Friday The 13th

[debidoo]

I am not superstituous and that is what it is.  Supposed to be bad luck and I dont believe in luck as a christian.  I am not afraid of any particular day if I was going to be afraid it would be that any day of the week there are a lot of evil people out in the world.

[harasnicole]

I just love Friday the 13th. I make it a point to do as many "superstitious" things that most people go out of their way to avoid. Walking under ladders, knocking over a pillar of salt, etc. If I knew where a black cat was, I'd make it a point to let it cross in front of me, lol. Needless to say, back in 2012 when the "end of the world" was the hot-button topic, I was giddy to find out that there were THREE Friday the 13th months that year.

 

As for the story behind it, I don't know. There are theories, of course, but nothing's set in stone. Separately, Friday and the number 13 were already considered unlucky, and somewhere in the 19th century someone decided to put the two together to form the unluckiest day of all (with the exception of Good Friday, of course).

[kingozzy]

Yes its just another day in my book but two months in a row with a Friday the 13th is something I don't ever recall happeneing that I remember

[quietpal]

Just another day for me with the exception of my niece coming home today for spring break. Now that's exciting!

[ancmetro]

 
     Oh no! Another  "Friday, the 13th!". We had another last month.

[lvl19057]

It was just another day if no one remind me then I'll forget the date too.

[teresa3200]

I have no idea where they get that from, it probably all got started when the movie was made and went from there, people probably made up their own stories after that. Who really knows, it is just another day.

[monnee]

Jason comes out on Friday The 13th and scares the hell out of everyone at the movies.   

[ktheodos]

There's 3 of them this year! Of course, part of that is because Feb has 28 days so March is essentially the same month, but still, pretty cool! November is the next time it occurs

[talboojm]

http://www.shamanportal.org/article_details.php?id=264

When the 13th day on the month lands on a Friday, the culturally unfavorable attributes of each are multiplied by infinity. 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 indubitably designated as a day of portent and doom.

The pitiful suicide note of a window washer that was found with his body in a gas-filled room at his home and quoted in a 1960 issue of the Yorkshire Post, underscores its powerful, popular reputation, "It just needed to rain today — Friday the 13th — for me to make up my mind." Poor sod.

But 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.

Held holy in Her honor, 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 also sacred to Oshun, the Yoruban orisha of opulent sensuality and overwhelming femininity, and Frig the Norse Goddess of love and sex, of fertility and creativity. Her name became the Anglo-Saxon noun for love, and in the sixteenth century, frig came to mean "to copulate."

Friday the 13th is ultimately the celebration of the lives and loves of Lady Luck. On this, Her doubly-dedicated day, let us consider what fortuitous coincidences constitute our fate. The
lucky blend of just the right conditions, chemistries, elements and energies, which comprise our universe. The way it all works. The way we are. That we are at all. That, despite whatever major or minor matters we might think are unlucky, we have somehow managed to remain alive and aware. This Friday the 13th, let us stand in full consciousness of the miraculousness of existence and count our blessings. Knock on wood.

[carmexqueen]

I think its just a day like any other. The only thing about this one was it fell on my sisters birthday that's how I found out that it was Friday. My sister passed in 2011 so it was a somber day. This was the first year I didn't wake up crying.

[12amos]

I have no problem with Friday the 13th, for me it's just a normal day.  It's all in what you make it.  Think positive and positive things will happen, think negative and negative things will happen.