Signs and customs when moving to a new apartment or house

There are a huge number of signs and superstitions regarding moving into a new home. People came up with certain rituals and beliefs for a reason. All actions and interpretations are aimed at ensuring that the energy in the new house or apartment is positive, and that life in the room is filled with joy and carefree happiness. Therefore, it is worth understanding what signs exist when moving into a new house.

Housewarming is an important stage in people's lives, so it is important to do everything right

Actions before moving

Before you move into a new apartment, you should purchase it. To make your home purchase successful, follow these guidelines:

• start searching for suitable living space during the waxing moon;
• It is best to plan relocation for September 14 (Semyonov Day);
• Until the final confirmation of the transaction, do not tell anyone about the upcoming purchase or sale. Envious people and dark forces will disrupt your plans and prevent you from fulfilling your plans.

Preparatory stage

Moving to another apartment begins with packing. You need to pack your belongings, but the main thing is to free the room from personal energy. This will help you “migrate” to a new living space with a light heart.

When things are sorted, folded and taken out of the apartment, clean the apartment. Brush away cobwebs, wash windows and floors. Don't forget to polish the mirrors. With such actions you will clear the house of your presence and open the way to a new life.

To ensure that not a single item goes missing when moving to a new apartment, draw crosses on the boxes. This will protect against thieves.

Ritual of farewell to old housing

You need to part with your previous home correctly, so that it lets the former owners go “in peace.” Popular superstitions advise doing it this way:

• Before you finally leave your old home, thank it, even if you had to go through difficult times here or lose someone close to you. Stand with your back to the door, bow to the house three times from the waist.
• Take an empty bag or travel bag. Place pastries in it. Invite the brownie to come with you.
• When leaving the house, scatter change on the floor. Take some of the coins with you, leave some of them to share your prosperity with those who will live here after you. Fate will thank you for your generosity.
• Finally, walk around the rooms with a lit church candle in your hand.

This ritual will help protect against curses that new owners sometimes send to the previous owners of the apartment. The cause of dissatisfaction is economic troubles - a leaking roof, a non-working faucet and other household problems.

Ceremony for moving in

Next, you need to carry out the ceremony of moving into a new home. The text must be learned by heart. Sight reading is prohibited. Violation entails the opposite consequences of what is written in the spell:

“I light a candle in my new home, I want to wish happiness to the House. I leave a green bouquet on the table, I wish prosperity in our family. The amulet on the wall is already nailed, it will protect us from the evil eye and damage. We want to live in peace and tranquility, without foreign spirits, enemies and malice. Amen".

While the prayer is being read by one person, the other must do what the text says. “I light a candle” - you need to light a candle that has been prepared in advance, placing it on the windowsill in the kitchen, “I leave a green bouquet on the table” - put a sprig of juniper on the kitchen table, “the amulet is already nailed to the wall” - you don’t need to do anything here, so how it was hanged in advance, the only thing is that during these words you need to cross the icon or amulet.

After this, you need to take a new broom and sweep the floor from the entrance to the kitchen to the window. Place it in the corner of the kitchen, and next to it place the old one brought from your previous home. It is believed that a broom is the brownie’s transport, so the old broom should stand next to the new one for at least 3 weeks, until the brownie gets used to the new one. Divide the juniper into as many parts as there are rooms in the apartment, including a bathroom, balcony, hallway. Leave a piece of juniper in the corner of each room. During the ceremony, none of those who entered the apartment leaves it until the ceremony is completed. Next, sweep away the salt with a new broom in front of the entrance to the home and wash it under running water.

Best days to move

As the signs teach, when moving, you need to choose the time of eviction wisely. Schedule such an event on the second or sixth day of the week. Moving is also allowed on Thursday, but minor troubles cannot be ruled out. Don't be afraid, these problems will not affect how life will turn out in your new place.

Unfavorable days for housewarming:

• Monday. Even everyday activities on such days are difficult, and it is even more dangerous to move into another apartment.
• Wednesday. She is full of deceit, so she is not suitable for any endeavor.
• Friday. On this day, things slow down.
• Sunday is for rest and serving God. Housewarming means fuss, troubles, home arrangement. It is better to plan such an event for another time.

