Chapter 7: The Saving Graces of Love

Chapter Summary:

What is the SGOL?

This chapter will outline all the ways that I made the right choices at the crossroads and show that when you make a decision based on unconditional love, you are always rewarded- even if it’s by someone else. Explain how I see that everyone can liberate and trap you, if you allow them to. Know how far to ride any one train is the key to being Saved by Love.

(refusal of the return, the magic flight, rescue from within, crossing the 2nd threshold, return, master of the two worlds, freedom to live)

The Road Back

-poverty consciouness, writing, teaching challenges, setbacks, reversal of fortune

-fear of what people think

Resurrection (climax-square) (inner crises & reorientation, revolution of awareness)

-a new personality, cleansing (x @ roberta’s)

-Ordeal is writing book by x said w/ blog & kickstart campaign

-Climax

Return w/ the Elixir (sextile) (completion, inner opportunity & excitement, renewal & reorganization

Vipassana

Explain first A-A Buddhist retreat and the dream that led me to Vipassana 8/30-Dream foreshadow

Lesson about separation in A-A community Class, Sexual Preference, Mixture

Lessons around homophobia: But also the LOVE that was felt

Similar to Eckhart Tolle Experiences with Older White males- Don, Dave & Richard,

Trip to India

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Himalayan Institute

By this time, I was becoming more seasoned in loving without an agenda. Especially after having gone through my own break up with Hakim and deepening of heart

story about india and african spread truth all around world and their response

well people learned at same time- but they could hear panditji say it spread from India

Story about antropologist that was getting on me about Afrocentrist, then I broke down that isn’t my arguement. It’s an Afrocentric criique of White Culture and Behavior.

Living with people from all nations, going through ups and downs around perceptions, having the opportunity to do astrological consultations with people and meet karmic connections, but most of all the gain perspective from the disasterous effects of my first fall and to heal my soul. Everybody needs time to heal their soul. If we go on without doing this, we sufer. So this year in insulation and sharing with people all around the world in the panch karma program was a great opportunity for me to give what I wanted most for myself!

Healing with my Husband

See marriage notes and determine wheter to put it over here

Searching for the Other

Theta Healing, Almine, Drunvalo and Nova Scotia- Flower of Life

Chapter 6: The Struggle

Chapter Summary:

What is The Struggle?

Tests, Allies, Enemies (Talents Requiring Cultivation) (trine)

Eternal Trails/ Facing the Shadow (Approaching the Inmost Cave) (inconjunct/opposition

Supreme Ordeals (opposition/inconjunct)

Rewards/ Ultimate Treasures (Seizing the Sword) (trine)

And what is the struggle? it’s always a case of holding onto love, despite what outside appearances are showing you. In my case it had to do with all my opposites. Elders/Olders (family and society) to my Younger. Male to my Female (first love experiences) and White to my Black. These things usually happen in cycles to see if we really have learned our lessons and that is why astrology is so important.

As a youth, and a eight of clubs I didn’t grow up thinking elders had it all together. I saw them as immature, getting in the way of my progress, fighting and complaining leaving no good role model and bruised and hurt by this. I guess most elders looked at me as needing direction, disrespectful, not understood, and the cause of their pain and broken heart. Isn’t that ironic?

Unlike a lot of women I didn’t grow up thinking men were superior, GOD the most powerful sex. Instead, I thought them driven by their ego, only thinking about sex, xyz. I guess the same was men looked at me as a woman as inferior, lower intellegence, the cause of man’s fall, to be controlled, etc. Isn’t that ironic?

Unlike a lot of older generation and church going and mind taken Black folks, I didn’t grow up think white people were alright. I thought them deformed, a mutant, an apparation, spiritual inept. I guess the same way many whites looked at me as black as a monkey, inferior, lower natured and ignorant. Isn’t that ironic?

The struggle to love my elders

Parents

Teachers and Leaders- source of my greatest pain

college and alkebu-lan sisters

working at metaphyical bookstore

ausar auset society and research

Giving up my Art in the Name of Revolution

The struggle to love males

Being a Female concerned with the things Power and Love. It was through males that I learned how to not make the love of power be more important than the power of love. And yet and still this is the journey we all take., I learned via men how to act with mine. Being a woman concerned with love I learned how to do so more unconditional with men. These things usually happen in cycles to see if we really have learned our lessons and that is why astrology is so important

First Fool- I was intimate-4 F’s

First Love-Choosing Self

First Financal Entrapment

Explain the choices women make to settle. For finances, for persistence, for anything but the passion of true love.

