On Individual and Community Work

I  am a Community Witch, a transgender Black person and a Devoted of the  Orishas. Therefore, as you might have read throughout my website, my  focus is liberation for All Black People. It comes from understanding  the socio-cultural & economic spectrum where identity is politically  placed: freedom for all people starts from the Margins.   

My  astrology practice is primarily focused on those socialised as Black.  My aim is to create independent paths to personal self-determination,  navigating the psychological and spiritual intersections of a white  capitalist cosmology as a mechanism of oppressive social-economic  systems.   

But  astrology is mainly a language that I am forming, able to bridge  paradoxes of experiencing life as Black, especially as we produce, share  and transmit knowledge. Decolonial approaches to education must be  centred on deconstructing everything that we know as narrative imposed  for the reproduction of power. Accessing my space, my research can only  happen by centring this emotional journey in the darkness of  Euro-American thought and hegemony. No matter how you’ve been socialised  or racialised, this is a space where the liberation of All Black People  is the drive and propulsion for self-determination. Mine, yours and for  all creation.   

My  patrons, sponsors and students vary in age, race, ethnic background and  gender identity. I offer astrology consultations to everyone who is  open to receive. I guide conversations on African Traditional Religion  (West Africa) and philosophy, knowledge production in community-lead  intergenerational spaces. I support, educate and advise mental health  practitioners, therapists of all callings, educators and facilitators  who are looking to incorporate decolonial methodologies to their  practices.  

We  all share a deeply rooted will for change. We share a commitment to  dismantle and challenge our social, institutional and generational  privileges, preconceptions, patterns and behaviours. I especially  encourage my community to object formal expectations of self as  non-personal and as imposed. By questioning our notions of reality, the  produced history, and mythology, we directly trial the structures around  us. 

We  understand that life is a spectrum of experiences, and we commit every  day to make space for everyone’s truth. We know that our individual  experience can only be protected and cared for, as well as exalted, in a  thriving community. We, as a Community, seek redistribution of wealth,  access, possibilities, opportunities, and possibilities.  

 I  am an expert. I am a scholar. I am a researcher. I am independent of  institutions and affiliations. In the field of religion, more  specifically sociology of religion, my work is urgent, unprecedented and  necessary. Hence why I keep working hard despite being entirely  self-funded. My teaching methods are practical responses to what  academia has co-opted as “decolonial”.  

I  advise and educate brands, corporate teams such as charities and  universities on decolonial approaches to communal education and peer  mentorship, mental health and “being well”, holistic research  methodology in the sociology of religion and astrology. I speak and  present on African Traditional Religions, Precolonial and Pan African  Philosophy and Speculation, Oral Tradition as Education ritual,  Decolonial Astrology and more.   

 I  do not seek recognition from spaces and places that shouldn’t exist in  the first place. When approaching my work and my expertise, please do  not expect free labour. When you approach my work, you approach  Ancestral languages and traditions that lead to and from this work.  

If you wish to invest in my time, including sponsoring my work or support my research, please send an email to info@thecommunitywitch.com  

Solidarity  is a social and personal commitment. Solidarity demands us to gather  ourselves, our needs, ambitions, opportunities and privileges (in  whichever capacity we might be able to access them at any given time).  Solidarity often demands us to sit in relationship to past trauma and  discomfort, thinking if and how we can support those around us with the  honest intent to redistribute the weight of crisis while not reproducing  power inequality and value plus worth expectations. Then, solidarity  demands honesty.