Fortune telling for Christmas and Christmastide is rightfully considered the most truthful. Christmas fortune-telling has its roots in the times of pagan Rus'. It was fortune telling during the winter solstice (and this is the period of Christmastide) that was given special meaning in pagan times.
It was believed that it was on these days that otherworldly forces were most active, and the boundaries between worlds were thinner, which contributed to a more truthful result of New Year's, Christmas and Christmas fortune telling.
With the advent of Christianity in Rus', Christmas fortune-telling was not only preserved, but also acquired a more mystical meaning, and although the church tried to fight superstition and fortune-telling, they were carefully passed on from generation to generation, and have survived to this day in a little changed form.
Christmastide refers to the two weeks of winter holidays, from Christmas Eve, which falls on January 6, to Epiphany, celebrated on January 19.
When you decide to tell fortunes for Christmas, remember that the result of fortune telling may not live up to your expectations, so is it worth spoiling your holidays...
A huge variety of methods for Christmas fortune-telling have been invented in Rus', but the main theme of all Christmas fortune-telling is fortune telling for the betrothed (groom). This is understandable, because in ancient times, the fate of a girl depended entirely on how successfully she would get married.
Yuletide fortune telling or fortune telling for Christmas time
Fortune telling on Christmas Eve is called “Yuletide” for a reason. It is on Christmas Eve, January 6, that the so-called Christmastide begins, which lasts until the night of Epiphany, January 19. In ancient times in Rus', people believed that this was a magical period at the beginning of the year, when higher powers willingly contact a person, and if you ask the spirits well, you can get a variety of answers and you can open the door of your future.
To predict your destiny and see what lies ahead, how life will turn out and what events may happen, it is important to know not only when to tell fortunes at Christmas, but what is needed for fortune telling. Traditional fortune telling in January with cards or on wax, on mirrors and logs, coffee grounds and many other available materials.
It has already been noted that fortune telling at Christmas time very often comes true and is accurate. Because these days the angels help and good spirits.
When can you guess in 2019?
Best time for fortune telling, as we have already reported, this is the night before Christmas.
It is then that astral spirits and ghosts penetrate physical world, making contact and communicating the facts of our future.
Another suitable period for winter attempts to look into your future is considered to be the period between January 8 and January 18. IN given time they also guess, recognizing their betrothed (name, hair color, character, class), an imminent or distant wedding, the number of children, a successful or unsuccessful marriage.
Vasiliev's evening is recognized as special when the result turns out to be highly accurate, even prophetic. This is January 13th.
No less successful in fortune telling is January 18 - Epiphany Eve.
Preparing for fortune telling on Christmastide
In order to get reliable answers and not harm themselves, fortune tellers had to meet a number of certain conditions:
- First of all, you had to take off your protection, that is, the cross. You understand that fortune telling is a “conversation with the devil,” and he, as you know, is afraid of the cross. It was also necessary to remove all the icons from the room in which the ceremony would be performed, or to cover them with a scarf.
- Secondly, you had to take off rings, belts and any other “closed” or “encircling” things. It's better to let your hair down.
- Thirdly, during the fortune telling itself, you should not cross your arms and legs. Even now, any esotericist will tell you that this blocks energy.
- Fourthly, there should be no other lighting in the room except from candles.
- Fifthly, before fortune telling (about a day in advance) you shouldn’t quarrel with anyone.
And lastly, you must be quiet.
Well, these are, perhaps, the basic rules. In fact, in different times This list could change in different provinces, but these are subtleties.
Now, as for the place in which it is best to guess. It was believed that the place for this ritual should be “unclean.” The bathhouse fit this description perfectly; I have already mentioned in passing why the bathhouse is considered such a place; let’s not focus on this now. If for some reason there is no bathhouse nearby, then you can carry out the ceremony in the attic, basement, or in an abandoned house. And the most last option– at home (by the way, one of the least desirable).
By the way, in addition to all of the above, the girls wondered:
- at road intersections;
- in the courtyard of the house (there are several such fortune-telling);
- and the worst option is in the cemetery (it is believed that this place is reminiscent of strong energy, moreover, the line between the worlds is the thinnest).
Simple methods of fortune telling for Christmastide and Christmas 2019
Fortune telling by book
They took a book at random and asked a question. After this, they called the page number and the line number on it - what was written in that place in the book served as the answer.
Fortune telling on coffee grounds
You need to drink a cup of coffee, cover it with a saucer and tip it up and down three times. At the same time, the thicket will spread along the bottom, forming various figures, from which you need to guess. For example, the outline of a dog will symbolize friendship, the outline of a forest will symbolize wealth.
The image of the cross means patience. Wreath - glory. The ladder is the achievement of a desired and long-awaited goal. The shadow of a person predicts a pleasant date, the shadow of a house when fortune telling on coffee grounds is a symbol of abundance. The outline of a church or bell tower signifies a return home. A deer may portend a fast journey.
Hair fortune telling
Hair fortune telling has always been especially popular among girls. It is generally accepted that it should not be used more than once a year. This predictive technique will help when a person has to make an important decision, and the choice will entail important consequences.
In the windless moonlit night you should cut off a strand of your own hair, and then burn it on fire and watch how it burns:
- if everything lights up at once, then soon expect changes for the better; success awaits you in any planned task;
- if they burn but smoke, then there will soon be changes in your life;
- if they burn brightly and for a long time, it means that major acquisitions await you;
- if they smolder and do not light up for a long time, then this is a warning about a major trouble or illness.
Fortune telling on Wax with a candle
This is one of the most popular and interesting methods of fortune telling during Christmas time. To tell fortunes in wax during the holidays, put cool water in a basin or bowl, a deep plate and pick up a wax candle. You need to light the candle and wait until a little wax melts.
Of course, in this matter you cannot do without a bit of imagination; it is advisable that you are not alone during fortune telling in order to correctly read and interpret the signs of fate from all sides. Of course there is certain figures, which appear more often than others. For example, a ring or wreath is a sign of imminent marriage.
A bad omen is a snake or a coffin.
Swan and mushroom - good shape, which promise only prosperity and success in the new year.
If, in addition to a large figure, many small figures appear on the water, this is an excellent sign. It indicates that in 2016 you will be doing well financially and you can expect a good income. Often the main figure turns out to be large and round, resembling an apple in outline. This is also an excellent sign that indicates prosperity and success in 2016. The egg is a symbol of unfounded fears.
