“BaNtu Waltz ~ Nya’s Archangel Story”
Dear Reader, I am truly honored and excited to announce the release of my award-winning novel entitled “BaNtu Waltz: Nya’s Archangel Story”. I trust that it will find a broad and diverse audience, from those who would enjoy a multilayered love story catalyzed through the Industrial 3D Pop Music Matrix on the one hand (Michael Jackson fans), and those who may, like me, struggle with tensions aroused by the deeper cultural mandates of African Oral Traditions on the other. Immersed in the Communal 5D+ Mystery and epic Unity-Conscious memory of UbuNtu expressed through Black Popular Music conventions, Nya and Malik’s lives are forever changed by this ancient BaNtu Destiny resurrecting through the “Waltz“... Dance/Journey of their Ascending Twin Souls. [READ MORE + REVIEWS & a PEEK INSIDE “BaNtu Waltz” @ THIS LINK 😊] ~ 🪘🪘🪘 NOW ALSO AVAILABLE @ BLACK BOOKS PLUS 🪘🪘🪘& UMOJA HOUSE 🪘🪘🪘
I hope you enjoy reading BaNtu Waltz as much as I enjoyed writing it. Please feel free to write your own REVIEW at the LINK above. Questions and discussion are also welcomed in this blog space. As Always, Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤ M
The Beautyful Ones…
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah’s debut novel (published in 1968), owes its title to the misspelled inscription on a bus in Ghana where the story is set. It opens during the final months in 1965 of President Kwame Nkrumah’s rule as Ghana’s first post-colonial president, and closes with the coup that ousted him on February 24th, 1966. This period in Ghana’s history is filled with rampant poverty; overdependence on foreign capital and goods; corruption & bribery as the order of business; and other ills that have plagued Africa’s countries which followed Ghana into independence – all without the needed systemic changes that would mitigate the stagnation and disillusionment of Africans who’d only become inevitably ensnared in parasitic neo-colonial arrangements. Immersing his characters in putrid filth, rottenness, dirt, and scatological imagery as he airs out Ghana’s post-independence laundry through story, Armah leads the reader to the judgment on the novel’s final page – the misspelled bus inscription that becomes its title.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born was widely praised but also criticized, most notably by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who writes: Armah is clearly an alienated writer complete with all the symptoms. Unfortunately, Ghana is not a modern existentialist country. It is just a Western African state struggling to become a nation. So there is enormous distance between Armah and Ghana.… A man is never more defeated than when he is running away from himself.
AUSAR [Osiris] ~ The ‘Beautyful’ One
In his preface to a new edition of the novel published by Per Ankh, Ayi Kwei Armah himself makes note of the criticism his novel received: “Much of it focused on [my] perceived artistry. There was a tendency …to contrast this supposed authorial virtuosity with the novel’s subject matter, rather inaccurately summed up as the pervasive negativity of the human condition in Africa. This bias didn’t surprise me, and I assumed it would take little time for some careful scholar to balance it by zooming in on the conceptual content of the title, which I think expresses the meaning of the text as accurately as any title can. It is a matter of some bafflement to me, therefore, that to date, as far as I know, no critical assessment has actually gone to that thematic core: the provenance of the concept and image of the beautyful ones. 
The phrase ‘The Beautiful One’ is ancient, at least 5,000 years old. To professional Egyptologists, it is a praise name for a central figure in Ancient Egyptian culture, the dismembered and remembered Osiris, a sorrowful reminder of our human vulnerability to division, fragmentation and degeneration, and at the same time a symbol of our equally human capacity for unity, cooperative action, and creative regeneration…
By the time I wrote the novel my impressions of Osiris, though still relatively disorganized, had evolved to the point where I was ready to recognize the image as a powerful artistic icon. Here, in mythic form, was the essence of active, innovative human intelligence acting as a prime motive force for social management. I have yet to come across an earlier, or more attractive image for the urge to positive social change.”
