A Master Drummer & His Healing Path
In Africa it is said that each person has a rhythm to which they alone dance. What I’ve learned about this cultural proposition is there is a journey involved in finding one’s rhythm that will likely take you to unexpected places… the highs, lows, and in-betweens of which depend upon how genuine one is about self-discovery. The question of me/”self” was not going to be answered through academic inquiry, no matter how off-the-beaten-path ethnomusicology may have seemed by the time I had to decide on a graduate program to enroll in. Though I remained clueless about how to respond to the musical call that had compelled me to make my south-west journey from Kenya to the US in the first place, I was grateful that my university gospel choir was a space where I could return to organic call-response flows and break from the academic humdrum of musicology discourse. Many years and countless lessons later I’ve come to appreciate that while this path provided a necessary critical lens on the western knowledge industry, I was being guided step-by-step by a higher universe back to my culturally and spiritually authentic/integrated self…
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A SaNgoma & Her Healing Path
The New/Golden Era is dawning! According to Age of Aquarius holdouts, this New/Golden Era will usher in a high-frequency, holistic unity-consciousness between human beings, & nurture an optimal co-dependent relationship with the organic environment as disclosed in the 1969 song by The 5th Dimension. Jumping onto this bandwagon, seasoned New Age scholars, Astrologers, Alchemists & other well-meaning hopefuls go further to suggest that this anticipated disclosure/salvation has & will come from some outer-space resource. Some have even gone so far as to promote the widely published Galactic Codex of the Confederation of Light (so-called) whose purported “legal basis” and stated aim is to liberate our “hostage” planet Earth from its resident evil “dark forces.” 
From an Africa-centered perspective, all of this revisionist Savior-interventionist posturing continues to ignore indigenous wisdoms that were encoded way before the particularly egregious latter-day unleashing of Eurocentric enactments of slavery, colonialism, and apartheid campaigns which have time & again provided existential proof of the inherently toxic flaws/evils/hypocrisies of their antithetical alien intentions. Read More
“Cleopatra’s Needles” & Kings of the North
“Cleopatra’s Needles” refer to an ancient pair of Tkhn [obelisks] which were originally constructed and inscribed for 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tuthmose III [1504-1450 BCE] at his Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis. These Twin Tkhn, which have their sacred place in a seminal & yet-unfolding Africa-centered narrative, were moved c1400 years later to the Caesareum temple in Alexandria Egypt built by Cleopatra VII during her reign [51-30 BCE]. The Tkhn were renamed for Cleopatra during the subsequent Roman takeover, & remained installed in Alexandria for almost 2 millennia. Described in Scottish painter David Roberts‘ travelogue ‘…Egypt and Nubia’ as the most striking monuments of ancient Alexandria,
“Cleopatra’s Needles” later became geographically separated between London & New York where they were shipped and re-erected in 1878 & 1881 respectively.
With “Cleopatra” as its ongoing sideshow, the world has since become entangled in a profane Europatriarchal web of Gregorian-curated timelines, principals, narratives & agendas… an interwoven industrial “world order” staged around the indoor-outdoor museums of “her[?] needles.” Humanity may ascend out of this shadowy 3D matrix system by recentering the Twin Tkhn of Pharaoh Tuthmose III at their original settings, thereby (i) gaining an Africa-centered lens into humanity’s organic/indigenous space-time & unity-conscious cultural agency; & (ii) exposing hegemonic histories & world-views fabricated & upheld around “Cleopatra’s Needles” standings in latter-day “East-West/E-W“ coordinates & meridians: Read More
Queens of the South & the Mandela Effect
“SOUTH” is the entry point (Genesis) on The Medicine Wheel… the first of four cardinal directions and steps one takes to obtain wisdom and power in order to become the equivalent of a sangoma (shaman) who brings harmony and well-being to the community & humanity. Honoring the circular pattern of our cosmos, The Medicine Wheel has been used in indigenous cultures for eons to represent the organic cycles of life/nature within the womb of time – thus honoring Divine Feminine Mysteries and their potential. Following the four cardinal directions, the would-be sangoma proceeds clockwise on 
The Medicine Wheel to the “WEST” (land of sunsets & introspection); followed by the “NORTH” (where knowledge & wisdom have flowered in relation to “SOUTH”); & finally “EAST” – land of the rising sun where, through the successive challenges and phases of her journey, she has now obtained her own sovereign terms of enlightenment (Revelation). Read More
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction…” While butterflies symbolize… Read More
RePAIR/UbuNtu… ~ Rumi
“I Am, Because We Are… Since We Are, Therefore I Am” ~ UbuNtu ❤ ❤ ❤
Earth, Wind, Fire & Water
Earth Wind & Fire (EWF) is undoubtedly one of the greatest bands of all time, as their claim to three of the four natural elements suggest they should be! Hits like In the Stone provide EWF fans an Afrofuturistic portal through which to access and interpret some of the Mysteries of ancient Egypt, the “gift of the Nile.” Djehuti – god of communication/writing, magic and wisdom – recognized Africa as god’s chosen land where the northward flow of the Nile gave rise to sacred Mysteries, mythologies and the architectures that arose along its river-banks. He referred to this psycho-geographic mirror of heaven-on-earth (known locally as Maziwa Mkuu – “the Great Milk” or Milky Way) as the Temple of the World. 