The meaning of a candle flame during fortune telling:
- If you light a candle and you succeed the first time and it burns stably, this is good sign.
- If the candle sparks, hisses, whistles or makes some noise, it means that some important news or message awaits you.
- A wax candle that does not light well and barely burns is not a good sign.
- If during fortune telling the candle does not want to light, this is a sign that it is better not to tell fortunes today, but to postpone the ritual of fortune telling with candles to another day.
Meanings of wax figures in wax fortune telling:
If the wax is poured out in the shape of a horse, your life will change in better side.
Home for unmarried girl means a quick marriage; in Rus' this symbol has always meant farming.
Apple, pear - means wisdom and good health.
A wax figure resembling a ball or a round ball of the correct shape - the birth of a child.
A wax egg promises some changes in life.
If during fortune telling you saw deep hole this is a sign of serious illness or death.
Wax figures resembling stripes are roads; you are destined to spend 2017 constantly moving.
If the wax did not form some large figure, but was divided into small droplets, this indicates a monetary period.
Wax Mushroom Indicates Longevity
A wax figure resembling a tree with branches upward is a symbol of joy and prosperity.
A ring-shaped figure is a sign for a wedding.
If you see the shape of a pancake, this is a sign of late marriage.
The dragon will tell you about the work, which promises the successful completion of a large project.
Bell-shaped figures are a time of anxiety.
Flowers and berries are signs of love and marriage.
Figures from the cross are a symbol of anxiety and illness.
Fortune telling by mirror
This ancient fortune telling has always been considered the most accurate. However, it also carried dangers. Often impressionable young ladies lost their senses. And the whole point is that, according to ancient legends, a mirror is nothing more than the line between the real and the otherworldly.
There are many signs and customs associated with this belief. Previously, when mirrors were made using silver, it was believed that in addition to connecting with the world of spirits, they had a long memory, which could harm people. Therefore, almost all signs relating to the mirror are considered bad omens.
Everyone knows that a broken mirror promises misfortune and trouble. In the old days, women were not allowed to look in the mirror during pregnancy and immediately after childbirth, because... it was believed that this could destroy the precarious line between the two worlds and harm the baby and mother. At the same time, the mirror also served a strong talisman: It was believed that evil spirits, reflected in the mirror, instantly and forever lost their power.
But let's get back to the fortune telling itself. They told fortunes with a mirror in an “unclean” place (for example, in a bathhouse, where they washed off all the dirt), at midnight on Christmas Eve, when the border between reality and other world most thinned. The girl who performed the divination had to be alone in the room.
She needed to take off her belt, let her hair down, and put two cutlery and a candle on the table. Having prepared everything necessary, the girl sat down facing the mirror and said: “Betrothed, mummer, come to me for dinner.”
At exactly midnight, in the mirror, she saw the face of a man leaning over her shoulder. At this moment, peering into the face of her future groom, she had to utter words that would drive away the image: “Cheer out of this place!” From that moment on, the danger subsided. It was believed that if this is not said, the betrothed may come out of the mirror, and then misfortune will occur.
Fortune telling by egg
Pour water into a glass and pour the protein into it raw egg. Place the glass in a heated oven so that the whites curl. After this, take out the glass and carefully look at the resulting figure.
Interpretation of figures:
- A church dome or ring means an imminent wedding.
- Rectangle or square - serious illness, death.
- Ship - moving after marriage to another city or country.
- A pancake that has sunk to the bottom is a series of adversities and troubles, a long girlhood.
Take blank slate paper and crumple it, then place it on the bottom of an inverted plate and set it on fire. When the paper burns out, bring the saucer with the ashes to the wall and carefully turn the plate until a shadow appears on the wall, the outlines of which will be the result of fortune telling. How to interpret a shadow? Using your imagination!
Christmas fortune telling by nut shell
Pour water into a basin. Along the edges of the pelvis, attach strips of paper on which events are written, for example, a wedding, a trip, receiving money, new job etc. (if there is only one fortuneteller), or the names of all those present who want to know their future.
In the second case, one event is planned, in particular a wedding, engagement, meeting a future spouse, etc.
Take half a shell walnut and secure the stub of a church or birthday candle in it. Light the candle and push the “boat” to the middle of the pelvis. From there, the shell should float to one of the notes on its own.
But the dream will come true only if the paper, upon contact with the boat, lights up from the candle flame.
Fortune telling by ring
Take a bowl of clean water, throw it at her wedding ring and put it in the frost. In the morning, look how frozen the water is. If the surface of the water is smooth, the fortune-telling woman will not have children in the near future. If the surface is uneven, look at it very carefully, because the bumps are boys, and the depressions are girls. Accordingly, the number of tubercles and dimples you count, the number of children you will have.
When everyone is asleep, you need to take the gold chain, rub it between your palms, hold it in your right hand, shake it and throw it on the table.
- A circle has formed - closed troubles are expected;
- streak - luck;
- node - difficulties and illnesses;
- triangle - love success;
- bow – wedding;
- snake - betrayal;
- heart is love.
Fortune telling with a knife
For this type of fortune telling, gypsies use a round wooden board with a diameter of about 30 centimeters to cut bread. If you don’t have a board of this size at hand, you can take a tray or cut a circle out of cardboard. Along the edges
circle write answers to the most frequently asked questions:
"Yes",
"No",
"Be patient"
“Beware: there is an enemy next to you, hiding under the guise of a friend,”
"Good news"
"Love Letter"
"Luck in the undertaking"
"Unexpected Guest"
"Love",
"Today's tears will turn into joy tomorrow"
"Unexpected news"
"New Love"
"An Unexpected Meeting"
"Journey",
"Important letter."
Place a regular one in the center of the circle kitchen knife and mentally formulate a question. Rotate the knife around its axis three times. One of the three messages that the knife point will point to will be the answer to asked question.
The other two may be the cause or effect of the predicted event. If, after rotation, the tip of the knife stops at an equal distance from the two messages, the fortune telling must be repeated.
Fortune telling YES-NO
Hold over a jar containing any cereal or grain. left hand palm down. While concentrating, you need to ask the question that interests you.
After this, take a handful of cereal from the jar and pour it onto the table, then count the number of grains. If the number of grains is even, this means a positive answer - YES, odd number, means a negative answer - NO.