NEFERTITI ~ ‘The Beautiful Woman Has Come’
For conceptual context, Armah could well have used another renowned ancient Egyptian figure whose name means “the beautiful woman has come.” Queen Nefertiti, alongside her husband Pharaoh Akhenaten, established the monotheistic cult of Aten-worship – a ‘new world order’ in 14th century BCE which Akhenaten led from his worship center of Amarna. Egyptian artwork during Aten’s Amarna Period was also radically different from its predecessors. The imposed reforms of traditional culture and spirituality resulted in Aten’s legacy becoming that of Egypt’s despised ‘heretic king.’ Aten’s son and eventual successor, Tut’Ankh’Amun (formerly Tut’Ankh’Aten – meaning “the living image of Aten”) restored ancient Egypt’s cultural traditions around Amun and returned its worship center to Uaset (Gr. ‘Thebes’) during his reign. Hence his name change to Tut’Ankh’Amun.
The Nefertiti Bust – believed to have been crafted in 1345 BCE by Thutmose because it was found in his workshop in Amarna by German Ludwig Borchardt’s archaeological team in 1912 – has become one of the most copied works and iconic symbols of feminine beauty, which most associate with Egypt. Kept at various German locations since its “discovery,” the Nefertiti Bust is currently on display at the original pre-WW2 display site of Neues Museum in Berlin. Germany, like most former colonial powers which have profited greatly off their stolen African artefacts, continues to resist Egyptian demands (since 1924) for the repatriation of Egypt’s Mona Lisa, as it were – the bust of Egypt’s ‘beautiful woman…’ Nefertiti.
In relation to Armah’s musings on Osiris/Ausar‘s symbolic relevance to Africa-writ-large, in ancient Egypt a true Queen [Auset] was said to be “She who sees Set and Heru.” Set – god of foreign oppression, chaos, violence, perversion, illness… – who usurped Egypt’s Heaven-on-Earth throne through murdering and dismembering Ausar, and then scattering his pieces [African diaspora] is evident from the predatory Eurocentric divide-&-conquer playbook which creates the parasitic matrix systems humanity experiences as slavery, (neo)colonialism, apartheid… through misappropriation & predatory control of Africa’s sovereign resources. Heru – Ausar & Auset’s posthumously-conceived son who avenges his father by defeating Set & restoring Heaven-on-Earth – is apparent in the post-Amarna role of regeneration Tut’Ankh’Amun played out of his allegiance to Amun, not Aten… #Sankofa.
FATHIA HALIM RITZK NKRUMAH ~ A ‘Beautyful’ First Lady of Ghana
The links between Egypt and Ghana go further than a background concept in Ayi Kwei Armah’s mythologically-based authorial imaginings. Fathia Halim Ritzk – a Coptic Egyptian who’d taught French prior to taking a job at a bank in Cairo – became First Lady of a newly independent Ghana when she married Kwame Nkrumah on New Year’s Eve 1957-58. According to published reports, Nkrumah – who succeeded Queen Elizabeth II on March 7, 1957 as ruler of Ghana – had set out to find himself a Christian wife from Egypt through his friend, Alhaji Saleh Said Sinare – one of the first Ghanaians to study in Egypt. Fathia was chosen out of five finalists. 
Despite her mother’s refusal to bless their union, Fathia’s marriage to Nkrumah took place at Christianborg Castle upon her arrival in Accra, Ghana. Unmoved by Nkrumah’s pan-African vision & bona-fides, Fathia’s mother – whose son had left Egypt with an English wife – had been reluctant to see another of her five children marrying a foreigner and leaving the country. Fathia returned to Cairo with their 3 children after the western-sponsored coup d’état that ousted Nkrumah on February 24, 1966. Nkrumah died in 1972 in Bucharest, Romania. Fathia died in Cairo in 2007. Both husband and wife lie buried side by side at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Ghana.
BRANFORD MARSALIS ~ ‘The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born’
Titled after Ayi Kwei Armah’s book, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is also a 1991 jazz album by Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano sax player) who leads a trio with Jeff “Tain” Watts and Robert Hurst. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the 2nd track on the album which peaked at #3 on the Top Jazz Albums chart. Wynton Marsalis, Branford’s trumpet-playing brother, makes a guest appearance on the album’s 4th track, Cain and Abel. Hailing from New Orleans Louisiana, the Marsalis brothers are world-renowned members of their multi-generational ‘First Family of Jazz.’ Wynton is often quoted as saying: “The bloodlines of all important modern American music can be traced to Congo Square.”
