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 importance 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 Yuletide 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 down from generation to generation, and have survived to this day in a little changed form.
Christmastide refers to 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 is 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 angels and good spirits help.
When can you guess in 2020?
The best time for fortune telling, as we have already reported, is the night before Christmas.
It is then that astral spirits and ghosts penetrate the 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. 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.
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, it is imperative to maintain silence.
Well, these are, perhaps, the basic rules. In fact, this list could change at different times 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 briefly mentioned 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 conduct the ceremony in the attic, basement, or in an abandoned house. And the very last option is 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 2020
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 this 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.
On a windless moonlit night, you should cut off a strand of your own hair, and then burn it on a 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 are certain figures that 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.
The swan and the mushroom are good forms that 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 steadily, this is a 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 for the better.
A house for an unmarried girl means imminent marriage; in Rus' this symbol has always meant a household.
Apple and pear mean 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 see a 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 kind of 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 as a strong amulet: 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 from themselves), at midnight on Christmas Eve, when the boundary between reality and the other world became thinner. 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 might come out of the mirror, and then misfortune would occur.
Fortune telling by egg
Pour water into a glass and pour the white of a raw egg into it. 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 a clean sheet of paper and crumple it, then place it on the bottom of an upside down 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. Attach strips of paper along the edges of the pelvis on which events are written, for example, a wedding, a trip, receiving money, a 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 walnut shell 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 your wedding ring into it and leave it in the cold. 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",
"Unexpected meeting",
"Journey",
"Important letter."
Place an ordinary kitchen knife in the center of the circle and mentally formulate a question. Rotate the knife around its axis three times. One of the three messages that the tip of the knife will point to will be the answer to the question asked.
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 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.
Fortune telling with a needle
Take a needle and white thread. Thread the thread through the eye. Take the thread by the end with your right hand, and point the tip of the needle into 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 that the future husband 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 icy 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 your 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 passionate about finding true love. At midnight, go to the nearest church and walk around it 12 times. It is believed that this ritual destroys loneliness and promotes the emergence of 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 an even number of grains in your hand, your wish will come true, but an odd number - 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 with his right paw, the wish will come true, but with his left - not.
During Christmas fortune-telling, you need to look for only good meaning in all predictions. 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 is ahead of you, and that means almost 2 weeks of exciting and fun fortune-telling!
Video: Christmas fortune telling at home
Christmas fortune telling (from January 7 to January 19) has traditionally been considered the most accurate. Therefore, the girls stocked up on mirrors, candles, shoes and looked forward to Christmas to tell fortunes about the groom or the gender of the unborn child, to make their wishes come true.
I wonder if girls nowadays believe in Christmas fortune-telling? It turned out that they do! And they not only believe, but also guess. I came across an interesting discussion of this topic on one of the forums.
Here's a small snippet:
When years pass and there is still no pregnancy, you are ready to believe in anything... It was the same with me, there were fortune tellers and an astrologer. Girls, did any of you guess about pregnancy, and did the fortune-telling come true?
Answers to the question:
On past Christmastides I used to tell fortunes, I always do the same thing: I crumple a blank sheet of paper (more densely), put it on the bottom of the frying pan (outside), set it on fire, spin the frying pan (without touching it with my hands) and look at the contours of the figures in the shadows (using a candle). And I saw a really pregnant woman. And the next year I was pregnant!!! Interesting fact: in September, on completely different days, I accidentally met 2 gypsies (I don’t want to go to fortune tellers, it’s hard to believe). Each of the gypsies said that the children would be twins: a boy and a girl. And like twins by the husband’s blood. I doubt it, but I really want to believe!!! And today I'm going to guess, as usual :)
Another article on the topic:
And I started believing in Christmas fortune-telling last year. I wanted a child for a long time and every year with enviable tenacity I wondered exactly about this, but every time anything came up, just not B. And last year, by that time I had already despaired of getting pregnant soon, my friends and I were guessing for the old New Year . And in all the fortune telling (and there were 4-5 of them) I got a baby. Even the shadow from the piece of paper amazed everyone; two figures were clearly visible there - an adult man holding the hand of a little one. A month after these fortune-telling, I became pregnant, and on October 29 I became a mother. So believe and believe again! Good luck everyone!
Christmas fortune telling for the gender of the child
If you believe in Christmas fortune-telling, then the information in the article will be useful to you. Don't believe me? Then just read it. You might want to try one of the fortune telling methods with your girlfriends during a party. We guarantee a good mood and a fun time.
So, we reveal all the secrets: what is needed for fortune telling and what to do with it.
Fortune telling on a ring (needle)
Need to:
Option 1. A ring (preferably a wedding ring), a thread 20-30 cm long, a glass of water.
