Old New Year is still one of the favorite holidays. He is honored not only by children and believers, but also by those who want to lift the curtain on the future. After all, January 13 is also known for the fact that on this day you can find out your destiny with the help of magical rituals. It is believed that on holy evening fortune-telling for the future is the most truthful, and the answers to the questions received are very accurate.
Many beliefs, rituals and traditions associated with the old New Year have survived to this day, but, unfortunately, some of them have lost their relevance over time. For example, now it is difficult to imagine a person who will guess the future, eavesdropping sounds under the windows of neighbors.
In the modern world, most likely, they will not react very adequately to the fact that a stranger is hiding at exactly midnight and trying to catch someone else’s conversation. The same can be said about the ritual with a log, which the girls used to perform, guessing at the betrothed, because it is difficult to find a mountain of firewood and pull out a block of wood in the middle of the city. However, over the centuries, many have come down to us that can be easily used in large cities and in modern conditions.
Divination for the Old New Year: what you need to know?
If you decide to devote the evening of the Old New Year to divination for the betrothed or for the future, then in order for you to succeed, you must follow certain recommendations.
- All rituals associated with divination are best done after sunset.
- Make sure in advance that there will be no pets nearby during fortune telling, otherwise otherworldly forces may get scared and not give an accurate answer to the questions posed.
- If you need candles for the ritual, then it is better to use church ones. So you will be protected from the negative actions of the spirits, they will not be able to give you false answers or scare you.
- Do not be discouraged if you received a bad omen, because it is in your power to influence your future. Consider that you have learned a possible scenario, and not the final verdict. If you have been predicted to have a protracted illness, it may be time to take care of your health and undergo a comprehensive examination.
- If you are not satisfied with the answer you received, then you should not conduct other rituals on the same topic. Because even if you later receive a prediction that satisfies you, it may be false, it’s just that otherworldly forces decided to deceive too.
Christmas divination for the Old New Year
The ancient rituals presented are still very popular, as they can be performed in modern conditions, both at home and on the street.
Divination with cups
The ceremony can be performed in the company of familiar unmarried girls. For the ritual, you will need seven cups or bowls. The following items are placed in six bowls: a coin, salt, sugar, a ring, an onion, a piece of bread, and some water is poured into the seventh. The bowls are swapped, and each girl in turn, with her eyes closed, chooses a bowl for herself. Salt means quarrels and conflicts, sugar - good news ring - engagement coin - rich husband bread - a prosperous family life, water - a peaceful fate onion - bitter tears.
Divination by desire
You need to write your desires on pieces of paper and mix with the same number of empty leaves. Put all the pieces of paper in some kind of container and pull out three pieces at random. What was pulled out will be destined to come true in the new year. If clean leaves are caught, it means that your desires are not yet destined to come true.
Divination for money
Put a piece of wood, a pebble, a silver ring, a gold earring into a large bowl and pull it out at random. Silver means a good year in material terms, goldO - big cash profit stone - career advancement tree - financial losses.
Fortune telling on a passerby
In the evening, going out into the street, turn your attention to the first person you meet. If it is a young guy, then this year you will have a romantic relationship, but an old man or an elderly man does not portend visible changes in his personal life. A meeting with a girl or woman promises separation.
Divination for future children
This rite is suitable for both unmarried girls and women who are married, but they do not yet have children. In the evening, pour water into a cup, lower the ring and leave overnight in the cold. In the morning, pay attention to the number of tubercles and dimples formed on the ice crust. Tubercles portend sons, and dimples portend daughters.
Sleepy divination for the Old New Year
Place the King of Diamonds card under your pillow before bed. What you see in a dream will come true.
Divination with dumplings
Dumplings are served on the table for guests and certain items are placed in some of them along with the filling, each of which has its own interpretation for the whole next year:
- sugar - good luck in all matters;
- salt - tears;
- coin - financial profit;
- dill - good health;
- grain - profit;
- thread - a long road;
- ring - engagement;
- bay leaf - promotion up the career ladder;
- raisins - temptation;
- flour - litigation;
- dough - the birth of a child.