Congo Square in New Orleans is a cultural and spiritual intersection which, like nearby Angola… was named after countries of origin of Louisiana’s predominant enslaved African population. Custodians of BaNtu oral-aesthetic traditions navigated this foreign space in ways that generated musical conversations (jazz, rhythm-&-blues, etc.). Guided by UbuNtu – the unity-conscious cultural philosophy which says “I am, because we are…” – African oral-aesthetic traditions became one of the greatest civilizing forces in America. BaNtu aesthetic quality or beauty – called KuNtu – is judged by how well cultural expression meets its art-for-life’s-sake cultural mandate towards the collective. In contrast to Manifest Destiny &/or Western Exceptionalism which were used to justify the enterprises of slavery, (neo)colonialism, apartheid, etc. – the so-called “white man’s burden” – UbuNtu has endured as a counteractive Africa-centered guiding & humanizing force.
PRINCE ~ ‘The Beautiful Ones’
In a scene from his 1984 movie, Purple Rain, Prince delivered an unforgettable performance of a song titled The Beautiful Ones. Apparently the artist had already settled on the same as a title for his biography which he’d begun working on with writer and lifelong fan, Dan Piepenbring. Through the telling of Prince’s story, it seems the greater vision was for the co-written project to inspire and help cultivate a society of beautiful ones… be a “handbook for the brilliant community”… a how-to guide for black -musicians, -creatives, -collective ownership, -freedom… an authentic voice against racism, elitism, etc. & for positive social reform. An ancient proverb from Ipet-Resyt (the “southern sanctuary” and temple of Amun~Mut) says: “When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.“ A fragmented version of Prince’s The Beautiful Ones was posthumously published and released exactly 5 years ago – on October 29th, 2019. So much has evolved on the community’s global streets since then…
Perhaps, as Ayi Kwei Armah suggests, a resurrected Ausar is rising out of the Babylonian ashes of a false ‘elite’ matrix through the Collective Ascension of a fragmented/degenerated Human Consciousness – and, like the proverbial Phoenix of old… The Beautyful Ones Are Now Being Reborn… Sankofa ❤ ❤ ❤ UbuNtu
Purple Rain~Happy 40th!!!
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: June 18, 2016 ∴ June 25, 2024 [Gregorian]
Purple Rain, Prince’s 6th studio album, was released 40 years ago on June 25th, 1984
“When there’s blood in the sky – red and blue = purple… Purple Rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting your faith/god guide you through the Purple Rain.”
[Prince’s quote on the meaning of his song]
☮︎🕺🏿🎶☔ UbuNtu… Purple REIGN…#YesWeCode… VIVA GEN Z!!! 👑 Let No one take THY CROWN… 🌞Let There BE LIGHT!🌞🎶💜💃🏿 …c𝄞b♯… ☔🕊️
“Every man must act in the Rhythm of His Time. Such is Wisdom… People need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the True Seeker to the Source… In every vital activity, it is the Path/Free-quency that matters.” ~Proverbs from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
💜 ❤ ❤ ❤ UbuNtu 💜Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤ 💜
African American Music Appreciation Month
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“Every man must act in the Rhythm of His Time. Such is Wisdom… Routine & Prejudice distort Vision. Each man thinks his own Horizon is the limit of the World… In every vital activity, it is the Path/Free-quency that matters… Know.Thy.Self.“~Proverbs from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
“One Love…” ~BaNtu Waltz
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: February 6, 2016 ∴ February 14, 2024 [Gregorian]
“In every vital activity, it is the Path/Free-quency that matters” ~Proverb from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
A SaNgoma’s Path to Source
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: January 4, 2016 ∴ January 13, 2024 [Gregorian]
“In every vital activity, it is the Path that matters“~Proverb from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
“NaKumbuka Day” ~ 11:11. Re-Membering the MA’ATrix
‘Nakumbuka‘ means ‘I remember’ in Kiswahili. Nov. 11th has been recognized as “Nakumbuka Day” by the Pan-African Association of America since 1994 when the first ceremony was held at San Diego State University in California. It was set aside as a day of rememberance of the African victims of European enslavers, (neo)colonial occupiers, and agents of apartheid & genocide whose horrendous acts created a bloody trail of devastation and left families on the continent unable to lay their grief to rest after several hundred years. It’s been estimated that the Middle Passage claimed upwards of 60 million African lives, not counting the huge losses on plantations in Europe, the Caribbean, North-, Central-, & South-America. In seeking free labor to build its empires, European and American capitalism’s emergence crippled the African continent, traumatizing its descendants socially, culturally, economically, & politically during these interrelated timelines of oppression.
