Hell everyone and Bright Blessings! Yesterday I started the Orisha Oshun petition, and I seriously hope I have not already messed it up.. see the petition is supposed to last 5 continuous days, well I started off well yesterday, got good energy and vibes flowing, and then totally missed today because I didn't get the time. I had 10 things to do at home, then I had to unexpectedly go out with family during the time I was planning to start today's petitons, and the time I was going to devote to my petition was just not going to happen and I was seriously not pleased with that! Tomorrow I have to start my work again and I really hope my horrid faux pass will be forgiven by Oshun and she is not mightily offended by my unintentional rudeness.
Her altar set up included: One 7 day perfumed yellow candle, decorated with a hand strung bit of seed beads in yellow and orange, anointed with oils, gold magnetic sand, and love drawing powders. A large and very prettily patterned cowrie shell, a whole orange, a handful of Saffron Yellow rice, Honey,which was tasted before offered, the candle and food offerings are set up onto a small plate, and drizzled 5 times around the candle and foods with the honey, and powdered gently on top with two kinds of Love Drawing Powders. Also on the table was a glass of spring water, and a bunch of divine smelling pink roses, and incense. the paper petition I wrote out is sitting under the plate until I need to read it aloud again, and then it is placed back under the plate when I am not using it. The roses have perfumed my entire room in a cloud of sweet scent. The petals from the roses are going to be saved for other purposes.
You must taste the honey first before offering, lore states that someone once tried to poison Oshun with honey, now she requires that all honey is tasted before it is offered or else she will be very wroth with you and flat refuse you any of her time or even cause you a few misfortunes if you push her buttons. Fruits, vegetables and food offerings to Oshun must be yellow, amber brown,or orange and in that range of the color spectrum, she sometimes likes red. Cantaloupes, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, oranges, papaya, rice, and pastry cakes and candy sweets are good choices. She also likes rum and brown colored strong alcohols, cigars, bronze, copper and gold jewelry and baubles, Vulture and Peacock feathers, and seas shells, particularly cowrie shells. Her abode is along rivers, streams, and any source of fresh flowing water. Oshun's day of the week is Saturday, which was when I started my petition, her number is 5 and multiples of 5, and her feast day is September 8th. Offerings are placed in the water and allowed to float downstream after the 5 days of your petition at home have passed. You may also ask her to send out petitions to Yemaya, her sister that rules the seas and oceans but bring something for her too so that she is not offended.
Today looked good, I received what I hope was a sign of my petition being heard and maybe considered.. A stray female dog , light brown and white, and a nursing mother with babies, followed me home. She got fed, petted, and when I came back out to check on her she had already went on her way and was oddly nowhere to be seen. Stray dogs that just randomly follow you home and especially females with babies, well that's a form of the Goddess and Fertility spirits in one of their many manifestations, particularly Hecate since tomorrow is the New Moon.. and maybe as Oshun, the Orisha of all matters concerning of fertility,conception, and love. A dog is a form of a messenger to many Gods Goddesses and Spirits, normally I wouldn't associate a dog with Oshun, but hey who says maybe she can't become a dog if she wanted to?? And hence this female dog was brown and white, similar to a amber brown, and a female with babies at that, well hello conception and fertility messenger!! Dare I to hope my petition is being heard and may potentially be granted? l suppose we will see with time.
You're supposed feed and show kindness to that manifestation of the Goddess and Spirits and thank her for her company. If you shun or turn away or abuse any living form of the Goddess or Spirit, even if it is a sad looking, skinny dog, well too bad and so sad for you because you are seriously giving yourself some bad luck and karma!! No doubt she was grateful for the garlic chicken, yellow saffron rice, and hotdogs that I procured and heated up, and the clean water set out for her. It made me sad that even though she was grateful for my kindness I still saw a strong hesitation and fear of humans in her, no doubt from being abused and neglected by who knows what kind of people. Everything she has is going to her babies and not to herself, if the skinniness of her body was any indication. I also saw three crows today, one was being chased and harassed by a mockingbird, I assume it was too close to the bird's nest or something, and the other two crows were following the one being chased. they were going in a westerly direction in front of me.
Tomorrow morning I am going out to the local package store, and getting a couple of the sample bottles of good strong rum, for my petition and altar table, today I got some nice orange and clove scented cigarillos, and those and the rum, and a dish of cooked and candied sweet potato casserole will be added to the offerings already set up on my Oshun altar. I shall try most fervently to make up for my lapse in time and attention by doing a better petition tomorrow! For a picture of the Altar set up please go here ->> Serita's G+ pictures it is a small altar and I don't have a lot of spece but I work with what I have and try to make it as pretty as possible. The red bag in the center is my love conjuring sachet, it is same one as the "Love, Passion, and Fidelity Charm Bag for 11/17/2013 " post that is written in here..I have to say that bag seems to be working so far, so if anyone wants to make their own feel free to do so!
I regret that the Add a Picture function on Blogger will not work correctly, it will act as if it is loading the picture and going to insert it into the post but then it freezes up and will not work, this is very annoying because I have to refresh Blogger, retype what I was just writing about, and then find other ways to incorporate pictures and etc into my posts. Occaionally you will see links to other pages where I have material because that is the only way I can get this to work right now. I am going to go for now, lots to be doing and the witch's work is never done! Bright Blessings to everyone and I will return very soon!
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