I did a reading yesterday for a lovely lady, a medium black beauty from the Netherlands Antillies Islands – Aruba to be exact, named Heydi. I do not know if I ever revealed how I do a reading. I cannot tell you everything. But first I ligtht a cigar and have two or three colored candles on the floor where my santos and religious artificats sit. I say “The blessings of Heaven”, The blessings of ___mankind’s own personal God, the blessings of _____God in heaven, the blessings of _________God of the creator!!!!!
“The blessings of the ancestral force without whom none of us would be present” ”The blessings of the Ancestors” ”The blessings of the High Priests” and here I get specific about the lineages of the two babalawos underneatn whom I studied for seven years and who gave me my Ifa objects for which I am grateful. ”I salute the male priests” “I salute the female Priests” I salute the male ancestors I salute the female ancestors” “I salute all those fine people who have bowed down at the feet of God in heaven”, I praise yuu, I [rasie you, for all time Then I say a praise name for the dead and I say it for my mother, my father, my sister, my grandfather, my stepgrandmother, my grandmother, my granad-father, my gradmother, my other grandfather, my other grandmother, and I give approriate thanks to all the GREAT, FINE, WHITE older ANCESTORS MIOS DE JA PASANDO EN EL OTRO LADO Y DE VIVEN EN ORUN.