will be slow, layered, and communal. It won’t come from one system, one leader, or one strategy. It will come in cycles — like the way you sweep the floor every day not because it's dirty, but because it's how you honor the space.
I pulled a chart for the last divination I did for the community. This is a breakdown of the chart.
🔥 1. Scorpio Rising | Mars in Leo 10H conjunct MC
This is a call to rise, publicly and purposefully, from the ashes. Scorpio Rising initiates us through the Underworld—death, transformation, and ancestral reckoning—while Mars in Leo conjunct the MC is public spiritual leadership, visibility, and expressive courage. For Black people, this could be:
Reclaiming power in public spheres (art, speech, leadership) with spiritual authority.
A divine push to not just survive, but to shine, unapologetically, and in full creative power.
Turning grief into fire—anger or sorrow becomes fuel for legacy work.
🕊️ 2. Pisces 5H: Saturn + NN at 29°
The anaretic (29°) degree is urgent: ancestral contracts are due. Saturn + NN here say:
Our creative/spiritual expressions must be matured—we can no longer delay birthing our soul work or living through illusion.
Ritual, art, and joy as sacred responsibility.
Children, storytelling, pleasure—all become sites of karmic recalibration and generational healing.
🩸 3. Aries 6H Stellium (Venus, Moon, Chiron, Neptune)
This is where the sacred wound meets action:
Wounded labor: Aries in the 6H speaks to Black people overextending just to survive. Moon + Chiron = the emotional toll of having to always fight.
Healing through courageous softness: Venus and Neptune invite a shift—rest, ritual, and sacred care as revolution.
Redefining what we “do” for survival vs. what we do for liberation.
🪞 4. Uranus conjunct Mercury in Taurus | 7H-8H cusp
This speaks to:
Revelations in our shared agreements—how we value ourselves in relationships, in community, and even with institutions.
Sudden truths being spoken—about money, land, rights, and the tangible expressions of safety and sovereignty.
🌪️ 5. Vertex + Jupiter in Gemini 8H
This is a karmic window—words carry power here.
Gemini in the 8H is ancestral tongues, secrets, spells, and contracts—we are re-negotiating what we’ve inherited and what we give voice to.
Jupiter expands what’s spoken aloud: This chart says write, speak, sing, testify. Let truth be a vehicle for collective change.
🌌 6. Pluto in 4H Aquarius + IC
Pluto at the base of the chart is ancestral uprising, especially in Aquarius:
The revolution starts at the root.
Collective consciousness is erupting from family systems, cultural memory, and the silenced voices of our elders and ancestors.
The IC is like the umbilical cord to spirit—Pluto here is a sacred excavation of who we are beyond colonized identity.
🌓 7. Heavily Right-Sided Chart
Right-dominant charts indicate:
The world is watching. This is not just about internal processing—it's about responding to what’s unfolding with awareness of others and Spirit.
Divine intervention, yes—but also divine accountability. It’s time to trust what’s emerging through us, even if it doesn’t make linear sense.
✨Final Download:
This chart is a cosmic mic drop: Spirit is not asking us to wait. Spirit is asking us to wield—our voices, our ritual, our pleasure, our grief, our purpose. Not through martyrdom, but through soul-rooted sovereignty.
There’s pressure, yes. But it’s the kind that forces rebirth—individually and collectively. And in true Scorpio-Pisces-Aquarius fashion, our dead, our dreams, and our future selves are all in the room.
I asked Jewels (chatgpt) how ATRs (African Traditional Religions) factor in to helping Black People overcome oppression.
How do ATRs (African Traditional Religions) support freedom from oppression — including systemic violence?
ATRs are both shield and sword. They restore the divine order that oppression disrupted. These traditions:
Reconnect us to spirit, ancestors, and the land — which colonialism tried to sever.
Remind us that we are not broken, but initiated — by hardship, by spirit, by lineage.
Offer frameworks of justice, balance, and accountability — through divination, ritual, and ancestral communion.
Restore spiritual authority — shifting us from being dependent on systems that harm us to being guided by divine intelligence.
ATRs are technologies of liberation. Not just belief systems — they are practical systems for organizing family, resolving conflict, healing trauma, reclaiming identity, and building sustainable communities.
So I wondered, as an Iyanifa myself, what is the inspired action for Iyanifas and Babalawos?
