Loc’d Up
September 17th makes one year of my loc journey, and what a ride it has been. So many great things has happened since September 17th of last year.
Last year I was living in San Francisco, single, working 3 jobs, and hustlin’ heavy. Now I am living in Los Angeles, engaged to my best friend of 6 years, and just gave birth to a beautiful babygirl. Working as a Creator is sucha huge blessing and I am CONVINCED it’sall because I loc’d my hair up.
I have been natural off and on for about 8 years, with non stop styling, cutting, straightening, coloring, and weaving up my hair, you know, the typical.
But when my natural hair relationship got serious in November of 2011, I have been having a secret love affair with locs (also known as the more offensive- dreadlocks)for about 4 years now.
I didn’t make the plunge because of my insecurity of the job market I had to follow back then. Then to top it off, none of my friends liked locs and they all thought that they were gross, dirty and generally unattractive-
The other issue was my weave addiction.
I LOVED wearing weavesand wigs, and changing my look up very often- literally every other day or so- was important to me! I get extremely restless with hairstyles, if I loc my hair up Won’t I be forever trapped with wearing the same exact hairstyle for YEARS?!?!
But even with those concernsI still wanted them, each month the urge getting stronger and stronger. It got to the point whereI would spend hours watching videos, or stalking Tumblrseeing all these loc’d up beauties haircare routines and growth over the years and Ugh!
I just couldn’t take it! Locs werejust so beautiful to me-and REBELLIOUS! Plus They have so much meaning, especially spiritually,In my heart they were literally calling to me!
But could I really, REALLY loc my hair?!?
Welp! One fateful day, I came across a woman on YouTube (BronzedGoddess01) who did a tutorial on how she gets her long locs under a wig and I was SOLD!
Like, are you kidding me?!?
I can have locs AND still wear my weaves/ change my look whenever I wanted!?!?!
SOLD! SOLD!! SOLD!!!
I decided to two strand twist my hair to start my locs. I considered letting someone else do them, but deciding to even loc my hair was moreso for spiritual reasons, than cosmetic(but definitely both) so I knew in my heart I had to bind my hair on my own. As I mentioned before, loc-ing up your hair can be a phenomenal spiritual experience,
Hair is like antennae or feelers, the longer your hair isthe more intuitive you are. Not only that but it stores energy like re chargeable solar batteries, and as my personal spiritualpractices got /get deeper and deeper, especially as an astrologer and card reader, what I do with my body energetically affectsmy practice.
Being an overall positive person is great for all spiritual work, but add a vegetarianor vegan diet, just makes predictions and advice giving 40 – 70 times more powerful and accurate. Then if you add growing out your hair, it makes readings even more precise. Personally it makes me about 60 times more intuitiveto the energy around me at any given moment. And for the kind of work I do, Creating/Manifesting things in general, it’s crucial to have my physical, mental, and spiritual self completely in balance and aligned with God, or my Higher Self, so starting my loc journey was simplysomething I knew I had to do for myself eventually.
And in 2015 that’s what happened.
To set the mood, I read some Buddhist teachings to get my mind right before I started my meditation. After that, I said a prayer and switched between playing positive music and listening to Alan watts lectures, while I sat in my room and started twisting my hair. With each strand I focused on love, gratefulness, and joy, as that was the energy I wanted to bind into my hair. Riding the energy wave of the recent new moon, (I started while it was waxing) I used it as sign that I was gaining or “waxing” in my purpose in life.
This little ritual lasted for about 6 hours and I welcomed the sunrise with not only with a new hairstyle, but reborn, with 98 locs, 98 promises to myself. and ultimately a new commitment to how I will live my life every single day,
Open & True to my Spirit.