Esoteric Calendar
Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Calendar 2026
Baron Samedi, Papa Legba, Changó, Yemanjá, and the living calendar of the African diaspora.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Cyclical Rhythms
These cycles repeat throughout the year. Their dates shift with the moon and stars.
Browse by Tradition
The orishas across the water
The African diaspora religions, Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, carried the gods of West Africa across the Atlantic in the hold of the slave ship. To survive, the orishas and lwa hid behind Catholic saints, and the calendar still shows the seam: the feast of Changó falls on Saint Barbara’s day, and Yemanjá, the ocean mother, is honoured where the Church keeps its sea-Madonnas.
These are living, powerful traditions, not relics. Some dates are devotional, the feast of a particular orisha or a healing pilgrimage; others are historical and political, like the anniversary of Bois Caïman, the 1791 Vodou ceremony in the Haitian forest remembered as the spark of the only successful slave revolution in history.
What this calendar holds
The entries gather the feast days of Vodou, Santería, and Candomblé, where the orisha and the saint share an altar. Behind the Catholic surface is an African religious calendar that crossed an ocean in chains and arrived intact.