Fortune telling with a needle
Take a needle and white thread. Thread the thread through the eye. Take the thread by the end right hand, and point the tip of the needle to the center of the palm of your left hand at a short distance from it. Keep an eye on the needle. If it begins to sway across your palm, it means you are having a girl, if along it means you are having a boy.
After the needle stops, it may begin to swing again, which means it alerts you to the gender of the next baby. Wait until the needle stops making any movements at all, and until then, count the number of your children and do not forget to remember their gender.
Christmas fortune telling by barking dogs
At midnight, take a knife, go outside, go to a snowdrift and start cutting the snow with a knife, saying: “Damn, damn, don’t be silent, damn, damn, tell me what kind of husband I’ll get, will I have to laugh or cry?”
After pronouncing the words of the spell, shut up and listen carefully to the barking of the dogs. If an angry, abrupt bark is heard, it means future husband He will be strict and gloomy.
If the dogs bark cheerfully and loudly, then the husband will be cheerful and kind.
It is very bad if you hear a dog howling during fortune telling. This suggests that the marriage will not last long and very quickly the young wife will become a widow.
Fortune telling on the number and gender of future children
On Christmas evening, you need to pour water into a glass, put a ring in it and put it out in the cold. Before going to bed, a glass is taken out of the cold and future children are judged by the ice surface formed in it.
The number of tubercles indicates the number of boys, and the number of pits indicates how many girls there will be.
Fortune telling about your future husband
Fortune telling at Christmas for your future husband is the most popular type of fortune telling among girls. There are a lot of fortune telling about your future husband. One of the simplest ones is to go out into the street and ask the first man passing by his name - this will be the name of your future spouse. Also, the appearance of this person will tell you how handsome and rich your groom will be.
You can find out what the groom will look like in in my own dream. This dream must be prophetic. To summon him, take a clean comb before going to bed, slowly comb your hair with it, while saying: “Betrothed-mummer, come to me dressed up.” Then put the comb under your pillow and go to bed.
In the old days they used to tell fortunes using logs. The girl had to leave the house at night and, in complete darkness, select one log from the woodpile, without looking at it and without exchanging for another if it was difficult to pull out. Arriving at the house, you need to carefully examine the log, because it can tell a lot about your future spouse.
A smooth and even log is a good and handsome groom. A rough log is an ugly but hard-working husband. Thick and good bark – rich tapering. Stripped bark - poor groom. A thick log means a large and strong future husband. A log with knots is a big family. A crooked log is an old groom or one with physical disabilities.
Christmas fortune telling for love
This fortune telling is for those who are lonely, but passionately want to meet true love. At midnight, go to the nearest church and walk around it 12 times. This ritual is believed to destroy loneliness and promote new love.
Fortune telling by wish
Fortune telling about desires is as different as others. We suggest you try to tell fortunes using grains, take a handful of them in your left hand, clench your palm into a fist and say your wish out loud.
After this, count the number of grains. If you have it in your hand even number grains - the wish will come true, odd - not now.
You can tell your wish by looking at a cat, if you have one in your house. Make a wish and invite your cat to come to you. If he crosses the threshold of the room right paw- the wish will come true, the left one will not.
During Christmas fortune-telling, you need to look for only good meaning. Bad omens should not be given importance, otherwise you will set yourself up for failure in the new year.
If you didn’t have time to tell your fortune for Christmas, don’t worry! Christmas time awaits you ahead, and this is almost 2 weeks of exciting and fun fortune telling!
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Incredible facts
New Year is a traditional time for the fulfillment of wishes, various kinds of magic and other miracles.
The period of the so-called Christmastide, from January 6 to 19, is considered a traditional time for fortune telling.
And Christmas Eve or the night before Christmas is the main night for important fortune telling.
Since ancient times, girls have been waiting all year for this magical night so that they can finally find out their future and tell fortunes for their betrothed.
IN Orthodox Christmas, according to the customs of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, one can and should guess, and this will not be considered a sin.
If you want to know your future on Christmas Eve 2018, remember that the time itself for fortune telling is also important.
Please note that all higher powers and spirits, as a rule, are activated at midnight, so it is best to prepare all the equipment necessary for fortune telling in advance.
So, here are some of the most common methods for Christmas fortune-telling:
Fortune telling on cards at Christmas
Card layout is one of the traditional and often chosen methods of fortune telling for future events.
Maps can tell a lot about you real life, tell about the past as well as the future.
There are many different ways, how to use a deck of cards for fortune telling. Here is one of the simplest and, without a doubt, clear methods fortune telling on cards:
To ensure that the answers you receive are as accurate as possible, it is recommended to prepare in advance by doing the following:
At midnight from January 6th to 7th, wear a nightgown and make sure you are not wearing any jewelry.
Light the candles and arrange them in a semicircle. Then take a new deck of cards, shuffle it, and place it in the center of the burning semicircle.
After this, be sure to lay out the cards with your left hand so that the suit is not visible.
Make room for the cards that you will draw from the resulting semicircle. So, first, take three cards and ask yourself the question: “What and who will disappear from my life?”
Place the selected cards down as if at your feet, mentally imagining yourself to read the information more accurately.
Ask the following question:
"What and who will come into my life?"
Draw three cards and place them on top of the first three. On the left, place three more cards responsible for work and career growth, to your right, place three more cards that will tell you about how you communicate with others.
Then place 5 cards in the center. They will reflect your feelings and thoughts. And finally, place another card on top, which will answer the question of how the matter will end.
Now look at the meaning of the cards:
WORMS:
What it promises:
6 – romantic road;
7 – happy upcoming event;
8 – good news;
9 – love, declarations of love;
10 – meeting with the betrothed;
Jack – love affairs;
Lady - mother's love and care;
The betrothed king is already close;
Ace - everything you wish for will certainly come true.
DIAMONDS:
What it promises:
6 – unusual joyful adventures;
7 – unpleasant memories;
8 – interference in your affairs by outsiders;
9 – possible proposal;
10 – unnecessary, empty talk;
Jack – anxiety and worry;
Lady - too much guardianship;
King - fulfillment of all desires;
Ace is an interesting acquaintance or an unexpected meeting.
CLUBS:
What it promises:
6 – serious acquaintances, work and business meetings
7 – doubts, difficulties, mistrust;
8 – minor concerns;
9 – unrequited love;
10 – making important decisions;
Jack – parting, sadness;
Lady - problems at work that will be caused by a female colleague;
King - the appearance of an important person in your life who will take care of you (most likely, older than you);
Ace is an interesting, significant event.
