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This blog serves as a space for me to share my journey with you angels, as well as to create a safe space for those who resonate with these vibrations and reasoning. Peace, love and blessings to you all, The Divine Collective ✨ instagram: thedivine111

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Melancholic Moodz

It’s a gloomy day,

my melancholic mind sways,

from the future to the past.

How long will this suffering last?

Thoughts of lost freedom haunt me.

The efforts for my future are daunting.

The sun is not shining,

and I feel like I am dying.

But the dark always comes before the light,

being swept up in my darkest midnight.

Close my eyes, and wait to see

the light that is promised to me.

-L.L.

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My Nu Moon Ritual 🌙

Peace to the Gods and Goddesses. It has been a while, but as we know the material world loves to suck us in and distract us from what is important. Today, I will be sharing my Nu Moon ritual in honour of the Libra Nu Supermoon happening this Friday, the 16th of October. I’m a Libra moon so I’m anticipating a magical night. I like to harness the energy of the Nu Moon to organize my goals and desires and to give them the cosmic push they need for manifestation. Our ancient ancestors looked to the dark sky as a clean slate to manifest their desires so I look to them when I’m doing my Nu moon ritual. Note briefly that a ritual is simply the practical application of our theoretical spiritual knowledge. A ritual can be anything you want it to be. But my general rule in life is “the simpler, the better”. Get to the point. It doesn’t have to be some big fancy candle lit ritual. It could simply be writing down your desires and praying for them. It’s all up to you and your discernment. But anywho, let me get into my Nu Moon Ritual.

Firstly, I make sure that it is the Moon hour. Planetary hours of the day are key for any sort of ritual as we channel the energy of the planet and more specifically that aspect of the Most High. Secondly and most importantly, I clean my room and myself. Spirit doesn’t like dirty. We all know the saying “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”? Take that literally. Spirit cannot flow freely in a dirty space. I discard of all items I am no longer using or organize them to be given away. I use this night as an opportunity to purge. (though some may argue that a full moon is better for purging, it’s all about YOUR intention.) I then energetically cleanse the room. I like to do this with cleansing music, sage and incense. As I am moving through the room with my sage, I cast out all dense, negative energy and demons out of myself and the space through prayer. “May all dense negative energy leave this room and leave me with this smoke.” I then meditate to silence the mental noise and to channel my higher self. I do this with the lights off and a candle lit. After that, in my higher-self-state (I can literally feel the mental difference when I channel Her), I take my journal and start writing under the candle light. I do this because I’m trying to preserve my higher self’s presence and a radical change in environment will surely disturb my meditative state. I write out everything that I am asking God and my ancestors and angels for; everything that I can think of that I want or need and sometimes I like to add manifestations based on the theme of the sign the moon is in. For example, this Nu Moon, I will be manifesting more love for my union because Libra, ruled by Venus, has a theme of partnerships. After I’m done journaling, I go to my alter and light a candle. I pray for what it is I am asking for over the candle and sometimes I will add offerings. Popular offerings include money, flowers, alcohol and food. The key is to have a clear mind and a clear heart when praying at the alter because the clearer your intentions are, the more able God and your ancestors and angels are able to assist you. It is crucial that you watch how your candle burns. Things like drips, flame dancing and popping and the size of the flame are crucial to understand how your prayer was received by Spirit and how it will play out. I will link the website I use to decipher my candle. After this ritual, I go about my business, typically going to bed.

I must remind you again that this is only my method of a Nu Moon ritual. The thing about rituals, as long as you’re following the greater universal laws, there are really no rules. The key of rituals is your focus and intention. The key to all “magic” is your focus and intention. Keep your mind and heart centred on what it is you wish to achieve.

