I pulled two oracle cards this morning: Left: MAGENTA — Connect to Your Deepest Inner Knowing pulled from one of my colour oracle decsk. Right: EMBRACING THE SHADOW — Shadow love from one of my crystal oracle decks. A striped slice of dyed Agate and a caramel-eyed stone called Mookaiet lean on the magenta bloom; a pale pebble (Milky Quartz) rests inside the dark, shadow crystal’s geometry. Sunlight carves a hard shadow across the right card, like the universe underlining its

Sails slicing through Caribbean winds held whispers of chains sliding onto wrists while echoing the screams of dark lives being ripped from everything they knew. When Spanish ships dropped anchor in the early 1500s, touching down first in Hispaniola, they harnessed the idea that some lives could be bought and sold as property if deemed less than. By 1502, the first known Africans arrived in the Caribbean, dragged upon her shores by the machinery of empire They joined Indigen