hii ! my name is Connie and I wanted to share with you all that I got some answers from my Madrina and I'm finally ready to take my first steps into the religion 🥲. I am excited, I am ready to learn and I'm grateful to be a part of this community with you all, Bendiciones to you all 🤍

This question comes from our community member @Mya Johnson , and I want to say first — Mya, thank you for being so honest about where you are. This question is going to help so many people who feel exactly the same way but didn't know how to put it into words. Let me start by saying something that I think is going to take a weight off of you. You are not behind. You are not broken. And the fact that you didn't grow up in a religious or spiritual household doesn't put you at a disadvantage — sometimes it actually means you get to come to this path without anyone else's baggage. You get to build something that is genuinely and authentically yours. Now let's talk about the real thing you're wrestling with — how do you know what things mean? The Problem With Blanket Meanings When most people start exploring spirituality and dream interpretation, the first thing they do is go searching for answers outside of themselves. They Google what a snake in a dream means. They look up the symbolism of a crow. They find three different sources that say three completely different things and walk away more confused than when they started. Sound familiar? Here's the truth — and this is something the most accurate mediums and spiritual workers in the world understand deeply: there is no universal dictionary of spiritual symbols that applies to every single person. What a butterfly means to me may mean something completely different to you. And both of us can be right. Build Your Own Grimoire What I want to encourage you to do — and what I genuinely believe will transform the way you receive and interpret spiritual information — is to create your own grimoire. A grimoire is simply your personal spiritual dictionary. It's a journal, a notebook, a sacred record of what things mean to you and to the spirits that guide you. Here's how it works. When something shows up — a dream, a symbol, a number, a feeling, a sign — instead of immediately reaching for someone else's interpretation, you sit with it first. You ask yourself: what does this feel like to me? What does my body say? What's the first thing that came to mind before I second-guessed myself?

Last week was so hectic and up and down, i didn’t know if my son and i would able to make it down to Chicago thankfully we were. And i now know i am a Child of YEMAYÁ 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

How do I know when it is time for me to become initiated? Is there a certain guideline that must be fulfill?