I hope you all have a great Libra Nu Moon. Rest, reset, manifest!  

planetary hours: http://www.astrology.aaazen.com/hours/newyork.html 

candle signs: https://www.groveandgrotto.com/blogs/articles/the-candle-signs-dictionary

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The Divine Imbalance

"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."--The Kybalion – The Principle of Gender

Within us all exists the masculine and feminine energy, no matter our gender or sexual orientation. This is what is considered our yin and yang energies. Yin being the masculine and yang being the feminine. When we observe the symbol, we see that there is a bit of masculine in the feminine and a bit of feminine in the masculine. This is representative of the distribution of our energy. However, within modern day society, we have an imbalance in the way our masculine and feminine energies are appreciated and nurtured. We all see and know that there is a direct emphasis on the masculine. We live in a crippling patriarchy that not only hype-masculinizes our men but masculinize our women , and idolizes the most toxic of masculine thought and action that further perpetuates hyper-masculinity. A lot of our societal ills can be attributed to both issues. The gentle, intuitive feminine energy is classed as inferior to the direct, logical masculine energy. A lot of women are forced to put this part of their nature aside in return for respect by the patriarchy.  This has invalidated the plight of women who have ascended alongside their more idolized male counterpart (e.g. Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Thoth and Ma’at and so on)  and has left the psyche of modern-day women shattered and our self-esteem low. In men, this gentle and emotional feminine energy is demonized and results in over-aggressive, unbalanced masculine energy that is hurtful and that is tormenting to the man himself. When he has no outlet to be emotional and intuitive, the pent-up energy manifests itself in evil ways. As a modern-day woman, I’ve had to battle my overly-masculinized psyche. It has impacted my relationships with men where I feel my masculine energy becomes overbearing to the already masculine energy presented to me by the man. I’ve had to confront my own reluctance to be soft and gentle and see this as normal. I’ve definitely had to become more accepting that I am an emotional being and not an emotionless corpse as I used to love to identify as. As spiritual, divine men and women we have to heal our divine masculine and feminine energies. But we must first take time to become acquainted with them and understand what it means to be a divine man and a divine woman. Now, I can only make you aware of this imbalance, but the internal work and research is yours to do. Pray and meditate on it. All the answers are in you. I love you, divine being.

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Okay, so when are people gonna stop calling Vodou, Hoodoo, Santeria, and every other Traditional African Religion black magic and by black magic, I mean evil because it’s 2018  2019 2020 and people are out here still thinking these religions are evil all because it’s not “Love and Light.”

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Got Me Fucked Up

War – Bob Marley

These past few days have been tense. The death of an unarmed Black Man, George Floyd (may his soul rest in peace) has sent a lot of people into uproar on the systematic abuse of Black People in The United States of America. However, we’ve seen this scene before; lootings, burning buildings, and police in riot gear. Tear gas and people in the streets. But for some reason, this time it feels different. It feels like a seal has been cracked in the psyche of black people as the horrendous news continues to circulate every social media site. It’s a brutal reminder of what it is like to be Black in Amerikkka. As a Jamaican, as a Black Woman, the pain and anger I feel is overwhelming though I have no direct connection to the situation. But I know as Black People, we all have an indirect connection through our Black spirit to George Floyd. This man was our brother and they took his life away in a chauvinistic display of disregard for Black lives. As this video spreads, the internet has exploded with hashtags for Black victims of the same fate – men and women who are inhumanely slaughtered by police forces for no justifiable reason. And do not think I’m only talking about Black Americans, I am talking about Black People all around the world, from The United Kingdom right down to the city of Kingston where a disabled woman’s life was taken by police forces in August Town while at rest. When is this going to end? When are we as Black People going to understand the unlimited spiritual and physical power we hold as a unified collective? WE ARE OUR OWN ALLY – WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN. Look at our ancestors who unified and revolted against slavery. Are we not their descendants? The heirs and heiresses of power inexplicable through words, but through our actions and our spirit? When will we unite to provide peace and equity to every Black Woman, Man and Child? Well, I am ready to unite. I hope you are too.

On a lighter note, please continue to be weary of the tension and your emotions. This is a difficult time for us right now and we must utilize appropriate practices to maintain our inner peace, e.g. yoga, exercise, meditation, crying etc. It’s okay to feel angry, sad, shocked or simply broken (I cried), but it is not okay to drain your spirit trying to stay updated with the case or anything else going on in the world for that matter. This negativity is not worth your peace, and Babylon thrives off our negative emotions anyway. They’ve been doing it for centuries. We must learn how to transmute our painful emotions into powerful actions to help those who cannot help themselves.

Peace and blessings to you all, stay safe.

