September 2026 Newsletter
New Study Paths and a More Connected Library
Since the August 15 newsletter, Ancestral Egbe has expanded the doctrine library, strengthened the ways readers move through it, and added a new search doorway for finding the right teaching, manual, or service.
Thank you to everyone who reads, participates, shares, asks questions, and supports this growing work. Ancestral Egbe is strengthened by a community that takes African history, spiritual development, health, culture, and collective responsibility seriously.
If you find an article, event, book, resource, or community work that fits these themes, please send it to us. And if this newsletter speaks to someone in your family, circle of friends, or wider community, please forward it to them.
Read the full September newsletter online for the complete Ancestral Egbe website experience.
Feature Focus
Kemetic Fa and Divine Mathematics
The newest development-site study reads the Uraeus and vulture through symbolic and phonetic registers, then follows that Fa argument into the Atef crown, Ifa and Afa, divine law, number, celestial order, divination, and manifestation. Its new supporting evidence article distinguishes documented West African divinatory connections from the wider doctrinal synthesis.
Read the Feature September Seasonal Practice
The Autumn Equinox: Balance, Harvest, and the Discipline of Transition
The September equinox is a measurable celestial threshold: a fitting point to examine what has grown, what has failed, what has become excessive, and what must now be governed differently. It is not a generic New Age “portal,” and it does not magically create balance. It provides a natural threshold at which we can examine whether our lives are actually in balance.
In the Ancestral Egbe framework, balance means right proportion. Ma’at gives the language of truth, order, reciprocity, right relationship, and correct proportion; Ori is the inner authority by which we evaluate direction and destiny. Ìbejì, the Yoruba twin deities, clarifies the point: two forces are not the same, yet must be held in their proper relationship. Activity and rest, expression and silence, receiving and giving, protection and release each need their right position.
This September feature introduces a practical harvest inventory, a Balance and Right-Proportion Meditation, and a 90-day commitment from the autumn equinox to the winter solstice. The purpose is to turn seasonal reflection into one actual correction in life.
Read the Autumn Equinox ArticleOctober Feature Event
Rise & Lead: Functional Healing for Black Male Executives
Before the next newsletter cycle, Diving Within will host Rise & Lead, October 15–18 in Puerto Rico: a four-day gathering for high-achieving Black male executives. It begins from a direct truth: men who have carried leadership, family, community, and professional responsibility for years often become skilled at managing symptoms while never reaching the source of their strain.
This is not a generic leadership conference and it is not a withdrawal from masculine responsibility. It is functional healing: a structured space for Black men to receive care, examine what they have had to carry, and build a more integrated, sustainable capacity to lead. The retreat includes brotherhood without code-switching or performance, shadow work, breathwork, ceremonial experiences, and one-on-one coaching.
For Ancestral Egbe, self-governance includes the willingness to repair the person who has been doing the governing. Strong leadership is not only endurance. It is the ability to become whole enough to carry responsibility with clarity, presence, and integrity.
Read the Rise & Lead FeatureCommunity Health Notice
CareSparc’s 12th Annual Sustainable Health & Wellness Village Festival
CareSparc Community Connections is hosting its 12th annual Community Health Fair: Saturday, September 19 in New Brunswick and Saturday, September 26 in Newark. CareSparc is cultivating a culture of health, wellness, and sustainability that lasts a lifetime by connecting communities with preventive care, fresh food, health education, and practical resources.
- New Brunswick: September 19, 11 a.m.–4 p.m., Alice Jennings Archibald Park, 23 Van Dyke Avenue.
- Newark: September 26, 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Branch Brook Park — Prudential Concert Grove.
In collaboration with Clifford Alfred Lodge, New Jersey, Ancestral Egbe proudly supports this community-centered work. Thank you to Clifford Alfred Lodge for helping make health, care, and connection visible in the community.
Event InformationNew Community Affiliate
Free Together with The Village Community Network
We welcome The Village Community Network as a new Ancestral Egbe affiliate. Their September gathering asks a practical community question: what do we need help with, and what can we give freely and joyfully to people around us?
Sunday, September 20, noon–4 p.m.
Church Street Pedestrian Plaza, Montclair
Free Together brings interactive brainstorming, live art, children’s art activities, free snacks, and local organizations already building community support systems. Next month, we will introduce the Village Community Network’s work in greater depth.
Meet The Village Community NetworkA Better Way to Find the Work
Search the Library and Follow the Paths
A new searchable library now helps readers find articles, manuals, and services by subject, including ancestor offerings, Ori, cleansing, Black August, Egungun, coaching, manuals, and priest services. The Reader Journeys, Culturalist lecture paths, related-reading blocks, and article orientation now work more deliberately together, so a reader arriving from a search result or newsletter can see what a teaching connects to and where to go next.
These are not simply navigation changes. They turn the growing library into a learning system: readers can begin at the question they actually have, locate the appropriate level of study, and continue into related history, doctrine, practice, or guided support without being left in a loose collection of pages.
