The Lotus Journey Podcast

Greetings Lotuses,

In the midst of the daily hustle & bustle of being women with our duties to our work, children, home, men &, of course, ourselves... we experience many moments that can be seen as rites of passage.

These rites of passages started from our youth though for many of us, growing up, we were not guided through these life shifting moments with the awareness that these were, indeed, rites of passages - significant moments that would forever shift how we express ourselves.

In this candid conversation, Ren and I, share bits of our stories of how we felt becoming women and when we began to recognize that we were, indeed, women.

It’s lots of laughter, interruptions from my children and cups turning over but, it’s real. It’s raw. It’s women connecting in our differences & finding similarities.

Click the link in my bio to give it a listen.

What was your initiation into womanhood like?

Did you recognize the moment you became a women?

Did you have guidance as you shifted into womanhood?

Let us know. Visit us on Instagram @lotuswombsawakening

Greetings Lotuses, sharing some candid thoughts surrounding the rites of passage that natural occur in our journeys as women, mothers, healers. I am, still, journeying through my home country, Jamaica and find myself in the thick of transitions. Who will I be on the other side of all of these changes, triggers and lessons? Also, my sun makes his debut with some coos. Blessings to all.

There are two dominant forces that we have within us and that surround us — The Masculine & Feminine or, as described in Taoism as, Yin and Yang. Yin, being the feminine and Yang being the masculine.

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This can also be looked at on a more scientific level as the left and right brain perspectives of life. The left brain hemisphere is known as the masculine side and governs the right side of the human body and the right brain hemisphere is feminine and governs the left side of the body. So, our left side of our body is the feminine and our right side of our bodies is masculine BUT the left side of the brain is masculine and the right side of the brain is feminine.

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Feminine and Masculine goes beyond gender and speaks of the characteristic of our being, nature and energy. With quick research one can look up feminine and masculine characteristics. We all carry both of these principles within us ... in different degrees and the goal is to balance our masculine and feminine energies within ourselves and within this Universe...

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Science says that, though the left and right brain hemisphere can, and does, work, independently, they do their best when they work TOGETHER. The goal, is for us to see the value in the feminine as much we do the masculine and this goes from the literal gender based view to the esoteric and energetic views of bringing balance to one’s self and this universe.

There’s been a lot of tension these last few weeks and, as is the flow of life, the tension around us very much affects within us ... and in many ways, is a reflection of the ongoing tension that resides within us all, individually and collectively.

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A few weeks ago, I came across some information on the traumatic experiences that happened in the Rasta Community in April 1963. I decided to go down the rabbit hole and found information on how much segregation Rastafarians have endured within their own Black Communities, over the years. I have seen this, growing up in Jamaica but never quite understood why Rastas were looked down on and why young people were so deterred from embodying anything that resembled the Rasta man... like locing their hair.

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Simultaneously, and this was to my surprise, in April 1963 ... Martin Luther King was in Alabama fighting against the White Supremacists Segregation.

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What was interesting to me was that the very same thing happening in America was happening in Jamaica except it wasn’t White Supremacists (though idk if Bustamate was a white supremacist) and white cops and white people who were suppressing the Rastas... it was their own black people.

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So, this brought to my mind the concept of the “European Supremacy Consciousness” and how it can be rooted in any being ... and how throughout the centuries many Black people have had this European supremacy consciousness planted within them and had an aversion to anything related to black consciousness and black freedom. I think this is the very thing that caused so many Black people to look down on Rasta men and women who refused to live their lives from the standards of Europeans ... they refused to live by European Consciousness... as they did not incarnate as European Beings...

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Listen to the full podcast episode to understand the full message and feel free to ask me questions and leave, respectful, comments... even if we have different perspectives and/or opinions, all is welcomed to be shared once done so, respectfully. Tune in.

Link to blog post: https://ashmakeda.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/soul-speaks-you-are-never-given-more-than-you-can-bear-mama/

Greetings all, this is just to serve as a brief explanation of the sudden name change from ‘Black Wombs Awakening’ to ‘Lotus Wombs Awakening. It’s sudden on the outside looking in, but I’ve felt this changing coming for a long time and had signs, time and time again, come to let me know ... it was, really, coming. So, on this New Moon in Aquarius, I birth a space of universal knowledge and healing as we journey, still, through the terrains of healing Black Consciousness.

Greetings all, Ash Makeda here. Tonight I’m sharing some thoughts around Jamaica and what it’s been like these last few years as I’ve been in transition of migrating from Jamaica and, slowly, moving back to Jamaica as a young wife, mother and creative entrepreneur. These are just some my perspectives from the experiences I have had and in no way paints the full picture of Life in Jamaica, but I acknowledge that my piece of the puzzle counts. Gratitude to all who tunes in and looking forward to share more thoughts as the journey continues. You can listen to this episode through various platforms by clicking more platforms!

I know for me ... when I was strong in the church... I would feel the Spirit and this would be the proof, in my mind, that Christianity must be the right way... but then I learned that I am the church, my body is my temple and the Spirit is within me ... so it isn’t anything outside of me that evokes a spiritual response like speaking in tongues or dancing in the Holy Spirit ... these things are apart of us, naturally.

When we are present in spaces of good vibrations and/or amongst people who are high in their own personal vibrations and/or tuned in to the higher vibrations of life, ourselves ... we will be able to channel, and speak different tongues and/or move our bodies in the flow.

You see ... it isn’t anything outside of us that connects us to God ... it is all within and how we choose to express is unique to our beings and journeys. Bless.

Hey hey hey. Updating this space because I want this space to be as authentic as possible and not just a space to teach or share topics of research but, a place for me to share ... me, the good, the bad, the high, the low, the pretty, the ugly. Aiming to always keep it real as I journey.

This was a candid recording ... it just came to me because I had in mind a friend who asked me to speak on Depression and Anxiety and I, myself, have been going through some shadow periods... so just sharing some thoughts from personal experience as I, too, heal and continue to become and grow and do my best to make sense of my journey.