SPEAKS:
What it promises:
6 – obstacles arising on the path to success;
7 – someone’s envy;
8 – nostalgia, sadness for the past;
9 – loneliness;
10 – strong excitement, anxiety, stress;
Jack – suffering, betrayal;
Lady - gossip, deceit on the part of a female person;
King – cash replenishment;
Ace – important step, which will change your life.
Fortune telling for Christmas using wish cards
In addition, the cards will tell you whether your wish will come true or not. Make a wish to yourself and draw one card from the deck.
So:
worms - your wish will come true soon;
tambourines - the wish will come true, but not now;
clubs - the wish will come true after a long time;
spades - unfortunately, the wish you made will not come true.
Fortune telling for Christmas with a mirror by candlelight
Fortune telling by candlelight with mirrors is considered one of those fortune telling that tickles the nerves. Here you need to have a certain courage and bravery. After all, a fortune-telling girl must certainly be alone at midnight in dark room, and what she sees can frighten an impressionable and fragile person. Outsiders are prohibited from being with the fortuneteller. (The ritual can also be performed in the bathroom).
So, you need to take two identical mirrors, the larger their size, the better. Then you need to install mirrors one opposite the other, place two burning candles on the sides of the mirrors.
It would be even better and more convenient to place a mirror opposite a mirror that hangs on the wall.
Then you need to hold the mirror in your hands in such a way that in its reflection a long corridor is formed, illuminated by lights from candles.
Please note that for such an experiment the mirrors must be perfectly clean. This way you can see the object clearly.
So, after you have correctly installed the mirrors one opposite the other, the girl should carefully and intently look into the mirror into the depths of the resulting corridor.
At the end of the gallery that appears, the fortuneteller must certainly see her betrothed. This can be an outline of a person as a whole or a detailed image. It is important to catch this shadow in time in the corridor that appears.
Therefore, carefully, without taking your eyes off, peer into the corridor formed by two mirrors, and you will definitely meet your eyes with the person who is destined for you by Fate.
Christmas fortune telling with a mirror and fir branches
This kind of fortune telling is best done during the holiday week.
By midnight you need to prepare a medium-sized mirror and several fir branches. Before going to bed, write on the mirror your most cherished desire or the name of the man you are thinking about.
Then place the mirror under the sofa or bed on which you sleep, scatter it around it spruce branches and go to bed peacefully.
In the morning, pull the mirror out from under the bed and look at it carefully. If there is no trace left of the inscription on the mirror, this means that your wish will probably come true, or you will soon get married to the person whose name you wrote on the mirror.
If the inscription remains, then your wish will not come true. But if the outline of a cross suddenly began to appear on the mirror, this is considered a bad sign for the person whose name was written the day before.
Christmas fortune telling on paper
You need to take a sheet of paper or newspaper. Then crumple the paper so that it becomes a shapeless mass. The main thing is that the shape does not resemble a ball.
Then place the resulting mass on the bottom of the plate and set it on fire with a match, not a lighter.
The burnt paper, carefully, without touching or destroying the form of the resulting ash, must be brought to the wall. Look carefully at the shadow formed on the wall.
The outline that has emerged will tell about the coming future or important event. Perhaps it will be the image of a person you meet, or maybe the shadow will remind you of some significant object with which fate will somehow soon connect you.
Christmas fortune telling on a gold chain
So, no one should disturb the fortuneteller, so it’s better to wait until everyone goes to bed and start this fortune telling.
Sit at the table, take a gold chain and rub it between your palms. Then take the chain with your right hand and shake it for a while. Then you need to suddenly throw the chain at your feet. Throw it on a flat surface.
Look closely at the outline. The figure formed after the chain falls means the following:
Circle - perhaps difficulties await you in the near future. The circle symbolizes a vicious circle, from which, nevertheless, there is probably a way out.
Flat line- this is a streak of luck, success and successful endeavors.
A figure in the form of a knot means troubles, illnesses, material losses.
The triangle is a great success on the love front, as well as in other areas.
The snake is a symbol of treason and betrayal. You should be careful even when communicating with loved ones.
The heart is a symbol of love, fidelity and spiritual harmony. A figure of this shape promises you prosperity, joy and happiness in the family.
Bow - a quick wedding.
Fortune telling for Christmas with wax
Fortune telling with candle wax is a kind of association game.
From your inventory you will need a large candle and a bowl. But, in addition, here you also need to show your imagination and correctly interpret what you see.
So, pour water into the bowl, use a match to light the candle. It should flare up until the wax begins to melt.
Then turn the candle over so that the wax begins to drip into the bowl of water. Try to draw crosses and circles on the water three times.
And finally, take a look at the figures obtained from the wax, use your imagination and try to see the outlines and interpret them correctly.
Their interpretation will be as follows:
heart - someone is in love with you;
wreath, crown - in the near future you will be called down the aisle;
flowers - a good year awaits you;
triangle - to gossip behind your back;
circle - vicious circle, difficult situation;
zigzags, sharp changes - obstacles, difficulties;
twisted road - adventure, fun;
many dots - to anxiety;
face - to new meetings, interesting acquaintances;
stars, meteorites - happiness and joy;
square - routine, routine, troubles;
cobweb - to conspiracies, gossip behind your back;
longitudinal lines - an unexpected turn of fate;
image of a person - changes in life, eventful events;
triangle in a square - difficult situation, troubles;
home - a long and happy life.
If you see several figures on the water, try to interpret them separately, and then combine the images into a single picture.
Christmas fortune telling using coffee grounds
The most common method of fortune telling is the following: you need to boil coffee, then pour it into a cup along with coffee grounds.
Be sure to take the cup with your left hand and make several circular movements so as to shake the coffee without spilling it.
Then carefully turn the cup over so that the coffee drips onto the saucer and coffee grounds remained on the bottom and walls of the cup.
Wait a minute until the outlines take on their final shape, and feel free to use your imagination. What form do you see coffee sediment in?
Here are the most common figures that people see and their interpretations:
Outline of a person: for a pleasant meeting, date.
Image of a naked person: a quick date.
Outlines of houses, towers: making wishes come true. Remember that a tower in a dream is also a good sign.
Mill: lies, gossip behind your back, problems.
