Why Yoruba’s Ifa Divination is a Two-Way Street
Unlike psychic readings and tarot cards, Ifa divination requires your Ebo–offerings and sacrifices.
In Yoruba culture, an ancient system of religious worship exists called Ifa. As with the Yoruba people, the Ifa religion originated in Western Africa in what is now mostly modern Nigeria.
The Ifa religion, its heavenly disciples, and its system of spiritual transference were designed and determined by a prophet named Orunmila. This worship system is called dafa, or Ifa divination, and is the process by which a practioner seeks a priest or priestess to reveal the scriptural messages of Ifa. More so, within Ifa divination, practitioners also learn how to apply this knowledge and are prescribed offerings and sacrifices as dictated by the spirit world.
The Purpose of Ifa Divination
In Yoruba mythology, it’s understood that your heavenly consciousness, your iponri, is given a destiny, an ayanmo, but it is forgotten as you make your way down to Earth at birth. The purpose of Ifa divination is to reunite that destiny with your earthly consciousness, your ori, by determining your Odu—a heavenly disciple.
