OK... well, not surprisingly... I agree with Prince Emmanuel. I do not sight the 21 day purification as oppressive, rather I see it as an upliftment. I believe it to be intended as an upliftment and it is the Kings that overstand it as such. As for some who want to distort natural levels to support the continued oppression of women, then there are no prizes for guessing what I say about that... you know it's gotta be lightening & thunder for them. LOL.
OK... for InI it is not so much the Bible scriptures that refine my overstanding of the 21 day ights. And as far as KJversion of the bible... well, we know that he and his re-writers were raging soddomoites who had BIG problems with women. So, where they may have left the remnants of the principles, I'm sure that the INTERPRETATIONS of the significances are something that InI are going to have to look to the ants about... if you know what I mean.
In the oppression of women, and castration of InI from our divine & earthly knowledge of self... a main point of focus has been on removing us from overstanding our creational cycle... which is something that is unique to each womban. Through the knowledge of our natural cycle... we are able to order our family planning, we are able to overstand our most creative and dynamic seasons, we are able to overstand the ebb and flow of our emotional currents... and hence we are able to order our womanly lives accordingly. This is because the cycle is not just at the bleed... the cycle is just that, an entire CYCLE... the "issue" is simply one part of it.
This cycle is an absolute essential part of our lives and our bodies, and our mentalities. It is actually fundamental. Ancient laws of spirituality tell InI that one of the seven human divinities is our system of reproduction and the cycles related to it. The Kingman are able to overstand the potency of creation in their DAILY cycle... their cycle is linked to sun-rise. InI cycle, is related to that of the moon... the full moon symbolic of InI fertile time. Once per "month".
To honour the 21 day purification is to make an ESSENTIAL prinicple of livity based on acknowledgement of the potency of I woman's creational cycle. InI are not supposed to take it light. The time comes when InI shed the excesses & unused of the womb. The things in the womb that have passed their shelf LIFE. And the bottom line is, it's a very private and intimate thing for a woman. It is an emotional time at varying degrees for different people. After that period of shedding, the fact is we would have spent days bleeding, so it makes perfect sense to me to let your body rest and collect itself for 7 days prior to the last appearance of blood. Now depending on your knowledge of your individual cycle, it is likely that within 7 - 9 days further after this, InI will ovulate... preparing the womb for creation again. InI don't use contraception... but that does not mean InI womban must be sloppy about my family planning. InI are royal children, so we must know what we're doing in this iwah.
If it is the time for the I and the Kingman to bring forward LIFE and make that sacrement to each other, InI can invite him before the 3rd week is out. If the couple are serious about making life, then the Empress should know the exact days at which she is at the optimum point. However, if the family sees that there are works to do and the time is not right to bring the youth forward yet... then InI honour the full 21 days. This is why InI say... after 21 days InI are "free". InI can lay with the Kingman freely, knowing I body enough to know what I am dealing with.
Now, in that first week of the "issue"... it is not appropriate to attend Tabernacle or what have you... this is due to InI obligation to know what is happening in our body... honour the process and honour those around you. The Sabbath of the first week is when I think it is best to hold a meditational one away. Then the remaining 2 Sabbaths are the time to commune with women... as we are either in the healing, or we are forward into the full moon of our cycle... both are sacred times when we would wish to be surround by the femi-9.
I don't overs why it is that when women are encouraged to commune together to worship Omega, Mother Earth, Life Cycle... they see that as oppressive. I personally PREFER women's company.
Anyway, that is my point, those 3 sabbaths should be livicated to honouring the Mother, by the Mothers. The first should be solo, the other two with Sistrin. Then when InI are free, we attend with the Kingman them. But... when you check it out... we get to attend BOTH types of worship. The Kingman NEVER get to come and praise with InI. So, why is it oppressive? I think it is representative of InI womban's general relationship to, and role on, the planet.
Relating to cooking and sleeping arrangements... I'm not clear on any rules on the matter... but I do not cook for the first seven days... definitely not. The 2nd week, I don't purposely refrain from cooking... but the Kingman is aware that I would be in the 2nd week... so he will continue to do the cooking, but for example... by the end of that week, I might cook something, or share out food... so, it loosens up... and by the third week, we're back to normal behaviour... but with the knowledge that InI will not make love til after the 21st day, until we are looking for another baby (which we are planning for next year). We do sleep seperately during the first week, this loosens up during the second... and then the final week again is back to normal with a small wait left. All of these things come naturally to us, we don't find ourselves really thinking about it or doing anything really on purpose. I don't take turtles or pigeons to alters or anything afterwards though.
There are times when it may take up to 25 days for InI to be free. So as with everything, Emmanuel gave InI guidance and principle but it is left to InI to find what that means to our individual selves. A definition of principle is "a guiding sense of the requirements and obligations of right conduct". So, it is a guiding sense.
Now in terms of the idea of "seperation", I don't see it that way. The way I approach my womban's side of Emmanuel livity is that, as with his general Moses teaching he lays down the principles that SHOW InI the way to our anciency. I have never felt more empowered and with an overstanding of the wonder of my creational cycle.
It really doesn't bother me what some random chauvanist RasTa man thinks of my ights... who feels it knows it, as InI do know already. The space that the 21 days gives InI makes us really THINK during that time of what this cycle means to us. The appreciation of the cycle changes your whole rems, your whole understanding of the femi-9 self.
I think if every women stuck to the 21 day principle for 6 months, a lot of the Mothers would find a lot of healing in places they didn't even know were damaged.
You know what... I LOVE Holy Emmanuel I Selassie I... JAH... Ras Tafari...
The glory & honour of the King of Kings... Empress Itegue Menen Selassie I... Honourable Mother of all... Queen Omega, Mother Earth...
Ras Tafari!!
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