Jan 012002
Ever since I received my awo’fá’kan in the town of Regla—Cuba— from my Babalawo Norberto Díaz, Baba Ejiogbé, he impressed upon me the importance of knowing the annual predictions of Ifá and the value of following the Orishas’ advice and performing the recommended ebós to achieve the blessings foretold and avoid or diminish the negative aspects that the odu announced.
With the help of modern technology, it has become easier to learn the divination for the year from various parts of the Americas. I have had the pleasure of establishing contacts with Olorishas from many of the countries referred to herein, and they in turn, enlighten me and keep me abreast of occurrences within their geographical area that may be of interest to myself.
For some time now, I have been compiling these predictions and keeping an annual journal of them. I now share this with the readers of Eleda.Org, and hope it is of value to other Olorishas. The divinations I have compiled are derived from the following places:
Cuba 1:
- Comisión de la Letra del Año. Avenida 10 de Octubre, # 1509, La Vibora, Habana, Cuba, directed by Lázaro Cuesta, Iwori Bofún.
Cuba 2:
- Asociación Cultural Yoruba. Prado # 65, La Habana Vieja, Habana, Cuba.
Cuba 3:
- Norberto Díaz, Babá Ejiogbé—this is the personal odu of my ilé Ifá—Regla, Havana, Cuba.
United States:
- Comisión Para la Letra del Año. Miami, directed by Manuel Erize.
Puerto Rico:
- Templo Yoruba Omó Orisha, Inc., directed by the Temple’s president, Omó Odu Roberto Boluffer, Ogundá Lení.
Mexico:
- Babalawos de Mexico under the direction of Leonel, Oshé’waní.
Odus:
Cuba 1:
- Ejiogbé Ogundá, eyó nibo joko abe awo kafete leri– tragedy and arguments regarding religious matters brought about by one’s head.
Cuba 2:
- Oshé mejí, iré arikú yalé ‘lese Oshún – blessings of health provided by Oshún.
Cuba 3:
- Oyekún Odí, iré arikú yalé ‘lese Elegbá – blessings of health provided by Elegbá.
U.S.:
- Ìwori Ofún, iré susu yalé ‘lese Obatalá – blessings of all good things provided by Obatalá.
P. R.:
- Oturupón Osá, iré dewán ‘lese Elegbá – blessings that will arrive little by little provided by Elegbá.
Mexico:
- Ejiogbé Otura, iré arikú yale ‘lese Olofín – blessings of health provided by Olofín.
Ruling Orishas:
Cuba 1:
- Shangó & Yemojá
Cuba 2:
- Yemojá & Orunmilá
Cuba 3:
- Obatalá & Yemojá
U.S.:
- Yemojá & Elegbá
P. R.:
- Shangó & Oyá
Mexico:
- Shangó y Oshún
Flags:
Cuba 1:
- Red with the borders in Blue
Cuba 2:
- Blue with the borders in Green
Cuba 3:
- Half white and half blue with the borders in white
U.S.:
- Half blue and half red with the borders in black
P.R.:
- Half red and half multicolored with the borders in white
Mexico:
- Half red and half yellow with the borders in white
Ifá’s advice:
- Avoid any displays of ostentation, disputes, or offending others.
- Avoid problems with the law, and keep all documents with expiration dates in order.
- Avoid arguments, gossip, and intrigue, either at home, work or the street.
- Avoid gluttony and vices.
- Avoid excessive drinking to avert embarrassment and diseases.
- Avoid the use of firearms. Those that carry them should be very careful with them.
- Avoid verbal or physical abuse of women.
- Be selective with your godchildren, and avoid confrontations between godparents and godchildren.
- Do not stay outside late at night unless is necessary.
- Do not tell lies so you will not be discovered.
- Fulfill all the promises and/or pending ritual to the dead.
- Greed can bring us serious consequences.
- There will be a growing interest in the search for the Yoruba faith.
- Growing lack of respect from the young to the elders and vice versa, and ill feelings between children and their parents because of things done in the past.
- Important increase in the control of identifications, customs, and immigration.
- It may be a prosperous year. Those that work will be rewarded. Those that do not will end up in the street.
