Dola
SPACE DAUGHTER
The Visual EP
✨OUT NOW ✨
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🌹 “Let’s go off road - Global Strike for Liberation, Dec 11th 2023. No work, no school, no shopping!
Going beyond this capitalist imperial colonial world requires us to go off the map of known pathways. It’s ok for us not to know the complete map to move forward as our eyes can clearly see what’s been revealed to us.
It has always been about money.
So let us get off this capitalistic pathway, even for one day
- to show we are indeed the ones who makes things go around in this world. Our ‘currency’ can be halted to show them that we are not participating in this bloodshed.” 🌹
And so it has come to this. For the toxic, outdated, violent structures of the past to meet their end, my old ways of being in this world must also meet their end.
How could I demand something that I myself am not able to offer?
How could I demand a peaceful society if I am not willing to be an active member of it?
Far too long have I lingered on the precipice of this new dawn, clinging desperately to the familiar haunts of the ego. But the cries for
peace grow louder everyday and She can wait no more.
In honor of all the lives worldwide that have been taken at the hands of malevolent energies that have utilized our collective unintegrated shadow to do their bidding, I surrender.
I surrender myself to the Magdalene flame of unconditional love.
I surrender myself at the feet of the Goddess with a vow to uphold radical honesty and self responsibility.
I vow to do everything in my great power to address, dismantle and release any internal distortions and illusions that could ever keep me from looking into your eyes and seeing the reflection of Self.
I vow to do everything in my great power to restore and cultivate peace within myself for the well being of our children, the well being of Her children and for the future of life on this planet.
With an ancient knowing that in doing so, I offer myself as a building block of a new collective way of being which will in turn yield new forms of society, wholeheartedly
I surrender.
And so it is. And so it shall be.🌹
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✨Somewhere between land and sea is where you can always find me. La mia vita è così.✨
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🌹Following in the footsteps of Venus as She begins a new synodic cycle and moves into her morning star phase! (In a a few days you might be able to begin to catch a glimpse of her in the early hours of the morning)🌹
✨When I remembered that the sun, the stars, the moon, the planets,the flowers, the waters, the trees, the lands are all living, sacred, beings; this is when the dance began. ✨
✨ I knew this Truth as a little one, and while it has taken some time to unlearn the many distortions of separation indoctrinated by the society I was exposed to, with the utmost joy I say I remember now.✨
Honoring these Beings for who They truly are is what invites them back into our consciousness, it invites them to dance with us, to play with us, to teach us, to embrace us, to collaborate with us as we weave our dreams into existence. They are our Allies. They are our friends. Do you remember them? Would you like to?
✨The dwelling place of all magick is the present moment.✨
🌹 A new cycle begins 🌹
For the beings who are not living the experience of a woman.
Every woman you have ever met and will ever meet is a sacred physical manifestation of the Goddess Herself. Every. Single. One of us.
Our bodies are not your hiding place. Our bodies are not cemeteries for you to bury the wounds that are yours to hold,heal and transmute.
Our bodies are sacred temples of the Goddess who has lain dormant in the collective consciousness of humanity for many many years, and they will be treated as such for anything less will not be tolerated and will be washed away.
Lovingly, respectfully…you have been told.
For those who are not women, May you Learn.
For all of my sisters. May we continue to Remember.
