Ifa Divination

Why asking a divination is so important to us?

As I stated before, we believe in the alignment of one’s Destiny: often, when something goes wrong in our life, it means we are walking out of our path; this comes to manifest with bad luck, impediments, difficult relationships, unhappiness, delay in obtaining a job or anything else. We ask Ifa to show us what is the problem, what is happening, and most important which is the solution and how to re-align with the Destiny and do the correct thing in the right moment, or still, what is better we leave and what to undertake.

We are simple human beings and often matters of life are a mystery to us: with the knowledge of Ifa we can take a look into your head and understand better what is going on.
After the performing of the divination a sacrifice is required: often it is an offering to Ifa and Irunmole for them to propitiate us, for them to give us the strength to walk the right path and for them to complete the missing link and correct wrong choices that delay the future of an event or to correct a wrong character or a bad habit.

Not everyone likes to comply the necessary Ebo or Sacrifice/Offering to Ifa and Irunmole: I say, this is a person’s choice and I respect it.
That is why we chose to offer various types of divination based on a person choice.

Contact me if you need some informations, I speak Italian, English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Something about

What is the Àsé?
Àsé is the Power of the Universe.

Who is Eledumare?
Eledumare or Olodumare is the Existence itself, the Universe, the Planets, the Life. It manifests itself in everything you can see and experience like feelings, mountains, rivers, food, everything you can see and you cannot see. Everything you know and everything you don’t know.

Who are Iyami?
Iyami is the Great Feminine Power who bestow all the good and the evil in the earth; they need to be appease for them to permit us to change the evil into good.

Who are the Irunmole?
They are the Forces of the Nature, they are what make possible the life in the earth for every living being. They are a close and essential part of the Creation.

Who are the Ajogun?
They are the sickness, the evil, the ones who afflict humanity and every living being.

Who are the Egun?
Egun is the word for Ancestors. They keep guiding us in the earth and sometime they chose to incarnate in their descendants.

Who are the Egbe Orun?
They are our spiritual society, we belong to specifically categories of Egbe Orun before coming to earth. They are very powerful allies and their worship is very important if we want to have success in life.

What is an Odu Ifa?
In Ifa tradition we have 256 Odu Ifa: every Odu Ifa speaks with lot of chants, that are legends, stories whose purpose is to reveal the Destiny or the problem of the person who ask for the divination.
As I wrote in an article with my brother Ifabunmi Ojedare, you can imagine an Odu as an energy vortex in which you are living in this right moment.
The Odu Ifa revealed during a divination is not the same as the Odu Ifa you were born in.
To know which Odu Ifa is the one you were born in you need a specifically ceremony and divination that will reveal to you your Ori (Destiny), your Eleda (the Irunmole you need to worship) and your Taboo (things prohibited to do).

The Irunmole are sometimes called Òrìsa: in truth there is only one Òrìsa, he is Òrìsà Nlà, Obatala, the King of the White Cloth, the Elder One, The Great One, the responsible for the creation of the human beings and, with the name of Ajala Mopin, the one who mould our Ori (destiny, head) in which Eledumare breathes the life.

Other very important Irunmole are:

Esu, the messenger between Sky and Earth, the one who carries our prayers and offerings to the Orun, the one who permit the Communication.

Orunmila, the witness of everyone’s Destiny.

Osun, the water, the fertility and maternity.

Ogun, Irunmole of metals, the progress and the evolution.

Sango, Irunmole of fire and electricity, of justice.

We believe in 400 plus 1 Irunmole, all of them are essential to this existence.

The oracles used in Ifa Tradition are the Ikin Ifa (sacred palm nuts) and the Opele Ifa (a chain with eight half seeds of a palm fruit); these instruments of divination belong to Orunmila, the one who we consider to be merged with Ifa.

Other instruments of divination who belongs to Egun, Egbe Orun, Iyami and other Irunmole are:

The Obi, cola nuts; generally are used two cola nuts with four lobes each.

The Orogbo, bitter cola; Orogbo are the Sango’s favorite ones. They are used in pair, cutted in the half.

The Éèríndílógún: this oracle belongs to Òrìsà Nlà, it consists in sixteen cowries who reveal the Odu (paths of Destiny).