As I lay there in the moss and trees, looking up at the starry sky, feeling overwhelmed with my life being so low, I felt ethereal.
I cried a little bit. I had accepted my fate. I’m broke. I can’t stay in a hotel or an Airbnb anymore. I lost the job I just got. I can’t call anyone for help because I am embarrassed by current circumstances and I let somebody else make me feel like there’s nothing anybody would want to do for me anyway.
As I left the hotel looking at my accounts in regret, I felt a sense of sadness and despair I’d never felt before but always knew would come. I abandoned my ego and began to drag behind me my entire existence in a suitcase with the rest in my back down the street. I felt the need to cross the road and find somewhere I felt somewhat safe and hidden from anyone else. I started walking up to this office building complex. It was getting cold and I was tired from trying to find shelter all day on and off buses in the city. I cut into the trees and started walking through the grassy area, feeling the sticks from branches crunch under my feet.
My suitcase wheel was stuck in a muddy spot so I just dropped the handle. Nearby was a stream of water running. I took off my book bag and started making my sleeping area. I used it as my pillow and looked up. I saw the clear star-studded sky. No clouds or irritable lighting from the streets were blocking my view.
This was supposedly the evening when all the black people got superpowers. But I was so hurt at how low I fell from grace that it wasn’t even a thought.
I remember just being one with everything.
After I made a post on my Facebook asking for help with $50 to have another night at the motel 6 near me, I stared into space. I started thinking about how I had nothing. I had No one. I was completely alone in all my efforts to change things around. I sacrificed my comfort for truth. I sacrificed everything including my pride by leaving my children with their fathers to finally get my life together by starting to focus on taking care of me! And I sunk into a new low I was avoiding for so many years, homelessness.
Most magically, I told myself, “Hey, it’s not that bad. I’m still alive and well. They’re safe and supported, not in this shitty feeling!”
Then I heard myself saying how I just accept it as is. I’m No longer fighting to make things my way anymore. I surrender to whatever the divine wants me to do. In my own voice I said aloud, “DIVINE POWER whatever you will, I will do it! I give up doing it on my own! I’m tired of being lost and tricked!”
And just like that, I received the $50 to go to the hotel. I went to my Facebook page while I got up off the ground. A guy from high school saw my post, asked if I was alright, and sent me the money. I was so grateful and I thanked him for his generosity.
I went back to the motel 6, got a room, and went to sleep quickly.
The next day I checked out the joint, hopped on the bus with the pass I bought, and went to the mall.
I said out loud. “Angel guides, I’m ready to go home now. Show me what to do!”
An hour later, my uncle called me on Facebook to ask me to come home and sent me a car to the bus station and he picked me up. His coworkers gave me some clothes, lotion, perfumes, purses, and a heavy coat with winter boots. I was working in a plan for making money as a self-employed person and I kept repeating the manifesto anytime I was overwhelmed by emotion that was good and bad. I thought I was going to get money from the government to pay for my temporary car but it wasn’t coming that quickly. So I said, “well, I must have to go home to get the money I need and when I do, I’ll get the car and start work immediately!”
I did two offerings to Oshun when I came home. Once because of a dream I had and the next day I got the gifts from my uncles coworkers. The second one was for after I received my car for work. I got a lump sum of money, got new glasses and while I was sitting in the car I was thinking about how to spend more of it. Then I asked myself, “what did I say I was going to do?” And the car I test drove in Marietta had rode passing us at the red light and I remembered that I said I would complete the task and get the car!
I booked the reservation and then a ride to the car, paid my rental fee and deposit, then went to the parking garage to see the vehicle that I was going to get. It was the exact same car that I test drove in a later year. I sage and invoke my gratitude for that day and opportunity. I took the car to get a wash and went to the river once I got honey and gave the offering to her.
Now astrologically speaking I was in my Saturn return during this transitional period. I had lost everything I was trying to hold onto with No real way of understanding how to do it with so much opposition. Every time I thought I figured it out, I got the wind knocked out of me to the point where I saw I had to start over again, from scratch.
The longest night of 2020, after the election drama, the mask BS, the most important part of this was that my faith rose to the occasion. Something deep inside of me was waiting for birth in my life. I had finally had enough of leading my life without any other source to guide me. I felt like a child trying to make decisions about things I had no clue to deal with because I just wanted to be great and successful. I was impulsive with my choices for so long that I didn’t realize it until I couldn’t move anymore from it.
Saturn really did that for me.
Awakening me to my true potential meant that I had to surrender to the present reality. I had to release my limited knowledge and perspective of what is possible and let the higher power be a part of my journey. It wasn’t missing in action, it was just in the background and I didn’t want to listen to it because it reminded me of how wrong I was about things. And those things were me trying my absolute best to fix my mistakes. I abandoned myself in every relationship I was in and then they abandoned me in return. I gave so much positivity for them to reach their potential and never gave myself the same. And if I ever had, I was always met with opposition and hurt that I never understood. And therefore, I abandoned my own feelings for the sake of others' peace and respect that they never had.
That long night outside is a bookmark for me to always remember what is important to me and how I can make it through. I will always be grateful for what the divine gift me and multiple that back into the universe.
I understood what oneness is all about when I had no choice but to surrender to the fact that it is what it is. The peace I found was undeniable and I felt so much better knowing that the key was acceptance all along. It’s never the end. And besides, with any situation and circumstance, I can handle it. I always have.