Oshun, Chango, Orishas, Orisha, Yin Yan
Oshun, The Orisha of Love
07/12/11 10:14
Falling in love is incredibly easy for some, and extremely difficult for others. Many people can go years, or spend their entire life looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right. Love and good relationships continue to be a struggle for a lot of people. Couples have a difficult time staying in love, once they fall into it. Very few understand that people when in love connect not only emotionally but also energetically.
I explained in previous articles that all human beings and living organisms have an aura. The aura has multiple bands of energy that surround the body. Each band vibrates at its own frequency, very much like a heart beat. Holistic health Practioners believe that like attracts like. This means that if human beings operate or resonate on similar vibrations, one can have an extreme effect on another. If you ever felt really attracted to a person, and experienced the magnetic pull of two things coming together. You can understand how difficult it is resist someone who you are attracted to.
Other people would call this attraction a “spark” or “chemistry.” What is truly happening at this time is that you and your partner’s aura are merging and sharing information. There are many layers to the auric field. However, the one layer that is most potent to falling in love is the emotional layer. The Orisha Oshun rules over the emotional layer. The emotion of love is an exchange of energy. In the most ideal cases, people are giving the best of themselves emotionally. This creates an euphoric feeling. Walking on clouds, head over heels in love, are expressions of the energy and power of love in its most elevated state. The feeling literally blows you away. In fact, most spiritualists believe that understanding the emotion of love can lead to enlightenment.
However, people tend to fall out of love because they don’t know how to take their feelings “to the next level.” Energy, or ashe has to move and it can either rise or fall, but it will never remain stagnant. For people to maintain their relationships they have to love from another “layer.” The have to love from the astral layer. The astral layer is another band in the auric field. However, it vibrates at a much higher frequency. Obatala is the Orisha who rules over this layer.
The astral layer allows people to bond in such a way that they can affect each other across time and space, even when they are separated. We see this with married couples that finish one another’s sentences. Couples who can read each others thoughts, and those that even feel their partner’s emotions from long distances. Falling in love is such a great thing!
Oshun and Chango, A match Made In Heaven
30/11/11 21:27
Everyone has heard of the phrase, “opposites attract”. That is the case in many situations in scenarios. Legend has it that Chango was the king of the Oyo, a great city in West Africa. He had numerous wives, but he was particularly fond of Oshun, the river goddess. Their marriage symbolizes a union of two great basic forces known as the feminine essence and the masculine power. This concept is similar to yin and yang and the ability of opposite forces to unite and same forces to repel and detract.
Chango is a representation of the ultimate masculine force. He is dynamic, stimulating, and logical. He is a deity of great height and represents the skies and the heavens. His color is red, and he is considered hot, and is able to produce heat by breathing fireballs from his mouth. The goddess Oshun, on the other hand represents yin. She is the ultimate female essence. She is static, calming, and intuitive, much like the rivers she resides in. Chango and Oshun, much like yin and yang characterize two different types of energy, also known as chi, or in Yoruba, ashe.
In Chinese philosophy as well as in African practices, everything in nature is perfectly balanced. If things become unbalanced then illness and malady may occur. Too much of Chango’s heat underlies pain and inflammation. Too much of Oshun’s coolness may cause blockages and stagnation. Both forces complement each other, and each force is needed to generate the spark needed for creation.
Chango’s heat can drive out Oshun’s cold. While Oshun’s cold can reduce Chango’s heat. Oshun and Chango, much like yin and yang are relative to each other and there is always a relationship fostering a certain condition. One flows into the other and then returns. Their partnerships gives people the ability to understand that they cannot comprehend cold without feeling heat. Their relationship evolves and becomes stronger because there is in inherent checks and balance system that allows them to feed off of each other’s strength.
Oshun’s ice, when warmed by Chango can become water. When Chango breathes out balls of fire, Oshun’s water becomes steam. In the Chinese system, as well as in African practice, all of life is a cycle of yin and yang, masculine and feminine, light and dark. When these forces come together, they generate an electric charge, or an unified supreme energy that sparked the creation of earth.
Chango is a representation of the ultimate masculine force. He is dynamic, stimulating, and logical. He is a deity of great height and represents the skies and the heavens. His color is red, and he is considered hot, and is able to produce heat by breathing fireballs from his mouth. The goddess Oshun, on the other hand represents yin. She is the ultimate female essence. She is static, calming, and intuitive, much like the rivers she resides in. Chango and Oshun, much like yin and yang characterize two different types of energy, also known as chi, or in Yoruba, ashe.
In Chinese philosophy as well as in African practices, everything in nature is perfectly balanced. If things become unbalanced then illness and malady may occur. Too much of Chango’s heat underlies pain and inflammation. Too much of Oshun’s coolness may cause blockages and stagnation. Both forces complement each other, and each force is needed to generate the spark needed for creation.
Chango’s heat can drive out Oshun’s cold. While Oshun’s cold can reduce Chango’s heat. Oshun and Chango, much like yin and yang are relative to each other and there is always a relationship fostering a certain condition. One flows into the other and then returns. Their partnerships gives people the ability to understand that they cannot comprehend cold without feeling heat. Their relationship evolves and becomes stronger because there is in inherent checks and balance system that allows them to feed off of each other’s strength.
Oshun’s ice, when warmed by Chango can become water. When Chango breathes out balls of fire, Oshun’s water becomes steam. In the Chinese system, as well as in African practice, all of life is a cycle of yin and yang, masculine and feminine, light and dark. When these forces come together, they generate an electric charge, or an unified supreme energy that sparked the creation of earth.