About twice each year, the 13th of the month falls on a Friday, so today, once again, this question arises.

Actually, most people in current culture don’t ask that question. They just think, automatically, that it’s bad luck. A judgment which, in itself, is interesting, and falls right in line with this article, explaining how “patriarchy” hijacked what was originally a day devoted to feminine energy and turned it evil.

How the Patriachy Stole Friday the 13th from Women and Made it Evil

True?

Well, here’s the etymology of “Fri-day.” Stands for Frigga or Freya, both goddesses.

Check this out, with its subtle subtraction . . .

Why Friday the 13th Has Unlucky Origin

The above article gives several theories as to why and how it’s considered bad luck, and then this:

 

Notice, in the above article, “Frigga refers to the Norse god . . .”:  not goddess; god! The feminine is swiped out even here.

My own interest in the number 13 stems from the fact that, utilizing traditional numerology (not gematria), my own full name, Ann Renee Kreilkamp, contains “13” as the soul number: the vowels, when added up, within each name first, and then altogether:

Ann: A=1.

Renee: E=5=5=5, when added equals 15 = 6.

Kreilkamp, I=9, E=5, A=1, when added equals 15=6

1 + 6 + 6 = 13

Numerological meaning of 13:

If you reduce it again, to the number 4, it refers to structure, form materialization, etc. A very practical, organizational number, as in “four-square.”

If you don’t reduce the number 13, then check this out, an author who fully recognizes the polarity that exists between people who think Friday the 13th is good luck and those who think it bad luck.

What Is the Meaning of the Number 13?

While rejecting the usually held notion that it’s bad luck, the author points out:

My own PhD dissertation for the doctorate in philosophy began for me, back in 1972, with the question, why does Wittgenstein fascinate? Because it was clear that professional philosophers either loved him or hated him. And it was this phenomenon of fascination itself, that fascinated me. Such a decided, and divided, emotional response was highly unusual among professional philosophers, who, a least back then, pre-woke, valued themselves for their critical reasoning powers.

I.e., left brain power of “logic.” Masculine.

The right brain, however, is associated with intuition, receptivity, mysticism, the spacious, ineffable plenum wherein forms of all kinds emerge, grow, mature, wane, die . . .  The Feminine, which holds and nurtures all this and more.

Okay, let’s deepen the discussion:

In Tarot, the number 13 symbolizes the Death card.

 

Which, in turn, can symbolize enormous change, Death (of a lifestyle, point of view, position in society), leading to Rebirth.

And/or, it can symbolize literal Death itself. Something we westerners tend to be terrified of, and thus can be railroaded into taking a “vaccine” against a supposed “disease,” which, if left to itself, may supposedly kill us. And now, it turns out, the vaccine itself is more likely to kill us than the supposed disease which it was trotted out to supposedly prevent.

I repeat: it is the fear of death that underlies the ability of the so-called powers that be to induce unthinking compliance with propaganda that sets out to induce F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real).

Given that fact, I have a feeling that today, this Friday the 13th, with its current cultural connotation of bad luck, is going to feel heavier, scarier, than most.

Unless, that is,  we return to what are likely the authentic origins of both Friday (Frigge, Freya, both powerful, wise goddeses, sometimes either fused or confused), and the number 13.