First Infactuation

learned that I attracted men that couldn’t commit, because I wasn’t fully committed to me and growing my power to give love and not just receive love. My higher destinu

If I would have known what I know now, maybe we would have had a chance, maybe not. But everytime I learned to love unconditionally and from the heart with wisdom and intellegence, I grew stronger

First Marriage?

up to this point a virgin and the first time wasn’t great. Too many expectations. But like X says in the matrix everybody falls the first time. For the first time the Sagg. who genrally doesn’t like ugly. thinking fighting is below her, learned how to embrace it with a venagance. This was a necessary part in my development. Here you have the Lion and his pride and the Queen bee and her drones analogy. Although we were attracted to each other’s strength, there is no way you make a lion a drone and a queen bee and pride member. So this is the process of mas. and fem. principles finding balance. And everyone falls the first time. It’s just important to hold onto love, because whatever we do out of that broke heart (especially when children are involved) causes repercussions that can last a lifetime. This is a shout out to all my brothers and sisters that chose to let love go, it’s not too late to return to love, because it is your essential nature.

The struggle to love whites

Jeff story

Florence Story (after being with Afrocentrics)

remember the first effects of hate in body

IICD story

story of Ann’s experience & whites feelings about history

exposed to Ashra Kwesi and Dr. Ani & their response

Politician card keep choosing until I learned to accept them

Astrological Institute

University of Creation Spirituality

many issues with race before I got there

what happened when I got there

my refusal to be the token black (Alex Gray and MLK event coordination)

Experience planning Women’s Event

Attitudinal Healing: Aeeshah/ Mariann Williamson/Couple

what they shared with me and book on racism

Himilayan Institute

Racism/Ageism: Part of AA society, was doing a research design for IICD at GSU, where Asa Hillard helped me, anyway, I was sharing my work with the group because the leader was there. He was condescending of my project, saying we already know how white folks are/ then I noticed how the rest in the group treated me/ even my roommate questioned me when they read my rd saying the cia and fbi will come looking for you/ my white classmates and teacher were annoyed by it- had to get Asa Hillard. Yet, all it was my attempt to go beyond the veil and reach the truth. I am glad I did because the experience was the beginning of a marvelous revelation and it is true that the enemy is the innerme. In every situation, whether it be race, sex, ageism. In this case,

Section 1: My Story

If you do not change directions, you may end up where you’re heading” -Lao Tzu

Section 1: My Story (Own Page)

