Yemaya's Ocean Abundance: Cultivating Deep Wealth Consciousness

By Nicole, Founder of Mystic Ryst

She is the ocean—vast, deep, abundant beyond measure. She is the mother of all life, the womb from which everything emerges. She is Yemaya (also spelled Yemoja, Yemalla, or Iemanjá)—the Yoruba Orisha of the ocean, motherhood, and profound abundance.

When you stand at the ocean's edge, you're standing before infinite abundance. The ocean doesn't worry about running out of water. It doesn't hoard its treasures. It gives and receives in endless cycles, always full, always flowing, always abundant.

This is Yemaya's teaching: true wealth consciousness isn't about accumulating and protecting—it's about recognizing the infinite abundance that already exists and flowing with it like the ocean flows with the tides.

For spiritual entrepreneurs struggling with scarcity mindset, money blocks, and fear of not having enough, Yemaya offers the wisdom of oceanic abundance—deep, vast, inexhaustible, and always available when you align with the flow.

Let's explore Yemaya's teachings on cultivating deep wealth consciousness and building a business from oceanic abundance.

Understanding Yemaya

Who Is Yemaya?

Yemaya is one of the most beloved and powerful Orishas in the Yoruba tradition, considered the mother of all Orishas and all life.

Yemaya governs:

• The ocean: Salt water, seas, oceanic depths
• Motherhood: Nurturing, protection, unconditional love
• Fertility and creation: Birth, abundance, life itself
• Wealth and prosperity: Deep, oceanic abundance
• Emotional healing: The womb, emotions, deep healing
• Protection: Fierce maternal protection
• Secrets and mysteries: The ocean's hidden depths

Yemaya's Symbols and Sacred Items

Colors: Blue (all shades), white, silver, crystal
Number: 7 (her sacred number)
Day: Saturday (shared with Oshun in some traditions)
Element: Water (ocean/salt water)
Symbols: Shells, pearls, anchors, fish, moon, waves
Offerings: Watermelon, molasses, coconut, white flowers, fish, blue and white items
Sacred animals: Fish, dolphins, sea creatures
Metals: Silver, pearl

Yemaya's Archetype

Yemaya embodies the divine mother in her most nurturing and abundant form:

• Nurturing and protective (like a mother)
• Vast and deep (like the ocean)
• Abundant and generous (endless giving)
• Powerful and fierce (when her children are threatened)
• Emotional and intuitive (rules the emotional realm)
• Mysterious and profound (ocean depths)

The paradox: Yemaya is gentle and nurturing, yet incredibly powerful. The ocean can be calm or destructive. She gives abundantly but demands respect.

Yemaya's Wealth Wisdom

1. Abundance Is Your Natural State

Yemaya's teaching: The ocean doesn't create abundance—it IS abundance. You don't have to create wealth—you have to recognize you're already swimming in it.

In business:

• Abundance isn't something you achieve—it's something you align with
• You're not trying to get abundant—you're recognizing you already are
• Scarcity is an illusion; abundance is reality

How to apply:

• Shift from "I need to create abundance" to "I am abundance"
• Look for evidence of abundance already in your life
• Operate from overflow, not lack
• Trust that there's always enough

2. Deep Wealth vs. Surface Wealth

Yemaya's teaching: The ocean's greatest treasures aren't on the surface—they're in the depths. True wealth is deep, not shallow.

In business:

• Surface wealth: Quick money, flashy success, external validation
• Deep wealth: Sustainable abundance, soul fulfillment, lasting impact

How to apply:

• Build for depth, not just surface success
• Cultivate wealth that nourishes your soul
• Value deep client relationships over quick transactions
• Create lasting value, not just fast cash

3. Give and Receive Like the Tides

Yemaya's teaching: The ocean gives (waves flowing out) and receives (waves flowing in) in endless cycles. This is the natural flow of abundance.

In business:

• Giving and receiving are equally important
• You can't only give (you'll deplete)
• You can't only receive (you'll stagnate)
• Flow with both movements

How to apply:

• Give your gifts generously
• Receive payment graciously
• Don't hoard or block the flow
• Trust the natural rhythm of exchange

4. Nurture Your Business Like a Mother

Yemaya's teaching: As the great mother, Yemaya nurtures all life. Your business needs the same maternal care.

