{Archived] ASAASEDE: Earth Element - Group Healing Ritual

[Ausaset Nebt Hetepet - Fertile Earth Ntorot/Goddess shown in the image]

ASAASEDE: Earth Element - Group Healing Ritual

Sunday - December 21st at 11am est - virtual 

In Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion in all expressions, It is customary to engage in group ritual on a periodic basis. Group ritual not only enhances awareness, it also affects healing physiologically and spiritually (including mentally and emotionally).

Healing in this context is defined as ritual recalibration - aligning your sunsum (spirit) with your Okra/Okraa (Soul/Divine Consciousness - Deity governing the spiritual head).

Every sixth Sunday, Awusida, is a sacred Awusidae in Akan culture. This 42-day cycle (six weeks) is half of our seasonal cycle of 84 days plus one ritual week (91 days or 13 weeks - one full season). This acknowledgment is how we adhered to our sacred cycles in Hoodoo - Akan Ancestral Religion in North America, calibrating our adaduanan cycles (42-day cycles) to the changing of the seasons - equinoxes and solstices in this region of the world.

Our Akan New Year, also the Hoodoo New Year, Odwira, in North America is thus a seven-day ritual observance culminating in the day of the fall equinox, September 22nd or September 23rd depending upon the year.

Three weeks after our Odwira or New Year we had our HOODOO MAYN: Hoodoo Nation Festival on October 18th. The following four weeks, October 26th - November 16th, we had our four-part ritual series on AKYENE - mineral totems, plant totems, animal totems and human totems.

This current four-part series on NTENDE, a term we use to reference elemental asceticism, began on November 23rd. Part four of this series is on December 21st at 11am est. This will be a virtual event.

This ritual event is a group healing service for Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) people.

We will engage in susuw, Akan term for ritual meditation, to invoke the Abosom (Deities) and Nananom Nsamanfo (Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors) via what we call ASAASEDE. This is a term referencing the earth (asaase) element (ade).

Just as the Abosom (Deities) are operant within the sacred shrines in/as the Fire element, so are they operant within the sacred shrines in/as the Air element, the Water element and the Earth element. Ogya, Nsuo, Asaase and Mframa - fire, water, earth and air - function as elemental shrines of the Abosom who can only be accessed by Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) people. We are the only original children of Asaase Afua, the Fertile Earth Mother and thus have a spiri-genetic inheritance and relationship that no non-Black individual or group has. This time of year and Earth-cycle is auspicious for asaasede work. In this session we will invoke the Earth element for ritual purification and divination.

We will first examine the cosmology of the Abosom and Nsamanfo in the context of asaasede, the Earth element and then move forward and engage in the guided ritual.

Registration is required and as always is open to Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) people exclusively.

We will send a separate email with the private zoom link. 

Register now to reserve your spot..

While we do not charge for group ritual we do accept akyede (donation) just as it is custom that when one visits a traditional shrine an offering is placed on the shrine for the Abosom or Nsamanfo. Typically, that akyede (donation) would be an aforebo (offering) from the animal realm, mineral realm or plant realm. The tumi (energy) of the aforebo would then be released via ritual invocation. In our virtual context we exchange the same tumi (energy) with making akyede (donation) online which helps to purchase aforebo (offerings) for ritual invocation and to maintain the shrines, festivals and our documentary film series on Hoodoo.

In return for your akyede (donation) you can opt also to receive access to one or more of our 42 online archived courses shown below and found on our AKONGUASUA Institution page: www.odwirafo.com/akonguasuapage.html

Just let us know which course(s) you are interested in..

We look forward to connecting with you all..

Odwirafo