Outline of the gate: guests, as well as the return of a person who has been absent for a long time. If you look at the figures of people in front of the gate, it means that fun awaits you soon.
Flowers: strong love feelings and a whirlwind romance.
Figures of people together: an imminent wedding.
Squares, rectangles: illness, illness, negative events.
Trees: deterioration of relationships with loved ones. Some difficulties and obstacles in business.
Dog: devotion and fidelity.
Cat: deceit, evil gossip, betrayal.
Fox: cunning and deception.
Wolf or bear: failures, failures in business and love.
Deer: long journey.
Horse: be careful! You may be surrounded by ill-wishers. Damage and losses.
Mountains or cliffs: depression, nostalgia, sadness.
Christmas fortune telling with millet
Fortune telling with grain or millet
For this interesting Christmas fortune telling, you need to have a small basin on hand, as well as several types of cereal. It can be buckwheat, rice, millet, millet, oats.
You should pour it all into the prepared basin and mix the cereals. When the clock strikes midnight, proceed directly to the fortune telling itself.
Place your hand into the bowl and try to grab as much grain as possible into your fist. After this, you need to pour all the grain onto the table. Try to do this carefully so that the grain does not spill on the floor.
Pay attention to the color of the grain: if it predominates white, this means that the future husband will be blond, but if he has more dark color, then he will be brunette.
If the surface turns out to be flat, the husband will be poor, if with slides, the husband will be rich.
With the help of this fortune telling on grain, you can read the name of the future chosen one. All you need to do is look very carefully at the resulting outlines. Write down the letters you think you saw. Show your imagination and form the letters into a name or initials.
Christmas fortune telling
This simple but very interesting fortune telling requires only one thing: spending the night at home on a double bed. Fortune telling will allow you to get answers to important issues that interest you, and also find out the name of your betrothed.
Before you go to bed, prepare a lot of finely chopped pieces of paper on which to write down men's names.
Then place the signed pieces of paper under the pillow next to yours, as if on the one on which your significant other sleeps.
Cut out the numbers 1 to 12 and place them under your pillow. Then go to sleep, mentally asking the angels to send your betrothed in a dream.
Be sure to remember the dreams that come to you on Christmas Eve. You may even see the person who is destined for you.
Try to remember the dream, because it is on Christmas Eve that prophetic dreams occur.
When you wake up in the morning, the first thing you do is put your hand next to your pillow and pull out a piece of paper. The piece of paper that you pull out will tell the name of your future spouse.
But from under your pillow you have to pull out the numbers several times to find out more detailed information about your chosen one.
The first elongated number will show when (in how many months) you will meet your betrothed or in how many months you will get married (if you have at the moment already have a boyfriend or fiance).
You can ask the second question as follows: is my fiancé blond or brunette?
If the second time you draw an even number, then he is blond, if you draw an odd number, he is brunette.
Third question: rich or poor? If the third time you draw an even number, he is rich, an odd number, he is poor.
Christmas fortune telling with needles
For this fortune telling you will need the following equipment: a bowl of water and several ordinary sewing needles.
The needles should be medium size. The needles can be replaced with ordinary pins with a ring.
Fortune telling is perfect if you are interested in the wedding issue or are concerned about how your relationship will develop further.
So, take 2 needles or pins of different sizes: the large needle will symbolize a man, the smaller one will symbolize a woman.
Then, both needles need to be generously greased (butter or rich cream for the face or hands).
Carefully place the needles one at a time into a bowl filled with water. If in your life there is a " love triangle", respectively, take three needles.
Having mentally distributed the roles of each of the needles, one by one, lower them to the surface of the water.
Those needles that remain on the surface symbolize those people who will remain with you in the coming year. The same needles that immediately go to the bottom mean that the connection with those people will be severed in the new year.
If suddenly one of these needles ends in contact with another, this means an impending union, maybe even a wedding ceremony.
If the needles are connected along the entire length, this means that long-term labor cooperation and strong friendships await you with this person.
But the divergence of the ends of two needles in different directions is a harbinger that the connection will soon be broken.
Please note that if the needle that symbolizes your personality has sunk, it means that in the near future your thoughts will be occupied by new worries, displacing old worries and problems from your head.
Most likely, significant changes will come in your life. You will make a new circle of friends and acquaintances.
If all the needles go to the bottom, this means that you did not lubricate them thoroughly enough. Repeat the experiment.
Christmas fortune telling on a ring
For this fortune telling you need not one, but several rings, as well as grain. Prepare a gold ring with a stone, an ordinary non-precious one, a wooden one, a silver one, and finally a wedding ring. From your inventory you will need a basin and a thick red candle.
So, pour the millet into a basin and lay out the rings. If the fortuneteller is not alone, but is in the company of friends, then it is best to lay out several pairs of rings so that there are enough for all the fortuneteller girls.
Fortune tellers are blindfolded. Then each, in turn, must draw a ring from the grains.
Here's what each of the elongated rings means:
A ring with a stone promises a beautiful and successful life in the very near future.
A simple ring - you shouldn’t wait for global changes in life, your life will flow slowly in your usual routine, without ups or downs.
A wooden ring means that your betrothed will be a poor man.
Silver ring says that someone loves you.
The wedding ring predicts your proposal and marriage this year.
golden ring promises a heavenly and beautiful life.
Christmas fortune telling in the bathhouse
It is known that real Christmas fortune-telling in Rus' took place in the bathhouse.
For the most popular fortune telling in the bathhouse you need: a candle, three bowls that need to be filled with water.
Exactly at the moment when the clock strikes midnight, you need to light a candle and rinse yourself in these three waters. At the same time, you need to say to yourself that you are doing this for your future spouse, whose name you will soon learn.
Then you need to dry yourself thoroughly with a towel, dress warmly and go outside to celebrate Christmas there. When you leave the bathhouse and meet the first male passerby, be sure to ask his name.
The name of this passerby will be the name that your betrothed will have. If the first person you see is a woman, this means that you will not get married this year.
Christmas fortune telling for children
Surely everyone has heard that fortune telling was allowed exclusively for unmarried girls. But if the lady was married, she could not guess.
But a little later, a ban on fortune telling for married women loosened up a bit, and they could also guess at something that interested them. It is logical to assume that they were already interested in other predictions. In particular, many of them wanted to know how many children they would have, or what the family's financial well-being would be.
As a rule, on Christmas Eve they ask exactly these questions.