Historically, 11/11 marks the end of 20th-century hostilities during World War 1 between two main Western blocks: the Central Powers [Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey…] vs. the Allied Powers [Britain, France, Russia, Italy, the United States…]. Their truce, an Armistice with Germany, formally went into effect on 11/11/11: the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 [100+ years ago]. In 1954, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in the US, 
although 11/11 is observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states as Remembrance Day – aka Poppy Day – honoring veterans who died [8 million+] in this so-called War to End All Wars. WW2 followed in 1939 after “Germany, angry over war reparations imposed by rivals and eager for revenge, eventually turned to Adolf Hitler.”
Symbolically, the number 11 holds the dual vibration of Twins [Gemini], whose relationship acts as a barometer on the scales of Truth, Justice, & Balance [MA’AT/Libra] within this New Age we are said to have entered/be entering of Aquarius – the 11th House of the Zodiac. Helena Blavatsky and her disciple, Alice Bailey are credited with founding the so-called ‘New World Religion’ which, since its unofficial start on 11/11/11, has gained many New Age adherents. In The Externalisation of the Hierarchy [1957], Bailey prefaced her New Age spiritual advocacy with an extensive critique of the Europatriarchal World Wars: “Intense nationalism… [a] separative outlook… [and] selfish interests have controlled the reasons for which every nation has entered this war…” [p. 373-]
Spiritually, 11/11 allows a sacred moment for grief over the harsh realities of war… lives lost which are formally given global remembrance from western stages. We observe these post-war programs …our hearts made gentle (or not) through the ritual laying of wreaths, politically-crafted words of “regret,” and the wearing of upcycled fiber poppies – modeled in the lapel of the various suits worn by almost-75-year-old King Charles during his recent red-carpet visit to Kenya – a former British colony until sometime into his late mother Q. Elizabeth II‘s 70-year reign… starting 1952 at Kenya’s Treetops Hotel.
Coming as it did against the backdrop of the human carnage presently unfolding before a horrified global audience in one of the British Empire’s other socio-historical ‘projects,’ the post-eclipse timing for this particular visit [Oct 31-Nov 3, 2023] by the current British monarch was deeply/tragically ironic. For context on what may also have been weighing upon the monarch’s mind during whichever stage of colonizer grief (?) he may personally have been struggling to overcome during this visit, past articles such as The Search for a Zionist Settlement in Kenya, 1902-1905 by Mwangi-wa-Githumo & Before Israel, Jews considered settling in western Kenya may shed some light on how his family’s leading role came close to complicating Kenya’s colonial occupation & trauma even further! In contrast perhaps, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recently apologized to Tanzania as did Dutch King Willem-Alexander for Netherland’s role in slavery and coloialism in South Africa. 
Lest we forget, in regard to European World Wars, Kenya went down in colonial HIStory as having fought & died on “the British side” with millions forced to serve as conscripts of the King’s African Rifles (KAR) or as porters of food & ammo for the troops. Dear Kenya, In this neo/post-colonial era of unrealized apologies let alone Reparations, wouldn’t it be pitifully naïve to replay this role, next time as ‘hired guns’ against our Haiti fam? Kumbuka…
The Mau-Mau [Kenya] & Maji-Maji [Tanganyika, now Tanzania] rebellions were against colonial destabilization resulting from the Scramble for Africa following The Berlin Conference – held 11/15/1884 – 2/26/1885 by mainly 7 European colonial invaders/pillagers: France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, & Britain under “GrandMother of Europe” Q. Victoria [1837-1901] for whom the southernmost Source of Africa’s sacred Nile [“Maziwa Mkuu”] remains misnamed. This & similar cultural blights have been and should continue to be exorcised by Reparations from within… minus the prerequisite of an apology from 3x great grandson of Victoria – Charles, whose hand-me-down crown, bejeweled with its incriminating evidence, grows heavier with each missed opportunity [@circa 75 y/o] to man-up. 