In business:

• Nurture your business with love and attention
• Protect it fiercely when needed
• Give it what it needs to grow
• Be patient with its development

How to apply:

• Treat your business like your child
• Invest in its growth and health
• Protect it from harm
• Love it unconditionally

5. Emotional Healing Creates Wealth

Yemaya's teaching: Yemaya rules the emotional realm. Your emotional blocks around money create financial blocks.

In business:

• Money issues are often emotional issues
• Heal your relationship with receiving
• Clear ancestral money wounds
• Process your feelings about wealth

How to apply:

• Do emotional healing work around money
• Explore your money story and wounds
• Heal your capacity to receive
• Work with Yemaya for emotional clearing

6. Trust the Depths

Yemaya's teaching: The ocean's depths hold mysteries and treasures. Trust what you can't see.

In business:

• Not all abundance is visible immediately
• Trust the unseen work happening beneath the surface
• Have faith in the process
• The depths hold your greatest treasures

How to apply:

• Trust timing even when you can't see results
• Believe in the invisible work you're doing
• Have faith in the depths of your potential
• Know that treasures are forming in the deep

Cultivating Oceanic Abundance Consciousness

The Scarcity to Abundance Shift

Scarcity consciousness (desert mind):

• "There's not enough"
• "I have to hoard and protect"
• "If they win, I lose"
• "Money is scarce and hard to get"
• "I'm running out"

Abundance consciousness (ocean mind):

• "There's more than enough for everyone"
• "I can give freely and still have plenty"
• "Everyone can win"
• "Money flows naturally and abundantly"
• "I'm swimming in infinite abundance"

The Yemaya Abundance Practice

Daily practice to shift to oceanic abundance:

1. Morning: Visualize yourself as the ocean—vast, deep, abundant
2. Throughout the day: Notice abundance everywhere (nature, breath, opportunities)
3. When scarcity arises: Ask "What would Yemaya do?" (She'd trust the ocean's abundance)
4. Evening: List 7 things (Yemaya's number) you're abundant in

Yemaya's Abundance Rituals

The Ocean Offering Ritual

If you have access to the ocean, this is the most powerful Yemaya ritual:

1. Bring offerings: Watermelon, white flowers, molasses, coins
2. Wade into the ocean (or stand at the shore)
3. Speak to Yemaya: "Yemaya, great mother of the ocean, I honor you. I ask for your blessings of abundance, prosperity, and deep wealth. Help me embody oceanic consciousness."
4. Offer your gifts to the waves
5. Receive the ocean's energy (let waves wash over you)
6. Thank Yemaya
7. Take ocean water home (for your altar)

The Seven Waves Ritual

Yemaya's number is 7. Use this for abundance work:

1. Fill a bowl with water (ocean water if possible, or add sea salt)
2. Add 7 items: Shells, coins, crystals, or blue/white items
3. Place on your altar
4. Each day for 7 days, speak an abundance affirmation:
   • Day 1: "I am abundant like the ocean"
   • Day 2: "Wealth flows to me naturally"
   • Day 3: "I give and receive with ease"
   • Day 4: "I am the ocean—vast and full"
   • Day 5: "Money comes to me in waves"
   • Day 6: "I trust the depths of abundance"
   • Day 7: "I am Yemaya's child—abundance is my birthright"
5. On day 7, pour water into a living plant or return to ocean

The Blue and White Abundance Altar

Create a Yemaya altar for ongoing abundance work:

Items to include:

• Blue and white cloth
• Ocean water or salt water
• Shells, pearls, sea glass
• Blue and white candles
• Images of the ocean or Yemaya
• 7 coins (for prosperity)
• White flowers
• Watermelon (her favorite offering)

Maintain: Refresh weekly, make offerings, speak your abundance intentions

The Saturday Yemaya Practice

Saturday is Yemaya's day (in many traditions). Use it for abundance work:

• Wear blue and white
• Work on money mindset
• Make financial decisions from abundance
• Give offerings to Yemaya
• Visualize oceanic wealth
• Practice receiving

