08/13/2021
Happy Friday the 13th!
🔮Happy Friday The 13th🔮
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13! Friday the 13th being associated with "bad luck" and "evil" is one of the most recognized superstitions in western culture and why just about every major office building and hotel omits adding a "13th floor" from their directory. Where does a fear of Friday the 13th come from in the first place?
It's difficult to pin down the origins and evolution of a superstition, but lots of it has to do with the root of all backwards, Woman suppressing/shaming/ and erasure of Goddess divinity. Stuart Vyse, a professor of psychology at Connecticut College in New London, said societies fear of Friday the 13th may be rooted in religious beliefs surrounding the 13th guest at the Last Supper... Judas, the apostle said to have betrayed Jesus and the crucifixion of Jesus on a Friday, which was known as hangman's day. 🤷🏽♀️ The combination of those factors produced a "sort of double whammy of 13 falling on an already nervous day," Vyse said.
However, author Donna Henes offers us a more insightful look she says: “Ironically, and in definite defiance of the laws of probability, the 13th day of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week. The precisely aligned pattern of our calendar days, weeks and months repeats itself exactly every 400 years. In that 400-year period there are 688 Friday the 13th’s! “ she says that up until the patriarchal revolution, both Fridays and 13s were held in the very highest esteem. “Both the day and the number were associated with the Great Goddesses, and therefore, regarded as the sacred essence of luck and good fortune.
Thirteen is certainly the most essentially female number — the average number of menstrual cycles in a year. The approximate number, too, of annual cycles of the moon. When Chinese women make offerings of moon cakes, there are sure to be 13 on the platter. Thirteen is the number of blood, fertility, and lunar potency. 13 is the lucky number of the Great Goddess✨