The Old New Year is coming - a holiday with which it is customary to end the long winter holidays. At this time, the first half of Christmas time ends and one of the most suitable evenings for divination for marriage and future life begins.
When is the Old New Year celebrated in 2018?
History of the Old New Year holiday
The tradition of celebrating the New Year twice appeared in our country after the revolution. At the beginning of 2018, Soviet Russia, which had previously lived according to the Julian calendar, abruptly switched to the Gregorian calendar, immediately "catching up" the 13-day lag (in the current 21st century, the difference between the calendars is already 14 days).
However, the Russian Orthodox Church remained committed to the "old style", and this was to the liking of all opponents of Soviet power and, in general, religious people who were used to celebrating the New Year after the end of Nativity Fast and holiday Nativity of Christ.
Gradually, the tradition of celebrating the Old New Year became absolutely secular, devoid of political overtones, and was preserved in the post-Soviet space simply as a nice national feature.
Yuletide Traditions
The Old New Year falls during the winter Christmas time, which are marked with Christmas before Baptism. At this time in Rus' it was customary to have a lot of fun and also to tell fortunes. It was believed that before the holiday of Epiphany, evil spirits walk freely on the earth and do not pose any danger. At Christmas time there were merry games, slide rides, festive feasts, mummers walked around the courtyards, singing carols and begging for food and money. It happened that the fun was not at all harmless in nature - the mummers frightened people and sometimes behaved, to put it mildly, insolently. But it was not customary to be offended by them.
Old New Year and Vasilyev's evening
The Old New Year falls on Vasilyev, or Generous Evening (Shchedrets). This evening is considered one of the most suitable for fortune telling.
Vasiliev evening precedes the saint's day Basil the Great, one of the greatest theologians, whom the Russian Orthodox Church commemorates on January 14 (January 1, old style). It is believed that on Vasilyev's evening the first part of Christmastide ends.
On this day in Rus' and other Slavic lands they celebrated, ate meat, drank honey, cooked festive porridge, which was called generous, which is why in Ukraine and Belarus Vasilyev's evening is still called Shchedryy or Shchedrets. It was believed that if the Generous Evening was spent properly, then in the coming year there would be a good harvest, and the cattle would be healthy and give a lot of offspring.
That evening the youth sang carols (or, as the Slavs said, they were generous), mummers walked around the courtyards, begging for food and money for singing carols.
On this day, the girls wondered about the betrothed, asked otherworldly forces who would woo, what the groom would be like, how life would turn out, whether there would be prosperity in the house, and other important things. It was customary to look into the future that evening, since there was a saying: “What is wished for Vasily will come true, and what will come true will not pass.”
Fortune telling for the Old New Year
There are a great many Christmas fortune tellings, most of them for the betrothed. Here are a few of the most popular ones.
Fortune telling before bed
In the evening of Old New Year, the girl ate very salty food and went to bed. At the same time, she wished: “Whoever is my betrothed-mummer will give me water.”
The person who appeared in a dream could become a future groom.
Fortune telling with castle and water
On Old New Year, the girl, going to bed, held a lock over a cup of water and, turning the key in it, said: “Come, my betrothed-mummer, ask for a drink.”
The one who came in the dream is the groom.
Fortune telling with twigs
The girl made a small bridge out of twigs and put it under the pillow, saying: “Whoever is my betrothed-mummer will take me across the bridge.”
After this, the betrothed-mummer simply had to appear in a dream.
Fortune telling by the window
On the night of the Old New Year, the girl sat down at the curtained window and listened, saying: “Mummer, drive past the window.”
If it is noisy, cheerful and loud outside, it means that a cheerful rich groom is coming, and if it is quiet, a poor and poor groom will send matchmakers. Naturally, in our time during the Old New Year, the chances of finding a cheerful, good chosen one increase sharply, since at this time it is customary not only to have noisy fun, but also to set off fireworks and firecrackers.
Fortune telling with a comb
The girl hung a comb outside the window, and if hairs appeared on the comb in the morning, you could tell by them whether a blond or a brunette would soon woo.