“Racial discrimination, by nature of its aftermath, like a sleeping volcano, is capable of erupting anytime.” - His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I

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A Mother’s Day Medz

Mother’s Day has always been bittersweet for me. Over the past two years, as my relationship with my mother improves, I take time to reflect on where it’s coming from. If you knew me in high school, and were close to me, you’d know that my relationship with my mother was not always the best. She was a tough love kind of mother; always working to provide for our family, and making sure that my life was on track no matter the protests or the tears that flowed. For a long time, I viewed her actions as disdain for me. I couldn’t understand why she’d get so frustrated with me (even when I was being a little bitch), and as I got older, I couldn’t understand why it felt like I had raised myself. By 16, I began to rebel, doing whatever I felt like doing no matter if mommy liked it or not. I was partying, always out and barely had any kind of relationship with her. This continued to a point where I started to feel like a stranger in my own home and at my young age, that only propelled me further and further away from her. As a result, my relationship with my whole family degraded as well. These were some of the loneliest moments of my life. At that point, I viewed myself as an impostor in my family. But everything changed one fateful day in 2017 when we got into an argument. This triggered the first painful conversation about how I felt. I explained how as a child, I’d never felt her presence or love in my life. She explained her side, making me aware of the decisions she had to make for the betterment of our lives and that it had nothing to do with that imaginary disdain for me.  What I had experienced in my childhood was a consequence of where we were in life at that point. At 17, this barely meant anything to me, but now it means everything to me. Over the following years, during moments that would trigger the old feelings I had towards her, we’d have the painful conversations about the trauma that made me react to her that way. As I continue to identify and heal my childhood trauma, I am able to grow in love for her and myself. My mother finally became a human being in my eyes. I hope to write more about childhood trauma and healing in the future!

Mother is Divine!

On Mother’s Day, I think it’s vital to not only acknowledge our mothers as our earthly mothers, but as divine creators. Only God and Women can create life. (Don’t watch those Frankenstein doctors, they are not divine.) However, the society we live in overlooks how significant this is. Consequentially, we live in a very unbalanced world. Naturally, the masculine energies have taken control (as it is a more active energy) but they have neglected to created the appropriate space for divine feminine energy to manifest something deeper. This is a reason why many people lack spirituality and love. This is the reason why there’s so much war around us, and inside us. It is all that simple. I personally find this very sad but ironic as we were all conceived out of the most powerful act of love! Love is our very being. As such, it is important for us to cultivate that divine feminine energy within ourselves, and honour it around us. I will be writing about this very soon!

Today, take time to reflect on your relationship with your mother. What would you tell your younger self about your mother? How did your mother make you feel as a child? And what are some moments that made you feel profound love for her? If you can, remind her how much you love her. She loves you too. For those of you who do not have your mothers today or have a bad relationship with her, I pray for you and her as I know today isn’t easy for you. Please take it easy my beautiful people. Talk to you soon!

 BIG UP MAMA GAIA AS WELL! 

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The Genesis

Greetings, my name is Lauren Less and WELCOME! This is my blog, The Divine Collective. My intention for this blog is to create a high vibration, spiritual community with you, my readers. By being a part of this community, you are a part of The Divine Collective!! (though we are all naturally divine) This will be a community of kindness and acceptance. We’re all on a journey, and we cannot judge those who are at a different stage than us. A lot of topics will be posted on this blog, and they’re all centered around our growth. This blog is one of the many ways I plan to give back to the collective. I think sharing knowledge and ideas is a prolific way to help people. Most times, what we need to hear is a different perspective. I think a lot, and love to write so this is perfect for me to share my light with you! Take what resonates with you. I would love to hear your perspectives too, in the comments, a tweet or a dm. The journey, though internal, does not have to be lonely. We’re all here to learn from each other.

A little bit about my own journey...

Since I was 16, I’ve been searching. From I was 16, my heart and soul knew that life involved so much more than the false reality surrounding me. But what was it? I had so many questions but so little answers. But my desire for experiencing life and expanding my mind’s eye grew as I grew. Four years later, after many experiences, good and bad, many studies and many reasonings, I have developed my own perspective of the world and my own spiritual insight. And that insight is still growing! I have so much in store for us. Happy reading my angels, kings and queens!

“As the soul evolves, so does the journey.”

777

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Give thanks! We’re now live and any and everything is possible ❤️ who Jah blessss