The Orunmila Barami Agbonmiregun, the World Ifa Festival was held Saturday June 6-7, 2015 at Oketase the Ile Ifa Agbaye (World Ifa Temple), Ile-Ife. This festival celebrates the New Year for all the traditional Yoruba practitioners.
This year’s World Ifa festival was attended by thousands of people from all over the world. The rituals began in the early morning and will continue into the following day.
The odu Ifa for this year is Ofun Osa – Ire Ariku
Ifa says we should make the sacrifice for our head. There will be a lot of honor for the people. We need to look to our children there will be one child that we especially need to take care of the head of the child. Make sacrifice to not see the war. Make a sacrifice for the victory from this year to the next year. We need to feed Ogun, and make a sacrifice for the traveler. We need to make the sacrifice for the person who will take good care of us. We need to take care of our bodies in this year because of sickness.
Ofun sa so babalawo Abe lo se ifa fun Abe ni ojo to gbe ogun re ilu ifari
Ifa says that we should make a sacrifice for the Aje. We need to make a sacrifice for the people that will want to leak your secrets. If you are not careful your personal secrets will leak. We need to be careful about arguments. We need to warn the children about arguing with people. Take good care of the Aje for all the above reasons.
Ifa says that practitioners should feed their ancestors for the blessings to come this year. There is the warning about palm wine, people should be careful about drinking wine. Ifa says that we should be careful of our taboos, in particular when it pertains to food. One should not eat any taboo food in this year. Ifa say we should use ekuru to feed our orisa for the blessings.
Ofun sarasara
A difa fun Orunmila
Alukin Orisa Nla
A difa fun awon eleye
This year, Ifa says that there will be a betrayer, a liar. This person will be close to us. Ifa says no matter which Orisa that we have in our house we should not neglect them.
Orishada would like to greet for this Ifa New Year, the Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse ll Olori Alade gbogbo Oonirisa Arole Oduduwa , Awoyemi Adisa Monkanrawale Araba Agbaye Oluisese , Awolodunmirindinlogun and All the Araba ,Olu-awo, Babalawo, Iyanifa,Babalorisa, Iyalorisa, Ojugbona, Gbogbo Omo Awo and All Egbe Aworeni Family .
May the blessings of Ifa guide and protect you. Ase o