FEAST DAYS

The saints, archangels, and loans are celebrated on various days of the year. Below is a partial list of the annual Feast Days as identified by Reverend Severina at New Orleans Voodoo Crossroads.

JANUARY- 6-7 & 8 - Feast Days of Jasper, Balthazar & Melchior (For obtaining gifts & prosperity).

17 – Ogun (For work, opportunities, protection from accidents, and firearms).

FEBRUARY - 2 – Oyá, Mistress of the Cemetery (For cha ange, readying for battle, protection from weather).

MARCH - 19 - Osanyin (Deciduous vegetation, for healing and nourishment from Nature).

25 - Oshun - Our Lady of Charity. For love, abundance, chaclarityassion, and activity (See also September).

APRIL - 22 - Earth Day - All Loa and Orisha (For renewing one’s vows to make one’s life sacred and in harmony with the whole Creation)

MAY - 15 - Ochosi - The Divine Hunter -(For justice, court cases, re- estate-establishing, and universal harmony)

JUNE - 21-23 - Summer Solstice - Legba - St John's Eve - John the Conqueror

To celebrate the summer, the warmth, fire, and now, nourishment from the Sun. (For opportunities, good luck and to re-align with cosmic forces)

AUGUST - 2 - Black Madonna - Virgin of the Angels. For solace, protection, fertility, to give up one's sorrows, and for the protection n of mothers and children.)

SEPTEMBER - 7 - Yemayá (For appeasement of sorrows, abundance, love, and ferti, quality, protection of the home).

8 - Oshun -Our Lady of Charity (For love, abundance, charity, clarity creativity, the Arts. (See also March)

24 - Obatalá - Our Lady of Mercy (For universal peace and harmony).

OCTOBER - 4 - Orunmila (For divination, psychic powers, prophetic knowledge) 24- Erinle (For healing all)

31- Halloween (to make hallowed before the rites of the Ancestors - to dispel evil forces through disguise and trickery)

NOVEMBER - 1 - Day of the Dead - Baron Samedi - Manman Brigitte - Ghede (Rites to the Ancestors according to your own familial or ethnic tradition)

3 - St Martin de Porres (For healing and for those who have made healing professions their chosen path)

DECEMBER - 4 - Changó (For vitality, health, courage, victory in battles, to repel enemies and negative works and evil spells)

12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe (For miracles, for abundance, solace in times of trials and troubles, healing and for strength,hening one's faith)

17 - Babalú-Ayé (For healing, particularly skin ailments, for abundance)

21-25- Winter Solstice - Christmas - Ellegua - El Nino de Atocha - Infant Jesus of Prague. (To celebrate the coming return of the sun, to prepare for the winter months and their unseen transformation which will lead to new birth in springtime, to re-align with the cosmic forces. Birth of Jesus celebration

31 - Yemayá - La Madre de Agua. (For the protection of mothe mothers and children, for fertility and abundance, to usher a new year of compassion and well-being and wealth in all things).