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Y’all, I love opening rituals and ritual containers with hymns/songs/orin.
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In ways that only a loving universe could design, for almost a decade, I’ve been rooted in communities that continue to gift me the opportunity to study the ways that song anchors ritual.
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Often when I co-weave rituals outside of these spaces, song remains at the center of what I offer.
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My experience has been that when we offer songs/hymns/orin communally, the ase of our rituals are amplified exponentially.
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For me,songs/hymns/orin retain and transmit memory and energy. The practices of engaging them are rooted in the lineages of ring shouts, call and response, and potent diasporic rituals of connection, communion, and healing.
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Engaging with song is a multidimensional practice with ancestral and cultural roots. This practice orients me toward liberated realities, connects me with the past, and supports me in visioning liberated futures.
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Engaging with song is an ancient tool for locating one’s self. It is how I locate myself within the ancestral ecosystems of love that support my life. It is how my ancestors practiced locating themselves amid systems that attempted to strip them of their cultural memories, humanity, and their embodied sense of love and deep belonging. When I offer songs they are a call, and there is always a loving response.
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The more I practice, the more I learn that anchoring songs/hymns/orin is a practice of humility. It becomes less and less about one’s personality and sound. It becomes more and more about being solid, soft, grounded, and open so that one becomes a vessel for transmitting energy and memory through sound. All of this requires deep listening.
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🎶: Welcome Song a gift from my ancestors.
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When I think of summer, I think of the ancestral and alchemical element of fire.
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I feel deep resonance for the medicines of fire that invite transformation and serve as a portal of connection to those that come before us.
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As we welcome the summer solstice, may the spirit of fire transform that which no longer serves you and deeply nourish your soul.
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To honor of the shifting of the season I offer this song/ hymn that was woven throughout our ritual container last night.
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Deep bows of gratitude to the folks who showed up to co-weave our beautiful summer solstice ritual: nourished by fire.
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Big love my feathered kin in the background of the video and in the foreground of my life. This bird is full of soul fire all the time and her songs always serve as reminders.
🎶: nourished by fire -tamira cousett❤️‍🔥

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Lyrics

Lyrics:

spirit of fire

nourish my soul

oh nourish my soul

nourish my soul

oh nourish my soul

spirit of fire

help me let go

oh help me let go

help me let go

oh help me let go

spirit of fire

light the path home

our return to soul

light the path home

our return to soul

repeat from the beginning

Flow

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