“If you do not change directions, you may end up where you’re heading” -Lao Tzu
What happens if you take the right amount of wind and water with the right amount of force, heading in the right direction? The impact it can have on humanity can be great, for better or for worse. As it is for nature, so it is with us. Humans are like hurricanes. We are made up of the elemental forces of air, water, fire and earth and are affected by environmental influences. Mixed with the right influences and opportunity, you can have an Adolf Hitler or a Harriet Tubman.
A person’s psychological make up (or inner environmental influences) is based on the day and time a person is born, as well as the aspects (or inter-relationships) between the planets that influence that date. For example, a hurricane usually never happens during certain months, just as harvest for some crops usually never happens outside of certain months.
“How can you do it wrong, when you’ve already done it?”- DeBorah Bellony
A person’s outer environmental influences such as family and material opportunities, can sometimes affect the choices a person makes and thus change the course of their destiny. That is, if you believe that a person has no choice in the time, family and situation s/he is born in. In my opinion, there is a part of us that I call our “Higher Self” that already knew what it wanted to co-create and what role it would play on this world stage called Earth. Part of the game was for a part of us (our conscious mind) to forget and another part of us (our Higher Self) to help us remember what we already knew, all the while maintaining or regaining an open heart.
Stars in Alignment
What happens when you take an eumelinated child born with strong elements of water, fire and earth, a great inner strength and drive, combined with an equally strong empathic, gentle compassion for humanity, and then you put her in the back drop of a society and time where racial and gender tension has never been dealt with or assimilated? And what if she has an overwhelming amount of Scorpio energy (fire and water) all directed inward and for the Neptunian search for truth and compassion? And what if this Scorpio resourcefulness is balanced with Saggitarian gratefulness and grace? To put the icing on the cake, what if she has a mother that tells her at a young age to be “wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove” and she really takes it to heart?
What then becomes of this child’s story? How does she unfold? How does this mixture play out on the world stage? What conclusions does she make about the hand of cards she’s been given and most importantly, how does she use them? What archetypal energy does she identify with to accomplish her life’s goals? And how does she finally come to the realization that the only opponent she (or anyone else for that matter) ever had was her forgetfulness of her connection to Source and what that disconnection created by way of DNA, tribe, environment, etc. in her  life?
My Story
So here is where I begin to share my Shero’s Journey. Here is where I describe how I’ve taken inner and outer influences to mix and create a purposeful life in order to earn my wings and transcend into the goddess I already am, able to out smart my person’s enemy (or “innerme”) and allow love and my divine purpose to bring forth the healing balm, the elixir, to my Earth family- in cycles and cycles. For me, this elixir has mainly come about from me living my life choosing love when it mattered most, and now having the courage to tell my story. I pray the light my story brings to the planet will serve as a healing balm for those who hear it, and especially for those who are where I’ve been and am going. Yet in my heart of hearts I know, the most important thing is to merely share and then my work is done!
Telling Stories: Reversing the Bad Rap
It’s popular to hear in today’s culture how important it is for us to “get rid of our story.” Nobody has time to hear anyone’s story anymore. Yet if we look around, that’s all we ever see and hear. Somebody’s story. Whether it’s in a book, a movie, a play, a newspaper, a bedtime story, we are all hearing and telling stories in one way or another. Can you image life on earth if we literally got rid of all of our stories?
DML- It’s a beautiful expression
When Telling Our Story is a “Bad” Thing
In truth, there is no thing that is inherently good or bad; however, when we continually tell stories that gives no insight, no self-transformation or no personal responsibility or resolve that leads to the life we truly desire or feel is possible,  then I would categorize this as a “bad” story.  Knowing what I know, and that is we are all Divine Expressions of the Creator of All that Is, I know there is an aspect of us that will eventually manifest this destiny of divinity. We all may not get there at the same point in life  or even the same life time, yet it is enevitable that the soul progresses and transforms. For those of you who don’t believe in reincarnation, this concept can be a little unnerving, yet remember what I said in the introduction. You still have time to run for the hills.

Disruptor Philosophy in the World of Astrology

The “Real” Secret or “A Word about Secrets” (Share Ophin./ Tex-DeBorah and Virgin)
A Word about The Secret
What does the movie Secret, Hakim Bey’s The Secret of Secrets and Secret Societies all have in common?

“I am the dance- not the dancer, I’ve got to keep up with the dancer’s pace and place, based on the latest and greatest version of who s/he knows he-r/self to be. And the level of my vibratation determines which playing field I’ll exist on.
(Like ponds through, if we make it to the other side, we become anything we choose to be!)
-We can choose which dancer and what dance troop we want to dance for; however the dance is already chosen how you express it, and at what octave/decan is up to you; however you can’t change the dance.-Make mention that I plan to do a longer memoir Afraid of My Own Shadow or (CFC): Acknowledging The Self, The Struggle and the Saving Graces of Love; however, for this book, I will be covering the part of my life (mostly 13 year period 2009, Nov. 1st to Jan. 2nd, 2022) and how it relates to most important stories related to the scope of this book. (Little did I know from the time of my first Blog Campaign in 2012 talking about the 13 year Dream from Jan. 2, 1999 to 2012, it would take an additional 13 years from the time I arrived in Mexico on Nov.  1, 2009 (9 years from 2012 to 2021) for me to finally complete it!

If you do not change directions, you may end up where you’re heading” -Lao Tzu

What happens if you take the right amount of wind and water with the right amount of force, heading in the right direction? The impact it can have on humanity can be great, for better or for worse. As it is for nature, so it is with us. Humans are like hurricanes. We are made up of the elemental forces of air, water, fire and earth and are affected by environmental influences. Mixed with the right influences and opportunity, you can have an Adolf Hitler or a Harriet Tubman.

A person’s psychological make up (or inner environmental influences) is based on the day and time a person is born, as well as the aspects (or inter-relationships) between the planets that influence that date. For example, a hurricane usually never happens during certain months, just as harvest for some crops usually never happens outside of certain months.