So, to find out how many children you will have, you need to sit on the floor in the bathhouse and say the following phrase:
“Bath strength, I’ll show you the parenting place, and I expect from you the number of children.”
After which, after you have beaten yourself well with brooms, you need to carefully count the leaves on your body from the bath broom, which will certainly remain on your back.
-If there are a lot of leaves, it means you are married. Moreover, most likely your family will become large.
- If there is one leaf, then you will have one child.
- If there are two leaves, then you will have two children (pay attention to their shade: if the leaves different colors, this means that the children will be of different sexes).
-But if you find three leaves, this is a good sign that promises the fortuneteller not only three children, but also happy marriage, as well as immeasurable love from the spouse.
Christmas fortune telling for money
As mentioned above, fortune telling in the bathhouse is considered the most accurate. Therefore, with the help of a bath broom you can also tell fortunes about money and financial well-being.
After you take a steam bath, you need to go outside, placing a broom on your right shoulder.
Then turn around to look at the position of the broom on your shoulder. If it is placed with leaves towards your face, it promises you wealth in marriage. If the leaves point to the right, then most of the money will go towards business development and other business endeavors. But if the leaves are directed towards left side, then the money may go to your rival or go elsewhere.
If the leaves are directed upward, this means that, most likely, you will have a poor life or fate will send your spouse to a spendthrift.
You may or may not believe in fortune telling on Christmas Eve. However, one thing is certain, that this particular period of the year is considered the most cheerful, kind and joyful. Remember that the most accurate and truthful fortune-telling are those in which you yourself sincerely believe.
Christmas night and Christmas time are the times when the universe is ready to reveal its secrets to you. You can’t guess after baptism, but before January 18 you can try to find out your fate.
For fortune telling to succeed...
People who have comprehended the secrets of fortune telling give some advice on how to tell fortunes for Christmas at home.
- They tell fortunes on Christmas night (from January 6 to 7) and on Christmas Eve (until January 18).
- The future will open up if you take fortune telling seriously. It is better to do magic alone, in peace and quiet. You can guess in a company if everyone is serious. In any case, lock yourself in a separate quiet room.
- You should not cross your arms and legs - this will block information channels.
- Girls unravel their hair and let their hair down.
- Tune in to joyful, bright events. All unfavorable prognosis Consider this as a warning. “Forewarned is forearmed” - now you can definitely cope with adversity.
- At the end of the fortune telling, they thank the higher powers for their help.
- You definitely need to wash your face after casting a spell.
Fortune telling in company
Girls usually do fortune telling, but men can also try to look into the future.
On the cups
You will need:
- 6 identical cups;
- a piece of bread;
- spoon of sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- coin;
- ring;
- water;
- towel.
One of the above items is placed in each cup, and water is poured into one. The fortune tellers take turns approaching the table and, without looking, choose a cup. To prevent prying, all cups are covered with a towel.
The result of fortune telling depends on the contents of the selected cup.
- Water - everything will remain the same, without changes.
- Sugar – a “sweet” carefree year.
- Salt is for tears.
- Bread - the year promises material well-being, prosperity.
- Coin - for marriage with a rich man.
- The ring is for the wedding.
On the bulbs
Simple and truthful fortune telling for Christmas at home, time-tested.
Girls choose an onion for themselves and mark theirs (you can tie a thread or stick a sticker with a name). Place the bulbs in a bowl of water. You will have to wait until the onions sprout: the one who sprouts first will be the first of the fortune-tellers to get married (the second, third are also determined...). If the bulb does not sprout, the girl should not think about marriage yet.
Fortune telling by words
In these fortune telling words predict the future. Sometimes you have to rack your brains about what they mean - their meaning is not always clear. It is best to write down the text so that in a year you can check whether the prophecy has come true.
Fortune telling by book
Take a book and focus on what you want to know (what the coming year will be like, whether you will meet your love, how your career will turn out, etc.). Now guess the page and line number (top or bottom). Open the book and read the hidden line - it will be the answer to the cherished question.
Fortune telling on TV or radio
The principle of fortune telling is the same as in the book. Ask an exciting question and turn on the TV or radio. The first words heard will become the answer you are looking for.
Relationship fortune telling
This fortune telling is for those who have already met their soul mate and want to know what their relationship will be like in the new year. Suitable for singles and family people.
On pins and needles
They tell fortunes about a loved one or several close people (friends, parents, children) to find out which of them will be around next year.
It will take so many needles different sizes: how many close people are around. Safety pins (tailor's pins, with a ring eye) will do. Each needle corresponds to a specific person, one belongs to a fortuneteller. They can be marked in some way, for example, with a speck of nail polish or remembered by their size. The needles are dipped into a cup of vegetable oil so that they become covered with a fatty film.
Carefully place the needles into a bowl of water, one at a time, and carefully shake the bowl. The result is interpreted by the arrangement of objects.
- If the needle remains on the surface, this person will be nearby in the new year. If it sinks to the bottom, relations will go wrong next year and conflict is possible.
- The tips are connected - to a strong union (including marriage).
- Connect along the entire length - to cooperation and friendship.
- If the needle floats far away, the connection with the person will weaken.
- If the fortuneteller’s needle goes to the bottom, it means that a new stage and there will be a change in the usual environment.
- If all the needles sink, it means they have not been sufficiently oiled. You will have to repeat the entire procedure again.
On salt, sugar and ash
A pinch of salt, sugar and ash is thrown into a bowl of water at midnight. Then separately lower your hair and the hair of your loved one and carefully shake the bowl. The result is seen in the morning:
- the hairs are united - the union will be strong and long-lasting;
- apart - separation awaits the couple in the future;
- the hair has drowned - adversity awaits its owner.
Fortune telling for the unborn child
On Christmas night you can tell your fortune about the gender of your unborn child.
On the ice
In the evening, water is poured into a glass and a ring is placed. Before going to bed, bring the container into the house - the water should freeze to the bottom - and look at the surface of the frozen water. Each hillock is a son, each hole is a daughter.
Around the ring
For an unmarried girl, the result is interpreted for the first child.
A thread from the fingers to the elbow is threaded into the wedding ring. Hold the thread with the ring over your palm: soon it will begin to move. If the movements are circular, the birth will be a girl, if the movements are pendulum-like, the birth will be a boy.
Fortune telling about your future husband
Simple fortune telling for Christmas at home will tell you the qualities of your future spouse.
