#ahosigbe

When the river's waters get murky, they might get a little scared and accelerate their flow, in an attempt to carry away the debris and clear their vision again. What the river doesn't know is that those murky waters are dark because they're full of nutrients. If you accelerate, you'll be dragging away your own blessings before they take root, mature and bloom. Sometimes they need to slow down and expand into a marsh to bring about new life. What the river forgets too, is that the bed of clay holding them won't go anywhere, no matter how fast or slow the flow goes, no matter how clear or mudded the waters are. The path is laid, allow it to guide you. All in Ancestors' timing.

I could be going through the hardest time of my life but an Elder calls me daughter I am reborn... another Indigenous woman addresses me as sister I resuscitate... this is what I was born to do (love and be loved)

Mastering yourself means going against hundreds of years of systemic disempowerment, actively remembering and re-igniting the path of power and understanding our Ancestors had for thousands of years before that, and doing it not just for you, but for everyone around you and after you.

"Instead of the patriarchal way of using wars and violence for empire buildings, the matriarchal Queen Mothers create alliances with other matriarchal peoples by marriage politics in which the Royal House itself gets related to it's people with close Clan connections (...) in order to expand and connect to each other all of them, creating a Society of relatives." —Modern Matriarchal Studies.