Dreaming of getting married in Santería: meaning
In Santería Ochún is the orisha of love, seduction and marriage, and her love story with Changó is one of the best-known patakí. A dream about a wedding is therefore often connected with Ochún, love and union in Santería readings.
Within this tradition
Ochún is the youngest and one of the most beloved orishas: charming, generous, sensual and wise. She loves yellow and gold, honey, mirrors and dance, and she is invoked for love, relationships, pregnancy and self-worth. In the patakí her loves are famous, above all that with Changó, the orisha of thunder and dance. Their story is full of passion, jealousy and reconciliation, and shows that love in Santería is human and lively, not perfect.
Alongside her stands Obatalá, the old, white-robed orisha of peace, purity and the head, for calm and wisdom in unions. White is worn at initiations and important moments, and is connected with purity and a new beginning.
Along those lines a wedding in a dream is often read in Santería readings as a union presenting itself: in love, but also with a group, an ile (religious house) or a new phase. Yellow, gold and a river in the wedding dream recall Ochún, and can point to love and fertility. A wedding in white, calm and quiet, to the calm of Obatalá. A wedding full of jealousy or quarrels, to the stormy side of love from the patakí.
For someone initiated in Santería the word union also has a religious side. You discuss such a dream with your padrino or madrina.
Common variations
A wedding with yellow and gold
Love and fertility; recalls Ochún.
A wedding in white
Calm, purity and a new beginning, as with Obatalá.
Jealousy or quarrels at a wedding
The stormy side of love, as in the patakí of Ochún and Changó.
Marrying someone you do not know
A union with a new phase, group or ile.
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Who is Ochún?
The orisha of rivers, love, beauty and fertility, connected with the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre.
Who is Obatalá?
The old, white-robed orisha of peace, purity and the head.
Does such a dream mean this orisha belongs to me?
No. Which orisha belongs to someone is established within the tradition through divination and initiation, never derived from a dream. Discuss a vivid dream with your padrino or madrina.