#dark wisdom

Enunciation, the verbal manifestation of an idea is its first encounter with reality, but a word no longer exists once it’s finished being spoken. Abracadabra, an ancient magical word assumed to mean “I create when I speak” can then be understood not as a spell in the classical sense, with an ability of its own to affect physical reality, but instead as a warning and a promise, to oneself and the world, of the realisation of an idea or endeavour through magic (action, reaction and choice), and then as a reminder too, of our ability to transmute.

And this power can be used to affect inner reality (the self) as much as outer reality (the world), for our actions, reactions and choices have the deepest impact on our lives, and we can make or let imaginary things affect us, or not.

What makes something real?

There is a room, within dwells a relentless Dragon, I am warned not to go in but I do so anyway. If the warning was false and the beast is not real, I'll remain in the room, unaffected. However, if the warning was true and the beast is real, I'll be devoured, thus affected…

Something real has the ability to affect.

Reality is comparative, it only makes sense when at least two objects are considered, one affecting another. "Is the Sun real [to me]?"

Reality is reciprocal, two objects can affect each other, an object can affect itself. "Am I real to the Sun? To myself?"

Mami Wata 🧜🏾‍♀️

is a complex symbol with so many resonances that she feeds the imagination, generating, rather than limiting, meanings and significances. She is at once a nurturing mother; sexy mama; provider of riches; healer of physical and spiritual ills; and embodiment of dangers and desires, risks and challenges, dreams and aspirations, fears and forebodings. People are attracted to the seemingly endless possibilities she represents and, at the same time, frightened by her destructive potential. She inspires a vast array of emotions, attitudes, and actions among those who worship her, fear her, study her, and create works of art about her.