Folk rituals when entering a new home

Strict signs for housewarming are related to how to move into the house. To make life easy, happy, and comfortable in your new apartment, perform the following rituals before moving in:

1. Open the door and let the cat in so that she will be the first to cross the threshold of the house and find a suitable place for the brownie. This is an ancient belief. Such an animal has nine lives. The cat will collect negativity that threatens the person, but will not suffer from it itself. It is advisable for the cat to spend the night alone in the house. In the morning, evaluate her behavior. When she is calm, the home is “clean.” If the animal is scared and tries to leave the apartment as quickly as possible, then dark forces are present.
2. When the cat goes around and sniffs the corners in the apartment, go into the corridor, open the suitcase in which the brownie moved. Get some goodies. Say the spell: “The master is the brownie! This is your new home. Here you can live and live with us. For happiness, for prosperity and joy! You live here, keep order in the house, help us!”
3. Folk omens teach: when moving, it is forbidden to bring a cat into the room, holding it in your arms, or push it if it is stubborn. To ensure that your pet willingly completes its intended mission, throw something edible ahead.
4. The eldest member of the family enters first, followed by the rest, and children bring up the rear. If there is a small child in the family, let him hide three coins under the threshold. The baby will grow up, and the family’s income will increase with him.
5. You cannot enter an uninhabited apartment empty-handed. You need to bring in a living plant planted in a pot. They hold him at arm's length. The meaning of this housewarming superstition is that the flower will take on the energy of destruction, disease, and poverty. Therefore, after a week the plant is thrown away. They do not leave him in the home. Even better is to add a bunch of wormwood. This herb will collect negative energy.
6. After that, start cleaning your home. Prepare two unused brooms in advance. Be the first to carefully sweep away any rubbish that may have been left behind by previous residents. Place the second broom next to the threshold, pointing the broom upward. Let him remain in this position for three days. Keep it for yourself to clean the house.
7. Carefully examine your new home, especially the corners, to ensure there are no metal coins, old dolls, or needles. These things are used to cause damage. If you find such objects, remove them from the house without touching them with your hands.
8. Fill a bucket with water, add half a glass of holy water. Wash the floor. Throw away the equipment that was used for the first cleaning.

When moving to a new home, think only about the good. Walk carefully, do not catch on the threshold.

Cleaning the apartment with salt

Salt is a universal magical accessory. It has been used in witchcraft rituals since ancient times. The use of salt in cleansing rituals is due to the fact that it is able to absorb all negativity.

What is needed for the ritual

For the ritual you will need:

• a handful of coarse salt.

Use regular table salt from the store. You can use salt blessed for Easter or Epiphany.

How to perform a ritual

The ritual is easy to perform yourself at home.

• Place the salt in small plates or pots and place it in all corners of the house.
• Leave the plates with salt for seven days.
• After the expiration date, pour all the salt into one bag.
• Bury the bag of salt outside, away from your home.

The salt used in the ritual should never be eaten. Otherwise, you will take away all the negativity that she has absorbed.

How to make friends with a brownie

When moving to a new apartment, the head of the family comes in with bread and salt and carries an icon in his other hand. If people have already lived in it before, then appease the brownie, win him over - give him a plate of milk at night, on Thursday - offer him a saucer of porridge. Give him sweets, always thank him and show him respect.

One of the most important rituals that must be performed when moving to a new house from an old one is relocating your brownie. These creatures are known to love everything bright and sweet. Prepare a treat for him, put it at the bottom of an empty suitcase and invite the home defender to eat it.

If everything went well in the previous house, then be sure to take the brownie into a new home. To make him agree to move, you can use another ritual:

1. Take your boot from your left foot.
2. Place it in the middle of the largest room.
3. Stand nearby and say: “Grandfather Brownie, come with me to keep order in the house and help the master and hostess.”
4. Leave the room for 10-15 minutes.
5. Place the boot in your bag. Take it to your new apartment and also place it in the center of the living room.
6. Say: “Grandfather, we’ve arrived. Get settled in, and when evening comes, come and drink some milk.”
7. Go to another room.
8. Place a bowl of milk there.
9. The brownie will get used to it and stay with you.

Consecration of the home and celebration

If you bought an apartment in a new building and no one has lived in it yet, then wet cleaning is enough to clean it. Another thing is secondary housing. It stores the energy of former inhabitants.

Signs that suggest that something is wrong in the house and needs to be consecrated:

• family members are tormented by nightmares;
• in an apartment a person is overcome by anxiety, fear, he does not feel protected;
• rustling and footsteps are heard in empty rooms;
• pets show anxiety or strange aggression;
• houseplants withered.

To consecrate a new apartment or house, it is advisable to call a priest. If this is not possible, then you need to do the ceremony yourself. With a lit candle in your hands, walk around the house clockwise, starting from the entrance threshold. Stop near corners, windows and doorways and “draw” a cross with a candle (these are places where negative energy accumulates). During the ritual, read “Our Father.”

You can cleanse rooms of filth with the help of holy water. To do this, the man or the oldest person in the family must go around each room, moving from right to left. All walls and corners should be sprinkled with water blessed in the church. This should be done not with your hand, but with fresh or dried grass (preferably collected for Trinity).

When the household members enter the room, according to tradition, the housewife pours blessed salt at the threshold, under the windows, along the walls, and in the corners. So that this will help protect the house, she reads a prayer: “There will be no damage in this house, no evil or evil will happen. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen".

