Regardless of whether you’re a superstitious individual or not, moving into a new house is a time when you will naturally want some good luck on your side to ensure everything goes smoothly.
Moving house is stressful enough without worrying about something going wrong before the big move.
That said, practising good luck rituals can help ease both your mind and help to get your new home ready ahead of the big day.
Good luck rituals before moving in a new house include:
- Burning sage to cleanse the space
- Ringing a bell
- Checking the weather forecast and avoiding moving house on a rainy day
- Lighting candles around the home
- Salt and bread
1. Burning Sage To Cleanse The Space
The first good luck ritual before moving into a new house is burning sage.
Sage is considered a ‘sacred plant’ by both First Nations and Native Americans, and burning sage has been used to clear negative energy for thousands of years.
Additionally, research has shown that burning sage ‘can clear up to 94 percent of airborne bacteria in a space and disinfect the air’.
As such, burning sage is the perfect ritual to purify the air in your house, in turn ridding your environment of bad energy as well as bacteria to ensure that your new home is ready for your family to move into.
Sage is considered a ‘sacred plant’ by both First Nations and Native Americans, and burning sage has been used to clear negative energy for thousands of years.
2. Ringing A Bell
Another good luck ritual to consider before moving home is ringing a bell. This is a big ritual amongst those who follow the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui.
Bells are known to ‘remov[e] the negative energy and attract positive chi into the space’, in turn helping to ensure that your new home is a positive place.
Ringing a bell, then, has healing properties as well as the potential to transform your new home into the perfect, safe space.
3. Checking The Weather Forecast & Avoiding Moving House On A Rainy Day
This might sound like a simple one, but checking the weather forecast and avoiding moving house on a rainy day is another good luck ritual to bear in mind.
Not only is moving house in the rain a hassle as your belongings can get wet, but it is also considered to be bad luck by many.
While picking a sunny day might be difficult, particularly as the weather is often unpredictable and rainy in the UK during the winter, the weather forecast can help you to get a better idea of whether a particular day is a good one to move.
To discover more tips on how to move house during winter, be sure to read this blog.
Moving house when it is raining is considered bad luck by many.
4. Lighting Candles Around The Home
Lighting candles is another good luck ritual that is carried out by many cultures worldwide.
Burning candles not only makes your new home feel cosier, but lighting them also has a much deeper meaning in various cultures. It is believed that lighting candles around the home casts out darkness, helping to bring light to the home and banish dark energy.
In turn, this helps to purify your new home, helping to keep the energy light and safe.
In addition to this, scented candles also give your new home a lovely smell. There are thousands of scents to choose from to make the new house your own and to get rid of any unwanted smells left by the previous owners.
5. Salt & Bread
Last, but not least, bringing salt and bread to your new home is another good luck ritual to consider.
While it might sound strange, bringing salt and bread into your kitchen is a common housewarming tradition in many European cultures and is known to be a symbol for hospitality.
While the bread represents never going hungry, the salt is meant to represent your life always having flavour.
As such, this not only makes a great housewarming gift for someone you know moving house, but is symbolically a great good luck ritual to carry out yourself.
Bringing salt and bread into your kitchen is a common housewarming tradition in many European cultures and is known to be a symbol for hospitality.
Hopefully this article has given you a better understanding of some good luck rituals you can carry out before moving into your new home.
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Written by Jemima Thomas for Falconer Removals & Storage.
