Fortune telling and omens: entertainment for the New Year
Kyiv • UNN
In 2025, the green wooden snake should choose the right colors of clothes and follow special rituals. Here's a look at New Year's fortune telling on the Christmas tree, tangerines, and sweets.
Even in the darkest times, we want to believe in miracles and goodness. The New Year has always been associated with a new beginning and the fulfillment of desires. Therefore, it is the perfect time to plunge into pleasant childhood memories and dream a little. The main thing is to remember that it is important to back up dreams and desires with actions. UNN has collected fortune telling and popular signs for the New Year.
NEW YEAR'S SIGNS
According to the Chinese calendar, 2025 is the year of the green wooden snake. The snake symbolizes wisdom, transformation, and flexibility, bringing change and new opportunities. It requires us to pay attention to details, be cautious in our actions, and be able to adapt to circumstances.
What colors should you wear for the New Year to attract money, good luck, and strengthen your family:
- green
- yellow
- golden
- brown
- purple
- blue
- white.
What colors you shouldn't wear for the Year of the Snake 2025:
- red
- black
- orange
- gray
- pink.
FORTUNE TELLING ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE
One of the entertainments from December 31 to January 1 can be fortune telling. To do this, you need to go to a decorated Christmas tree and close your eyes, or tie a blindfold. You need to approach the tree slowly with your arms outstretched until you touch the first object on the tree. Then open your eyes and look at the object you touched. If a Christmas tree branch comes to hand, then 2025 will bring serious changes in the way of life or work, if a garland, then the next year of the snake will be carefree. A toy of pastel or delicate color suggests passionate love, a bright toy means searching for yourself and new hobbies, rain means difficulties with money.
FORTUNE TELLING ON SWEETS
Put any variety of sweets in the bag. You can have several of the same type. The participants of the entertainment have to blindly get their prediction in the form of a sweet:
- lollipop - for a salary increase
- mandarin, orange - to improve health
- Nuts - for a housewarming party
- Kinder-surprise - for a successful marriage
- cookies - for successful and useful acquaintances
- chocolate - for career growth
fruit - to replenish the family
TANGERINE FORTUNE TELLING
Take the washed fruit and put it in a vase or plate. Choose three fruits at random. The first will tell you about future events, the second tangerine about current circumstances, and the third about how they will end. Examine and taste each of the three tangerines, following the three points:
If a good-looking tangerine turns up:
- Pleasant to the taste - monetary profit awaits
- Slightly spoiled is a signal of health problems, the need to restore mental health and harmony
- Fragrant - get a joyful gift from fate
- Tasty and juicy - expect mutual love, reaching an understanding with people
If it's a tangerine, it's not attractive in appearance:
- Tasty and sweet - possible success and well-being
- Juicy - troubles will pass Aromatic - pleasant changes are waiting for you - Dry - beware of ill-wishers
- Sour - separation from a loved one awaits
- Rotten - possible disappointments in love
If the tangerine peel:
Soft - get unexpected help
Hard - you will suffer monetary losses K
It is said that the New Year is a time of miracles and the fulfillment of the most cherished dreams, and Ukrainians are currently united by one most desired dream - peace. Many people believe that if you make a wish at 00:00, it will come true in the new year.
One of the most popular ways is to write your wish on a small piece of paper, set it on fire close to midnight, and shake the ashes into a glass of champagne and drink it down. It's worth remembering to take precautions.
You can also wait until the bottle runs out of champagne. Then pick it up, close your eyes, make a wish, and blow into the bottle and cork it. Hide the bottle, for example, in a closet.
You can also write a letter with wishes and goals and close it in an envelope until the next New Year.
