Ifa Teachings from Owonrin-Pota

I learned something at the Ifá temple recently and it's really worth sharing with you. 

A young man came with the complaint that someone was stealing his fowl in his compound. According to him, at first, it was an egg that was stolen among the eggs that his hen laid. After sometime, the thief eventually carried the hen that's supposed to hatch the remaining eggs.

In Yorubaland, it is a taboo to carry a hen that is incubating her eggs. It was even said that if wars are being fought in those days and soldiers meet a hen sitting on her eggs, they will not take the hen nor harm it in any way.

Away from that, the man who came wanted to place a spell on the thief for something terrible to happen to him/her to reveal the thief. Understandably, he was hurt. And yes, sometimes, people of bad character need to be taught lessons...

But before the action would be taken, the Oluwo directed that we should ask Ọ̀pẹ̀lẹ̀ if the Ẹlẹ́dàá (Ori/Destiny) of the complainant agrees with the raring of fowls. The Odù that came out revealed that it wasn't a business suitable for him. And in fact, that the act of the thief was actually inadvertently warding off negativity from him.

Can you imagine that? 

Someone was apparently doing something that could be seen by your carnal nature as wicked, but in the divine order of things, that action was actually helping you even without you or the culprit knowing.

This is a call to reflection for all Awos and random people; sometimes, the fact that you have the power to do and undo should not push you to want to react impulsively to matters that are brought to you. 

You need to approach matters with the calmness of Obatala and the wisdom of Orunmila. Such cases would most likely backfire on you or on your client whom you seek to help if you rashly act as your human nature judges the circumstance.

Do not do anything without first consulting the higher wisdom of the Almighty. There is a time to curse and there is a time to hold your peace. There is a time to fight and there is a time to act a fool. Ọ̀rúnmìlà is one whom you can ask when it is becoming hard for your human nature to discern when to do what.

Mind you, if you choose to act a fool when you are supposed to fight, you will lose the blessing that is meant to come to you at that particular time. Sometimes you turn the other cheek and at other times you teach your assailer a lesson that he or she will never forget in this life or the next.

Lónìí ọjọ́ ìṣẹ́gun, may you be victorious over your enemies, whether the enemy is a bad character in you or an outside force, may you be victorious.

Owonrin-Pota speaks...

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