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adoracat -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 4:50:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Suleiman
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ORIGINAL: MzMia
Do you have any rituals that you MUST do or have on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day!
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You MUST eat black eyed peas on New Years Day in order to have good luck in the next year!
I always make a point, when the hour of midnight arrives, to stand in a doorway and pour out a libation to Janus. Usually champagne, but this year it was whiskey. As to black eyed peas, I will simpl say what I said to my grandmother many many moons ago: I'll make due with skill and cunning to get by. I'm not so desperate for luck that I'm willing to eat black eyed peas. While I have had a few runs of hard luck, I think I can honestly say I have not done poorly overall for my refusal. The bad times in my life have made room for new good, just as Janus intended.
the Damned Yankee (aka the hubby) maintains that black eyed peas cooking smells like dirt. this year he wasnt home to smell them cooking. ;)
the last 3 years i didnt make them in response to his bitching about it.....and its shown in how things have gone for us. better things this year, please the gods.
kitten
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