How can you do it wrong, when you’ve already done it?”– DeBorah Bellony

A person’s outer environmental influences such as family and material opportunities, can sometimes affect the choices a person makes and thus change the course of their destiny. That is, if you believe that a person has no choice in the time, family and situation s/he is born in. In my opinion, there is a part of us that I call our “Higher Self” that already knew what it wanted to co-create and what role it would play on this world stage called Earth. Part of the game was for a part of us (our conscious mind) to forget and another part of us (our Higher Self) to help us remember what we already know, all the while working to maintain or regain an open heart.

Stars in Alignment

What happens when you take an eumelinated child born with strong elements of water, earth and fire, a great inner strength and drive, combined with an equally strong empathic, gentle compassion for humanity, and then you put her in the back drop of a society and time where racial and gender tension has never been dealt with or assimilated? And what if she has an overwhelming amount of Scorpio energy (fire and water) all directed inward and for the Neptunian search for truth and compassion? And what if this Scorpio resourcefulness is balanced with Saggitarian gratefulness and grace? To put the icing on the cake, what if she has a mother that tells her at a young age to be “wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove” and she really takes it to heart?

What then becomes of this child’s story? How does she unfold? How does this mixture play out on the world stage? What conclusions does she make about the hand of cards she’s been given and most importantly, how does she use them? What archetypal energy does she identify with to accomplish her life’s goals? And how does she finally come to the realization that the only opponent she (or anyone else for that matter) ever had was her forgetfulness of her connection to Source and what that disconnection created by way of DNA, tribe, environment, etc. in her  life?

My Story

So here is where I begin to share my Shero’s Journey. Here is where I describe how I’ve taken inner and outer influences to mix and create a purposeful life in order to earn my wings and transcend into the goddess I already am, able to out smart my person’s enemy (or “innerme”) and allow love and my divine purpose to bring forth the healing balm, the elixir, to my Earth family- in cycles and cycles. For me, this elixir has mainly come about from me living my life choosing love when it mattered most, and now having the courage to tell my story. I pray the light my story brings to the planet will serve as a healing balm for those who hear it, and especially for those who are where I’ve been and am going. Yet in my heart of hearts I know, the most important thing is to merely share and then my work is done!

Telling Stories: Reversing the Bad Rap

It’s popular to hear in today’s culture how important it is for us to “get rid of our story.” Nobody has time to hear anyone’s story anymore. Yet if we look around, that’s all we ever see and hear. Somebody’s story. Whether it’s in a book, a movie, a play, a newspaper, a bedtime story, we are all hearing and telling stories in one way or another. Can you image life on earth if we literally got rid of all of our stories?

DML- It’s a beautiful expression

When Telling Our Story is a “Bad” Thing

In truth, there is no thing that is inherently good or bad; however, when we continually tell stories that give no insight, no self-transformation or no personal responsibility or resolve leading to the life we truly desire or feel is possible,  then I would categorize this as a “bad” story.  Knowing what I know, and that is we are all Divine Expressions of the Creator of All That Is, I know there is an aspect of us that will eventually manifest our destiny of divinity. We all may not get there at the same point in life  or even the same life time, yet it is inevitable that the soul progresses and transforms. For those of you who don’t believe in reincarnation, this concept can be a little unnerving, yet remember what I said in the introduction. You still have time to run for the hills.

A Word about Secrets

What does the movie The Secret, the book Secret of Secrets and Secret Societies all have in common? It’s the way they all touch me….

-MOM and AMORC, (Look at the world different and who the major player are- like even in astrology and I compare myself to movies like The Boys, etc when characters all find out what role their parents play. Grant it (all I remember about R is when we were young and the food and being able to play in the plum fields when she would go to her meetings, me & my brother all underneath the sheets, pinching each other as she played those strange children’s tape, or their was the time she had us in the Junior Order in NY and staying at the fancy hotel and meeting other children around the world) Call me slow, I always attribute the Cycles of Life and Reincarnation as the two books that started my love affair with the occult, but I never attributed or conceived that my mother’s involved in things like the Solace, and being a 12th degree and furthering, etc. Everytime I think of my mother knowing all of this! I say, my momma! Shara was right, she does sit on her perch. Then, M’srah pops in my mind of a recent conversation he had about my mom.

-The good news is, (since stories of the slapping hands always kept me away from reading her…) I all the downloads and insights I’ve gotten for material of book had nothing to do with me revealing mother’s Ros. info. Finding these books and reading material (with my mom wide open) It was more of a revelation and confirmation that the world isn’t what it seems to be and that now is the time, to be validated. That my mother and I are part of a lasting legacy, and that it is my birthright. (Poem- My Life/

What I’m Sure of... there’s a whole world out there …. made up of b and w and in high and low places

What I’m not Sure of... I how noble or vile or who is noble or vile, where their knowledge stops and where my downloads begin, (Quote from Volarie? How all things are simple, once you know…)/ Fable of Heramabif.