At Uaset on the river’s east bank, Ipet Resyt – the “southern sanctuary” of god/dess consorts Amun-Mut – was constructed to resemble the human form. It was at such temples where ancient Mysteries were housed as sacred knowledge for chosen initiates. Inscribed within the stone walls of this temple’s ‘throat area’ is the pre-Christian Annunciation [1350BCE] from Amun to his beloved about the divine child and savior-figure she would bear. 
Well-versed in such ancient Theogony, some of which he himself is said to have authored, Djehuti understood EWF as base elements that separately defined each of humanity’s precursors to the breaking Age of the Bearer of Water – the 4th element which is swayed by the moon and, like Earth, is organically associated with the Divine Feminine [Mut]. The dawning Age of Aquarius is defined by this being the constellation the sun is moving into on the spring equinox in its 26,000-year journey through all 12 zodiac houses. Each successive grand age (approximately 2 millennia per sign) is heavily influenced by the sign’s element:
EARTH is the element which defined the Age of Taurus between c4400-2200 BCE, a time period traversing the Bronze Age which followed the previous Age of Gemini and supported the evolution of material culture around the world. Characterized by some as humanity’s Age of Growth, this was the grand age when the Sun was in the fixed sign of Taurus [Ausar – The Bull of Eternity]
. Ancient Egypt’s Early Dynastic Period [c3150-2613 BCE] began with the Unification of Upper (south) & Lower (north) Egypt under Pharaoh Menes aka Narmer in 3100BCE. 
Called Sema Tawy, this unification was symbolized as a human trachea arising from the lungs (heart-chakra) entwined with the papyrus (north) & lotus (south). Narmer‘s was the first of 30 successive dynasties which ruled and maintained civil order through a centralized government from the capital of Men-Nefer/Memphis. 
Ptah – god of craftsmen and sculptors who was venerated during this period – was heralded by Apis, the sacred bull-deity of ancient Egypt who was also the symbol of the Pharaohs of these times. 
By 2400BCE the basic formulation of the myth regarding Ausar-Auset, and their posthumously-conceived son Heru’s further contendings against Set (murderous throne-usurping god of foreigners, plague and chaos) was in place – a universal archetypal narrative which has survived from the Pyramid Texts to this day in derivative religious forms and “good-versus-evil” scripts and schemes that have been executed for better or worse around the world. Technological advances during this Age of Growth included the invention of hieroglyphs/Holy Writing [Djehuti] & manufacturing of papyrus/Paper which helped facilitate record-keeping, communication, etc. 
Furthermore, the Old Kingdom Period [c2613-2181BCE] saw two of the greatest architectural Wonders and Mysteries ever erected – 
the Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx which connect earth organically to heavenly powers. Seen another way, EARTH is the English language anagram for HEART… an ages-old Mystery mapped out from humanity’s womb & written in African stone… which “Set” has characteristically intended by any/all means to violate.
FIRE is the element which defined the years that led from c2200 BCE [following the transition between Egypt’s Old & Middle Kingdoms] to the beginning of the Common Era. This was the period when the Sun relocated from Taurus in its ongoing precession to arise in Aries [Amun The Ram] – leader of the western Zodiac, & the cardinal sign which begins the Spring season in the northern hemisphere. Uaset [Thebes/Luxor] had superseded Men-Nefer [Memphis] as the ancient Egyptian capital by 2240BCE. Amun, now the venerated deity, was worshipped in 2 main temples where the Gemini bonds formalized during the Age of Taurus continued to be upheld & ritualized at Amun-Mut‘s Ipet Isut [northern sanctuary – Karnak] & Ipet Resyt [southern sanctuary – Luxor].
Ipet-Resyt is where eternal truths (including those held in the ‘throat area’) – such as ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within you’ & ‘Know Thy Self’ – are written in stone. The Age of Aries is thus characterized by some as the Age of Law because this is when humanity’s first codes of justice and moral instruction were recorded. Of particular note were the Negative Confessions upon which Judeo-Christianity’s Ten Commandments were later formulated from the Papyrus of Ani source, recorded c1275-1250BCE during the prosperous New Kingdom era. Also known as the Declarations of Innocence, this recitation in the Halls of Judgment of 42 uncommitted sins facilitated the transition of the soul between their earthly incarnation and the afterlife. 
