Osa'Se

Osa Ose speaks of abundance coming as a result of past efforts - abundance creates abundance. The need for iwa pele - good character, especially regarding feelings of jealousy. In Ifa, we have a saying, "When your life gets better, my life gets better." Heavy female energy. Osa being the Odu that incarnates Oya, and Ose the Odu that incarnates Osun. Osa - sudden change. Maybe at work. If this Odu came up in ire, this change will be good, leading to Ose in the invisible realm - abundance through power of the word, prayer, chanting, etc. Regardless, embrace the change openly and all will be good. Do not resist.

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Osa does not offend Osa does not hurt the one we thought offened us did not offend this was cast for Owa who was looking at a man as a thief who was in fact innocent He was told to make ebo so that Esu might not punish him for falsely accusing an innocent man ebo: two pigeons, a calabash of crushed roasted yams, and 44 hundred cowries ase

ooops, missed your question regarding Osogbo or ibi (negative manifestation). I think that all ibi is a result of resistance, in this case resistance to change. What I love about the religion of

the Yoruba is the centrality to the whole way of thinking regarding dogma. Basically, all osogbo or ibi is a function of dogma. Dogma in all its manifestations. There are many "patakis" that show what happens when we get dogmatic. Can't think of one off hand. Well, the story of the two best friends who had always been best friends. Ifa was cast and Ifa said they needed to do ebo so that their friendship would not end. They were like, "No way, dude, we will always be BFF's!" so they didn't do the ebo. Sho nuff, Esu taught em a lesson. They had farms adjacent to eachother divided by a foot path. Esu came strolling down the road with a hat on - one side red, one white. So one buddy says to the other, "hey you see that little dude with the white hat go by?" and the other dude says, "No, man, he had a red hat on." What? fool, he had a white hat. the argument escalated to a fist fight. Their friendship destroyed. So, by adhereing to their beliefs, even beliefs seen with their own eyes, caused problems. In Ifa, dogma is the number 1 enemy. We must always be ready to consider the invalidity of our beliefs. It's like if you met a dude from timbuktu and you said, wasup? you didn't know wasup in his culture was an insult. so he gave you a dirty look and you determined he was a jerk. then you meet another dude from timbuktu and you are already biased. he feels your negative energy so he avoids you. so then you determine all timbuktuians are ********. Then one day, you are sick and a timbuktuian offers you a ride to the hospital, but since you think they're all ******** you don't accept. then you drop dead. In the land of the ancestors you come to find out that timbuktuians are down wit it! too late - your dogma f'd you up.