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.

Abundance comes in… if the river is dammed, constricted, or its banks cannot contain its current the flow dries up. You chase and cling to last of it before it’s absorbed or evaporated just like the opportunities that slip through your fingers.

You are literally at capacity. The riverbed is too small. The banks are too tight. the vessel too small.

Right now more flow = overwhelm or breaking the banks.

But when you honor Oshun’s sweet waters and her natural flow. When you allow your sacral to open, the river expands. The channel deepens. The capacity increases.

You become the vessel that can hold bigger surges of abundance, wealth, pleasure, creativity, love, and joy without panic, without leaking, or shattering because the flow was too much.

And that’s the sacred loop Oshun has been singing through every river since creation: abundance is not a thing to possess—it is flow itself, pure sweet water that must move freely in and out of your life to stay alive. Clench your fists around the last drops, grip with fear or scarcity, and watch every drop evaporate anyway…..the very resistance dries up the current, shrinks the riverbed, and turns abundance into drought.

Release instead.

Let it arrive with open palms.

A practice that changed my relationship with abundance and the ability to receive is the art of Arigato. Arigato means “thank you” in Japanese. Arigato for flowing to me, for the joy and possibility you carry. Let it leave with a grateful bow….Arigato for the service, the exchange, the space you’re clearing for fresher waters.

Practice this every time you make a purchase no matter how big or small. Arigato for my coffee. Arigato for my mortgage payment.

And every time you receive money. Arigato for flowing to me. Arigato to the dime I found on the street. Arigato for the new client I attracted.

Every inflow is a gift arriving on the tide; every outflow is the tide returning to the sea, only to rise again richer and renewed.

Thank every wave as it comes and goes. Arigato to the endless current. 🌊🍯💛

Stef**

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