Lucky Charms

Good luck is something people from all cultures long for, and amulets, talismans, symbols and lucky charms remain guardians and triggers of great fortune. The question that comes to one’s mind is whether such items do work in the direction the wearer wants them. Some objects have the capacity to store and emit energy, whether positive and negative depending on their nature, and scientific tests have actually been run to analyze the amount of energy specific to living organisms and objects. There are two sources of energy for lucky charms, in general: personal belief and sacred consecration. Here is the working mechanism explained.

Lucky charms receive a superior amount of energy granted by believers: people who are convinced that a horseshoe symbol will bring them luck transfer the positive energy of their belief onto the object. Then, if the lucky charms have been exposed to a form of sacred service, a religious ritual that involves blessings and prayers, then part of the beauty and the subtlety of the divine energy from the ritual will pass onto the charms as such. Studies actually indicate that around 30% of those who wear lucky charms and believe in them, claim to have improved their good fortune.

Furthermore, lucky charms do not work on their own, as the wearer has to take a proactive approach to all life aspects. Actions come first, and if they contradict the rule of positive thinking and harmonious feeling, then, the disturbance becomes manifest in the inefficiency of the lucky charms. Depending on the culture, various elements and symbols have been attributed a substantial role in the guarding of our good fortunes: the horseshoe, the Rudraksh, lockets, the swastika, the om symbol and several others. Mention must be made that what works as a good luck charm in one culture may be interpreted otherwise in a different one.

The most relevant example of lucky charms that are specific to one culture only is the swastika. According to Indian symbolism, the swastika is the sign of the Hindu God of good fortune, Ganesh, and it is different in representation from the Nazi Swastika by the angle at which it is placed. Many people are not familiar with this very elementary difference and will often mistake the two symbols. Even so, in Western cultures, the swastika remains a dreaded symbol for one of the darkest moments in the history of mankind. Though not as poignant as this example, other lucky charms from one culture remain irrelevant for another.