The Old New Year is a holiday that arose due to the difference between the Gregorian and Julian calendars. According to the old (Julian) calendar, New Year would have begun on this day. In Ukraine, it is still customary to celebrate this holiday, calling it Generous Evening.
Fortune telling for the Old New Year using cereals
For the Old New Year, you can tell fortunes by taking any cereal. Hold your palm over a container with any cereal and mentally ask a question that can be answered “yes” or “no.” Take a handful of cereal and pour it onto the table. Count the grains - if the number is even, then the answer is “yes”, and if it is odd, then “no”.
Fortune telling for the Old New Year from a book
Take a book and mentally ask a question. After that, guess the page and line without looking, and read it. This will be the answer to the question, although it can be interpreted in different ways.
Fortune telling for the Old New Year on objects
For this fortune telling you will need bread, a ring and a hook. All these things need to be put in a bowl, add stones there, cover with a cloth and mix. Then take out an object without looking. If you get bread, your husband will be rich, if you get a ring, then he will be beautiful, and if you get a hook, then he will be poor or sick.
Fortune telling for the Old New Year using the names of passersby
You need to go out on the evening of January 13th and call out to the first man you meet on the way. You need to ask him for his name - this will be the name of the betrothed.
Signs for the Old New Year
- A man should be the first to enter the house to attract happiness and prosperity.
- The sowers need to be given sweets and other tasty food, but not money - they can also be used to give away the family’s material well-being.
- There is no need to say the word “thirteen.”
- You can’t count small things, it will attract misfortune.
- On the morning of January 14, the owner of the house must take an ax and knock on the threshold with it, while saying “bread”, “health”, “life”.
- If you don't take out the trash, you'll take happiness out of your home.
- You should not eat fish and poultry - happiness will fly away or float away.
All signs and fortune telling work as long as you believe in them. In fact, all restrictions and “supernatural” coincidences are only in our heads. Therefore, you should rely on yourself, and not on folk wisdom.
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Fortune telling by threads: who will get married first
Several girls take part in the fortune telling. You need to cut and distribute threads of the same length to each participant. Each girl takes her thread by one end, and the other end should be lowered down, at the same time everything is set on fire. Whose thread burns out first will get married first. The one whose thread immediately went out will not expect marriage soon.
Fortune telling with a ring: considering the betrothed
You need to take a glass glass without a pattern, with a flat bottom and walls, and pour water into it not to the brim. Place a ring, previously washed in running water, at the bottom of the glass to wash off all the energy from it. Saying the words: “My betrothed, appear to me in disguise,” look carefully at the very center of the ring - this is how you can see your betrothed.
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Fortune telling before bed: waiting for the king
Before going to bed, four kings from one deck are placed under the pillow with the words “betrothed come to me this night.” It is believed that the future lover will appear in a dream in the form of one of the kings under the pillow. A good sign is that the king has the suit of diamonds (a lasting alliance), and a bad sign is that of spades (a fleeting relationship).
Fortune telling with a mirror: looking into the future
Another method of fortune telling for your betrothed will require a mirror. On the night of January 13-14, go outside with a pocket mirror. Every girl has it in her bag. Go to an unfamiliar place or somewhere you rarely go. In this place, find the intersection of two or more roads; it is believed that in such places you can see amazing things.
Say to yourself: “Come to me as a betrothed on the road, and in the snow.” Then look in the mirror, pointing it at the center of the intersection. If you are lucky, you will see the face of your future lover. But there are times when the visions are of a completely different nature, and it is not always possible to easily establish a connection between the future lover and what was seen.
Fortune telling with a candle: what to expect in the coming year
Take a deep bowl and pour half of the water into it, and fasten pieces of paper on the edges, on which you first write: “I’ll get married this year,” “I’ll get sick,” “I’ll be lucky,” etc. Then add a walnut shell or Attach a small candle to a small wooden plank and light it. (The flame of such a candle should reach the edge of the fixed pieces of paper.) Then lower the candle into the water and see which piece of paper it burns - this will be your prediction.
