Yoruba Orishas
Oshun
Love, beauty, fertility, rivers
In the Yoruba Orishas table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, Oshun answers to the number 5: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under Oshun
Oshun is the river, honey, and the beauty that makes the world worth living in. You draw people with warmth and are more powerful than your sweetness suggests; the Orishas once learned that nothing works when Oshun withdraws. Do not let yourself be underestimated.
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The psychic number is the day of the month reduced to one digit, so these are the days of any month that answer to 5.
- 5
- 14
- 23
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
- AthenaGreek Mythology · Wisdom, strategy, crafts, civilization
- Hermes TrismegistusEgyptian Mythology · Alchemy, astrology, hidden knowledge
- HeimdallNorse Mythology · Vigilance, foresight, the rainbow bridge
- InariJapanese Mythology · Rice, fertility, foxes, industry, success
- KukulkanMayan Mythology · Wind, rain, learning, feathered serpent
- MercuryRoman Mythology · Commerce, messages, travel, luck
- NabuBabylonian Gods · Writing, wisdom, scribes, fate
- KrishnaHindu Deities · Love, play, wisdom, the divine flute
- ManannánCeltic Mythology · Sea, journeys, mist, the otherworld
- StribogSlavic Mythology · Wind, weather, travel, messages
- NezhaChinese Deities · Youth, rebellion, speed, the wind-fire wheels
- KonInca Mythology · Wind, rain, the coast, travel
- VayuPersian Gods · Wind, breath, the space between, travel
- KūHawaiian Gods · Strength, war, the forest, work
- TūmatauengaPolynesian Gods · War, humankind, hunting, the fierce face
- YacatecuhtliAztec Gods · Merchants, travel, the road, the crossroads
- NinshuburSumerian Gods · The messenger, the faithful vizier, errands between worlds
- MelqartPhoenician Gods · Tyre, voyages, colonies, the far shore
In the Vedic table the number 5 belongs to Lord Vishnu, through Mercury.
The other Yoruba Orishas gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is Oshun linked to the number 5?
- 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 Oshun holds 5 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.