The Legion of Pomba Gira
Complex and powerful; the spirit who will break you out of your cage, set fire to it and dance on the ashes.
Note: This article is potentially going to leave you with more questions than answers unless you are familiar with the ADR’s. I do not want this to be an encyclopedia type article, my aim is to briefly introduce her.
Pomba Gira hails from Brazil. She is the matriarch of a cult called Quimbanda that originated due to the African diaspora and contains elements of African, indigenous and European magic. They kept what worked, and Pomba Gira is a spirit who evolves with what her people need.
The best way for me to describer her is she is everything, which is incredibly unhelpful for you.
Pomba Gira being legion means that there are many Pomba Giras, all of which have a role to play within the world. Each Pomba Gira has a speciality that we need to either survive in the world or change our internal lives so we can be who we are supposed to be.
All of the Pomba Giras are here to help you free yourself from your self imposed chains.
There are many who only work with Pomba Gira to effect their lives (e.g. bring me wealth, love, protect my children, stop my husband hitting me), this will not last long - she would like to know why you aren’t asking to be in a position to leave your husband. Why do you not think you deserve love? Why do you not think money is easy to come by?
Pomba Gira will ensure you face your soul, and the worst parts of yourself so that they can no longer control you.
So you are free. Free and powerful.
As Pomba Gira is legion there are Pomba Giras that are queens, soldiers, sex workers, cabaret dancers, nuns, gypsy’s, business owners, teenagers, gardeners…each with their own distinct personality and expectations.
I have not met another spirit like Pomba Gira - she is incredibly special with her breadth of understanding the human suffering and her inability to not believe in you. She can be harsh, loving, dismissive and sarcastic - whatever is necessary so you take the right action for yourself. Some of us need the anger to fuel us, some of us need the love.
She knows which.
One thing to be very clear about is that Pomba Gira is an ancestral spirit - so she is a dead human with something extra - she is not a goddess. AT ALL. This means that Pomba Gira is much closer to our vibration and she is exceptional at appearing in front of you or in corners when she is around.
Being ancestral also means she is a lot quicker at getting results for you, and understands the importance of some of your requests.
Working with Her
Ideally you would work with Pomba Gira within Quimbanda as she prefers to have her counterpart Exu honoured and worked with at the same time.
Pomba Gira and Exu are not pretty spirits - they are incredibly sharp, effective and beyond powerful so having a system like Quimbanda ensures you have the correct precautions and being within a group with a responsible leader makes a huge difference.
If you want to know more, please research Quimbanda/Kimbanda to understand the breadth of her reach. Even then this is not accurate as records and traditions relating specifically to her within the cult have been lost as men deemed them unimportant to keep.
This will be rectified in the coming years.
There will be more articles coming on the individual Pomba Giras which will be far easier to write.