Yours truly.❤️
Yeah …I like this seat… think I’ll stay awhile. ✨🧚🏿♀️✨
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❤️Molti di vuoi conoscono quest’uomo per la sua musica, la grinta, ma la cosa che forse non sapete, e che è uno degli esseri umani più puri, gentili, generosi.❤️
❤️Quattro anni fa, uno di miei mentors mi disse che avrei dovuto incidere una versione italiana di “Give up the Gold”. ❤️
❤️Da buon sagittario, ero decisamente pronta per questa sfida. Poi un altro mentor, l’incredibile ha finalmente ultimato l’introduzione. Ho inviato la canzone a Tiziano, senza ancora essere a conoscenza di tutto il suo percorso artistico -cosa che poi ho scoperto e che mi ha lasciato senza parole-... A quel punto ho pensato “ forse non avrà tempo per aiutarmi.”… ma pochi giorni dopo, ecco che mi chiama! E pochi giorni dopo ancora, aveva già scritto la versione italiana…❤️
❤️Non era obbligato a farlo , ma l’ha fatto comunque. Semplicemente perché lui è così… Un cuore d’oro.❤️ Questa foto è dal giorno in cui ci siamo conosciuti, quando è venuto ad aiutarmi in studio durante la registrazione di “Dammi il Tesoro”.❤️
, fratello mio ti voglio così tanto bene e non vedo l’ora rivederti tra poche settimane. Billy Mann sei il più grande❤️Grazie per tutto, e per averci fatto incontrare, ti voglio benissimo❤️
❤️Special surprise over at Link in bio 😉❤️
❤️And so she lives. “Dammi il Tesoro” my first song performed in Italian, is out now everywhere you stream music!🌹🧚🏿♀️🌹
And if it sounds familiar to some of you, you can check out “Give up the Gold” from my Spacedaughter EP to refresh your memory .😉
❤️To my dear dear friend and collaborator, the one and only , thank you thank thank for re-imagining this song and writing the lyrics. Ti voglio benissimo e ci vediamo prestoooo ❤️
And now…for the video… you didn’t you think we were done here did you?…see y’all Monday.😉🧚🏿♀️
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✨I’ve teased you enough, revealed!✨
✨So happy to finally be opening up the vault to share with you all a moment of unforgettable collaboration with… a very special guest, one last surprise 😉✨
✨”Dammi il Tesoro” will be released on all music streaming platforms this Friday June 2nd! You can pre save now through the link in my bio. Ready… set… GOLD😉✨
❤️ Love ❤️
Ok basta! It’s turn up time...let’s have a little fun shall we? It is Gemini season after all. 🦋🧚🏿♀️🦋
Here we go…✨🌹✨
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✨✨ready…set….soon😉✨✨
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✨✨✨The Light ✨✨✨
❤️❤️❤️The Love❤️❤️❤️
🌹The doubts may always be there somewhere…
But we never have to listen to them. 🌹
📷 Max Perissi
Hair:
🌻 After I decided to create it in Firenze, I went back to my dear friends Francesco and Lorena, and they offered us a place to stay and another place to shoot for the duration of the . True Friendship🌻
🌻Amicizia. La cosa più bella del mondo. Nena e Francesco, vi voglio benissimo, grazie per la vostra amicizia profonda e grazie per tutto il vostro supporto.🌻
*fun fact* the first time I travelled to Firenze, I stayed in an apartment owned by Francesco. He then introduced me to his girlfriend at the time, Lorena! ( they’re married now, and I had the honor of attending their wedding last year). Lorena is who originally introduced me to Valentina Perissi and her family who helped me create .
Did you follow all that? Cuz the story continues. 😂 🌻
🌹 Sovereignty 🌹
To be able to move through space with the uninterrupted connection to the Divine Love that I Am. Sovereignty.
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Since I was 9 years old, I’ve been in deep connection with the lands of Italia. There is more to this than meets the eye. She knows me. And I know Her. And the experience of my Sovereignty is always magnified whenever we’re together.🌹❤️🌹
🌹 It was the beginning of summer, 2019.I didn’t know how I was going to do it. And then my dear mother told me “ don’t worry about how… you’re just going to do it.” 🌹
🌹 I called my sister Maiysha Rashad and her best friend Andrea Shahayda. I called my amazing stylist Thomas Carter Phillips. i called hair legend Anastasia Stylianou. I called my Italian sister Valentina Perissi and I called my loved ones in Firenze who offered to help me in any way they could. .
