So much has been said and done to make the number 13 seem unlucky. Even more suspicion sits upon the combination of Friday and the number 13.
It is so ingrained in our mainstream thought and media that one would be forgiven to think it has always been this way.
What we don’t see however, is the hand that writes the history. The voice who decides what is good and what is bad, that voice stays behind the scenes.
Let’s have a look at some of the things we uncover when we look into Friday and the number 13.
Friday, Venus day
The Romans named Friday Dies Veneris, the day of Venus, their Goddess of love.
In French Friday still is Vendredi, in Italian Venerdi, etc.
When the Romans came north they brought their idea of a 7 day week with them and the local population named the day of Venus after their own Goddess of love. It was either the Goddess Freja or Frigg who gave her name to Friday.
13 = 12 + 1
Nowadays we live with a calendar of 12 months but back in the day people lived more closely connected with the land and with the cycles of the moon. Regularly they had to allow for a 13th moon, to make the year match with the greater astrological cycles and their agricultural year.
13 is also a spiritually meaningful number, it is 12 + 1, as in 12 apostles and the one, Jesus.
13 being a 1 and a 3 took on a new meaning for me as I got deeper and deeper into my research of the feminine face of God. She is the very first trinity and so she is 1 in 3 and 3 in 1.
Women’s periods are aligned with the moon’s 28 day cycle. I am sharing this feminine link to the moon here because I believe everything about Friday the 13th points to an ancient way of life where our subjective experience and our relationship with our body, with our self and our Earth were centerpoint in our life. These are women’s domains. The domain of relationships and the daily pleasures, the giving of life and tending to life. Invisible in history but so important in our daily lives. We’ll come back to this.
What’s love got to do with it?
Venus’s orbit around the earth. She draws a 5 petalled flower in the sky. The earth is the dot in the middle.
https://briankoberlein.com/post/rose-of-venus/ see Footnote 1
In a geocentric wordview, ie, standing with your feet on the Earth and looking up in the sky, this is the pattern that the planet Venus draws every 8 years.
Over a period of 8 years a 5 petal flower appears. This is called the Rose of Venus and is most likely the origin of the pentagram, the infamous 5 pointed star.
8 + 5 = 13
Venus takes 8 years to make 5 cycles around the Earth and to create the Venus Rose.
8 /13 ratio between Earth and Venus
A solar year is the time it takes for the Earth to go around the sun, 12 months.
Venus takes 18month to go around the sun, so in the same time that the Earth travels 8 times around the sun, Venus goes 13 times around the sun .
8 / 13 ratio so!
Notice the same numbers are coming back, again and again, 5, 8, 13.
Did you know?
The rose is closely connected to the planet Venus in different parts of the world.
For example:
in India Venus is Shukra and the Rose is closely connected to her. Rosewater, rosegardens, roseoil, … The ancient Indians knew about the Rose.
In Greece the rose is sacred to Aphrodite (=Venus)
The ancient Sumerian goddess Ishtar had a rose that was sacred to her and Inanna in Mesopotamia did as well.
All those people knew about the connection between the planet Venus and the Earth (a connection in the shape of a rose time keeper) and in all those beliefsystems the planet Venus was the Goddess of the love of life, love, beauty, fertility, earthly pleasures etc.
But somehow the number 13 and the nameday of the Goddess of love have gotten a bad rep? Maybe it’s time we tell another story ?
The 8/13 ratio is very close to the Golden Ratio or Pie.
This is the ratio we see in the wisdom of nature, in the design of shells, plants and humans as well.
Apples are of the Rose famiy and have a 5 pointed star in their core.
So does the Quince, the golden apple that started the Trojan war.
But that is a story for another time.
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I hope you found this informative and perhaps you learned something new?
Nowadays we live in a heliocentric worldview. This means that we decided that the sun is the center of our world, and not the Earth on which we live. The consequences of this shift in wordview have been vast.
When you draw maps, orbits, ‘scientifically correct’ rendering of the planets, the magic we were just talking about dissappears completly. No longer is there a planet drawing roses in the sky above our head talking to us about love!
The names and numbers that still point to the old worldview become weird and wonderful at best, and at worst they become reasons to burn the witch/ herbwoman / midwife for heresy.
This is why I care so much.
In my 20’s I received my masters degree in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology.
Afterwards I travelled and lived in different countries always learning about the religion and mythology. Around 2016 I started going back into my old field to find out why the God of the Abrahamic religions had been so cruel towards women. I wanted to find the first scriptures where a dresscode for women was mandated by religion and I wondered innocently if perhaps there was a dresscode for men as well. LOL
Little did I know I was embarking on a mission of a lifetime.
I’ll post here once in a while about my findings.
Thank you for reading!
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Marijke
Footnote 1: This drawing is taken from a 1799 book by James Fergeson entitled “Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics. To which are added, a Plain Method of finding the Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus over the Sun’s Disc, in the Year 1761. An Account of Mr. Horrox’s Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639: and, of the Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, as deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761”