Ancestral resolutions Yoruba New Year
& Odunde

We close the old year on Remembrance Day (Memorial Day) and then do the Reading of the Year (Sunday, 1st weekend in June) in the Yoruba context and prepare for Odunde (2nd weekend of June), the new year celebration focusing on Oshun for refreshing and rebirth. This celebration happens after making your ancestral resolution in which you affirm your faith in your ancestors in traditional forces, make salutations, and ask for protection and good things you want coming into the future; offer kola nut, water, and food; and ask for forgiveness for what you may have done wrong in the past. Last, we do a prayer and or ritual of ancestral elevation to uplift family and self while clearing old issues.