Healing Money Wounds with Yemaya

The Emotional Money Clearing

Yemaya heals emotional wounds. Use her energy to heal money blocks:

1. Identify your money wound: What's your earliest painful money memory?
2. Feel the emotion: Let yourself fully feel the pain, fear, shame
3. Call on Yemaya: "Yemaya, great mother, heal this wound. Wash it clean with your ocean waters."
4. Visualize: Ocean waves washing over the wound, cleansing it
5. Release: Let the emotion flow out with the waves
6. Receive: Let Yemaya's love fill the space

The Ancestral Money Healing

Yemaya connects us to our ancestors. Heal ancestral money patterns:

1. Acknowledge: "I carry ancestral money wounds"
2. Honor: "I honor my ancestors and their struggles"
3. Release: "I release patterns that no longer serve me"
4. Call on Yemaya: "Yemaya, help me heal my lineage's relationship with money"
5. Affirm: "I am the one who breaks the cycle. Abundance flows through me to my descendants."

The Receiving Practice

Why Receiving Is Hard

Many entrepreneurs can give but struggle to receive. This blocks abundance.

Common receiving blocks:

• "I don't deserve it"
• "I should give more than I receive"
• "Receiving is selfish"
• "I'm not worthy"

Yemaya's Receiving Wisdom

The ocean receives rivers, rain, and streams without guilt. It knows receiving is natural.

Practice receiving:

• Accept compliments without deflecting
• Receive payment without guilt
• Let others help you
• Say "thank you" instead of "I don't deserve this"
• Open your arms to receive (literally—practice the gesture)

The Receiving Affirmation

"I receive like the ocean receives—
Naturally, abundantly, without guilt.
I am worthy of all good things.
I open to receive Yemaya's blessings.
Abundance flows to me in waves."

Yemaya's Business Practices

The Abundance Inventory

Yemaya teaches us to see the abundance we already have:

List 7 areas where you're already abundant:

1. ___
2. ___
3. ___
4. ___
5. ___
6. ___
7. ___

Do this daily. Train your mind to see abundance.

The Generous Giving Practice

The ocean gives freely. Practice oceanic generosity:

• Give free value abundantly
• Share your knowledge generously
• Tip well, donate, support others
• Give without expecting return
• Trust that giving creates receiving

But also: Don't give from depletion. Give from overflow, like the ocean.

The Deep Wealth Meditation

Connect to Yemaya's oceanic abundance:

1. Sit comfortably, close your eyes
2. Visualize yourself as the ocean
3. Feel your vastness, your depth
4. Notice you're full of treasures—pearls, shells, abundance
5. Feel the waves of wealth flowing in and out
6. Know you are infinite abundance
7. Open your eyes, carry this knowing

When to Call on Yemaya

Call on Yemaya when:

• You're struggling with scarcity mindset
• You need to heal money wounds
• You're blocked from receiving
• You need deep emotional healing around wealth
• You want to cultivate abundance consciousness
• You need maternal nurturing and support
• You're building sustainable, deep wealth

Yemaya's Prayer for Abundance

"Yemaya, great mother of the ocean,
Mother of all abundance,
I call upon your vast and generous spirit.
Help me embody oceanic consciousness.
Heal my money wounds and blocks to receiving.
Teach me to give and receive like the tides.
Fill me with your infinite abundance.
I am your child—prosperity is my birthright.
Ase."

The Promise of Yemaya

When you embody Yemaya's oceanic abundance:

• You shift from scarcity to abundance consciousness
• Money flows naturally, like tides
• You give and receive with ease
• You heal deep money wounds
• You build sustainable, deep wealth
• You nurture your business with maternal love
• You trust the infinite abundance available to you

The Invitation

Yemaya invites you to stop living from the desert of scarcity and dive into the ocean of abundance.

You are not separate from abundance—you ARE abundance, just as a wave is not separate from the ocean.

Heal your wounds. Open to receive. Give generously. Trust the depths.

And let Yemaya's oceanic consciousness fill your business with waves of prosperity.

Omi O! Yemaya O! (Hail the waters! Hail Yemaya!)

How are you cultivating oceanic abundance consciousness? What money wounds are you healing with Yemaya? I'd love to hear your journey.