Option 2. A piece of natural woolen fabric, a needle, a thread 20-30 cm long.
How to guess: We sit down at the table, put a glass of water in front of us, lower a ring suspended on a thread into it and move it clockwise (to cleanse). If you are guessing with a needle, then pierce the fabric with it several times. We take the ring out of the water (a needle made of fabric) and place it over the stomach. If the object sways from side to side - it will be a boy, if it makes circular movements - it will be a girl, if it is frozen in place - it is too early to think about children.
Christmas fortune telling for pregnancy and child's gender
Need to: a container of water (you can use a regular glass glass), a gold engagement ring and frost outside (or a freezer).
How to guess: We take a container filled with water, place a ring in it and ask the question of interest. We take a glass of water out into the cold. If it thaws, put it in the freezer. In the morning we decipher the result: a flat surface promises loneliness, depressions or dimples on the surface are future daughters, tubercles are sons.
Christmas fortune telling with wax
Need to: a saucer of water, a thick wax candle in a candlestick and a couple of girlfriends with a good imagination.
How to guess: We place a saucer of water on the table in front of us, light a candle and wait until the wax around the wick melts. Now carefully remove the candle from the candlestick and in one motion pour the wax into a saucer of water. All that remains is to carefully examine the resulting wax figures in the water. If you saw a baby - you will give birth soon, a house - you will spend a year in your home, a road - you will travel, etc. Don't have enough imagination and can't figure out what kind of figure it is? Call your girlfriends for help. Together you will definitely see the future.
Christmas fortune telling using a candle, water and paper
Need to: a lighter or a box of matches, a large basin half filled with water, strips of paper (according to the number of wishes), floating candles.
How to guess: We write wishes on paper strips (1 wish for each fortuneteller) and hang them by folding the edges over the edges of the basin. The strips should almost touch the water. All fortune tellers take 1 floating candle, mark it so that it differs from the others, place it in the middle of the basin and set it on fire at the same time. The burning candles will begin to move through the water, I set fire to the paper strips. If your candle lights a stripe with your wish, then this year it will definitely come true.
Christmas fortune telling
How to guess: We write wishes on strips of paper and fold the strips several times and hide them under the pillow. We go to bed thinking that our wishes will come true. In the morning, we put our hand under the pillow and pull out the first strip we come across. We read the wish. It will definitely come true!
Christmas fortune telling by shadows
Need to: matches, paper, saucer (preferably white), candle, smooth, uncluttered wall (if there is none, then you can hang a white sheet). To get an accurate result, it is recommended to remove mirrors from the room and avoid drafts.
How to guess: It is best to do this in the evening or at night so that the room is dark. We light a candle using matches, crumple up a blank sheet of paper, put it on a plate and set it on fire. We turn off the lights. We wait until the paper burns out. We do not fan the flame and do not extinguish it. Then carefully lift the saucer with the lump and place it between the burning candle and the wall. You need to hold it so that the shadow of the lump falls on the wall. We carefully examine the outlines of the shadow. They will predict the near future. Fortune telling is fascinating, but the strong aroma of burnt paper can spoil the experience a little.
Modern fortune telling
Not all Christmas fortune-telling came to us from the distant past. Among them there are also modern ones.
Christmas fortune telling to determine the sex of a child
Take your mobile phone and dial the number you made up. The woman answered - wait for a girl, the man - a boy will be born. Does the number not answer? A “surprise” awaits you. What about an answering machine? You will get pregnant in the near future.
Christmas fortune telling from a book
We take a thick book, ask a question (for example, “My baby’s first word” or “What will my husband’s reaction be when he finds out about pregnancy”), name the page and line (for example, page 45, line 10 from the bottom). We open the book in the right place and read out the prediction. Sometimes variants of “predictions” can be very accurate or funny. Such fortune telling goes off with a bang among friends.
Fortune telling on coffee grounds
We drink a cup of good coffee, cover it with a saucer, shake it up and down a couple of times, twist it clockwise and turn the cup upside down. We look at the stains left from the coffee grounds. At the bottom of the cup is the past, on the walls is the future. If you see a swan on the bottom, it means you have a calm family life, a fish means good luck, the sun means great joy and success, a flower means a wish will come true.
Fortune telling by wish
For this fortune telling you need a cat. Guessing is simple: make a wish, call a cat into the room and see which paw it will cross the threshold with. Entered with the left paw - the wish will come true, with the right - no.
Traditionally, while girls were getting married and before next Christmas, many were already having children or were pregnant. Those who were still expecting a joyful event were looking for at least some ways to find out their future.