As a proverb from Ipet-Resyt reminds us: “A house has the character of the man who lives in it.” 
Lest we also forget, there was a 2nd consequential conference in 1884 which, like the aforementioned one in Germany, also excluded African agency, thus fostering a profound alienation between humanity & it’s sacred Source/axis mundi. The International Meridian Conference held in Washington DC on Oct. 1884 was where Greenwitch, London was voted in by northern-hemisphere autocrats as capital of the world’s “official” N-S zero-degrees of longitude, thereby dethroning humanity’s organic Prime Meridian/MA’ATrix along Africa’s Nile Valley – Maziwa Mkuu/”Great Milk” aka Earth’s Milky Way & “Temple of the World” [per God Djehuti]. This latter-day Eurocentric “GMT Prime Meridian” slices southward from the British monarch’s family throne in London thru France, Spain, & 5 West African countries (Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, & Togo) to yet another historic European crime scene – the Atlantic holocaust site of African lives lost in the Middle Passage “Maafa.” Kumbuka…
Unfortunately for humanity, the neo-colonial & false matrix is all-too-real… We’re programmed to get lost in the self-indulgent discourses-of-power and controlling narratives (via geographic chaos, mis-education, religion, political & media spin, etc.) of a ‘global’ human community “reborn” thru Europe’s traumatic wars & unapologetic takeovers as Mother Earth Herself hangs in these imbalances. Hopes for equal recognition in combat, self-defense or otherwise are marginalized alongside cries from Africa’s descendants for Reparations. In 2023 however, the annual sequel of Europe’s 11/11 Poppy-Day program may just have been eclipsed by the arrested attention of the world’s hearts & streets weighing in on the real-time horrors being unleashed (since Oct. 7) in the (pre)occupied Holy Lands of Abrahamic faiths + Zionism under the exceptionalist “Chosen Ones” ethos.
NaKumbuka ❤ ❤ ❤ Truth, Divine Order, Harmony, Balance, Justice, Reciprocity, UbuNtu… all represent the Spiritual free-quency of MA’AT-consciousness, the personal and social antithesis to the constitution of chaos represented by SET[*] according to ancient teachings. As one of SET*s original casualties of genocidal war and the traumas that come from forced occupation, Africa’s cultural immune system has been in various stages of recovery from a state akin to sleep-paralysis, hence the importance of re-membering. As France et al are reminded, Africa’s awakening and reclaimation of Her sovereignty & narrative will only be detained for so long…
“MA’AT, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence… Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep… The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness… If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge… The best and shortest road toward knowledge of truth is nature… If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple’s submission is slavery. If he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement… The kingdom of Heaven is already within you; if you understand yourself you will find it… The body is the house of the God/dess. That is why it is said, ‘Wo/Man know thyself’… By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare… You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of MA’AT…” 
This selection of proverbs are from God/dess Amun/ Mut‘s Temple, located on the Nile River’s east bank, in Uaset [Luxor]. Ancient African site of The Annunciation [LINK @ 1:17:20], this temple is known as Ipet-Resyt, meaning “The Southern Sanctuary” which is connected via an Avenue of Sphinxes, aka Path of God, to Ipet-Sut – “The Most Select of Places” in present-day Karnak, both dedicated to the worship of Amun-Re & His Godhood with Divine Feminine, Mut. 
Per-ankh – “Houses of Life” were designated as spaces for education in such Khemetic temples because knowledge was considered sacred… a sanctified mystery of the balance between Divine Masculine & Feminine co-Creatives. Bound to Nature & the Cosmos for all time, these proverbial teachings are written in the stone [EWF] of Ipet-Resyt’s walls:- “People need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the True Seeker to the Source.” 