And by the grace of the Goddess, within a few months I found myself in the streets of Firenze, doing it… just like my mother said I would.🌹🌹🌹
And what would the have been without my favorite red lip “And the Winner is” 💄😘
🌺One of the greatest honors in this life has been and continues to be the journey of Remembrance. 🌺
🌺Remembrance of who I am. Remembrance of who You Are. Remember of who We are.🌺
🌺Yes, there are outdated limiting structures, paradigms, agendas that have benefitted from our forgetfulness, that would continue to benefit from our misunderstanding of our sovereignty, our divine intelligence, our great Power, our uniqueness, our connectedness, our Love, and our very Essence… but it’s too late. The tide is turning. The shift has already begun.
🌹She Rises.🌹
She rises. In me. In her. In them. In him. In us. In all who are willing to Remember.🌹🐍🌹
🌹Once you merge with Love itself, there is little room for anything else.🌹
✨Happy happy new Moon in Aquarius✨
What a full new moon it is 😉☺️
✨In tarot, the card that is most associated with the zodiac sign of Aquarius is the star car. ✨
✨ This correlates with the undertones of the star card being of hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future, insight and deep inspiration, (all Aquarian themes).✨
✨On this new moon, I’m seeing another correlation between Aquarius and the star card.✨
✨Every star in the universe is unique, it has its own essence and energetic force which it radiates out into space. And every star, in It’s uniqueness, serves as an integral part of of the fabric of the universe itself.✨
✨All the constellations that we love and that guide us through our lives are made up of individual stars.✨
✨In the same way, we are, each of us, a unique star, with our own unique frequency and essence. There is no star in the universe that is exactly like you. That is one of your super powers.✨
✨ But I don’t believe the stars above argue over who is brighter or more important or more unique. I believe that the stars just are.✨
✨May you revel in the unique essence that is you, that is your star.✨
✨May we witness and honor the unique light of others. And if for some reason their frequency is not in alignment with ours, may we learn not to try to dampen their light but position ourselves in such a way that we are able to continue shining harmoniously.✨
✨ May you find your inner star, May you radiate your essence out into the world, with boldness, love, and truth. And together May we light up the night sky.✨
As hard is it can be, it would be helpful@to remain heart centered.🔥. Do not turn away, and do not leave your heart center, because that I believe is the intention, for us to lose heart, for us to shrink into fear. It would be helpful to allow our anger to ride and be witnessed and honored and show us where and how we can act now. Remain heart centered and take action from your heart center. All eyes on Iran 🔥❤️🔥
My h***y, my sister, my sweet friend… I pretty much only have photos of us laughing..: cuz that was us and that will always be us. In case you’re reading this sipping on a piña colada on the heavenly beach in paradise where I know you are right now. I love you Lillz and I will never stop laughing with you. 🪷❤️💔❤️🪷
When I was a child, the luminaries were my celestial friends. The sun I used to call “Bo’jenay” and the moon I used to call “Sheh’jenay”. They were my loves.
In the past few years, something happened and I subconsciously became afraid of the moon and her lunations, but especially her fullness.
I became afraid of the uprooting winds of change she often brought with her…Of the misaligned relationships and situations I’d grown attached to that might dissolve in the fullness of her sometimes tough-loving, motherly gaze. I had become afraid of the unknown.
As I continue on this homecoming journey, I see that fear of the moon was only a fear of my own fullness, a fear of my wildness, my darkness, my light, my sovereignty, my power and my own solitude. And now, May I fear no more. May we fear no more.
And so it is. And so shall it be. ✨
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I love you, sweet Sheh’jenay. My moon, my Mother. 🌹
**us
If something is shifting where you may begin to experience the world in all its love and joy and sorrow and grief, beyond the confines of how society has programmed you to experience it… it’s okay… there is no need to pretend anymore… we can allow ourselves to See….