The soul was weighed in the scales against the feather of Ma’at, goddess of Truth, Balance, Divine Order, Harmony, Reciprocity, Reparations & Justice [Libra]. The Age of Aries additionally saw the rise of Akhenaten, whose reputation became that of ‘the heretic king’ after his unwelcome cultural reforms, including the self-centered monotheistic cult of Aten-worship he instituted & oversaw from Amarna [1353-1336BCE]. 
Aten’s successor, his son who renamed himself from Tut’Ankh’Aten (‘living image of Aten’) to Tut’Ankh’Amun (‘living image of Amun’) eventually restored ancient Egypt’s cultural traditions around Amun & returned its worship center to Uaset before his death at age 19 in 1324BCE.
WATER is the element which has defined the Common Era (Gregorian calendar) years to date during which the Sun transitioned to arise in Aries’ mutable neighbor Pisces, and usher in what some define as the Age of Faith. The 1450’s Gutenberg press & evolution of transportation fueled the global reach & self indulgent agendas mainly of Christianity amongst the Abrahamic faiths. Though their holy books were in agreement with each other – often representing derivative text from Kemetic sources – several wars broke out, due in part to competitive cult elements that developed around their egoic patriarchal ideologies. 
Africa’s experience during the Piscean Age of Faith – which began with the Greco-Roman construction of a Gregorian timeline around the life of Judeo-Christianity’s savior-figure, Jesus – has been a major revelation of the enduring myth written in ancient Egypt during the Age of Taurus. Ausar-Auset-Heru were the original holy trinity whose very being was tested by Set – god of foreign usurpers, plague and chaos.
Jealous of their Heaven-on-Earth glory in ancient Egypt, Set murdered & mutilated King Ausar, scattering his 14 separated body parts into a wilderness where Queen Auset was forced to conduct her search-&-recovery mission as Set illegitimately assumed the throne. The “wilderness” is allegorical to Africa’s experience of chattel slavery [1619-]; 
the colonial rape and reconstruction of Africa [1884-]; apartheid [1948-] etc… all at the hands of foreign invaders [“Set”] who justified such acts and their accompanying atrocities in the name of the god(s) of their heavily-published “faith(s).” In the ancient mythology, Auset mummified the 13 pieces she was able to recover of her husband, while relying on divine intervention to posthumously conceive their son Heru, despite Ausar’s missing 14th piece, symbolized as the tkhn. Christianity translated this episode into its account of the “Immaculate Conception,” 
replacing Heru with Jesus (+crucifixion plot twist) as avenging son & savior who restores Heaven-on-Earth’s rightful rule. “ΑΩ White Man’s Burden… Manifest Destiny… Western Exceptionalism… Zionism… Trumpism” = samples of the Age of Faith’s cult-like justifications & controlling narratives that continue to be extolled, executed, & policed.
AIR is the element which will define the next 2,000+ years as humanity decides what the narrative and legacy of this new Age of Aquarius should be(come) during the sun’s rising and sojourn prior to travelling from the Aquarius constellation to the next – presumably Capricorn. 
What’s fascinating to me is that the sun’s own path of enlightenment is a reverse journey through the western zodiac which is sequenced as Aries ruling the 1st house… Taurus the 2nd, Gemini the 3rd etc. through to the 12th and final house of Pisces. As Sankofa from the ancient African wisdom of the Akan suggests, perhaps there was something forgotten, lost, &/or stolen from a previous era which is absolutely necessary for humanity’s holistic Ascension? 2019 – Africa’s “Year of Return” – marked the end of 400 prophetic “wilderness” years [via Set] in the northern hemisphere. One might view this as an initiation period in which the south-north bonds [UbuNtu/Sema Tawy] that were avowed in ancient Egypt during the aforementioned Ages of Ausar [Taurus] & Amun [Aries] following Egypt’s pre-Dynastic Age of Gemini are once again affirmed. Some have referred to 2019 as the “Year of the Divine Feminine” and 2020 as the “Year of the Divine Masculine,” while envisioning 2021 as the reunification “Year of Divine Twins” [Gemini]. 
Aquarius, the fixed air sign in western astrology, is symbolized as the water-bearer of the zodiac. Divine Twins who’ve spent lifetimes journeying towards reunification through self-reflection now offer their enriched drinking gourds to each other & say to the intuitive-emotional water element within, “Be still, and know that I ❤ AM GOD” [Psalm 46]. Air, the element Gemini, Libra, & Aquarius represent, is the oral-aesthetic energy which reveals itself in Kemet’s south-north/lotus-papyrus unification symbol as well as the Annunciation in the ‘throat area’ of Ipet Resyt [southern sanctuary – Luxor]. Perhaps this Age of UbuNtu/New Earth is a Revelation ~ the ancient Promise of True.Love.Written.In.The.Stone [EWF] Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
Malaika Mutere 