#osunmare

The rainbow is always there. Just have to look up or go outside to actually see it! ✨🙏🥰🌈

Rainbows are a symbol of hope in many cultures. In Christian culture, a rainbow promises better times to come – the Abrahamic god sent one to Noah after the great flood as a sign that people could go forth and multiply without fear of another calamitous drowning.

"A rainbow is a sign of blessing for your ventures, those close to you, and yourself. It is a powerful sign and it can be seen as a message from the Universe or Spirit that you are headed in the right direction. Much like the biblical meaning or symbolism, it signifies and end to difficulty and despair."

The rainbow is made up of the seven formative forces or rays and while it is a beautiful and often breathtaking phenomenon, it has also come to have a deeper meaning; It’s a symbol of all of creation and of the unity of all those formative forces and colors that create the world we live in.

In Chinese mythology, a double rainbow, represents the movement from earth to heaven due to its reversal of colors from the single rainbow. It is also considered to be a sign of future success.

This concept of coming and going between the realm of the gods and the world is shared in many ancient shamanistic cultures as well. Such as the early Celts, the Norse and other Germanic peoples.

In African Spirituality, Osumare or Osunmare, who is a very special Orisha, represents the energy of rainbows. For it is very rare to find an Orisha with the suffix "mare". Typically one only finds the suffix "mare" in the title Oludumare. Oludumare is the supreme energy of the universe i.e. God.

Osu means the source, the moon, or the spirit of the source. Osun is also related to the menstrual cycle.

"Mare" has several meanings attached to it including serpent, deepness, the essence and the immensity of power. Great feminine energy is represented in the term Osumare.

Osumare, the rainbow serpent is only possible when 2 elements are present. These elements are water and sunlight. When the sun's rays hit water at an angle of 42 degrees a rainbow is manifest. The colors of the rainbow actually represent the colors of the chakras.

In essence, Osumare or the rainbow is an external archetypal representation of kundalini energy. Kundalini is the unobstructed flow of energy through the chakras, from the root to the crown. We are not meant to linger in any one chakra house, they are stepping stones and should be viewed as such.

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