It would not be amiss to remind you that the Orthodox Church does not treat fortune telling very well. But even she changes her anger to mercy on Christmas Eve before Christmas. It is believed that on this night, as well as on all subsequent nights until Epiphany, which falls on January 19, the evil spirits weaken, and fortune telling is no longer a demonic act, but simple fun.
On the night of Christmas, people believed in this and still believe in it, various miracles happen. Including, you can see your future, especially if it concerns children. It is especially good when there is a full moon on Christmas Eve night. This will happen, for example, in 2018.
Special rules of fortune telling:
There should be a minimum of noise, light and people in the room where the ritual is performed. Of course, you need to turn off the TV and music. Fortune telling should be done closer to midnight, so that there is no more noise outside the window.
Also, during fortune telling, you should not cross your arms or legs, this can reduce the energy flow and make it difficult to look into the future.
You need to prepare well for fortune telling: wash, put on clean clothes, untie your hair and comb it, remove jewelry, a belt and other objects that may interfere with the free flow of energy.
Christmas fortune telling for children
On the floor of the unborn child
There may be different fortune telling for children at Christmas on January 6-7, including to determine the gender of the baby, reports the Rosregistr portal. To carry out this ritual you will need to take a needle and thread. Hold the thread between your thumb and index finger, try not to touch these objects. Hold the needle over your open palm. If it starts spinning clockwise, your baby will be a girl next. If the needle starts swinging like a pendulum, it will be a boy. When the needle does not swing at all for a long time, this indicates that the woman will not have children.
On the rocks
You will need to take ink and write on the stones the names that you like the most. You can simply glue a piece of paper with a name to each stone. Next, you need to lower the stones into the water and start observing what happens. If the inscription on the stone does not wash off (or the paper does not come off), then you will have as many children as the inscriptions remain on the stones. By the way, the gender of future babies can also be predicted from the surviving names.
You need to take a glass and pour water into it. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve or on any of the nights of Christmastide, except Christmas Day from January 7 to 8, take the glass out into the cold and leave it there overnight. In the morning, bring a glass into the house and see how the water in it has frozen. How many tubercles there are in the water, the number of sons a woman will have, and how many holes there are, the number of daughters she will have. By counting all the signs, it will be possible to determine the exact number of children.
These are the three most popular fortune telling for children at Christmas, which have already helped many women gain peace of mind and be confident that there will definitely be children: you just need to wait a little. May all your dreams come true. By the way, we know a way to make a wish for Christmas so that it comes true.
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.
On Orthodox Christmas, according to the customs of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, you 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.
Cards can tell a lot about your present life, tell about the past, and also about the future.
There are many different ways to use a deck of cards for fortune telling. Here is one of the simplest and, without a doubt, understandable methods of fortune telling with 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 that are responsible for work and career growth; on your right, place three more cards that will tell you 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 - maternal 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 is an important step that 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 a 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 a mirror under the sofa or bed on which you sleep, scatter fir branches around it and calmly go to sleep.
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 upcoming future or an 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 is 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.
A straight line 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 - a vicious circle, a 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 the coffee grounds remain on the bottom and sides 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 white color predominates, then the future husband will be blond, but if there is 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 questions that interest you, as well as 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 you the name of your future spouse.
But from under your pillow you must pull out the numbers several times to find out more detailed information about your chosen one.
The first drawn out number will show when (in how many months) you will meet your betrothed or in how many months you will get married (if you 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 a 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 there is a “love triangle” in your life, take three needles accordingly.
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 expect 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.
A silver ring indicates that someone loves you.
The wedding ring predicts your proposal and marriage this year.
A 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, the ban on fortune telling for married women was slightly weakened, and they could also carry out fortune telling on something that was interesting to 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 forces, I’ll show you the parenting place, and I expect from you the number of children.”
After which, after you beat 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 are 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 a happy marriage, as well as immeasurable love from her 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 are directed to the right, then most of the money will go towards business development and other business endeavors. But if the leaves are directed to the left, then the money may go to your rival or go to the side.
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 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 the adults were guessing. And so that the kids “don’t get in the way,” various funny fortune telling was invented for them.
On the eve of the Bright Feast of 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 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 used to be large, and there was simply nowhere to put the children when adults performed various ceremonies and rituals on Christmas Day.
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 all ages: kindergarteners, 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 are many new characters in fate, etc.
You can diversify Christmas fortune-telling for children by involving different pets in the fortune-telling. Hamsters, guinea pigs, dogs and cats are suitable for this purpose.
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 to call your pet by name an odd number of times. 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 the left paw goes ahead of 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 himself 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 the following of the main natural phenomena at 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.