Fortune telling by frozen water
You need to throw the wedding ring into the water and leave it in the cold overnight. How many bumps will be on frozen water - the same number of suitors will still be before marriage. If the water is frozen with one bulge - for marriage this year, and if it is flat - the time has not yet come.
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Fortune telling by chain: judging the future
It must be carried out immediately after midnight and always alone. You need to take a silver or gold chain with your right hand, crumple it, and then throw it on a flat, hard surface, such as a table. After this, you need to see what kind of figure has formed.
For example, if the chain lay in the shape of a circle, this symbolizes that a girl will face many difficulties next year, and she will have to make a lot of efforts to overcome them. Oval means almost the same thing, albeit in a slightly softer form. If the chain has formed a straight line, it is recommended to start new business - in all of them, the fortuneteller will be lucky. Triangles and rectangles are also signs of imminent success.
A figure resembling a bow with its outline portends success in love - a romantic date or a quick wedding, depending on whether the girl already has a fiance or lover. If the chain lay on the table in the form of a letter, this is for a new relationship, and it is with this letter that the name of the gentleman will begin. The snake warns of deceit and that not everyone can be trusted, even among loved ones. And if the chain is tangled in a knot, then the year will not be easy in all respects.
Fortune telling for the future husband
You can use fortune telling to find out the name of your future betrothed. To do this, in the evening, various men's names are written on several small pieces of paper and placed under the pillow. In the morning, when they wake up, they take out the first piece of paper they come across: whatever name is indicated on it, that will be the name of the future husband.
Fortune telling using three rings for marriage
You will need a clay bowl, three handfuls of pure millet and three rings - gold, silver and plain metal. Exactly at midnight, shake the rings in your palms and, without looking, place them in a bowl, cover with millet so that the decoration is not visible, rotate the container three times clockwise. After this, place the bowl next to the bed. On the morning of January 14, without getting out of bed, put your hand in a bowl and randomly take out a handful of millet.
If there is no ring in the millet, then nothing will change in your personal life, and if at this moment you already have a man from whom you expect a marriage proposal, then your aspirations will not come true - you will break up with this person.
If you come across a simple ring, then there will be a lot of acquaintances in the coming year, but you are unlikely to get married, since you will not be able to decide who you want to see next to you.
If you come across a silver ring, then you will be engaged, and you will get married next year.
If you get a gold ring, then marriage awaits you.
Fortune telling by needle: find out what awaits us this year
On a large sheet of paper write the alphabet in a semicircle, in a small semicircle below - the numbers from 1 to 9 and 0, also near the center write “yes” on the left and “no” on the right. In the center of this circle you need to put a needle, which you need to hold by the black thread. Start asking the needle and pay close attention to the letters it shows.
Fortune telling with salt: waiting for the betrothed
They eat a lot of salty foods. And when they go to bed, they say: “Whoever is my betrothed, whoever is my mummer, will give me a drink.” They believe that the betrothed will appear in a dream and give you something to drink.
Fortune telling with a comb: making a dream
Before going to bed, the girl puts a comb under her head and says: “Betrothed, row, comb my hair for the chairman.” Whoever the girl dreams about, and whoever combs her hair, is the groom.
Divination for the Old New Year for the fulfillment of desires
Each of us, on the eve of the New Year holidays, dreams of a miracle, because we so want our wishes to come true, and for the fairy tale to come true. There are many different fortune-telling for the fulfillment of the most cherished desire. The chosen rite should be performed on the night of January 13-14 in complete silence.
Let's look at the most effective fortune-telling for desire:
Golden ring
Prepare an opaque bowl of clean water and a ring. Whisper your deepest wish and throw the ring into the water. Count the number of water circles. An even number will mean that the desired will certainly come true, an odd number will not.
Take a glass or jar and fill it to the top with rice. Put the palm of your right hand on the neck of the container and make a wish (you can ask a question, the answer of which can only be “yes” or “no”). Then take out a small handful of cereals and count the number of grains. An even number is what you want to be this year, an odd number will mean a negative answer.
