by Anura Guruge
on Friday, September 13, 2024
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Friday the 13th is ONLY significant IF IT falls in October.
Let me, please, repeat that again:
Only Friday the 13th that fall in October count!
So, a September Friday the 13th, like today, is meaningless.
Period. Full stop.
Full moon, Christmas or whatever has nothing to do with it. Period.
The superstition has to do with the dissolution
of the Knights Templar.
That happened on Friday, October 13, 1307.
So, Friday the 13th occuring in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November or December doesn’t count. Just another day.
Has to fall in October.
Repeat, today’s Friday the 13th is inconsequential.
On average we get a Friday the 13th every 212 days.
So, we invariably get one at least ONCE a year, sometimes as many as 3 (yes, THREE) — as we did in 2015.
Next October, Friday the 13th will be in
2028
Yes, Friday, October 13th, 2028.
That is worth taking note of. OK? Are we cool? Got this.
Some Additional Comments
The ’13’ really has nothing to do with the supposed thirteen attendees at the ‘Last Supper’ — particularly since there is no consensus, at all (at all), that the ‘Last Supper’ took place on a Friday — that traditionally been the date of the Crucifixion, hence ‘Good Friday‘ at Easter.
The superstition about Fridays the 13th being unlucky really has its roots in Friday, October 13, 1307, when, with the blessing of the French Pope, Clement V, the French King, Philip IV, who was heavily in fiscal debt to the Templar’s (the original international bankers), had most of the Templars in France arrested.
It was a bad day for the Templars — and was really the first major financial crisis in world history.
Hence why people were afraid of Fridays the 13th. They didn’t want a repeat of what happened to the (far from) ‘poor’ Templars.
This fact tends to be forgotten.
Friday the 13th in October happens per a 5 to 6 year cycle with occasional 11-year gaps.
We just had one of those. So, the last 13th in October was 11-years ago, 2006. The next one is 6-years from now.
At 69 I have only lived through 9 ‘Friday the 13th in October‘.
Friday, October 13, 2023 will be my 10th.
