Ancestral Eyes E13 welcomes Sue Kuclick Arencibia, Olorisa y Yaya Nkisi, with your hosts Teresa Sliwinski and Jean-Jerome C. Baudry! - a podcast by Jean-Jerome Baudry

Ancestral Eyes E13 welcomes Sue Kuclick Arencibia, Olorisa y Yaya Nkisi, with your hosts Teresa Sliwinski and Jean-Jerome C. Baudry!



Born and raised near Cleveland, Ohio on land that was Erie and Iroquois nations. Her ancestry is English, Irish, East Prussian and German, and fairly recent ancestors who were of Choanoke nation and Bantu. The East Prussians hail from a town called Jeziorany in Polish north of Olsztyn. Sue works as a mental health counsellor (licensed professional clinical counsellor) in the Central neighbourhood in Cleveland. Her practice is informed by her spirituality, by her initiations in Orisha and Palo. She comes from the viewpoint that there is constant interaction between what we think of as the physical and the spiritual, and what we think of as the living and the dead. It’s her belief that everyone has chosen their own destiny, even if they are not aware of that destiny. She doesn't believe people choose bad destiny. She thinks people’s Orí or head may or may not be in the best condition for a variety of reasons. Some can be fixed or remediated, and some conditions you have to work around, along with adversity in social conditions. That’s counselling.



She was initiated to Ọ̀ṣun since 1996 in Canton, Ohio, and Yaya Nkisi in Palo for about 2 years. Her godparents in Ocha are Baba Medahochi (Iba’e t’orun) and Iya Aboyade, who is now Iyanifa and is called Ifálola. Her Ojugbona is Barbara Barrett, Osunnikantomi Egbenihun. Her name in Ocha is Ọ̀ṣunmilaya which means Ò̩ṣún wife of Orunmila. She has received Iṣe’Fá (Hand of Orula) from Baba Wande Abimbola, Awise Ni Agbáyé.

Her first ceremonies were done in Cleveland in the early 1990s when she received collares, Warriors and Olokun.

Her house of Ocha at this time is headed by Manny Urquiola, Oloyuoba, of Spring Hill, Florida. She also has a working relationship with her husband’s Padrino in Palma Soriano, Cuba. She has travelled to Cuba quite a few times and as a result, her Spanish speaking abilities are pretty good.



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