Description
Book SynopsisA complete guide to working with the Birth Odus of your Orishas Birth Chart• Offers step-by-step instructions to calculate your Birth Odus and cast your full Orisha Birth Chart
• Presents detailed interpretations of each of the 16 Birth Odus, showing how their energies manifest in an individual’s personality, relationships, financial status, and general approach to life
• Shares self-transformation techniques to help you improve the positive qualities of your chart while embracing, integrating, and neutralizing negative energies and tendencies
Much like the celestial influences revealed by a natal astrology chart or the numerology of your birth date, African spiritual traditions believe that every person has specific personal energies ruling how we relate to each other and the way we foresee and achieve life goals. Called the birth Odus, these inner energies influence your choices and decisions throughout life, defining and differentiating you from everyone else--and revealing the best ways to maximize your potential and meet the challenges you face.
Offering a complete guide to discovering, interpreting, and working with your birth Odus, Diego de Oxóssi details step by step how to calculate your birth Odus and cast your full Orisha birth Chart. He explains the Afro-Brazilian concept of numerology and its relationship with the 16 Odus and their related Orishas, the deities of the Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition. He explores how to determine the influences in the major and minor houses of your Orisha birth chart, including those related to personality and identity, career and success, relationships and love, and challenges and personal evolution.
Presenting case studies from his practice, the author offers detailed interpretations of each of the 16 birth Odus, showing how their energies manifest in an individual’s life. He looks at the positive and negative aspects of each Odu, including how the negative aspects represent the shadow forces that one has to overcome to succeed in life. He offers self- transformation techniques to help you improve the positive qualities of your chart while embracing, integrating, and neutralizing the negative energies and tendencies.
Revealing how to better know yourself and understand the spiritual dynamics behind your choices and behaviors, this guide shows you how to work with the energies of the Odus and the strength of the Orishas to improve your communication and relationship skills, overcome life’s challenges, and ensure success and happiness on your life’s path.
Trade Review“Diego de Oxóssi has written an easy-to-understand guide on divination in the Afro- Brazilian esoteric system.
Afro-Brazilian Numerology explains each of the 16 birth Odus and the influence of these powerful signs on the life, success, relationships, and manifestation of each individual.” * Elhoim Leafar, santero and author of Manifestation Magic: 21 Rituals, Spells, and Amulets for Abunda *
Table of ContentsSpecial Thanks 1 If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Can Take You There
2 How to Use This Book
PART 1
A Guide to the Traditional Odus 3 Getting to Know the Odus
4 The Sixteen Odus
5 Cowrie Shell Divination: The Orishas’ Voices
PART 2
Discovering the Odus in Your Orisha Birth Chart 6 Birth Odus: The Basis of African Numerology
7 The Orisha Birth Chart
PART 3
Awakening Your Better Self8 Transforming Others through Self-Transformation
9 The Inner Revolution
10 Other Applications of African Numerology
APPENDIX
Sample Worksheet Pages
References
Index
About the Author
