Author: Kalai Selvi Arivalagan

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Predict Your Future

Cowrie shells apart from being used as pebbles by little girls or boys, they are also used as dice in the snake and ladder game. I remember playing pallanguzhi with the cowrie shells when I was a little girl. The cowrie shells are available in plenty in the sea shore shops and they are also cheap to get. Cowrie shells are beautiful and soft to touch.

Cowrie shells are used in traditional astrology in South India to predict the future. The traditional astrologers use six cowrie shells. The cowrie shells are held locked inside the right palm of the astrologer. The astrologer then shakes the hand well and throws the cowrie shells on the ground. The astrologer then counts the number of cowrie shells that are turned upside.

The prediction by cowrie shells is known for accuracy. In traditional astrology, each number depicts the power of a particular planet. If it is one, it is sun and if it is two, it is moon and so on. Common people believe this and always turn to this prediction to understand what is store in for them. Even in temples, the priests use the cowrie shells to know if the God at that particular temple gives the permission to move ahead with the proposed plans such as festivals or any other function at the temple.

I remember during the days when our family went through the most difficult period with problems cropping up from every where, my mother use to go the traditional astrologer to know the prediction. Most of the times, the prediction turned out to be true. When my father went away from home due to mental depression, the cowrie shells helped us to know about his whereabouts and why it happened so.

The cowrie shells prediction is powerful and it is believed that there must be certain interval of time between two predictions. I have also seen instances when the astrologer could not predict with the cowrie shells. The astrologer always restricts the number of throws of the cowrie shells also. If subsequent three throws of the cowrie shells failed to give the clue for the prediction, the astrologer stops to throw the cowrie shells. It is done on a later date after doing some poojas to the local deity.

What are Cowrie Shells?

It is really surprising to know that cowrie shells were once used as money for trading. After barter system transacation of money in the form of cowrie shells prevailed. People used cowrie shells to get their provisions or whatever they wanted to purchase.

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