Oshun And Abundance 🧡 🍯 🌊
There are many stories of Oshun the Yoruba Orisha. All are sacred. Listen well. Olodumare, the Supreme Creator, sent 17 Irunmole — 16 powerful male Orishas and one radiant young goddess — to bring life to the barren Earth. The male Orishas, confident in their strength and structured powers, largely ignored or dismissed Oshun. They viewed her domain….soft, flowing, emotional, pleasurable….as secondary or unnecessary for the “real” work of creation. They excluded her influence and pushed ahead with their own efforts: forging tools, shaping land, building, and attempting to spark life through force, wisdom, and labor. They planned. They worked. They built. And they failed completely. The Earth stayed cracked, dry, lifeless. No rivers. No forests. No babies crying. No laughter. No abundance. Nothing could take root. Nothing could grow. Nothing could sustain. They had left out the one Orisha whose essence was flow and abundance itself. Then she arrived — Oshun. Golden honey skin. Hips like living water. A calabash of sweet, golden water in her hands. She didn’t argue. She didn’t force. She simply poured her flowing, juicy waters. The moment her sweet waters touched the dry ground, rivers exploded into being. Waterfalls roared. Plants burst open in wild color. Animals appeared. Humans were born. Love, creativity, fertility, wealth. Everything juicy and alive began to multiply. They finally understood: Without the sweet, flowing feminine current, nothing can be sustained. Power without pleasure is sterile. Structure without flow is barren. Abundance without the ability to hold it is just another flood that drains away. The sacral chakra, that vessel of beautiful, pleasurable water sitting just below your belly button…. It is Oshun’s river living inside you. When it’s dammed, narrow or constricted — blocked by guilt of wanting more, shame about pleasure, fear of “too much,” or old stories that say “I can’t hold this” your life stays barren in the exact same way.