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This upcoming week we celebrate Lunar New Year on January 23, 2012. This occurs on the same day of the first New Moon of 2012. This age-old celebration of culture and community, known as Chinese New Year in years past, is honored with the tradition of giving and receiving a red envelope, filled with money, as a symbolic gesture of wishing one prosperity and good luck.

The color red is used because it is considered a color that wards off evil and symbolizes Good Luck. In some countries that have a population who practices Islam, green envelopes are sometimes used, as green is a color associated with Islam.

It is said that odd number of bills, coins or the total of the money given must not add up to an odd number (like 3,5,7,9, etc.), but either must be an even number or end with an “8″ in the ones column (like $88.00, $168.00, etc.) as they are considered auspicious or “good” numbers. Any money must not total the numbers, 4, 40,44,444, etc., as the pronunciation of the word “four” in Chinese dialects resembles the word for death, a bad omen.

Red envelopes are also given to newlyweds in China.

The Chinese New Year stamp (pictured above) caused quite a stir recently as the population thought that the dragon on the stamp was too “fierce” and may give the wrong impression of the Chinese. The Dragon is a symbol of power and strength, and those born in the Year of the Dragon (1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012) are considered to have the personality traits of passion, robust health, short tempered temperament, stubborn, popular, fun loving and lead a life full of enthusiasm. They also love to indulge in healthy gossip and also make good gamblers.

You can activate Good Luck on this day by burning red candles anointed with “Fast Luck” oil to activate the goodness of the New Year and the first New Moon of 2012.

 

The first of two Prosperity Experiments for 2012 is about one week away, starting on January 23, 2012 on the New Moon and the day of the Lunar or Chinese New Year.

What is the Prosperity Experiment?

The Prosperity Experiment, now in our 5th year, is a month long candle burning service to attract more abundance and prosperity in your life for 2012. This candle burning service of green money candles, collectively with others, is a day-by-day walk to rethink how you view money and to bring you closer in meditation to attract more money. You receive daily inspirational e-mails with a story and a daily meditation for you to ponder each day, plus other goodies that you receive in the mail. There are free down-loadable e-books from some of the most successful power speakers and spiritual leaders who have become a living example of prosperous living.

To read more about the Prosperity Experiment, click here to go to article

Don’t delay ordering your participation in the Prosperity Experiment now and get ready for abundant living!

We have begun this Prosperity Experiment. Please look for announcements in June for July’s participation in the Prosperity Experiment.

Free Candle Spells welcomes a new advertiser to the site and I thought it would be a great idea to get to know Coventry Candles. Please read, enjoy and consider the magickal candles from Coventry Creations! – J

Coventry Creations started the way all ventures begin, as a vision. Jacki Smith wanted to make a difference. It started with her own life, but she rapidly saw that others were struggling just like her and she set herself to find an answer. She found that we all want, love, money and to do it our way. So she let her vision become a business that offered tools that would help people create their own reality.

In 1992, Jacki created her first Blessed Herbal Candles. She blended skills from her diverse interests in computer graphics, poetry, Wiccan studies and herbalism and when she picked up a book on how to make candles her path was clear. The rest, they say is history, but oops, herstory.

Within a years’ time Jacki’s vision out grew the cozy little basement. She moved the whole operation to a suite of spaces in a neighborhood business district in Detroit. Three incarnations later, the 2011 Coventry Creations is currently residing in Ferndale Michigan enjoying a small light industrial neighborhood.

2012 will be Coventry Creations 20 year anniversary and combined with Jacki’s book release, Coventry Magic, Candles, Herbs and Oils, it will be a year of celebration. Coventry has a presence on the internet, expanded to markets outside the New Age and has done some automating within their walls to better serve their customers. Yes the candles are still made by hand and when the moon is right, that will never change.

Visit their site at www.coventrycreations.com and view and purchase some of the wonderfully fragranced magickal candles that Coventry Creations has to offer.