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"By not kwowing what we have to do,
we finish up doing exactly nothing;
by not knowing what we should not do,
we make the same mistake over and over again"
were the ones who cast for Oshoosi, on the day
that he was worried about his path. Should he
or shouldn't he try again, what in the past
had only given him lots of trouble?
They told him that no animal, not even the donkey
stumbles over the same stone twice, so why
would Father be more stupid than the beasts?
Well now, Oshoosi had no answer to that.
The instructed Father not to take up
his old trade, that time upon time
had given him trouble but very little money,
for the thousandth time again. They told Father
not to pay attention to those people
that in the past had given him on disappointment
after the other. And they instructed Father to burn
a small lamp or a candle for Eshu, in order for him
to finally close the roads where one runs in circles,
and open new ones toward good luck and abundance.
Ifa says we've got a person here who is
very disappointed in people he had counted on.
Put it out of your mind, Ifa says, and never
think of them again, every energy invested
in chewing that old cud is wasted, what a waste!
And Ifa says this person is on the brink
of letting themselves be abused again,
like in the past, when others harvested
the fruits of his labor. Ifa says
this situation should not be repeated!
And Ifa says that this particular client
is caught up in an obsession with people
who in the past have used him. Stop it!
They are not worth you energy at all!
And Ifa says (we have not finished yet!)
that his human being should be much more
on a spiritual path than a materialistic one,
especially where his work is concerned, so if
there is a choice (and there always is!) we should
choose the spiritual side and not, as ususal,
the materialistic one. So do not complain anymore
about a friend who turned out to be a parasite,
or about another who has disappointed us;
by thinking about having been short changed
we only short change ourselves, and we are better off
without the other. And if we have a choice
of long term thinking and of short, we should
think of the long term, for the tendencies
that made us fail have not yet changed.
So think ahead, abuse should be avoided.
The ebo is adimu for Eshu,
and money to be determined by the Awo, in order
to get out of the rut that has kept us for so long.