MAAT + MAAFA + SANKOFA + MAAT
A Necessary Progression.
YESSSSSSS LAWD!!! I follow UNIVERSAL LAWS, so wherever man-made laws interfere and create a conflict, I FOLLOW UNIVERSAL LAWS.
The Law that continues to speak to ME is the Law of Correspondence: As Above so Below. As Within so Without. What happens around ME is a direct reflection of what is happening within me. The internal environment reflects the external environment, so take care of HOME. This is a Loving Reminder to pay attention to the micro as it directly affects the MACRO.
“When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can't hurt you.” -Afrikan Proverb
The adaptation…”When there is Love within, there is Love without (feel free to insert Peace, Joy, Hope, Bliss, Health, Wealth, etc.) I am truly R.I.C.H. because I Realize I Create Happiness. It is subjective for a reason because only you know what is happiness to you; only I know what it is for ME!
Thank you for the DIVINE Download 🙏🏿🙌🏾💪🏿
Whenever I recognize a problem, a flaw in the overall design that is me, I no longer scrutinize the fruit, the leaves, the branches, or even the trunk, I go directly to the roots (I Am a Root Woman), so I go to the SOURCE.
MA'AT+ MAAFA + SANKOFA + MA'AT
At the MACRO Level, in Ancient Kemet (“the Land of the Blacks”, modern-day Egypt), melanated people were governed by the 7 Principles of MA'AT. These principles are Truth, Justice, Order, Balance, Reciprocity, Harmony, & Propriety. The goal is to live by these virtues and when you transition, you do so with a heart as light as a feather. At the micro level, what is more pure than a baby, an ancestor reborn?!! We incarnate in human form with a feather-weighted heart, and then… MAAFA.
MAAFA is a Kiswahili term that translates to “great disaster”, “great tragedy”, or “ unspeakable horror”. For African People, the Original People of the Planet (OPP), that great disaster is the enslavement, colonization, subsequent subjugation, criminalization, and marginalization of the richly Melanated Beings of the Human Race {As Above}. So Below on a micro level, the MAAFA I personally experienced was the taking on of the limiting beliefs of others… because they didn't believe it could be done, they discouraged me from doing it; the harsh judgement from others about what was acceptable, attractive, or appropriate behavior for a woman; the guilt, hurt, and shame heaped on me like piles of dirt for not living up to the expectations of those who came before me. The weight of it all threatened to bury me alive and turn me into the walking dead until I eventually expired altogether; working a job to pay to exist, indulging in overconsumption to ease the pain of an unfulfilled life, devoid of passion + purpose.
SANKOFA is an akan word that means “to go back and fetch it.” Fetch what? That which you have forgotten. Growing up as the child of a soldier, I grew up without a Village. My parents did the best they could, but there was no respite, no reprieve (specifically for my mother), and no wisdom from the elders.
The opening of UHURU ACADEMY SC ushered in a beautiful SANKOFA journey on the macro level. My world opened up to a magical place of knowing the monumental contributions Africa had on civilization as a whole. Growing up as a dark-skinned girl in a white-praised world, I finally found my place sitting at the feet of the ancestors. Internally, on a micro level, I was still the child who, in the words of relatives, “only a mother could love", and my inner child still felt the void of being raised without a Village.
But I HAVE a Praying Grandmother! Grandma Alma, you inspire me to be the Higher ME 💚 (SHE transitioned January of ‘85, I was born November of ‘85. We've always been connected).
As UHURU ACADEMY SC grew to UASC International Learning Center, I was blessed with the family I never got to experience as a child. I Finally Had A Village! I was physically in my 30s with the heart of a teenager seeking to belong, so I took on EVERYBODY'S issues and problems like they were my own. I see so clearly now that I was looking for Love in ALL the wrong places. I had to step away from the school in order to see the WHOLE picture. I saw the parts of me that others couldn't control or neatly package, so they condemned them. I saw how I began to condemn myself, simply parroting what someone else said back to me. I saw a person who creates MAGIC in solitude, but because it didn't fit inside of others’ agendas, they deemed it selfish or took shots at my mental health and said, “she must be depressed”. I saw a Woman KING, Hatshepsut, raised to be Queen by my mother and King by my father. I saw a Being with Yin and Yang Balance. For the first time, I saw ME (MAJORNESS ENERGY) in ALL of my Splendor!!!
When a tree is producing rotten fruit, go to the ROOTS. It was there that I Remembered to reMember —put myself back together. Communing with the ancestors, Grandma Alma specifically, showed me that I come from Divergent Beings, each one casting their own flavor, their own uniqueness in this beautiful gumbo called Life, so add in YouR Spicy for the Ricey, Iya!
All Praises to the Most High for UNIVERSAL LAWS, for they are Timeless; they are INFINITE. Thank you for trusting ME with this mission and for keeping me to see ME return to MA’AT.
