The Importance of Using the Energy of this Time for Afrikan People
In the Ajã language of southern Benin Republic, the word ganji takes on two meanings based on its connotation usage. In colloquial usage, ganji is used to reference if one is or is not doing well. “A do ganji – I am doing well”. Or “A do ganji ã – i am not doing well“.
However, there is a more metaphysical and spiritual aspect of the Ajã word ganji relating to that which is auspicious. According to Merriam Websters Dictionary, auspicious is an adjective meaning: promising success, favorable, an auspicious beginning. : successful sense 1, prosperous. Along these lines, ganji is an Ajã conceptual word which refers to a state of being. We write this because according to how things have lined up, from the African Vodun Worldview, this is a ganji time that we should spiritually and economically take advantage of. If you go by an Afrikan Worldview, your month would have started on the 18th of the Gregorian month of June. Why? Because our year starts on the vernal equinox and each month has 30 days. Thus, this month came in on a new moon just 3 days before the summer solstice! Of course, the latter marked the beginning of Summer which we call Glanu – a thing of power/summer. The day of the week it came under is called Hennuzangbe or the day of the extended family. The primary deity of the day was the thunder goddess Aveji Da. The deities associated with this period in general are thunder deities who represent leadership, royalty and justice.
Though the New Moon just passed, it is not too late to utilize the energy of this time. The New Moon came in very auspicious because of the day of the 9 day sacred week it dropped on which is called Azoblo. Azoblo means the birth of things, the starting point of life. This is the first lunar day of the 9 day sacred week. This is the ultimate azan gǎnjí (auspicious/favorable day) to begin anything important.
Our community needs healing. Our families need healing and restructuring. We are dying at exponential rates compared to other races of the world. Afrikan women in amerikkka, and probably other parts of the world, are experiencing the highest rates of àbíkú in the world. Àbíkú is a Yorùbá word that can be used to refer to infant mortality. It means a child born and dies. Unfortunately, due to cultural disconnect, they don’t realize that this infant mortality is not all medically related. There are inherited spiritual complications as well as the medical ones. In addition, our communities are being ravaged by self inflicted savagery. Many blame drugs and the like. However, what you are seeing is the vast dumping out of generational curses and spreading like tentacles throughout our communities. In many cases, the perpetrators descend from people who were “slave” traders, overseers, or someone who was involved in the so called Slave Trade. In many other cases it is the 100s of years of the inherited effects of AT – Ancestral Trauma (Kúlítɔ́ Awovi in the Ajã language). Yet, the spiritual tools we have, when used properly during this ganji time, can help cleanse this stuff and ultimately eradicate it. However, the more people involved with the properly concentrated power, intent, and character we have doing this work, the better.
Please contact me on how we here in the itankalẹ (diaspora) and abroad use these tools for prosperity, healing and mɛdésúsínínɔ (sovereignty).