Ika Ogunda, also known as Ika Oggunda, speaks to a person who has suffered losses and who was born to recover them. In this sign were born trade by sea, the ashé carried in the heads of the children of Oshosi, and the paths and streets that Osain opened to join the peoples. Its figure is the boat, the most dutiful child of Yemayá, the only one who brings the ship's cargo ashore, and also the hunter whose game only Olofin would eat. Its ruling is one of recovery: everything you have lost can come back, if you fulfill what Ifá asks and accept the hand of someone whose need is the opposite of yours, like the hunter who could not cross the river and the boatman who had no one to carry across.
That is why this sign asks you to receive Odde and Inle, above all if you plan to travel, and warns you that you cannot live shut away or alone. Here a whole land suffered in isolation until Shangó and Osain opened roads for it: do not let anyone cut you off from others. Your triumph lies in not settling, and whoever perseveres wins, just like the warrior who lost two wars and won the third when he consulted before riding out.
«Osain made the trails and the streets: the boat of Ika Oggunda sails in company or runs aground.»The pulse of Ika Ogunda
The osogbo of this sign is the law and theft. Do not carry weapons or keep other people's things, much less if they come from a theft, because here one goes to prison. Be careful with iron tools at work and with a tall, thin young man with sideburns who wishes you harm and wants to take away your peace. Do not go to the countryside without consulting first, and be wary of a gift, because money can be your ruin.
In character, you are sly and skilled at trade, but at times you do not keep your promises, and that closes doors for you. Your fortune lies among black people and in things that are black, and this sign asks for a kaferefun, a praise, to black people. In love, the woman who healed you and brought you prosperity may leave with another man, as Oshún left the hunter: look after what you have and do not take it for granted. Under your roof lives someone who drinks and loses their mind, and in the water barrel there is something that goes against your saints.
In health, your whole body aches and you carry an open wound: tend to your head every day and look after Eshu. When you eat meat, do not throw what is left to the animals of the house, and avoid fruit. If you stay close to your people and make your sacrifices on time, death will not take you before your hour and what was lost returns to your hands.
The sign in one lineDress in black with your ivory, search your barrel and feed your shadow, because Yemayá's favorite child recovers everything the sea owed him.