To some people (you know who you are) the information in book is nothing new, to others of you (this is an amazing tale or nothing at all). My mission as an 8 of Clubs Ophincus World Bridger is to uphold the serpent ….

Chapter 5: The Self

Chapter Summary:

What is The Self?

Explain the difference between the True Essence Self and the Person, Identified with Form and Fear. Explain who my true self was (absent of interference), then describe my person and who it became as a result of walking in two worlds (white world and black world and the need to integrate them together=with love)

 

Ordinary World

-b-ball and school/ before my first love

 

Call to Adventure (conjunct)

-Alkebu-lan Sisters/ Kenny

 

Refusal of the Call (semi-sextile)

-Started to channel writing in college but I was afraid.

-Kenny & break up and choosing me first (letter)

 

Meeting with the Mentor/Supernatural Aid (sextile)

-many serendip Teachers (Charle Conley, Mario, Muslim Friend, etc.) Had the ability to keep out of mess that relationships brought (Camaroon Guy) and my virginity kept me out of a lot of would-be trouble.

 

Crossing the 1st Threshold (square)

 

 

 

 

As A Infinite Being

Enlightenment Experience-Understanding that god-ring and walking around with notebook

Astrology/ Destiny Cards

Thothetics

As A Black Avatar

Ashra Kwesi’s tapes, but couldn’t vibe with the anger lead me to

Grist for the Mill/ Ausar Auset Society

As A Woman Avatar

Voices from the Great Mother- scared! Wanted to fit in to Male patriarch

Virgin and feeling different to everyone else

Metaphysics: Hotema

Clarissa-WWWW

Include letter I wrote

Chapter 4: Coming Full Circle: A Shero’s Journey

Chapter Summary:

This chapter explains the 13 year book cycle from Jan. 1998 to 2012, complete with book titles. It gives an overview of the stages (acts) of my shero’s journey, while comparing the “Heroes” journey to the journey “Auset” goes on in the “Ausarian Drama.”

(See Blog Post for Info Below)

On Jan. 2, 1998, I had a revelation to write a memoir. I had just come off of my first 7 day silent retreat, following the advice of my good friend, actress BarbaraO, who does a silence retreat every year. I never heard of such a thing until then, but it just felt right in my soul, so I did it. Originally, I thought the title for my book was going to be Coming Full Circle: Acknowledging the Self, the Struggle, and the Saving Graces of Love.

There was a lot of things I still didn’t know. Little did I know how astrologically significant my book concept birthing date was and is. Little did I know that the title would morph into what it is today and yet still have a place for all the previous titles within in. Little did I know it would take me on what would be a 13 year journey- to the date! Little did I know that journey included moving from Atlanta, to Arizona, to California, to Pennsylvania, to St. Croix, Virgin Islands and then finally to Mexico. Little did I know it would involve decoding ancient occult knowledge and calendars. Little did I know that the key to meeting the “innerme” was to be transformed by unconditional love for the “enemy,” only to realize It’s All G.O.D. in the first place. And little did I know that Self-Love is THE hardest, yet only pathway leading to the  gates of heaven.

*History of Title Morphing

Little did I know that such a small detail as the day the inspiration came, and all the things that happened after were all destined and meaningful. Little did I know I was getting ready to go on what has been called the “Shero’s Journey”

The Stages/Acts In My Shero’s Journey

Give brief introduction into the Hero’s Journey coined by Joseph Campbell… (all indigenous cultures had this & break down the aspects). From the time of conception of the book, to the actually writing was definitely like a shero’s journey that I would never had expected. Below I categorize the three Acts and compare them to 3 stages of “The Self, The Struggle, and The Saving Graces of Love” and give you an idea…

Act One: (The Self)

* Give an overview of what this part will be like (use titles of the hero’s journey-ordinary world, refusing the call, etc.)

