This friday is Friday the 13th…
{Thirteen is the number of blood, fertility, and lunar potency}
And
It is the full moon.
How this day unfolds for you,
the guidance it brings,
the doors ot opens
is much determined by the perspective and the energy you meet it with.

To me Friday the 13th is magical, and full of unlimited potential to connect, access and actualize. 
In the more ancient times when the great goddess reigned, 13 was the luckiest number… the goddess number…
Connecting us to the energy of the goddess as well as the moon. 
It was (is) associated with life force, fertility, and abundance.

So, I find it fascinating that of all things, fear of the number 13 is the most prevalent superstition in the Western world. 
The name for it: triskaidekaphobia.

{UNlucky}
The fear of 13 can be traced back to a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.
Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. A bad, unlucky day.

As well, 
Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Super.
In ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.

The number 13 and Friday – heavily charged with guilt, pain and death in the Judeo – Christian tradition. 
It was on a Friday that Eve served the forbidden fruit. 
Friday was the day that Adam was expelled from Paradise, the day he repented, the day he died and the day he was cremated.
And it was on a Friday – “Good Friday”, that Christ was killed on the cross.

So
Friday, 
The day of original sin, 
The day Jesus died, 
The day of public hangings…
In combination with 13, 
The number of steps on a gallows, 
The number of coils of rope in a hangman’s noose, 
The number of the Death card in the tarot deck, 
… Is designated as a day of portent and doom.

{ LUCKY}
However, As Donna Henes writes:

“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 the number of blood, fertility, and lunar potency. 
13 is the lucky number of the Great Goddess.
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.

Representing as it does, the number of revolutions the moon makes around the earth in a year, 13 was the number of REGENERATION for pre-Columbian Mexicans. 
In ancient Israel, 13 was a sanctified number. Thirteen items were decreed necessary for the tabernacle. At 13 years of age, a boy was (and still is) initiated into the adult Jewish community. 
In Wicca, the pagan goddess tradition of Old Europe, communicants convene in covens of 13 participants. 
Thirteen was also auspicious for the Egyptians, who believed that life has 13 stages, the last of which is death — the transition to eternal life.

Held holy in honor of Shekinah, the female aspect of God, Friday was observed as the day of Her special celebrations. 
Jews around the world still begin the observance of the Sabbath at sunset on Friday evenings when they invite in the Sabbath Bride. 
Friday is the Sabbath in the Islamic world.
Friday is sacred to Oshun, the Yoruba orisha of opulent sensuality and overwhelming femininity, 
and also to Frig, the Norse Goddess of love and sex, of fertility and creativity. Her name became the Anglo-Saxon noun for love, and in the 16th century, frig came to mean “to copulate.”

Friday was associated with the early MOTHER CREATION GODDESS for whom that day was named. 
In Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Icelandic, and Teutonic cultures She was called variously, Freya, Freia, Freyja, Fir, Frea and Frig. Friday is Frig’s Day, Frigedaeg, in Old English, Fredag in Danish, Freitag in Dutch.
In Mediterranean lands, She reigned as Venus. 
In Latin, Friday is the Day of Venus, Dies Veneris; Vendredi in French, Venerdi in Italian and Viernes in Spanish.

Friday the 13th is ultimately 
the CELEBRATION {OF LIFE & LOVE} 
of the lives and loves of Lady Luck.

On this, Her doubly-dedicated day, 
{rather than dwell on and reaffirm our fears} 
LET US consider
{and GIVE THANKS FOR}
those FORTUITOUS EVENTS THAT CONSTITUTE OUR FATE. 
The lucky blend of just the right conditions, chemistries, elements, and energies that comprise our universe. 
The way it all works. The way we are. That we are at all.

This Friday the 13th, let us stand in full consciousness of the miraculousness of existence and count our blessings. 
Thank the Goddess!

~ Jill ❤️
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