Hidden Meanings: Friday the Thirteenth

Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

In the western world, our standard beliefs are often the result of longtime traditions. But what if that tradition is incorrect, misconstrued, or misunderstood? So is the plight of Friday the 13th!

Friday the 13th is one of the most sacred of days in the ancient world, when the Goddess's sacred day and number converge. Her sacred day is Friday, and her sacred number is 13, which reflect the 13 Moon Cycles in a Lunar Year.

The Goddess is deeply connected to the Moon and moisture, as the Moon influences all liquid on Mother Earth. The Goddess is known by many names: Venus, (born on a half shell), Aphrodite, Isis, and of course the only remaining contemporary Goddess ... Mother Mary. Her name reveals traces of her lineage through language, Latin: mare, which means ‘sea’.

The ancient tradition of honoring and worshiping the Goddess of moisture was carried out by eating her fish (symbolically her sacrament) on Friday, which was later assimilated into Christian worship, and secular tradition, as "Fish Friday".

In ancient times on Friday the 13th, it was customary to honor this super sacred day by sharing love, as She is also the Goddess of love and fertility. Fertility because the womb “room” is water-filled, so all mammals are aquatic creatures before birth, and then become land creatures after birth. So on Fridays, couples would stay home and frolic in sacred union!

By the time the patriarchy got a foot-hold, these practices we're considered heathen, sinful...and so Friday the 13th became defamed and adversely effected by a misinformation campaign. And so arose the superstition that Friday the 13th is a day to fear, a day to stay home and stay away from the world. A day to close down, follow the rules and do what you’re told by whoever you’ve given your sacred power away to.

Join me in returning Friday the 13th to its original sacred meaning. Celebrate the Goddess and all the ancient, feminine power she represents!