Your Charm for Today
Today’s Meaning:
The hand indicates you will need to extend effort to protect this aspect from outside influences. The devices attached indicate you will need tools to be successful in your protection.
General Description:
The use of a representation of the Hand as a talisman can be traced back to at least 800 years B.C., when it was used as a charm against enchantment. Many varieties of the Hand exist; in some the elaboration is very marked, each devise represents some particular charm. Life size models of these Hands were supposed to guard the house against all the influences of magic and evil, and smaller replicas protected their wearers from every description of harm. The extended thumb and first two fingers, the third and fourth fingers closed, is the position still assumed during the benediction in some Christian Churches of today.
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And there is the Fatima’s Hand
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Very true and some of the artwork is absolutely beautiful. But these charms are taken from various Traditions or Religions. In this hand’s case it used to be called the Fig Hand and the name has since been changed. The use of this Hand as a talisman can be traced back to at least 800 years B.C., when it was used as a charm against enchantment. Life size models of these Hands were supposed to guard the house against all the influences of magic and evil, and smaller replicas protected their wearers from every description of harm. The extended thumb and first two fingers, the third and fourth fingers closed, is the position still assumed during the benediction in some Christian Churches of today. It is amazing back to the “if we were/are so bad, then why do they continuously steal from us?”
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