Good luck symbols permeate our culture and society and can be found everywhere form jewellery to home decorations. Every culture across the globe has its own good luck symbols and lucky charms born out of its cultural perspectives, geography, natural surroundings and history. From the lucky four-leaf clovers, to horseshoes and dreamcatchers, various everyday items are believed to bring in good fortune, wealth and lucky events. Beside all this power, lucky charms, emblems and rituals are believed to ward off evil by stopping or removing negative energy. Whether you believe in them or not, you definitely come across them daily. Want to know what they mean?

What you can read about in this Good Luck Symbols post :

• The Lucky Symbols Short Background
• What is a Lucky Charm?
• List of the Most Popular Good Luck Symbols From Around the World
• Good Luck Symbols and Their Meanings and Powers
• Conclusions

The Lucky Symbols Background

The words luck and lucky seem very simple expressions but they mean a whole different thing to each and every one of us. Luck is the phenomenon that has had people debating for many years. Lucky symbols are surrounding us everywhere and we all have people in our circles doing strange rituals for bringing in luck and for sure you have wondered sometimes whether any of this is sensible? But have you ever wondered what luck really is?

What is Luck?

Fortunate coincidences, being at the right time at the right place, meeting just the right person is usually unlikely and when it happens it is hard to explain. The complexity of events and details involved in it is so dense that instead of clarifying links and logical sequences we just cover this unexplainable but fortunate event with an umbrella word : Luck.

In everyday language when we are talking about being lucky we are usually referring to good luck. Luck in this sense denotes anything that one gets by “chance and the good turn of events”, therefore the feeling of being fortunate, being special and selected is always associated with good luck.

In general the term luck refers to a phenomenon that can either describe good luck or bad luck. In this sense luck is the term used for unlikely events, where the percentage for the possibility of something happening is really low. So it can happen, but there is really little chance for it. In this sense we talk about good luck when something fortunate comes about and bad luck when something not so desired happens.

Superstitions vs Making Your Own Luck

Luck is probability taken personally.

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Some believe that luck is a natural phenomenon, much like the rain that you cannot really control and it just happens to you. They believe that luck is a mysterious, unpredictable circumstance that affects your life by chance. Some others believe luck is a birthright and some people are just born under lucky stars.

Others however, believe that you can have some control over your luck and influence it with items you own and have in your house, car, purse or items you wear like bracelets and jewellery, etc. Others go even further and believe that luck is created and you create your own luck with your thoughts, focus and positive mindset. Luck in this context is not purely random and good fortune can be influenced. One can do things to influence the probability of good things happening.

What is the truth about luck? Can good luck be influenced by lucky charms? Can the bad luck be taken away? These questions we have all asked at certain moments in our life and these questions are debated by academics, sports people, gamblers, scientists and spiritual leaders for centuries.

What is a Lucky Charm?

Good luck charm can be any object believed by its owner to bring good fortune, money, health and love. Some good luck symbols are used to protect the owner form bad things happening, evil eyes, losses and diseases. Behind every good luck charm there is a superstition, born of cultural perspectives and rooted in history. Good luck charms range from acorns, to horseshoes, dreamcatchers to four leaf clovers. What people believe that brings luck can vary from culture to culture and almost any object can be used as a talisman, an amulet to bring good luck in their owners life.

Lucky charms come in many forms using as a symbol of luck an objects, numbers, plants and animals. Regardless what exactly your choice of lucky charm is it can have a positive influence on your attitude. Most of them are funny , cute and positive.

List of the Most Popular Good Luck Symbols From Around the World

Good Luck Symbols and Their Meanings and Powers

Lucky Four-Leaf Clover Charms

The four leaf clover is a well known luck symbol in many cultures all around the world. The four-leaf clover is a rare variant of of the common Trifolium, the three-leaf clover. 4 leaf clovers became the symbol of luck most probably because they were very rare to find. There was an actual research conducted on how rare four leaf clovers are and the results were surprising. They are like one in 10000. So it is understandable that these little plants were attributed with magical powers and thought to bring good luck to the finder. It is also common to believe that each leaf represents a different attribute: Faith, love, hope, and, of course, luck. The four leaf clover is also considered a powerful symbol for bringing money.

The gift of four-leaf clover contains your good wishes and blessings. Four-leaf clover jewelry is a good choice for family members, loved ones and friends.

The bottom line

Luck probably takes a lot more than ladybugs, clovers and pennies but using lucky charms can’t hurt either. They are fun but they don’t work unless you do. The question of what luck really is and how it woks, will probably keep people, academics, scientist and spiritual seekers debating for a good many years to come, but fortunately you can define luck for yourself. Being lucky is a state of being and and even if things are not 100% under our control, there is room for luck and we can all do a lot to create that good feeling state of being with our attitudes and choices.

Resources

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Sources & ideas for further reading: The Four Faces of Luck , 14 Lucky Charms