Four Leaf cLover Good Luck Charms

Monday, January 14, 2013

Lucky Four-Leaf Clover Pendant Necklace - Antique Bronze / Medium

22.00 USD, by sarahspy

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Hand Crochet Lariat Scarf Necklace Scarflette / Four Leaf Clover / Lucky Charm

19.00 USD, by KnitAndWedding

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

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Friday, November 2, 2012

12 Good Luck Charm for Gambling

Throughout human history, many objects have been cast as luck charms. Many different cultures have their own symbols of luck. The most powerful good luck charms are those that are easiest to find and recognize. There are many symbols that American consider to be luck charms. Here are the twelve most common good luck charm symbols.

Four Leaf Clover - One leaf is for FAITH...The second for HOPE... The third for LOVE... And the fourth for LUCK! Four leaf clover is very hard to find, and is consider to be very lucky to find one.
A rabbit's foot - Rabbit is know as a symbol of fertility, which means fast reproduction, which means getting lucky!
Horseshoe - The elements of fire and iron used to create a horse shoes were thought to have special powers. The orientation is argumentative, but no matter which way you hang the horseshoe, good fortune will come.
A Wishbone - A thanksgiving tradition. After the wishbone breaks, the person with the bigger piece will have their wish granted.
Shooting star - You can make a wish. The wish will be granted, but it must be made prior the disappearance of the sprinkles.
Lucky Penny- It must be a head side up penny. The rhyming verse: "Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck."
A Rainbow - There is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Acorn - a symbol of luck, prosperity, youthfulness and power.
Keys - three keys worn together symbolize the unlocking of the doors to health, wealth and love. They represent the knowledge and wisdom of life.
Dream catcher - from Native American culture, are considered lucky, because they catch the negative images from dreams.
Number 7 - The number of days in a week.
Lady Bugs- Ladybugs eat harmful crop pests. It is a beneficial insect, therefore is considered to be lucky by farmers.

"Good Luck is when Preparation meets Opportunity". As good luck is always around us - be ready.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Four Leaf Clover as a Symbol of Gay Rights in Uruguay

I’m sipping iced coffee at a Brooklyn café with Diego Palma, a 27-year-old Uruguay native living in New York. On the other side of the hemisphere, an open letter he wrote last week has shaken up the Uruguayan establishment and helped usher in the four-leaf clover as a new symbol of diversity and equality. Move over pink triangle and rainbow flag, you have company.
It started Thursday when Mercedes Rovira, the head of Uruguay’s top university, Universidad de Montevideo, told the Busqueda newspaper that homosexuality is "an anomaly," like a four-leaf clover, and sexual orientation "obviously plays" a part in hiring decisions at the school.
Predictably, an explosion of outrage followed on social media while Palma, a former student and teacher at the university, published his views in an open letter to Rovira. He sent it out through the blogsphere, Twitter and Facebook, and it quickly went viral.
"If like you said, homosexuality is like 'finding a four-leaf clover,' he wrote, "the Universidad de Montevideo has had, does have and will always have lots of luck…The next time you walk down the halls of the university you now lead, take a look around and you will find students, professors and staff that are offended by your comments."
The letter racked up 7,000 views in two days (sizable for a country with a smaller population than Los Angeles). It was published in the top newspapers, and was read on every Uruguayan evening news broadcast.
By Saturday, Rovira accepted the university’s request for her resignation.
"I didn’t know it was going to get this big," Palma says. "When people speak their mind—at the same time—I think the message becomes more powerful."
Soon people hopped offline and took to the streets. On Friday a crowd of some 300 people, gay and straight, marched to the university carrying four-leaf clovers, kissing, and dancing to Lady Gaga to protest the comments. A bunch more changed their Facebook profile picture to a four-leaf clover.
There are now talks of using the clover as the logo for the new marriage equality law that’s working its way through Uruguay’s parliament, news sites report. "I think it's gonna stick," Palma says. (Same-sex unions are allowed in the country, but the government is expected to vote on the full equality law next month.)
As the most secular South American country, Uruguay has a history of being forward-thinking. It was the first to legalize divorce and allow women the right to vote, and has made headlines recently for considering legalizing marijuana sales. But Universidad de Montevideo is affiliated with the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei, and though the institution's framework stipulates nondiscrimination and encourages free thinking, many of its staff live strictly by the values of the church.
At the request of the Ministry of Education (the education arm of the Uruguayan government), the university condemned the offensive remarks, and Rovira herself wrote a letter back to Palma, denying that sexual preference plays a role in hiring decisions, but admitting "today I understand it was not appropriate to speak of anomaly."
But if it's true that being gay hampers your chance of being hired, the practice isn't just prejudiced; it's illegal. The former dean went to court Wednesday to explain the remarks, and an investigation is underway to see if discriminatory hiring practices are widespread at the university, Busqueda reports.
Meanwhile, Palma's inbox has been flooded over the last week with hundreds of emails and comments. He sent me one of his favorites:
I am 14 years old and after reading your letter I decided to get in touch with you. Honestly, I have never been in favor of homosexuality but I feel great respect for you now. I think we need more four-leaf clovers like you. I hope more people support your letter because it is worth spreading.
The fast and overwhelmingly positive public response we saw last week is encouraging, Palma says—hopefully, it'll make the road easier for future equality laws.
"I saw this as opportunity to say, ok, I'm not gonna stay silent this time. And also, because I feel it's our responsibility as young people—a new generation—to make the change happen," he says. "I think in the future we're gonna see the pace of change, because of social media, increase. I think we’re seeing it already."
(The full letter is on his blog in Spanish or here in English.)
Photo via (cc) Flickr user AlexisLouise