On the logs
Fortune telling is suitable for those who have a woodpile at their disposal. You should go to the barn and take the first log you come across. The qualities of a future spouse are judged by appearance tree.
- An even log with smooth bark is a handsome, hard-working spouse.
- Rough bark - the spouse will be distinguished not by beauty, but by hard work.
- The thicker the log, the richer the future husband, and vice versa.
- A log with knots promises a friendly and large family.
On the bulbs
If a girl has a large choice of suitors, divination will help determine her betrothed. On Christmas night they take as many bulbs as there are guys in mind. Each onion corresponds to one of the fans (you can mark them with stickers or threads). Place everything together in a bowl of water. Now you need to wait for the first onion to sprout. The one whom it means is the betrothed.
On beans
Take 3 beans: unpeeled, peeled and half peeled. Each grain is wrapped in a separate bag - they should be identical in appearance. Place grains under the pillow. In the morning, immediately after waking up, without looking, they take out one bag.
What do beans mean:
- purified promises a rich groom;
- unrefined - poor;
- semi-purified - the husband will have an average income.
Fortune telling in the snow
At midnight they go out into the street and fall into a snowdrift (first they undo their hair and all the tie belts and remove the pectoral cross). Then they get up and leave without looking back. The result is looked at in the morning according to the state of the depression in the snow.
- Soft smooth snow - the husband will be kind and flexible.
- Rugged surface in rough stripes - the husband will have a tough, unyielding character.
- The trail turned out to be very deep - to several marriages.
- There is not the slightest trace left at the place of the fall - in the near future the girl will be alone.
- There is a snowy hill at the site of the fall - caution should be exercised, as troubles and danger are expected next year.
Christmas fortune telling is an interesting pastime, but it should be remembered that a person’s fate is in his hands.
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Christmas fortune telling for children has been known since time immemorial. Since in ancient times families were very large, there was simply nowhere to put the children while adults were guessing. And so that the kids “don’t get in the way,” various funny fortune telling was invented for them.
The day before Happy Holidays On the Nativity of Christ, all Christians, young and old, prepare for this solemn day. Everyone is preparing kutya and the appropriate dishes for the festive table.
They also come up with entertainment for guests, clean their own home, create small Christmas installations, etc.
In this pre-holiday chaos, children often have almost no work left to do; they disturb parents and adults, constantly getting into trouble.
But giving little girls and boys an interesting and responsible task is very simple. It’s enough to tell them about what Christmas fortune telling for children there are.
Christmas fortune telling for children originated a very long time ago. After all, families were there before large, and there was simply nowhere to put the children when adults performed various ceremonies and rituals for the Nativity of Christ.
The children were almost always with their parents or left to their own devices. Therefore, initially no specific practices created for the purpose of finding out fate were developed for them.
However, in ancient books the fact that there is no place for children in the process of fortune telling is not clearly indicated. Therefore, here we offer the most adequate Christmas fortune-telling for children, which they can carry out on their own.
It is interesting to tell fortunes with children at Christmas using books, and in this case any kind of literature can be taken. This fortune telling is suitable for children of different ages: for kindergarten students, schoolchildren, and teenagers. In addition, you can change books from year to year, depending on the state of mind, erudition and emotional state of the children.
For Christmas, it is better to take appropriate books: the Bible, Psalms, appropriate prayers and parables. Fortune telling is carried out directly as follows:
First, a specific question is asked that worries the fortuneteller. You need to ask it to the book on which they are telling fortunes, mentally repeating it to yourself several times.
After the task is formulated, you need to open the book in the first place you come across. Then you need to ask a specific line, from which the answer corresponding to the question will be read.
Fortune telling experts confirm that a correctly formulated question is already half the battle. After all, books never lie if you approach them with an open heart.
If children are not completely tomboys and you can trust them to spy on strangers, then you can entertain them in one unusual way.
On the night before Christmas, several fortune tellers should go to a street they know or to a neighboring one. Then, having made a wish for a specific house, they go to its windows and see what is happening there.
Depending on what they see there, they can interpret their fate differently. If you see tightly curtained windows, life will flow peacefully, without change; spy on someone else's feast - the year will be cheerful, kind and eventful; they will see dark windows - they won’t see happiness in the near future, etc.
In this Christmas fortune-telling, the age and gender of those people who flash outside the windows of the mysterious house also matter.
- If youth flashes by - to joy and carelessness,
- If old people - to serious events and wisdom,
- If people are middle-aged - to stability and well-being.
Fortune telling for children - house assistant
In addition to serious, almost scientific observations of weather and nature, on Christmas Eve it is proposed to entertain children with stories about a good brownie. About how he protects a person’s home, contributing in every possible way to his free life and prosperity.
To do this, you need to show the children pictures of the house-elf in advance, tell them about his abilities and character. You also need to teach kids to respect the forces that guard the house and live in it side by side with people.
You can also tell the children how to feed the brownie by placing pieces of food and a couple of spoons of milk at the window at night. Thus, a “fed” brownie may well help with fortune-telling, becoming kinder to the people with whom he lives.
So, fortune telling itself will include the following steps:
You need to take a small saucer or a jar lid. Pour fresh milk into it and place an improvised plate closer to the threshold of the front door.
While the milk is standing near the door, you need to melt all the candle stubs in the house in a metal container. After this, sentencing the vessel to say the following words:
“My little house, dear master, come quickly, drink milk, talk about fate.”
When the wax is melted, you need to pour it into cold milk and fix the shapes that will appear when it hardens in the liquid.
It’s not always easy to figure out what happened as a result of fortune telling, but kids like this stage the most.
It can be interpreted like this:
- Stars - to many interesting events,
- The cross - to sadness and illness,
- Flower is joy
- Animals are new friends
- Lines – travel, roads,
- People - many new characters in fate, etc.
You can diversify Christmas fortune-telling for children by involving different pets in the fortune-telling. Both hamsters and guinea pigs, both dogs and cats.
However, traditionally in rural magic the cat is considered the most mystical animal. Since a cat can bring on its paws the truth about a person’s future. It is better if the cat is black or tricolor, but any other color will do.
To perform this fortune telling you need to do the following:
Come up with and formulate to yourself or, on the contrary, out loud a certain desire related to future affairs or events.
Then you need odd number Call your pet by name once. Call until the cat deigns to run into the room where the fortune tellers are sitting.