Leaving Atlanta was like:

Shero’s Journey (Auset’s Journey)

Role as Cross Pollinator: DeBorah the Bee

Explain my walking in two worlds+ B & W

Explain need to Understand the other: GSU Studies, I did same with Them

Being in Amexem

Feeling of History in Mexico

False History & Lies and how writing this book here is symbolic

Act/Stage Two: (The Struggle)

* Give an overview of what this part will be like (use titles of the hero’s journey-refusing the call, etc.) Main areas of struggle during this period were in 1) Relationships- Married and Sexually/ Scott/ etc. Active 2) Race Relations- AI, UCS 3) Cultural- Language, History, 3) Career- symbolism of learning new skill as  bookstore and library-teacher and learning new language to learning new way to think about my self worth and ideas around money and starting my business!- free teleseminars, etc. 4) faith around having enough finances

Act/Stage Three: The Saving Graces of Love

* Give an overview of what this part will be like (use titles of the hero’s journey-refusing the call, etc.)

Important Events/Dates for 13 Year Period: 1999-2013

2. Quit Americorps (Good News & Good News)/ MamaO, couldn’t go back to work- The Self

3. Silent Fast on MamaO’s recommendation- The Self

4. Met Kevin and a cresent moon/ learned metaphysics and worked at cultural- The Self

5. Gathering of the Masters- The Self

6. Leave Relationship Meltdown (Isaac/Msrah/Kenny/Aseem/Greg,etc)- The Struggle

7. Moved to Arizona worked my way up to a car and part-time work/ Library/ Co-op/ AI/ UAC?- The Struggle

8. Leave AZ to Cali. Job with Youth and then how I got to UCS/ AHC- The Struggle

9. Racial Tensions at UCS & MLK event Micheal Murphy Alex Grey- The Struggle

10. Gathering of Master’s & meeting Hakim/ Leaving Ca to PA (Vipassana & Black Buddhist Retreat with Homophobia experience)- The Struggle/Saving Graces

11. First time, fighting and living at HI- The Struggle/ Saving Graces

12. Experiences at HI and interchanges (Antropology/ TJ/ Pancha Karma/) The Saving Graces

13. Meeting Scott and Moving to St. Croix- The Saving Graces/ Struggle

14. PLTTA and all my friend and community

15. Flower of Life Travels (Novia Scotia/ Montreal/etc)/ Mexico the first x Beyond Global Divine and World Peace Walkers- The Struggle/Saving Graces

16. Leaving to Mexico on Day of Dead/ ViviGuide Bootcamp and ITTO experience- The Struggle

17. Living in Zoocaloo and New Teaching experience what I learned from 4 yr olds- The Struggle

18. Death of Jamilah & Trip to Carribean (Jamaica, Dominica, etc.)- The Struggle

19. Decision to leave to PE/ Language school and host/ neighbors!/ Paul- The Saving Graces

20. Years in Puerto and teaching/ House sitting and my Heaven- Priya growth- The Saving Graces

21. Getting over fear/ Basketball/ going to Peru and the effects of my 40th   The Saving Graces?

22. Hurricane and revelations in July. (Lessons with Dogs, Time, Love, etc)- The Saving Graces/ The Ordeal

Chapter 3: Going to a HBCU

Chapter Summary:

How was it like going to a HBCU?

This chapter shows the culture shock I experienced, my coming of age as a leader and my first heartbreak

* Culture Shock in being seen as attractive

*Giving up my Art in the Name of Revolution (Betrayal of the elders)

Since I was on a b-ball scholarship, it was a constant conflict with my coach and my other involvments. But playing b-ball also gave me balance, while I had foritted/ gave up my art feeling it was more important to enlighten that to write poems (which I’m now glad I’ve come full circle with that) I wasn’t allowed to go too far off because i had to socialize with people not like me 7 days a week it gave me better coping skills

* Jock vs Scholar (Getting along with girls not like me, balance, school and community involvement)

* First experiences with Anger & Jealousy

* Alkebu-lan Sisters

* My Mentors

* Hearing from Spirit: Pluto transiting my 12h with a stellium of planets Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Vesta, Rising Sign as this relates to the heartbreak with Kenny (letters).

