Ancestral Spirit

Ancestral Greetings

As the spirit guides guide US (United Spirits) through such a HISTORIC, LOVING and MEMORABLE moment in TIME and SPIRIT it is PEACEFUL in my 'spirit' self to realize the disconnection in such a POWERFUL connection.

This publication is to conclude and continue a legacy of ANCESTRAL SPIRIT GUIDANCE in the SPIRIT 

of US (United Spirits) all....

This last but everlasting publication is evidence of an existence and experience of and in the ANCESTRAL SPIRIT... it is not to stir up the same anger and hatred of the past but the strength and love of the people who endured the past, boldly and beautifully made it to the present and seek to perfect the future.

However, in mine eye, it is arrogant and selfish to give a people a month of appreciation and celebration while appreciating and celebrating people who oppressed and depressed a people through manipulation, annihilation, and humiliation.

As I remind mine eye of the holy days of this month due to its observance of HISTORY (holidays to some) I find it extremely disconnecting but powerfully connected in a such a way that unites those of a HIGHER Spiritual PURPOSE, POWER, and PEACE...

Look at it... (in the observance and voice of the Honorable Khalid Muhummad) this month observes the presence of Africans in America, a day seemingly to appreciate those you LOVE, and President's day (in observance of G. Washington's Birthday).

Now, the Africans in America (not the Natives or People of dominant Melanin traits that were already occupying this land) are 'provided' time and space to remember, appreciate and celebrate HIS-STORY  in the Americas or their seemingly and outwardly progress in the Americas...

APPRECIATE

CELEBRATE

Then, the antics of Romans and earlier periods are recognized for their festive times in the guise of Valentine's Day.

However, according to the researchers of NPR, the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody and a bit muddled. Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them. 

From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain. The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," says Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile. The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be coupled up for the duration of the festival or longer, if the match was right. 

The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men (both named Valentine) on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day. 

Later, Pope Gelasius I muddled things in the 5th century by combining St. Valentine's Day with Lupercalia to expel the pagan rituals. But the festival was more of a theatrical interpretation of what it had once been. Lenski adds, "It was a little more of a drunken revel, but the Christians put clothes back on it. That didn't stop it from being a day of fertility and love." Around the same time, the Normans celebrated Galatin's Day. Galatin meant "lover of women." That was likely confused with St. Valentine's Day at some point, in part because they sound alike. As the years went on, the holiday grew sweeter. 

Chaucer and Shakespeare romanticized it in their work, and it gained popularity throughout Britain and the rest of Europe. Handmade paper cards became the tokens-du-jour in the Middle Ages. 

Eventually, the tradition made its way to the New World. The industrial revolution ushered in factory-made cards in the 19th century. And in 1913, Hallmark Cards of Kansas City, Missouri, began mass producing valentines. 

February has not been the same since.

Today, the holiday is big business: According to market research firm IBIS World, Valentine's Day sales reached $17.6 billion last year; this year's sales are expected to total $18.6 billion. 

But that commercialization has spoiled the day for many. 

Helen Fisher, a sociologist at Rutgers University, says we have only ourselves to blame. "This isn't a command performance," she says. "If people didn't want to buy Hallmark cards, they would not be bought, and Hallmark would go out of business. And so the celebration of Valentine's Day goes on, in varied ways. Many will break the bank buying jewelry and flowers for their beloveds. Others will celebrate in a SAD (that's Single Awareness Day) way, dining alone and binging on self-gifted chocolates. A few may even be spending this day the same way the early Romans did. 

But let's not go there.

Go WITHIN...

APPRECIATE

AND

CELEBRATE

Last, the political officials thought in the shortest month where they chose to give Africans in America pride (and prejudice) and a day that clouds the month with seemingly and outwardly love, that another day of recognition outside of the realms of the full month observance of Africans in America was in their right (and it was) but in all fairness and justice it was not right to those who recognize the Ancestral Spirit of Africans EVERYWHERE... EVERY DAY!

To move forward, in this apparent disconnection there is a POWERFUL connection that shall not stir up anger and hatred but STRENGTH and LOVE if you are in honor and order of a HIGHER SPIRITUAL PURPOSE, POWER and PEACE.

Subconsciously, this is effecting our spirit, however, consciously we have the SPIRIT... RIGHT, POWER and ABILITY to determine how we shall protect, honor, and observe the cause of the calls of our spirit during such a sensitive but strengthen observance. 

We shall reprogram our minds to appreciate and celebrate ALL that we are in ALL WAYS, ALWAYS and ALL THE TIME... 

We shall consciously create LOVE and become the HEAD (President) of our HOUSE (mind, body, soul, and spirit), our existence and experience in the Americas as Ancestral Spirits on an EARTHLY realm or plane(t).

APPRECIATE and CELEBRATE yOUR ANCESTRAL SPIRIT in ALL WAYS... ALWAYS!