Ojiologbon

Negative Aspect: When death calls, there’s no place to hide

Regent Orishas: Babaluaiye. Nanna and Iku (the Death)

Keywords: Impressionable and easily influenced; lives in fear of death; strong in public but cries in private; talks too much and doesn’t keep secrets; get involved with issues that do not concern you; emotionally dependent

What is the use of seeking answers about which paths to follow if the fear that haunts tour soul prevents you from acting and seeking what you want? Under the negative influence of Odu Ojiologbon, the time has come to look inside yourself to seek the light that once shone, but now flickers sadly in the face of the challenges of destiny.

In contrast to the darkness that takes you inside, you have made a tremendous effort to appear strong to the people around you who recognize in you a safe haven to vent their anxieties and doubts. It’s as if the universe tried to tell you: “Just life you, others suffer too and that’s okay; after all, no pain lasts forever!” However, as a way to avoid taking your own life in hand you give in to other people’s issues and, many times, end up blurring the line between advice and intrusion. I know your intentions are always good, but while trying to help others as a way to escape from your own shadows, you’ve been talking too much and, even without realizing it, revealing secrets and intimacies that were confided in you.

Yes, the world is a dangerous place, but are the threats really so much bigger and stronger than you are able to face? There is a saying that “worse than dying is not feeling alive”, and isn’t that what you’ve been doing: accepting your circumstances without even trying to do things differently? The key to this moment in your life is realizing that by letting fate lead the way to avoid having to make decisions for yourself, you are still making the ultimate decision: to leave your life in the hands of the unknown. The question, however, is where will these choices take you, since for those who don’t know where they’re going, any path will do. Where will you go from here?

Ojiologbon’s Shadow Meditation: Even though the world is full of dangers and risks, how many opportunities in life have I lost by living scared of the darkness of what could have been, not realizing there was also light along the way? And for how long will I keep letting the fear of the unknown prevent me pursuing and conquering what I know the Orishas have reserved for me?