Book
At midnight, make a wish and open your favorite book with your eyes closed. Point your finger at one of the lines. Open your eyes and read. The blindly chosen offer will have to let you know whether the wish will come true or not. 
Glass of water
Fill one glass to the top with clean water and leave the other empty. At 12 at night, make your wish and pour water from one glass to another over the table. A dry table surface will mean a dream come true. If a lot of water is spilled, your wish will not come true this year.
Black cat
If there is a black cat in the house, the rite can be carried out in this way: take the animal to the next room, and yourself, having made a question or desire, call her to you. If a pet crosses the threshold of your room with its left paw, the dream will come true, but not with the right paw. And if the cat does not come at all, then the fulfillment of the cherished desire will completely depend on you. 
paper snowflake
On the evening of January 13, make a snowflake out of paper and write your desire on it in small letters. Put it under your pillow and at nightfall, take it out and throw it out of the balcony (or from the window). At the same time, while the snowflake flies to the ground, you need to whisper your dream 3 times in a whisper.
Bulb
Prepare three onions in their skins (the heads should be approximately the same) and 3 cups filled halfway with water. On the night of January 13-14, write one wish on each bulb and place each head in a glass of water. Everything, now you just need to wait. The bulb that sprouts first and tells you what wish will come true. Important! For this fortune-telling, a spoiled and rotten onion is not suitable.
Leaves with wishes
On the evening of January 13, prepare 12 small pieces of white paper. On each piece before bed, write different wishes and put them under your pillow. In the morning, touch any piece of paper and read what is written on it. This is the wish that will come true in the coming year. 
coins
Take 13 coins and shake them well in your hands, while pronouncing your desire. Throw them so that they fall on the same surface. Count the number of heads and tails. If there are more eagles, celebrate success.
The most important thing to remember is that at the moment of making a wish, you need to believe in the miracle and power of magic, and also imagine as clearly as possible that your dream has come true in the coming year.
Fortune-telling for the fulfillment of a wish on the street
If you want to spend fortune-telling with friends, then it is not necessary to sit at home. You can go outside and perform the ceremony in the fresh air. There are several interesting ways to find out whether a wish will come true or not.
Method number 1. Stranger
Go outside after midnight and walk down the street. At the same time, you should have two coins in your pocket - one is silver, the other is copper. As soon as you see a stranger on the horizon, think about your dream and, approaching the stranger, ask him to choose one of the coins. Silver will mean a positive result. If a copper coin is chosen, the wish will not come true this year.
Method number 2. Luminous windows
If you live in the city, then go outside at midnight, turn your back on your house and make a wish. Turn around and count the number of glowing windows. An even number will come true, an odd number will not come true. You can also walk with friends around the city at night, at any time close your eyes and make a wish. Spin around your axis a couple of times, and count the windows of the house opposite. 
Method number 3. Imprint in a snowdrift
At midnight, you need to go out into the yard, find the territory where the snow has remained untouched by people. Lie on your back and leave an imprint of the body, while making your wish. On the morning of January 14, you should come to this place and see what happened to this pattern. If the imprint is not touched by nature and people, then you can rejoice, because this year the wish will come true. If someone stepped on it or the contours of the body print were blown away by the wind, you should wait until next year.
Modern fortune telling
There are a couple of modern fortune tellings that can be done on the eve of the holiday. It is not difficult to conduct them, and it will take very little time.
1. Elevator. Go out to the platform and make a wish. Wait for someone to call the elevator. If he stops on your floor or above - the wish will come true, below - no.
2. Mobile phone. Think about what you want and wait for the call. If a man calls, the dream will come true, but if a woman calls, this year you should not wait for what you want.
3. Chocolate. At the festive table, fill a glass with champagne. Throw a chocolate cube 1 minute before midnight and think of a wish. If the sweetness sinks, then it will come true and you need to quickly drink the contents, if chocolate remains on the surface, the answer is no.
Choose the right time for the ceremony and follow all the rules, and of course, believe in your dream.
