Bedoba in Georgia or Destiny Day
Bedoba in Georgia or Destiny Day is held on January 2. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. 
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The second day of January is known as ‘Bedoba’ – and no, that doesn’t mean that we spend the whole day in bed. While that sounds like a great way to spend a cold winter’s day during a global pandemic, it’s completely the opposite. Bedoba is just one component in the bonanza of celebrations for the New Year in Georgia.
Sliding back to a week or so before Bedoba: the typical Western Christmas isn’t much of a thing in Georgia at all. As an Orthodox nation, Georgia follows the Julian calendar which means that the Georgian Christmas is observed on 7 January. Bedoba translates into ‘luck’ and has come to mean ‘Destiny Day’ or ‘Day of Fate.’ Georgians believe that however you choose to spend Bedoba will determine the course that your New Year will follow.
The best thing about having Bedoba as the second day of January is that we got to take the first day of the New Year to sleep off the revelry of the 31st.
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