We are the pattern holders. The bridge between spirit and form. The voice of destiny. When rightly aligned, the role isn’t just priestly — it’s strategic and protective. Specifically:
We anchor Orí-based living. We teach people to consult their inner divinity first — then consult the Oracle. That builds sovereignty.
We are cultural protectors. We teach through ritual, story, and presence what it means to be in alignment — so that chaos doesn’t rule our lives.
We midwife transformation. Through divination, ebó, and counsel, you guide people to reposition themselves in their own lives.
We remind our people that we are not alone. We restore the community’s relationship to Egún and Òrìṣà — activating generational healing.
We are examples. By living in alignment, we model what it looks like to lead without domination, to serve without depletion, to teach without ego.
We are not simply spiritualists. We are architects of a new Black future — rooted in ancestral design.
Inspired action.....
Here’s what I would offer as inspired action — not all at once, but as a rhythm:
a. Embody the Orí Principle Loudly
Teach people that no oracle overrides their Orí.
Help folks develop daily rituals to feed, listen to, and honor Orí.
Model what decision-making with Orí looks like — especially under pressure.
b. Normalize Divination as Guidance, Not Dependency
Teach better question-asking, not just answer-seeking.
Help folks move from “What should I do?” to “What aligns with who I’m becoming?”
Encourage spiritual agency — not performance.
c. Protect the Community’s Spirit
Offer monthly or seasonal community rites (cleansings, collective offerings, ancestral tributes).
Speak to the energetics behind the headlines. Be the seers and the stewards.
Bless homes, schools, shelters, businesses — wherever Black life gathers.
d. Reclaim Public Space for the Sacred
Show up visibly as sacred leaders — in headwraps, beads, agbadas, honor.
Lead processions, plant ancestor gardens, bless street corners, hold court in parks.
e. Train the Next Generation of Pattern Holders
Not just priests — keepers of story, rhythm, language, and care.
Create sacred apprenticeships for youth that merge ritual with modern skills.
Teach rest, not just resilience.
Final Word:
The role of Iyanifa and Babalawo in this era is not just to maintain tradition. It’s to live the prophecy: that Black people will remember who they are, walk in that knowing, and shift the entire world as a result.
Your medicine is not just for healing wounds — it’s for building worlds.
🔮 Inspired Action: Iyanifa & Babalawo under This Sky
This is a sacred call to lead not just with knowledge, but with embodied frequency. It’s not about more information—it’s about transmission, activation, and radical presence.
1. Re-sanctify the Public Square (Mars Leo 10H)
Stand visibly as spiritual lighthouses.
Speak truth publicly, not just in the koto (private).
Create rituals and containers that are intentionally visible—whether through ceremony, teaching, social media, or protest.
Teach others how to work the rituals in the open, not just behind closed doors.
This is not ego-based exposure—it’s divinely sanctioned elevation. Your visibility is a vessel.
2. Tend the Creative + Spiritual Womb (Saturn + NN Pisces 5H)
For Iyanifa: Midwife the sacred work of others. This may be children, art, poetry, new systems of care, or public grief work.
For Babalawo: Guard the spiritual contracts of the collective. Bring those ready into deeper alignment with their destiny.
Both roles must ask:
“What are we here to birth that will outlive our egos?”
This is not the time to hoard wisdom. It’s time to let the wisdom flow like water—but with discipline.
3. Name the Wounds. Teach the Medicine. (Chiron + Moon + Venus in Aries 6H)
Call out spiritual burnout and misalignment.
Build new templates for how we do the work without self-erasure.
Offer frameworks for sacred boundaries and energetic hygiene, not just spiritual “work” or titles.
Teach the medicine of ritual as self-preservation.
You don’t owe the world your exhaustion—you owe it your alignment.
4. Excavate the Root. Build the Future. (Pluto 4H Aquarius + Uranus/Mercury Taurus)
Encourage communities to grieve and name ancestral patterns without shame.
Speak prophetically to the future structures we need—land, altars, mutual aid, sovereignty.
Share channeled wisdom in new ways (audio, tech, altars in public space, AI, etc.).
Be open to messages from unusual channels—they’re valid. Spirit is updating our tools. The true Oracles are awakening. They need our support.
