Yoruba Orishas
Babalu-Aye
Healing, disease, the earth, patience
In the Yoruba Orishas table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, Babalu-Aye answers to the number 2: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under Babalu-Aye
Babalu-Aye walks with a limp and the dogs that lick his wounds, the healer who knows disease from the inside. You carry patience, compassion and an understanding of the body and the earth that comes from having suffered. Your care is credible because it cost you.
Read the full profile of 2Birthdays Babalu-Aye watches over
The psychic number is the day of the month reduced to one digit, so these are the days of any month that answer to 2.
- 2
- 11
- 20
- 29
About the Yoruba Orishas gods
The Orishas of the Yoruba tradition each have sacred numbers of their own, and this table keeps them where they are single digits: Eshu's 3, Oshun's 5, Shango's 6, Yemaya's 7, Obatala's 8, Oya's 9. Orunmila, Babalu-Aye and Ogun take the numbers their domains fit.
The same number in other traditions
- ArtemisGreek Mythology · Moon, hunting, wilderness, childbirth
- IsisEgyptian Mythology · Magic, motherhood, wisdom, healing
- FriggNorse Mythology · Marriage, motherhood, wisdom, foresight
- TsukuyomiJapanese Mythology · Moon, night, time, calm
- Ix ChelMayan Mythology · Moon, water, weaving, medicine
- LunaRoman Mythology · Moon, months, tides, the night sky
- SinBabylonian Gods · Moon, the calendar, wisdom, cattle
- ParvatiHindu Deities · Devotion, fertility, mountains, the Mother
- DanuCeltic Mythology · Rivers, motherhood, the land, the Tuatha
- MokoshSlavic Mythology · Moist earth, spinning, women, fate
- Chang'eChinese Deities · The moon, longing, the elixir, the rabbit
- Mama QuillaInca Mythology · Moon, the calendar, women, silver
- AnahitaPersian Gods · Waters, fertility, healing, wisdom
- HinaHawaiian Gods · The moon, women, kapa cloth, the tides
- HinaPolynesian Gods · The moon, women, weaving, the night
- CoyolxauhquiAztec Gods · The moon, the night, the bells, the sister
- NannaSumerian Gods · The moon, the month, cattle, Ur
- TanitPhoenician Gods · The moon, motherhood, Carthage, the sign
In the Vedic table the number 2 belongs to Lord Chandra, through Moon.
The other Yoruba Orishas gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is Babalu-Aye linked to the number 2?
- Through the psychic number of Vedic numerology: the day of the month you were born, reduced to one digit. Each pantheon on this site assigns one god to each number from 1 to 9, and Babalu-Aye holds 2 in the Yoruba Orishas table.
- Is this a traditional Yoruba Orishas belief?
- No. The gods and their domains are traditional; pairing them with birth numbers is a modern numerological reading, and it is presented here as reflection rather than doctrine.
- What if my life path is different from my birth day number?
- They are two different numbers. This page follows the day of the month; the life path uses your whole date of birth and has its own pages under Numbers.