At the moment when the cat crosses the threshold, you need to record the fact which paw will be transferred through it first.
Fortune telling is interpreted very simply: if left paw went forward with the right, then the plan is destined to come true. But if the cat turns out to be right-handed, then it is better to forget about that desire as unrealistic.
Fortune telling at Christmas for children - the cup of fate
A good fortune telling at Christmas for children who really want to “be like adults” is fortune telling with the distribution of “cups of fate.”
To perform this ritual, you need to take absolutely identical mugs, preferably deep ones and always according to the number of fortune tellers, and then rinse them well (to remove foreign energy).
Afterwards, you need to scatter various objects in these circles in random order. Any kind you can find in the kitchen or in your mother’s boxes will do. For example, these could be coins, beads, pieces of bread, sugar cubes, seeds, onions, salt, pebbles and other small things.
The items at the bottom of the improvised “cups of fate” are filled with black tea (so that the contents are not visible) and then offered to fortune tellers to choose from.
Each participant must choose a cup for themselves and take an object from its bottom.
Decoding is done approximately as follows:
- Onion - to sadness and disappointment,
- Pebble - to solve difficult life problems,
- Sugar or candy - life will be sweet and beautiful,
- Coin promises wealth and luxury,
- Businka - interesting meetings,
- Seeds - many new friends,
If there is nothing in the mug, it means that life next year will not bring any special changes.
Perhaps you can pick up fortune telling for older children in this video:
In the old days, Christmas fortune-telling for children was invented mainly by older people. They gave the children tasks to monitor various natural phenomena and signs.
For example, it was necessary to monitor the weather, animals and birds, the sky and precipitation, trees, etc.
The kids put all their diligence and concentration so as not to miss the smallest hints that nature gave. To the point that all the Christmas days were planned out in detail. Based on the analysis of each of them, it was possible to say what the weather would be like in the coming year.
So, instruct your child to learn and notice these basic natural phenomena for Christmas:
- Presence of snow. If there is a lot of snow on Christmas Day, this means a successful and good year.
- Air temperature. If the day is generally warm and fine, then the harvest will be sound and good, the wheat fields will be full of grain.
- The presence of wind, or even a snowstorm. If there is a snowstorm on Christmas Eve, there will be a lot of honey due to the abundance of bees.
- Number of stars in the sky. If there are many stars in the sky, then there will be a lot of peas in the harvest.
Children can even keep a diary of fortune telling based on natural phenomena. There they can write down or sketch their observations, noting the signs associated with them.
People say that on the night of January 6-7, Christmas Eve, the predictions are the most accurate and truthful. Christmas Eve is not only a great Orthodox holiday, but also the start of the famous Christmas fortune-telling - a period that lasts until January 19 (Epiphany). By folk beliefs, on this night all prohibitions are lifted, mysterious forces rush to Earth. Some are to harm people, others are to help.
In the old days, girls, going to tell fortunes, were in a serious mood. They mentally fenced themselves off from the real world and turned to supernatural forces. We tried to collect the most interesting and reliable Christmas fortune telling, which we hope will help you unlock the secrets of the future.
When can you guess?
The best time for fortune telling, as we have already reported, this is Christmas Eve. It is then that astral spirits and ghosts penetrate the physical world, making contact and communicating the facts of our future.
Another suitable period of winter attempts to look into your future is considered period between January 8 and January 18. At this time, they are also guessing, recognizing their betrothed (name, hair color, character, class), an imminent or distant wedding, the number of children, a successful or unsuccessful marriage. Recognized as special Vasiliev evening, when the result turns out to be highly accurate, even prophetic. This - January 13. No less successful in fortune telling and January 18 – Epiphany Christmas Eve.
Preparing for fortune telling
- You need to get serious;
- let down your hair;
- untie all the knots that are on the clothes (belts, straps, decorative elements);
- remove bracelets and rings;
- mentally isolate yourself from the real world;
- formulate the question precisely.
The best fortune telling
1. Fortune telling with cups
For fortune telling, you will need several cups corresponding to the number of fortune tellers. A ring, a coin, bread, sugar, onion, salt are placed in cups, and a little water is poured into one cup. With their eyes closed, each of the fortune tellers, in turn, chooses a cup.
Predictions for the future are as follows: ring - for a wedding; coin - to wealth; bread - to prosperity; sugar - for fun; onion - to tears; salt - unfortunately, and a cup of water - to life without much change.
2. Fortune telling with candles
You will need a bowl of water, walnut shell halves, equal to the number fortunetellers, and the same number of small candles or pieces thereof. You need to insert the candles into the shells, light them and let them float in a bowl.
The girl whose candle burns out first will be the first of the fortune tellers to get married. Accordingly, the girl whose candle burns out last will be the last to get married. If someone’s shell with a candle sank, that girl will never be married at all.
3. Fortune telling on paper
Take a piece of paper and crumple it up. Place the crumpled leaf on the bottom of an upturned plate or saucer and set it on fire. After this, bring the saucer with the burnt paper to the wall and carefully turn the saucer until some shadow appears on the wall, by the outlines of which they judge the near future.
4. Fortune telling with wax
For fortune telling with wax, you will need two wax candles, one of which needs to be lit, and pieces of the other should be placed in a spoon and, heating the spoon over the burning candle, melt the wax. After this, the melted wax is quickly poured into a glass with cold water and by the light of a candle, the future is judged by the figure formed.
5. Fortune telling YES-NO
Hold your left hand over a jar with any cereal or grain, palm down. While concentrating, you need to ask the question that interests you. After this, take a handful of cereal from the jar and pour it onto the table, then count the number of grains. If the number of grains is even, this means a positive answer - YES, an odd number means a negative answer - NO.
6. Fortune telling on the number and gender of future children
On Christmas evening, you need to pour water into a glass, put a ring in it and put it out in the cold. Before going to bed, a glass is taken out of the cold and future children are judged by the ice surface formed in it. The number of tubercles indicates the number of boys, and the number of pits indicates how many girls there will be.
7. Fortune telling from a book
They took a book at random and asked a question. After this, they called the page number and the line number on it - what was written in this place in the book served as the answer.
8. Fortune telling on the king of diamonds
You will need a corresponding card, which you need to hide under your pillow and wish upon the man you want to see as your husband. Then go to bed. What you dream about next night will turn out to be your future. This night all dreams are prophetic.