Ekuele (Opele) Divination Chain, Coconut Shell Kuan Yin Hold it when you feel

Hold it when you feel you need shoring up

dress many candles

since the wire and base are not water pieces

The manga art of these cards captures the graceful

a reminder that balance is something you keep by moving

Ekuele (Opele) Divination Chain, Coconut Shell Kuan Yin Hold it when you feelAmong the world's divination instruments, few carry the weight of the ekuele. Also written opele or pl, this is the divining chain of If, the Yoruba tradition's great system of sacred knowledge, here strung in the classic form with eight coconut shell pieces. Cast by the babalawo, the initiated priest of If, the chain falls in patterns of open and closed faces that reveal the Odu, the sacred signs through which the tradition speaks. This is not a