Resembling the human form in repose, Ipet-Resyt’s unique design itself appears symbolically dedicated to Resurrection & Reparation of the sovereignty of Truth, Life & 5D+ Unity-consciousness [UbuNtu]… an architectural ‘body’ on Mother Africa’s Earth, poised not as a mourning site, but rather as if to awaken & rise to Her Divine Twin & the Triumph of their Love.
In pop culture, this awakening is thematic to The Fifth Dimension’s 1969 ‘Age of Aquarius’ – prophetic anthem of a New Age which many believe dawned 42 years later, on Nov. 11th, 2011 [11/11/11]. ‘42‘ is a number that is sacred to MA’AT, Goddess who serves to protect the world from the chaos of SET*. Today this ‘chaos’ occurs within the policed-state of a cabal’s 3D matrix of slavery, (neo)colonial occupation, apartheid, etc… a state of trauma that’s maintained thru media, religion, education, politics, etc. – the complex of industrial outlets that program mass adherence to the ethos of elitist western ‘exceptionalism’*.
The Principles of Ma’at predate the ’10 Commandments’ as humanity’s oldest written sources of Moral & Spiritual instruction. Recorded in the Khemetic funerary Book of Coming Forth by Day AKA Book of the Dead,
these were based on 42 declarations made by Ani in the Hall of Judgment of his having lived in accord with MA’AT’s principles, such as: “I have not done iniquity; I have not stolen; I have not made any to suffer pain; I have done no murder nor bid anyone to slay on my behalf; I have not spoken lies; I have not caused the shedding of tears; I have not dealt deceitfully; I have not lusted nor defiled the wife of any man; I have not caused terror; I have not done that which is abominable; I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth; I have not stirred up strife; I have not wronged the people; I have done no harm nor have I done evil; I have not worked treason; I have never fouled the water; I have not spoken scornfully; I have not behaved with arrogance…” [Papyrus of Ani – c.1250BCE]. Kumbuka…
MA’AT‘s consort is DJEHUTI, the Magician archetype of the Divine Masculine with whom the Goddess creates the Balance & Harmony needed to prevent the universe from falling further into SET*s genocidal campaigns [slavery, (neo)colonial occupation, apartheid, etc.] against Humanity. 
Characterized in ancient mythology as god of foreign oppression, plague, chaos & disorder, SET* – the quintessential toxic masculine – murdered & usurped the throne of his brother King AUSAR out of jealousy over the popular reign AUSAR & his beloved wife AUSET enjoyed over Khmt. Widow AUSET was forced to search for her husband’s mutilated body parts which SET* had scattered throughout the wilderness [Diaspora]. AUSET found all but the 14th piece of AUSAR – suggested in the phallic Tkhn/Obelisk as the unsolved outstanding segment of this particular Human Mystery. Symbolized by her hallmark feather, the Truth MA’AT has found in her embodiment as AUSET 
is key to Humanity’s Awakening & Ascension back to Heaven-on-Earth. On Her Healing Path, SaNgoma AUSET [aka ‘Divine Mourner & ‘True Seeker’] hears the cries of The Beautiful Ones:- children… the downtrodden… Her Beloved [now God of the Afterlife] …She responds with prayerful Wisdom, Compassion, & Re-membrance… #11:11… #UbuNtu… #Nakumbuka… #MA’ATrix… ❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
‘End of the Road’ (?)
