New Year's holidays are a time of miracles and an opportunity to know your future. These days you can get true answers to questions about love, family, finances and health. Symbolic hints are hidden even in small things.
New Year's signs and customs
- On the New Year's table should be products that symbolize prosperity (wheat, poppy, nuts, honey, loaf).
- The legs of the table are wrapped in ropes (it is believed that this will help to preserve the unity and peace in the family).
- In the evening, garbage is not thrown away, but worn shoes are thrown out of the threshold.
- To someone who accidentally breaks dishes or Christmas decorations, will be lucky in the first month of the new year.
- January 1, do not clean up, so as not to experience hardship all year round.
- It is accepted not only to put on new clothes, but also to put in the pockets a large cash bill.
- With the first battle of the chimes in a glass of champagne throw a coin and make financial prosperity. When the drink is drunk, the coin is removed into the wallet as a monetary talisman for the whole year.
- December 31 and January 1 can not borrow money.
- Bad omen - to play gambling at a festive table.
- Who throws a Christmas tree out of the window, destroys his family happiness. The tree is taken out into the street and stuck in a snowdrift.
- December 31, you can not start washing - this will lead to illness of one of the family members.
Divination in New Year's Eve
Method number 1: On wax
Wax is a natural and very energy-intensive component, without which many methods of divination can not be avoided. One of the most ancient and truthful divination is associated with the pouring of figures. In a deep container with cold pure water, pour molten wax (enough 50-70 g of solid material). At the same time, you need to focus on the issue of interest. The frozen figure is examined, trying to make out a symbol in it, which will be the answer. A few interpretations for an example:- Butterfly - joyful changes in the near future;
- the star is the fulfillment of the coveted desire;
- ring - marriage;
- cross - a severe test, a disease;
- fork - a lie, betrayal;
- fish - stability, favorable circumstances.
Method # 2: On the water
Our ancestors guessed at the "living" key water. But in urban conditions it remains to use flowing from under the tap (boiled and filtered does not fit). On the night of December 31, pour some water into the bowl and take it out to the street (outside the window, onto the balcony). The next morning they take out the container and look at the frozen surface:- smooth and smooth - the year is expected to be calm;
- one big bug - profit and prosperity;
- one big hole - deprivation and difficulties;
- many hillocks - a year of contradictory, good events will alternate with bad ones.
Method number 3: On the mirror
Unlike sacred fortune telling, this method is fearless and safe. In order to find out how the next year will pass, late in the evening on December 31, the mirror is taken out to the frost and laid horizontally. Then it is poured over with water and left so all night. The next morning they look at the patterns:- Round curls mean that the year will be favorable;
- squares foreshadow difficulties;
- triangles predict success in love.
Method number 4: To marry
Simple guessing will help to find out if the girl is destined to get married next year. It will take three cups. Under two of them you need to put a silk ribbon and a ring, the third leave blank. Then the bowls are stirred and choose one of them. If there was a tape there, the girl will become a bride (receive an offer), the ring will get married. The empty cup presages a bachelor life.Method number 5: On the egg
Another interesting method related to the recognition of silhouettes. In a transparent glass without drawings pour warm water and slowly pour the same raw egg white. This is most convenient, puncture the shell so that the yolk remains inside. For fortune-telling, eggs of domestic chickens are traditionally used, but the store product is also suitable. The first thing you need to pay attention to is whether the protein has fallen to the bottom of the glass. This is considered a very bad sign, predicting a serious illness or serious loss. If the protein remained in the center, the glass begins to slowly turn, peering at the resulting figure:- home - stability, well-being;
- crown - success in business;
- mountain - climb the career ladder;
- the ship is a long journey;
- a flower is a new love;
- the snake is treason;
- an ax is a vain work.
New Year's divination in different countries
- In Israel on New Year's Eve a jug of wine is put on the window. If in the morning the contents of the vessel decreased - the year will be unprofitable, if not - profitable.
- In Greece, it is customary to go out on the street on January 1 with the whole family, in order to break off a small branch of any tree and divide it equally. A few days later the family gathers again, and everyone throws their part of the branch into the burning fireplace. Whoever it flares stronger, that desire will come true. More Greeks are guessing with a grenade. On New Year's Eve, the fruit is smashed on the porch or the wall of the house. The more the grains scatter, the more successful the year will be.
- In Italy and Spain, locals make wishes for the chiming clock. For each blow you need to have time to eat one grapes (12 in all). The one who can do it, will come true desire.
- In Bulgaria, it is customary to bake a special New Year's pie. It adds a few whole nuts and a couple of coins. Ready-made pie is cut during a festive feast and given to guests. The one who finds in his piece one nut, expects luck in love and good health, two or more nuts - success and luck in business, a coin - a big profit.
- Chinese New Year tradition is also associated with baking. The treat is called "cookies with predictions". Small notes are hidden in each product. All baking is shifted to a large plate so that each guest can choose his favorite pastry. The message inside may contain a wish, advice, a thematic quote or a prediction of the near future.