Women are prohibited from performing ceremonies to consecrate their homes during menstrual periods. It is better to clean the apartment on Tuesday or Saturday in the morning.

You should not only move properly, but also celebrate this event. Guests are invited on the same day of check-in. Treats are prepared in advance. The menu includes a lot of sweets. Homemade baked goods are always placed on the table.

A simple ritual of cleansing an apartment with holy water

The ceremony can be performed immediately after moving. It does not require special magical knowledge or skills. The ritual will forever rid the new home of the negative energy that remains from the old owners.

What is needed for the ritual

To perform the cleansing ritual you will need:

• church candle;
• Holy water.

Buy a candle at the temple. It must be new

How to perform a ritual

Performing the ritual is very simple. Follow the step by step description.

1. Sprinkle water three times in the corners of all rooms.
2. Light a church candle.
3. Walk around all rooms three times with a candle.

Before carrying out the cleansing ritual, clean your apartment well.

What to give for housewarming

To make life in a new place fun, peaceful and satisfying, the move is celebrated among relatives and good friends. It is not customary to come to such an event empty-handed. Folk signs and customs will tell you what to give to friends for housewarming.

According to beliefs, on this occasion you need to give something from household items - a bread box, containers for bulk products, bed linen, dishes, kitchen utensils (except forks and knives), towels, a tablecloth, a cutting board and other household utensils.

Close relatives can give an expensive gift - textiles, household appliances, curtains, furniture. New residents are given something that will be useful in the house and will be used by the whole family.

At housewarmings, they present not only practical gifts, but also items to create comfort and interior decoration - vases, paintings, tapestry, figurines. Photo albums and photo frames are suitable.

Upon entering the house, each guest must throw coins over the threshold. The owners walk on them for three days, then collect them and hide them away from prying eyes.

Actions after the ceremony

Now you can bring furniture and other kitchen utensils into the kitchen. When the kitchen is full and ready for cooking, the housewife prepares pies or bread from dough prepared in the old house. Prepare porridge from cereals. Thus, prosperity and prosperity are invited into the house. When the bread is ready, place two pieces on a plate for the brownie. One for the brownie that was brought, the other for the one that the former owners might have left behind.

You need to say the following:

“Brownie of this house, I’m sorry, but you have to leave. You don’t live here anymore, you’ll find new housing. I ask you not to be offended, but you can’t stay here. I wish you good luck, accept this as a gift and goodbye. Amen".

When all the food is ready, everyone involved in the move stops what they are doing and goes to the table.

Prohibited gifts

When choosing a gift, it is better to study the signs, because when moving to another house, giving some things is strictly prohibited. This will offend the new residents, ruin their entire holiday and leave an imprint on their future lives.

Not given as a housewarming gift:

• Money. Banknotes in an envelope are the worst gift. It will lead to the house being robbed or the apartment owners experiencing financial problems.
• Mirror. This is for illness.
• Wallet. Such a gift will “take away” the monetary wealth of the apartment’s inhabitants.
• Pearl products. This stone brings tears.
• Watch. Signs advise when moving to a new apartment to refrain from giving alarm clocks, wrist, table, or wall clocks, otherwise the owners of the house risk facing old age alone.

Signs

If children are walking around the future house, for a childless family, this means a new addition. The folk method of letting a cat in the day before moving in says: if the animal behaves wildly, then there are evil spirits in the house, if it is calm, then there is no otherworldly force here. On the first day of moving in, seeing a neighbor's man means that the family will be friends with the neighbors, if a woman, it means they will gossip behind their back.

Bad weather on the day of check-in means that there will be minor problems with the apartment of various kinds. Signs say that if there is a knock on the door, there will be a quiet life, and if the doorbell is rung, then there will be no escape from the neighbors - they will be frequent guests of this house. However, you shouldn’t take signs to heart, and also don’t worry about whether the move happened correctly. The main thing is that your thoughts are selfless and your intentions are sincere. And in case of any misunderstandings, if you believe in omens, you can always adopt effective rituals. The main thing is to follow all the rules.

How to avoid the consequences predicted in signs

There are many signs regarding moving. If you didn’t manage to follow all the traditions exactly, don’t panic or get upset. Perform at least one of the rituals. It is allowed to consecrate a home at any time.

The key to happiness in a new home is the attitude with which you start life in another place. Think about the beautiful, tune in to positive changes, and happiness will settle in your apartment forever.

At all times, acquiring your own roof over your head has been an exceptional event, which is why so many beliefs accompany the process of moving. Folk traditions did not arise out of nowhere. There is a special meaning hidden in their performance - they build confidence in the well-being of life in a new place, so it is better to observe such rituals.