💜💜💜 On August 1st of this year [2023] during my vacay in Minneapolis, I treated myself to the VIP Tour of Paisley Park… a complex that snuck up on me en-route during a convo I was enjoying with my Eden Prairie-based SW Prime driver along Highway 5 – part of the 7-mile Chanhassen stretch which MN Governor Tim Walz signed into law as the now renamed Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway. The white-on-purple freeway signage went up 2 days later, on August 3rd. Read More
“Nakumbuka” 11/11 ~ The MA’ATrix Re-membered
“The Middle Passage” ~ Tom Feelings
‘Nakumbuka‘ means ‘I remember’ in Kiswahili. November 11th has been recognized as ‘Nakumbuka Day’ by the Pan-African Associations of America since 1994 when the first ceremony was held at San Diego State University in California. It was set aside as a day to remember the African victims of European enslavers, colonizers & agents of apartheid & genocide whose horrendous acts created a bloody trail of devastation and left families on the continent unable to lay their grief to rest after several hundred years. It has been estimated that the Middle Passage claimed upwards of 60 million African lives, not counting the huge losses on plantations in Europe, the Caribbean, North-, Central-, and South-America. In seeking free labor to build its empires, European and American Capitalism’s emergence crippled a continent and its descendants socially, culturally and economically during the timelines of African slavery, colonialism, and now neo-colonialism.Historically, 11/11 marks the end of 20th-century hostilities during World War 1 between two main Western blocks: the Central Powers [Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey…] vs. the Allied Powers [Britain, France, Russia, Italy, the United States…]. Their truce, an Armistice with Germany, formally went into effect on 11/11/11: the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 [100+ years ago]. In 1954, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in the US, although 11/11 is observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states as Remembrance Day – aka Poppy Day – honoring veterans who died [8 million+] in this so-called War to End All Wars. WW2 followed in 1939 after “Germany, angry over war reparations imposed by rivals and eager for revenge, eventually turned to Adolf Hitler.”
Symbolically, the number 11 holds the dual vibration of Twins [Gemini], whose relationship acts as a barometer on the scales of Truth, Justice, & Balance [Libra] within this New Age we are said to have entered of Aquarius – the 11th House of the Zodiac. Helena Blavatsky and her disciple, Alice Bailey are credited with founding the so-called ‘New World Religion’ which, since its unofficial start on 11/11/11, has gained many New Age adherents. In The Externalisation of the Hierarchy [1957], Bailey prefaced her New Age spiritual advocacy with an extensive critique of the [Europatriarchal] World Wars: “Intense nationalism… [a] separative outlook… [and] selfish interests have controlled the reasons for which every nation has entered this war…” [p. 373-] 
Spiritually, 11/11 allows a sacred moment for grief over the harsh realities of war… lives lost which are formally given global remembrance from western stages. We ritually observe these post-war programs …our hearts made gentle through words, tears, bouquets, wreaths and lapel poppies, many worn in solidarity by non-European officials. Lest we forget, 40,000 African American troops of the 92nd and 93rd divisions saw battle during WW1 under French command. This distinction tends to be under-acknowledged in the self-indulgent discourse-of-power and narrative of a human community made ‘global’ through Europe’s wars, takeovers, and controlling narratives. Hopes for equal recognition in combat are marginalized alongside cries from slavery’s descendants for Reparations from the neo-colonial ‘matrix,’ as the intensely Eurocentric Poppy-Day program runs its annual sequel. Meanwhile, the spiritual free-quency of MA’AT-consciousness – Truth, Divine Order, Harmony, Balance, Justice, Reciprocity, UbuNtu… – will only be detained for so long as another casualty of war. At some point Africa’s cultural immune system has to recover from the induced state of sleep paralysis to reclaim its own narrative and sovereignty…
“MA’AT, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence… Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep… The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness… If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge… The best and shortest road toward knowledge of truth is nature… If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple’s submission is slavery. If he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement… The kingdom of Heaven is already within you; if you understand yourself you will find it… The body is the house of the God/dess. That is why it is said, ‘Wo/Man know thyself’… By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare… You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of MA’AT…”
This selection of proverbs are from God/dess Amun/Mut’s Luxor Temple [pictured right], located on the east bank of Africa’s Nile River in Uaset. It is known as Ipet-Resyt, meaning “The Southern Sanctuary” which is connected via an Avenue of Sphinxes to the Ipet-Sut – “The Most Selected of Places” in Karnak, both dedicated to the worship of Amun-Re and His Godhood with Divine Feminine Consort, Mut. Per-ankh – “Houses of Life” were designated as spaces for education in such Khemetic temples because knowledge was considered sacred… a divine mystery of the balance between masculine and feminine co-creatives/Twins. Bound to nature and the cosmos for all time, these proverbial teachings are written in the stone [EWF] of Luxor Temple’s walls. “People need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source.” Resembling the human form in repose, the Luxor Temple’s unique design itself appears symbolically dedicated to resurrection and reparation of the sovereignty of truth, life & unity-consciousness… an architectural ‘body’ on Mother Africa’s Earth, poised as if to awaken and rise to Her Heavenly Twin.