- Marital problems due to lack of understanding and external intervention.
- Mothers should attempt to influence positively the formal education of their children to avoid social deformities.
- The economy will advance in the second semester.
- Perform a medical check up, and take immediate care of any medical condition.
- Prepare for natural disasters or atmospheric problems.
- Take care of your abdomen in general. Women should check for menstrual problems, and be careful with miscarriages and abortions.
- Take care of your blood, and beware of sexually transmitted diseases and excess worries.
- Try to solve any doubt or situation through divination with the orishas.
- Avoid foods that are high in saturated fats, salt or fried, and specially leftovers.
- Take special care of employment to avoid losing it. Careful with despair because that could lead to mistakes that we could regret.
- Watch out for the children so we do not give them bad examples, and keep especially vigilant so that they do not incur in corruption, drugs, vices or prostitution.
- Watch out for the family integrity and relationships, and stress comprehension and analysis of economic and family matters.
- Watch out for the family unity. In this year, people should be close to blood and religious family.
- Careful with the sea, boats, and drownings.
Recommendations:
- Ask our mother for her blessing often.
- Clean the house with religious elements, beginning with a paraldo with a rooster.
- Keep one’s head covered.
- Do not eat mamey. It should only be used for ebó or adimú.
- Do not leave anything for later. We should perform the ebós Ifá has recommended as soon as possible.
- Do not wear black clothes.
- Fulfill any promises or debts with Araorún as soon as possible.
- Offer toasted corn, smoked fish and jutía to shilekún—the front door.
- Masses in Church for parents, godparents and deceased family members.
- Masses in Church for the living and for the dead.
- Avoid sorcery and cursing others for it will be castigated heavily.
- Pay homage to Oshún throughout the year.
- Pay homage to the spirits and the dead.
- Perform frequent check ups if pregnant.
- Pray to all the orishas and in special to ones personal orisha.
- Put a small bell behind the entrance door.
- Put a white plate with water and 16 branches of basil, and on the 6th day, mix it with ori, efún, and dry wine and use this to bathe.
- Spiritual masses.
- Take baths with white flowers, ori and efún.
- Take special care of teenage girls—virgins.
- Wear a rosary and pay a visit to a Church.
- Wear the necklace of Obatalá and Yemojá.
Awón Adimú:
Elegbá:
- Give him a small bell, and sound it to salute and pray to him
- Feed Eshú in the corners and in the trash
- Offer Elegbá three small chicks and three days later, give him three more
- Cleanse oneself with three little packages with toasted corn, smoked fish and jutía, and throw them to different parts or roads.
Ogún:
- Clean oneself with a white guinea hen.
Oyá:
- An adimú of one’s choosing.
Oshún:
- Offer her a sunflower and a bottle of honey. Once the flower is dry, throw it on the street in front of your house.
Yemojá:
- Wash one’s head with her omieró and sacrifice two white roosters to her.
Obatalá:
- Pray to him with eight small, white rolls with ori and efún sprinkled on top, and eight small white flags, one on each roll.
Shangó:
- An adimú of one’s choosing.
Orunmilá:
- An adimú of one’s choosing.
Ebo:
Cuba 1:
- One rooster for Shangó and Ogún, together, sacrificed at the entrance to one’s home.
Cuba 2:
- One rooster, mixed beans, leftovers, one yellow piece of cloth, many cloths of different colors, the measurement of the person, smoked fish and jutía, ori, epó, honey, two candles, two coconuts, coins.
Cuba 3:
- One rooster, smoked fish and jutía, toasted corn, efún, cotton, herbs from osayín, coins, three tips from “mother-in-law’s-tongue” plant, one small pumpkin, dirt from the crossroads, sand, one male figure, corn meal, two eyes.
U.S.A.:
- One rooster, three chicks, dirt from the crossroads, one male figure, one female figure, smoked fish and jutía, and toasted corn.
Mexico:
- One rooster for Elegbá; two pigeons for Orí; sixteen white candles for Olofín or for Obatalá, and light one every day.
Dr. Francisco J. Peña, Obádélé,
Babalorisha Oní Shangó, Mexico D.F.
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