Chapter 2: Growing Up in the OC

* Poem I wrote at 16- Brain dead, mislead, …*

*backdrop of the history of OC-Anahiem police, KKK, and never thought my place of growing up with foster so many tv shows, etc. it certainly wasn’t my experience. Mom didn’t know better by trying to make a place in suburbs. Later, I would see why when visiting LA and you told them you lived in OC they had that strange and sometimes fearful look. Of course, all of that has changed but…

Needless to say, my way of acting out the garat rebel blood running through my viens was pure rebellion. I was not easy before I became conscious I believed in being good at whatever I was involved in if it was stealing, pick pocketing, etc. then I did it well. But then I also had the pressure coming in from my guides and higher self. While I was able to do the do- steal, run my game, whatever, it was at night or the early morning when I was tortured the most for my actions! I remember sitting in bed making deals with God, saying “okay, just give me one more year to do xyz” and I remember crying knowing I no longer could hang with this friend or go to that party, without even knowing why. I just knew. I knew I was different, I knew I had a different life path that I could explain, but just knew it. My person was hard headed, but it was my mother’s actions that tipped the scales to G.O.D’s side. My mother didn’t know how to handle me, until she used reverse psychology. Where some children, one beating would be enough, I was one that you had to reach another way. Whenever my mom went to blows (which was very often) I always figured it was her just tripping. I didn’t get to see myself as the source of her stress and worry as single woman working two jobs to support 4 children etc.. My mom must have prayed for guidance in how to handle me and what she came up with was nothing short of genius (a miracle) for a child like me:

Scenario:

Well, let me go home and get this ass whipping.

Climbing in from the window, mom on the bed waiting for me, get up, not saying a word, next day, nothing. Cooking preparing our food, and then it finally hit me. I made total amends with myself.

Although I went to the other extreme of knowing of badness, I put all my energy of doing right (explain how I could relate to Malcolm X- pimp to priest). It took a considerable time for me to consider myself a good person for all the steal and etc. that I used to do. Whenever I tell people this story they never believe me. Miss Goodie Two Shoes, Little Debbie Cakes? No. Yet, I paid my dues my being the ideal student I had one teacher in junior high tell me “You will be a disgrace to BPHS” well wouldn’t you know I’d outdo them all?

Knowledge Found

* It must have been our garret blood, but even though lived in OC, there was a thirst for the truth, a search for identity. This knowledge came way from my older brothers one at a time.

Conscious Brothers

Before going to Cal State Long Beach where the founder of Kwanzaa Mulanga K taught. My brother had sent off about see about a nose job!

After that he was a militant always quoting this and that although everyone in the family would say he was crazy, I was a curious young girl with good deductive reasoning skills. Whatever it was, was in the books he was reading. That opened my head early!

Then my oldest brother (came to US from island senior year and ends up being valedictorian, school speech & went to UCI and was involved in xyz and he brought me to campus sometimes. That let me know it’s possible to go to school and to start organizations-

* Used to steal books from BP Library and walk around with a almanac quoting all the things Blacks invented. When I showed one teacher proof that Mozart was a mulatto with a teacher that was moor, he told me that is just like saying MLK is Italian.

International Black Writers Association

Instead of my mom dragging me everywhere I was the one dragging her everywhere: People like Guy from South CentralSteve Barnes and Octavia Butler, I was the resident child of the group, dragging my mom everywhere!

Vis IBWA found out about Ashra Kwesi as lecture and niavely I gave principle his bio and he came into my class to tell me he couldn’t speak because he went to Harvard and studied history and never heard anything like this.

Later, I would stay in contact with Ashra Kwesi and he predicted that I would do something great. But is wasn’t until college did I realize the depth of the lies told in school. that would come later…

Hoop Dreams

* coaches help to applying for nccu,

* praying for a black coach- prayers did go answered when other coach once said “stop playing that jungle bunny music” I knew it was time to go in prayer.

* He also turned out to be my alley in getting the Black Heritage Club approved and etc..

* issue between being a jock and athlete

Chapter 1: West Indian Roots

Chapter 1 West Indian Roots

My mother is a garat rebel. For those not from the West Indies, that means she is from Antigua and a born rebel who is not afraid to fight for her rights. Her father was from Seaview Farm village and was rumored to have been a Garveyite. For those not familiar with Black Indigenous history, that means he was either a follower or supporter of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the charismatic leader of the largest Pan-African organization in history, the UNIA.

Ironically, my grandfather’s name was David King (King David) and my father, born on the island of Dominica, is named Solomon. I believe there are no mistakes in nature, so when my mother named me Deborah, it must have been written in the stars that I’d have a message to share, just like the prophetess Deborah of the bible.

My grandfather’s first child, my uncle Peter, was one of the first black doctors in Antigua, and it’s rumored that he was poisoned by jealous people with no purpose. (He taught black history, etccc)

Although my uncle was a great man and legend still exists around his life and times, he would have been an inhibiting factor in my mom’s life had she not had the insight and courage to break free like the rebel she truly is. As the last of 10 children and the only girl out of four to get a formal education, she was fortunate enough to attend the prestigeous Antigua Girls High School. This was no small feat because it cost a fortune at the time.

