Description
Your Year to Embrace, Empower, and Elevate Your Spiritual Path
This planner is for dedicated spiritual seekers who resonate with African Traditional Religions (ATR), such as Hoodoo, Vodou, Candomblê, Kenbwa, Ifa, Quimbanda, Umbanda, and New Orleans Voodoo. Ideal for those reconnecting with their ancestral roots, exploring alternative spiritual practices, or strengthening their self-care through daily ritual and lunar alignment, this planner offers guidance and structure while honoring your people and your individuality.
Why Choose This Planner?
This planner makes it simple to connect your workings and practices with lunar phases and seasonal rituals and to maintain consistent spiritual practices. Use this planner as your space to log rituals, reflect on divination insights and keep track of important dates and observances in the ATR systems you are a part of.
This is more than just a planner—it’s a holistic spiritual tool that honors African Traditional Religions and Spiritual Systems while empowering you to create a routine that reflects your unique path. With authentic guidance from a practitioner within the African diaspora, this planner provides support for both seasoned followers and newcomers to ATR practices.
What’s Inside
- Lunar Calendar & Moon Phases: So you can plan your workings according to the phases of the moon.
- Monthly Divination & Reflection Spaces: Record insights from divination practices and reflect on your personal growth month after month.
- ATR Almanac & Celebrations: A dedicated datebook with key observances, spirits, and deities from Hoodoo, Vodou, Quimbanda, Umbanda, and Ifa.
- Log of Workings & Rituals: A space to document your workings (aka spells), whether focused on protection, prosperity, love, or healing.
Bonuses
Even though this is not a book of spells, I couldn’t create a planner with nothing but dates. This is why it also features:
– a prayer to the ancestors,
– cultural wishlists (books to read, films to watch),
– a simple ritual anyone can do to start the year on the right foot.
2025 Edition
This year’s edition is centered on the crossroad, an essential in ALL African-derived religions and spiritual practices. We will explore its significance and dive into two major figures of the crossroads, one in Ifa and the other in Vodou: Eleguá and Papa Legba.
It also features four essential rituals from the Kenbwa tradition—one for each season—covering cleansing, releasing, protection, and abundance.
Previous Editions
2024 Edition
There is a little something different about this edition. It has been dedicated to Ọ̀ṣun. As a devotee of hers, it was an easy choice for me. You will find an introduction to her and everything she represents on a mundane and a metaphysical level. You will learn some stories and a quick ritual to connect with her respectfully during her festival month. As a bonus, I will also introduce you to another deity whom I really enjoy and who takes after Ọ̀ṣun: Pomba Gira. Again, this year, I will bring a focus home to Kenbwa with a discussion with my own mother on spiritual education and the transfer of knowledge.
2023 Edition
This year again, you’ll find two texts to deepen your thinking but also to keep you entertained. What that looks like is a fable around the Kenbwa practice of dlo koukoun (vulva water) as well as an interview with a guest who is exceptional due to her position as a Vodou religious authority and a politico-cultural point of reference in her capacity as queen, Queen Mother Dòwòti Désir, sovereign of the diaspora in Benin.
2022 Edition
It also offers two texts. The first is an article on death in Kenbwa culture (the respect and fear around the dead, the elevation of their soul, etc). The second is an interview about Hoodoo, an African-American tradition with growing popularity and a fragile identity in the public space. I met a major actor in the tradition, Queen Cotaliya Benson Milner Meadows de la Pound, owner of Conjure South, with whom I discussed, among other things, issues surrounding the transfer of knowledge and the future of Hoodoo.
Interview
Listen to creator, Lily, talk with Tonya Brown about the planner and get into her Caribbean tradition of Kenbwa, on the With Daily Show.
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Until December 1st
The planner will be officially available on December 1st, 2024. But you can pre-order it now!
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The pre-ordered planners will be shipped from the 1st week of December.
Christopher Spriggs (verified owner) –
The planner is amazing it is very thought out and well structured. It leaves plenty of room for your goals and encourages one to prepare for the upcoming month with a monthly divination.