Bag Charms: Amulets for Remembering
The bag charms were a new edition to VGB in 2025. They are a welcomed, whimsical new addition to the souvenir shoppe. I truly appreciate being able to hold an ambassador for VGB’s world on my person, and hope you get the same delight. This post is an introduction to each of these charms, and the message each represents for your journey.
Vagabroad Journals’ Souvenirs: The Bag Charms
Presence
Regard the presence that you carry: wisdom, dignity, regality, profoundness, brilliance, fearlessness, courage, brilliance, memory, intolerance for chaos-and its agents-
testimony, and indictment.
In your journal, write about the presence you carry.
Do you walk in doubt or hope? Low self-esteem
or confidence in your Divine mandate?
Significance
Your significance is powerful. This world is turned upside down because those who are insignificant are strutting about as if chosen, designated, created--significant. Your walking in the radiance of your significance is a form of spiritual warfare and ancestral hopes being fulfilled while breaking ordinances diSPELLed so that you would settle for insignificance.
In your journal, write about the journey to apprehending your significance. Write about realizing how society has set up gaslighting to cause you to be content with insignificance and what its taken to cause you to upset that programming and wrest your rightful birthright. What has taught you that you are significant? How do you notice the world around you respond when you operate in your significance? Why are you significant? What have you learned about the magnitude of your existence?
Regality
In a society that only produces insidious images and pernicious, stereotypes of Black women as loud, tawdry, foolish, buffoon, loud, indiscrete, and culturally deficient, it’s important that we make deliberate decisions to walk in the dignified truth of who and what we are by birthright: resplendant, glorious, pensive, WISE, and REGAL.
In your journal, write about what makes you regal. What have you learned about HOW you should carry yourself? What agendas have you observed at work to cause you to eschew regality for a lesser existence? Who in your life/history has displayed regality? What is wisdom teaching you about yourself, the richness of your voice, the power of your stride, the beauty of your laughter, and the exclusivity of your spiritual gifts?
Dormancy
Some seasons mandate that you go into deep rest,
laying dormant to be restored and to encounter
the memories of all you are meant to be, and why,
and when, and how, and for whom.
In your journal, write about your current season
and the work- or rest- in which you must participate
to be(come) who you were Divinely designed to be(come);
to walk in the integrity of your birthright.
Entering your new day is bravely facing and fearlessly
heading towards your horizon, leaving behind that which cannot participate in or edify your new day. Like an aviator, your eyes are ahead and you are soaring in the soundness of direction and victory.
In your journal, write about stepping into your new day.
What have you endured to cross over from “yesterday”
to “today”? What battles did you have to fight to decide to cross the threshhold into your new day? Was their grief? What’s created the delineation between who you were in the last season and who you are in this new chapter of life?
Are you carrying anything that does not belong to you?
Commanded
You have been commanded into significance, and imbued with AUTHORity to command that which is out of order to be in order, to command function where there is dysfunction; to command life where death would seek to have its way. Stay connected to this Divine inheritance.
In your journal, write out commands for your life, your future, your generations. Command dismantling of what must be destroyed, the upsetting of what should not be at ease, peace to that which should be at peace, restoration to that which has been disheveled, curses to return to their sender, and the resurrecting of what was not meant to be dead.
Listen! Linger!
This society is designed to keep you overstimulated, over-salted, over-sugared, and over-entertained such that you are unable to operate from your place of power, from your Divine force where you can see into realms, remember archivally, connect ancestrally, and indict emphatically. Joureying Soulfully means sojourning in the poise and posture that keeps you available to discernment, and able to receive revelation.
Practice getting quieter and even more still. What can come to/ be revealed to you when you are intentional about being still and lingering to listen in that stillness? How do you feel? What returns to you and what separates you from that place of Divine musing?
Lovingly
Do all you do with love for self, and those beyond you. Recognizing when something is not love or has no loving intention can spare you unnecessary heartache; can save your time, spiritual energy, and life.
In your journal, write about the processes and life chapters where you learned how to love yourself and how to receive love; where you learned appreciating what the Divine has placed in you to BE love in wisdom and discernment. Describe the journey of learning what love is NOT.
A New Day aka “The Aviator”
Entering your new day is bravely facing and fearlessly heading towards your horizon, leaving behind that which cannot participate in or edify your new day. Like an aviator, your eyes are ahead and you are soaring in the soundness of direction and victory.
In your journal, write about stepping into your new day. What have you endured to cross over from “yesterday” to “today”? What battles did you have to fight to decide to cross the threshhold into your new day? Was there grief?What’s created the delineation between who you were in the last season and who you are in this new chapter of life?
Witness (Coral)
You, Black woman, are both evidence and living witness. Carry this mantle with diligence, vigilance and fervence. You are called to walk in a higher standard; to synthesize what is with what has been and to say what MUST be; to observe with a sharpened spirit that does not exonerate evil or pardon its agents.
In your journal, write about that which you have been called to bear witness. Is your discernment sharpened? Are you keeping quality records of what has been and the indictment? Do you know good from evil and do you carry healthy rage against those who are your enemies?
Firmament
Coming Soon!
Kept Persistent aka “The Cartographer”
Persistence creates the map for the soulful sojourn.
In your journal, write about what you are pressing through, enduring and persisting towards. Are you so overcome with fear that you cannot make the map that tells you where you are and what to do about where you are so you can arrive to where you’re going?