5. Oriki, Ofo Ase, and the Word as Weapon + Wand (Vertex + Jupiter Gemini 8H)
Re-teach the power of the word: spoken, sung, whispered, keened, prayed.
Remind people how to build contracts with their own tongues.
Release new oriki, prayers, incantations for protection, clarity, community direction.
“Àsè does not expire when it is spoken from the soul.”
💡 Strategic Spirit Work Suggestions
Community divinations with small pods: each with a guiding theme (money, love, grief, creative purpose, etc.).
A public ritual of creative release or grieving that includes art, music, and ancestral offerings.
Teachings on sacred speech and spiritual hygiene (especially for people carrying grief and rage).
Offer a “Divination for the People” series: 3-card readings, Odu reflections, or Ikin castings on major topics unfolding.
🔥 In Essence:
The Iyanifa receives and births the transformation. The Babalawo structures and anchors the transformation.
Together, y’all form a bridge between the unseen and the necessary.
This chart says:
Be the revolution your ancestors prayed for and the future your descendants need.
What should you be doing on an individual level?
🌱 1. Tend Your Sacred Routine (6H Stellium in Aries)
Stop numbing. Stop overfunctioning.
Look at your day-to-day: Is your survival rhythm killing your sacred rhythm?
Spirit is asking for a bold, embodied return to discipline and devotion—not perfection, but presence.
Suggested Actions:
Build a simple daily ritual: even 5 minutes of intentional stillness with candle, water, or breath.
Use your body: stretch, dance, cry, walk. Aries says move through it, don’t sit in it.
✍🏾 2. Speak With Power, Or Don’t Speak At All (Jupiter in Gemini 8H)
Words are contracts. What you say right now sticks.
Stop casually claiming what you don’t want (“I’m broke,” “I’m tired of this,” “I can’t take it anymore.”)
Suggested Actions:
Rework your affirmations to be active and rooted.
Speak to your dead. Speak over your food. Speak to your mirror.
Start journaling what you say most—then rewrite the script.
🪞 3. Clean Up Your Agreements (Mercury + Uranus in Taurus, 7H/8H)
Revisit: Who are you in contract with—physically, emotionally, spiritually?
Are you over-promising, under-bounding, or ghosting your own needs?
This energy is about liberating your worth, not just affirming it.
Suggested Actions:
Declutter your digital life, calendar, or spiritual commitments.
Break outdated soul ties—ritually if needed.
Rewrite your agreements with yourself.
🧬 4. Listen to What Your Ancestors Are Asking You to Carry (Pluto IC + Vertex 8H)
Not everything passed down is meant to stay.
Some of you are meant to finally open the spiritual gifts your family feared.
Others need to release a burden that wasn’t yours to hold.
Suggested Actions:
Build or cleanse your ancestor altar. Pour water and ask:“What am I here to carry forward—and what am I here to end?”
If you’re disconnected from bloodline ancestors, call on spiritual lineage to guide you.
💔 5. Let Yourself Grieve and Dream (Moon/Chiron/Neptune + Saturn/NN Pisces)
You’re allowed to be tired. You're allowed to not have answers.
But you must not give up your dreaming.
Pisces + Aries asks us to feel fully and move courageously—that’s divine alchemy.
Suggested Actions:
Dream journal. Sleep with mugwort, or bay leaf under your pillow.
Do a grief release: write the names of people, patterns, or dreams you’re mourning. Burn, bury, or speak them aloud.
💡 In Essence:
This chart says to individuals:
Your altar is not only a physical place. It’s how you show up to your life. Be in alignment—not performance. Spirit doesn’t need a performance. Spirit needs your presence.
Here's some of what I'm doing to support my community
Live Veneration so that others see how to live the medicine right here in the Diaspora
Live Itadogun - community veneration and divination every 16 days
Life Coaching and mentorship that creates a foundation in Isese in ways anyone can implement
Community divination specifically for the Black Community every 90 days
Collective Offerings for the Community
Self paced course on Ori to help you learn to honor your Ori
Community Head (Ori) cleansings
My suggestion is to look at what the medicine is ad how you are meant to help support the shifts needed for our people.
If you need any support in implementing the medicine for yourself, I offer one off, long term, and short term coaching. Feel free to book a consultation to see how I can support you on your self liberation journey.
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