At 21 while working in her brother’s doctor’s office as a secretary, my mom Daisy had big dreams of going to the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica and becoming a registered nurse and being someone important, like her brother. She had already sent in her application and was excitedly waiting to hear back from UWI.  What she wasn’t prepared for was what happened next.

Some how, some way my mother came upon a series of correspondences between her brother Peter and UWI. In one correspondence, Peter had written the school saying that their father had recently died and that it would not be a good idea for her sister to attend the University. In another correspondence, the school had replied indicating they understood the situation and that perhaps she could attend at a later time.

After reading this, my mom’s eyes grew as large as watermelons and all she could see was red! She immediately wrote the school back informing them that she was planning to attend asap and she had no idea that her brother had initially written the school. Being the rebel that she is, she retold the story of how she went marching into her brother’s office and right in front of his good friend Lester Bird (who would one day become prime minister of Antigua) demanded that he cough up the money so she could attend the UWI and how dare he try to hold her back.

She loved to tell how after she graduated from UWI, she remembers calling her brother on one of those old fashioned rotary phones, and saying. “This is your sister Daisy and I’m just calling to let you know that I’ve made it!”

If anything could summarize my mother’s personality, resilence and well rebel personality, it would be that event. However, this whole event possibly shaped my mother’s personality more than she counted for. She was always the first to notice how the woman were always being held back and she decided early in life that she wasn’t having any of that. Since then, my mother had a chip on shoulder. As my Uncle James put it, “all you had to do was touch the helm of her garment and she would be ready to go off!” As with all things, everything has it’s pro’s and cons.

Pro’s: (Incorporate Pro’s and Con’s in one sentence or together)

If it wasn’t for her ambition and tenacity, I might not have had the opportunity to leave Antigua and provide the resources I was able to have access to.

If it wasn’t for this rebel personality which gave my mother the courage to leave my father traveling cross country in a car he didn’t even know she had bought, with 4 children and a sister to start a life for herself as a registered nurse say. “You are not going to have all the priviledges of a married man and live like a single man” If it wasn’t for doing the unheard of for a West Indian woman at her time, I might have grown up thinking I had to do anything ANYTHING in order to keep a man.

If it wasn’t for her never dating after she left my father and devoting all her time to getting an education two masters and providing and, I probably never would have had the opportunity to grown up thinking or seeing model that I didn’t need a  man to be happy and to value education like I did.

Yet if I Segway into my mother’s influence….

Three Important Influences of My Mom

My Mom was a Garat Rebel:

Although it was hard raising 3 boys and 1 girl on her own, she did the best she could, even if that meant working 2 jobs and us being latch-key children. (Do the laundry list of events- like the time she, and she, and she….)

She also grew up thinking she was a princess and that her father had his own business, school named after people that looked like her, didn’t know the effect growing up in the OC suburbs would have on my psyche

So when I got called nigger in school, we were told to xyz, and I grew up fighting. I remember their was a older girl bully and my mother would let my brothers come back into the house until she beat her down!

*Not Fitting in- dual culture (was actually a blessing)

While did this instill anger it’s better than being stuck solely in the stage of guilt for being black or denial of my blackness. I wasn’t liked and therefore, I wasn’t a oreo of which I’m thankful for.

Story of Mr. Severin and my mom teaching me balance with rebellion. My first black teacher who worked with my mom to tame me, would tell me years later, that I gave him hives. Yet the spirit of resistance was strong. It’s even what got me expelled from catholic school which I’m so thankful for now.- a list: bit the teachers hand, Mr. Severin would talk to me and picked me up and shaked me

My Mom was a Goal Setter

My best friend Shara remembers my list I wrote of what we’ll do for her visit. I never knew what an influence that would be

Helped me when I’d late co-create things like manifesting a black b-ball coach or a Black Heritage Club on my high school campus which I’ll get into in the next chapter

My Mom Had Three Life Changing Books

Explain mom loved to read & was a roscicur.

Destiny Cycles

Reincarnation Through the Signs

The Psychology of Winning

This is essentially the foundation of everything else that shaped me. A understanding of how cycles work and the importance of our mind in creating our reality. Well, that and my brothers influence growing up in OC