The Santeria consultation with orula is the most accurate way to clarify and know your immediate future, it is performed by a babalawo consecrated in ifa and with a lot of experience. Not just anyone can perform it since it requires study and training.
First you must know the santero who is going to make your consultation and be clear about what you want to consult there are different types of consultation such as for family problems, love problems, work problems … etc.
Procedure
There are two types of consultations: remote and in person being the same in their procedure. Once the time of the consultation has been arranged, you sit on a chair in front of the babalawo on a mat. The babalawo is the priest of Ifa and the only one who can work the Ifa oracle. The person consulted must be barefoot out of respect. The babalawo must first of all with his ekuele (routine divination tool) «moyurbar» and consists of making a prayer to call the spiritual energies of his ancestors and holy rulers to assist him in the consultation he is about to perform.
The ekuele is made of many types and of different materials, mainly it is formed by an iron chain that has inserted four sheets of coconut or seeds, the ekuele is made of many types and of different materials, mainly it is formed by an iron chain that has inserted four sheets of coconut or seeds that have two well differentiated concave and convex parts. Although there are several types, all of them have four elements at each end of the chain.
How to interpret the ifa oracle
Once the prayers are finished, the babalawo throws the ekuele in front of the consultant and observes the positions that have fallen face up or face down. And the interpretation of the signs that have come out begins, to extract a prophecy and to be able to speak to the consulted one to be able to solve the problems of his life by means of advices is what is known as behavioral ebo or with offerings to the saints.
The duration of the consultation is very variable according to the advice that the saints have to communicate to the person, the explanations of what the salutatory signs say and the questions to the doubts that you want to clarify. All messages are received by the Ifa oracle and are Intangible Heritage of Humanity by Unesco 2005.