Doctrine Web Expansion
From Individual Study to a Connected Cultural Framework
Existing cornerstone articles have been expanded and wired into clearer clusters: Four Turns of the Great Wheel now connects African mathematical and sacred-time memory with the Ishango bone and Adam’s Calendar; Spiritual Jurisdiction and the Crowns of Kemet is linked more directly to Kemetic Fa and Divine Mathematics; and Isese Ifa, Islamic Ifa, and the Slave Trade provides a historical path through Arabic geomancy, trade, displacement, Lukumi development, and West African divinatory continuity. Its separate Orunmila, Egregores, and Black Goddess Memory inquiry gives the Black Goddess, Ela, Odu, and egregore discussion its own focused doctrinal space.
The site’s Black consciousness, Ori, African psychology, cultural-memory, sacred-feminine, wealth, and Yoruba-language material has also been connected more visibly to the Unified Doctrine and to the reader paths that make each cluster easier to learn in sequence.
Ọ̀sẹ̀ Ifá Teaching
Odù Ìwòrì Wòdí: Feed the Òrìṣà of the Stomach Before the Work of Healing
Chief Àràbà Awódìran Àyìndé Ọ̀kánlàwọ́n Agboọlá’s Issue 002 message teaches through Odù Ìwòrì Wòdí that a hungry and depleted person cannot be expected to carry out serious healing work for another. The teaching is direct: before Ẹbọ, prayer, ritual, spiritual elevation, or service, the embodied human being must eat, drink, rest, and protect their strength.
This is also a teaching in Ìwà Pẹ̀lẹ́. When a Babaláwo, healer, priest, or spiritual practitioner is invited to serve, hospitality, generosity, dignity, and appreciation belong to the relationship. The practitioner is not outside human needs; caring for the body is part of responsible living and sustainable spiritual service.
Feed the body. Honour the practitioner. Respect the work. A hungry Ìwòrì cannot effectively attend to Òdí.
Reflection inspired by the Ọ̀sẹ̀ Ifá message of Bàbá Agboola Awodiran, the Àràbà of Òwòròǹṣòkí Land, Lagos, Nigeria, as shared by Aare Olusegun Daramola.
September Book Recommendation
1619–2026: United States Justice—Just Us, or Is It Just Me?
Retired judge, attorney, educator, and advocate Torkwase Y. Sekou’s substantially revised and expanded Second Edition examines the distance between America’s founding ideals and the lived reality of Black Americans across generations. It moves through slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, voting rights, housing and wealth, education, policing, citizenship, the courts, civil rights, and the continuing struggle over equality.
This is a timely September recommendation because it brings legal knowledge, documented history, economic reality, and HERSTORY into the question the nation still has to answer: who received the promise, who carried the burden, who accumulated the wealth, and what does justice require now?
Read the New Hardcover FeatureNew Articles Since August 15
The September Reading Library
The following articles and study pages have been added since the last newsletter. They are arranged here by the questions and bodies of work they develop, rather than as an unconnected list.
Doctrine and Inner Development
Cultural Memory and Historical Repair
Wealth and Language
In Ancestral Memory
August 15 - September 10, 2026
We honor the African and African-descended people whose work in performance, music, civil rights, cultural stewardship, and community memory continues to instruct those who remain. This remembrance follows the current EBONY memorial index.
Dr. Beryl Dorsett / Nana Ama Serwah Nyarko, Queenmother of Apatrapa
With sadness, we acknowledge the passing of Dr. Beryl Dorsett, Nana Ama Serwah Nyarko, Queenmother of Apatrapa. She was an educator, public servant, and international-development leader whose service reached from American classrooms to communities and remote villages across Africa.
President Ronald Reagan nominated Dorsett in 1987 to serve as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education. She later founded the Africa Group, a United Nations-affiliated nongovernmental organization focused on improving the economic, health, and educational conditions of African women and children. As International Governor of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., she traveled throughout the continent and helped mobilize support for practical needs, including oxen for Ethiopian farming productivity, clothing, school supplies, microscopes, and educational initiatives.
Her legacy gives a clear measure of leadership: seeing a need, believing in people, and doing something about it. We honor a New Rochelle icon who carried Africa in her heart, crossed borders in service, and strengthened communities through education, courage, generosity, and commitment. Memorial information will follow.
- Carla Jeffery (September 1, 33) - actor whose work as Bree in Disney's Zombies brought joy and representation to young audiences.
- Cassandra Wilson (September 1, 70) - two-time Grammy-winning jazz vocalist and NEA Jazz Master whose genre-crossing work expanded the sound and reach of contemporary jazz.
- Samuel Monroe Jr. (August 26, 52) - actor, musician, writer, and director remembered for Menace II Society, The Players Club, and his independent youth-centered work.
- Janie Bradford Hobbs (August 21, 87) - Motown songwriter, music-industry leader, and founder of the Heroes and Legends Scholarship Fund.
- Jerome “Big Duck” Smith (August 21, 87) - Freedom Rider, civil-rights organizer, youth mentor, and New Orleans culture bearer who co-founded Tambourine & Fan.
- Michael Wright (August 19, 70) - actor whose enduring screen work included The Five Heartbeats, V, and Sugar Hill.
Read With the Whole Map in View
This month’s update is an invitation to use the library as a connected body of work. Begin with Kemetic Fa, search from the question in front of you, and use the linked reading paths to move through the doctrine, history, practice, and cultural study at a useful pace.