My spiritual or alter ego is, Takayu which means Earth Spirit, was given to me by my spiritual teacher and I attached Bast to it because I feel the energy of this ancient deity guiding my pen, aiding my upliftment and urging me to inspire others to express their infinite consciousness.

We all know who we are, however, we have just forgotten. In my awaking, I saw my signs and I used to take them lightly but now I reflect on them and piece them together. I do believe that there are no coincidences or strange occurrences there is meaning in it all. Like the time I found a charm of a cat shortly after I had a dream of Bast the ancient egyptian female cat headed deity, I will elaborate on that later, not to mention the fact that my zodiac sign is Leo and Chinese Astrology is Tiger. Coincidence? I think not, I believe it all has meaning. The synchronicities, is what I like to call them, give you clues to your higher self and help you find your inner strength. For me I found a connection with felines and drew on their strengths. for example: Courage, determination and a ninja like approach to situations which work for me by studying the feline. I also took it as a sign that she is guiding me.

I was born to a family whose roots are from West Africa, Liberia to be exact, and raised in NJ. I went to catholic school from kindergarten till I graduated from high school. During my childhood years I was strongly attracted to the “supernatural”. I attracted a best friend that I am pretty sure was a witch. I use to visit her and my intuition would tell me the energy was different but, my senses had been so overly pacified I was not fully aware. She use to confide in me about her supernatural experiences and I was the only one who would really be interested and believed her. She showed me pictures of ghosts that were captured on film in her home or her stories of how she felt a tugging at her bed at night. I am not for sure what they were into but I am pretty sure her and her mom were into something metaphysical. I just observed until later on in life.

 Basically,I learned about my higher senses on my own. I started discovering my intuitive powers when I would loose objects and when frustrated I couldn’t find it, I would feel for it’s energy. This worked most of the time. I also have premonitions from time to time. What my mom would call having a “Good Head” like my Grandmother. I often dream of someone and find out that what I dream is true or comes true. My ancestors communicate with me this way as well. My strongest aspect is mind transference. If I didn’t want someone to bring up a topic I would be sure not to think of it too hard. When I realized I was transferring my thoughts I would just play with it. I tested it many times. For instance this is a fun game to do when you are just out waiting for a bus or something, pick a spot on a person like their head and just focus on it(try not to draw attention to you) and I guarantee at least 8 out of 10 times that person will do something like scratch their head or turn around. They will feel it in some way. I was noticing when I  focused on a specific thought that with no doubt someone would mention something pertaining to it. I also know like anything else if you don’t use it you loose it. This is the main reason why alot of people chalk it up as just coincidence.  Your intuition and mind power needs to be exercised like everything else. If you stop drawing at kindergarten I doubt that you will be able to produce a artistic masterpiece at age thirty without practice.

Anyway, time went on and I became a teenager still questioning things in my mind and egar to experience life, I became a hip hop junkie and even briefly pursued a rapping career due to my passion to share information through music.  I got side tracked when an eloquent speaking rough around the edges young man intrigued me with his words of higher learning by showing me many contradiction in the bible. Oh I didn't mention I started to get heavy into Christianity because it was the only spirituality I knew at the time. I then began to study and study, until I realized that the book that had been a foundation for so many years and was happily handed to me as a "life saving tool" had fallacies. I was quite devastated to say the least. I then learned "Right Knowledge" for several years and raised my consciousness to a great degree. During the beginning of the Millennium that same period I acquired a Clinical Laboratory Degree as well as Certification as a Natural Health Consultant enabling me to give Online Herbal Advise for several years under the name Herbalists Takkiyah on www.allexperts.com . I continued to enjoy delving into many metaphysical topics, until, I had an inspiration to create a sacred sisterhood for conscious black women, out of a desire to build with my sacred sisters. This inspiration came out of my growth from religion to metaphysics and occult sciences.  However, that idea did not come to realization till several years later when I ran into an online social network provider called www.NING.com which enabled me to connect and create Sacred Metaphysical Sisters. 

6I soon came to realize that I possess my own reality of thinking. There is no absolute reality ,you see, we create it on a daily basis as you think it you create it. It is very much like writing a virtual book where 26you are the main actress. This is the thought I like to call "Writing your Destiny and Living it" We each are little universes, you being the sun and your thoughts are different planets, so constantly revolving around you are the gravitational pulls of these thought planets. Any moment you start thinking different you change the atmosphere of your universe for better or worst. With these realizations I accepted that all religions and schools of thoughts are planets that you visit and remaining in only one keeps you in a "box" or traps you in that particular universe of thoughts; unlike dealing in Sacred Metaphysics you adhere to the metaphysical laws of the universal mind also known as the All or Mass Consciousness and start creating at will your own reality. It sounds very simple in theory,however, it takes time,patience and practice to re-wire your brain but it can be done.

Regardless of my conscious awareness, my West African roots couldn’t teach me much by way of Metaphysics, my family is also predominately Christian and that was not considered "normal" to believe in metaphysical occurrences unless “God” created it. My parents made it quite clear that anything other than Christianity was “Evil”. Some religious fanatics  feel they have been given the unalienable rights to decide why you choose to be born. My soul yearned for more, for answers that were apparently not being answered by Christianity. I questioned and was labeled everything from a devil to an anti-Christ by those closest to me. Why? Simply because what had be forced fed to me was not digesting well? I was nauseated by the food poisoning and my soul was seeking a cure. This was the same if not worst than being physically restrained and not allowed to grow. But little do they know you can't keep an ancestry hidden that is encoded and encrypted in your DNA waiting to be unlocked only by YOU!! It was not until I learned to KNOW that my true Goddess self began to unfold. I urge you to allow your true goddess selves to unfold as you read this book; reawaken her because our elevation depends on coming back to her B.O.S.M