I recently came across these thoughts I wrote years ago, while still living under the pressure to tailor my experience to fit the template of what I perceived was acceptable for the society I lived in.💜💜💜
“ Sometimes I feel the need to see the world the way I think everyone else does… meaning, everyone has this sense of the world being “normal”, the wonders of this world are just looked at as something normal. But sometimes I slip out of this jaded perspective and nothing seems normal and everything seems extraordinary. The very laws of physics start to amaze me, and it makes me anxious. Some may call that sensory overload. I’ve spent years trying to keep my mind from slipping into this zone, but sometimes I wonder; with the ongoing work of staying grounded… Is it somewhat ok to see every aspect of this world as utterly astounding? Is that where creativity lies in the first place? I just wish it felt more comfortable, but maybe it will if I just come to a certain place of no longer trying to see the world from the eyes of others, living from the good of my own heart and trusting that I am exactly where I need to be.”
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🌹In the beginning there was Love.🌹
Do you remember?
Can you remember?
Will you remember?
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🪷 Piacere 🪷
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Ispirata 🌹
🪷And when I became my own liberator
I was freed
and
I was free🪷
🪷A love letter to the Masculine🪷
Beloved, do you remember me?
Do you recognize me?
Do you see Her in my face?
If not, do not judge yourself but maybe soften your gaze. And I will soften mine, that we may See each other again. That we may Be with each other again.
🪷I remember You.🪷
I remember your courage. I remember your valor. I remember your honor. I remember your royalty. I remember your kindness. I remember your strength. I remember your expansion. I remember your tenderness. I remember your wisdom.I remember your true leadership. I remember your Divine Protection. I remember your guardianship. I remember you brother. I remember you father. I remember you friend. I remember you lover. As I remember myself. I remember you. As I love myself. I love you. As I hold myself accountable. I hold you accountable.
The rise of the Goddess is not your downfall.
This is a distortion that has caused you to fear Whom You once Loved and Honored.
Remember Beloved.
Remember who you are.
So that when you look upon the faces of my sisters
You see Her.
🪷And you remember🪷
Remember…Remember…Remember.
Feel… pause… come together….
Strategize
Remind yourself…. Remind each other.
Remember your Self.
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An offering to all, and especially my fellow humans living any experience of a woman with whom this may resonate.🌹
It is ok to if you begin to experience yourself as the Goddess…It is ok if you begin to experience your body as Her home.
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It is ok if your sexuality is rooted in something deeper than just a physical impulse.
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It is ok if your sexuality is rooted in something deeper and more ancient than any mental or societal construct.
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It is ok if your sexuality is so cosmic that it cannot be contained by any political statement.
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It is ok to experience the Great Power that lives inside of your body and what it truly means to hold that energy with humility, grace, dignity and Great Love.
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It is ok if you choose to be discerning with the energies you give the privilege of access to your expression of divine sexuality. Not from a place of rigidity, fear, repression or even necessarily self protection- but from a place of understanding, deep joy, grounded lightheartedness and immeasurable Self-reverence.
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Know that you are tenderly held, greatly respected and honored if your life circumstances have ever been such where that divine choice was taken from you. Know that you too are still and always will be, sacred.
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It is ok to experience yourself as the Goddess. It is ok to experience your body as Her Home.
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It is ok if you have always experienced this. It is ok if it has taken many years to come into this experience. It is ok if you are not living this experience just yet….”A rose blooms when she is ready, and not a moment too soon”
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(Quote from “Rose Lineage” by Marya Stark, Mama Crow and Benjy Werthheimer)🌹
Dola
Dola is a multifaceted storyteller and multi-hyphenate. She trained as a classical pianist during her adolescence and was the lead singer and songwriter of an alternative band, “Condola & The Stoop Kids” in New York City.
Dola has had an incredibly wide range of musical influences, from Little Dragon to India Arie, Stevie Wonder to Timbaland - she has never stuck to creating one genre of music. What was her challenge, has now become her strength, as her music is her very own sound.
Condola “Dola” Rashad is a four-time Tony Award nominee, who can also be seen starring in Showtime’s hit series “Billions,” which returns in May.