Rosary Direction of Prayer

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There’s no way to answer this until you give us a referent for the “front” of the Rosary.
 
It probably depends upon handedness. I’m left-handed,so I proceed clockwise. But, even when you do not have the beads handy, you still have10 digits on your hands.
 
Every rosary I’ve ever owned the crucifix sits in a plane 90° from the plane of the decade beads, so there is neither clockwise nor counterclockwise.
 
Decades plane 90° from field of view, crucifix facing:
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Decades plane facing field of view, crucifix 90°:
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Neither of my rosaries hang like that.

That’s interesting you’ve found something to break my paradigm, though 😃
 
Where are you getting your rosaries!? I’ve yet to find one that lays flat and believe me I’ve been lookin!

Anyway, I pray clockwise no matter which way the crucifix or clasp is facing (however the decade’s plane is facing me I pray clockwise relative to that). I hold the rosary in my left hand habitually so my dominant hand is free to do other things (sign of the cross, breast striking, etc.)
 
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Rugged Rosaries, and then my cheap freebie from my church- they both lay flat.
 
I’m right-handed but use my left hand for praying the Rosary, mainly because usually I pray the Rosary while driving. My wife says that is weird!
 
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