In pop culture, this awakening is thematic to The Fifth Dimension’s 1969 ‘Age of Aquarius’ – prophetic anthem of a New Age which many believe dawned 42 years later, on November 11th, 2011 [11/11/11]. ‘42‘ is a number that is sacred to MA’AT, Goddess who serves to protect the world from chaos. [In today’s world this ‘chaos’ has occurred within the policed-state of an elite cabal’s Victorian/neo-colonial/false 3D matrix of control and mass-manipulation.] The Principles of Ma’at predate the ’10 Commandments’ as humanity’s oldest written sources of moral & spiritual instruction. Recorded in the Khemetic funerary Book of Going Forth by Day AKA Book of the Dead, these were based on 42 declarations made by Ani in the Hall of Judgment of his having lived in accordance with MA’AT’s principles, such as: “I have not done iniquity; I have not stolen; I have not made any to suffer pain; I have done no murder nor bid anyone to slay on my behalf; I have not spoken lies; I have not caused the shedding of tears; I have not dealt deceitfully; I have not lusted nor defiled the wife of any man; I have not caused terror; I have not done that which is abominable; I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth; I have not stirred up strife; I have not wronged the people; I have done no harm nor have I done evil; I have not worked treason; I have never fouled the water; I have not spoken scornfully; I have not behaved with arrogance…” [Papyrus of Ani – c.1250BCE]
MA’AT‘s consort is DJEHUTI, the Magician archetype of the Divine masculine with whom the Goddess creates the Balance & Harmony needed to prevent the universe from falling into chaos and disorder. Symbolized by her hallmark feather, the Truth MA’AT has found in her aspect as AUSET [proverbial ‘True Seeker’ and wife of Khemet’s beloved King AUSAR who was mutilated when SET – god of foreign oppression, chaos & disorder – usurped his throne] is key to humanity’s awakening and ascension to Heaven-on-Earth. During her seeking, AUSET hears the cries of the downtrodden, children, her beloved [now god of the afterlife]… and responds with compassion & wisdom as she awakens, ascends, dances, re-members… #11/11…#UbuNtu… #Auset/Ausar… #Hathor/Heru… #Ma’at/Djehuti… #Mut/Amun… #Nakumbuka…❤ ❤ ❤
RETURN…
Amidst speculation in certain quarters about a great Return and global re-set around that event, I find myself longing for the organic frequency I imagine existed before the last great patriarchal re-set around the ‘matrix’ of a Mediterranean world. In Gregorian year 2022, a rogue virus and its variants continues to familiarize the entire world with the Greek alpha-bet in a way that tragically incarnates population control (eugenics?) wishes eerily expressed by the late Duke of Edinburgh, who’d originally been born into Greek & Danish royalty. And beyond the ‘cradle’ of 5th-century-BC-Athens, USA is currently in an existential struggle to assert its clout as the matured-version/standard-bearer of Democracy, despite its own unresolved foundational flaws. These transitional times in which everyone bears the karmic brunt of whichever forces agitate against humanity’s ascension out of the waning Euro-patriarchal Age of Pisces, adds a poignant weight to the meaning of UbuNtu – the BaNtu unity-conscious state of being that says “I am, because we are.” Furthermore, there is a larger understanding within this Africa-centered
philosophy of the organic frequency Earth itself needs, to reclaim her most pristine alignment between the heavens, nature, humanity’s womb, and Temple of the World, as God Djehuti referred to Africa’s Nile Valley.
REVEAL…
Tekhenu/Tkhn originated in ancient Africa as tall monoliths that were architecturally structured to rise from a square base, all four sides tapering upwards towards the pyramidion at the very top. The first tkhn reportedly came into being during Kemet’s Old Kingdom Period [c2613-2181BCE],1 a time when two of the greatest architectural Wonders and Mysteries ever – the Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx – were also erected. All were deliberately designed and installed to connect earth organically to heavenly powers, with associated mythologies, proverbs, etc. that would guide true seekers/initiates
into ascending degrees of revelation about the Great Mysteries of the Universe such as death, resurrection, eternal life, & good versus evil. Read More
Malaika Mutere 