Happy Friday the 13th!
Happy Friday the 13th! It's a day to celebrate the Goddess, Freya, and the wonders of creation. Today also happens to be the day that Mars goes direct after a two month retrograde in Aries. Venus is also in Libra, opposing Mars. It’s a day when the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine can come together to find balance. Also, when I say Divine Feminine or Divine Masculine, that doesn’t mean gender, cuz we all have both energies.
The number 13 has always been connected to the divine feminine, because of women's average number of menstrual cycles within a year. The moon (also associated with the feminine) has the same amount of lunar cycles annually. The number 13 is really about transformation, and yes death is definitely part of that, but you can't appreciate life without it.
“Primitive women kept track of time by the passing of their menstrual cycles and the phases of the moon, as well as the change of seasons and the wheel of the year. However, as the solar calendar, with its 12 months, triumphed over the 13 month lunar calendar, so did the ‘perfect’ number 12 over the ‘imperfect’ number 13. (But note that they really had to discombobulate those 12 months, giving some of them 30 days, some 31 and poor old February with 28, to make the 364 days…) Twelve became the sacred number after that, with, for example, 12 hours of the clock, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 Apostles of Jesus and 12 signs of the zodiac. Thirteen became unpredictable, chaotic, untrustworthy and evil.” - Christine Valentor Freya was thus demonized and became known as what Christianity portrayed as a witch, black cat and all!
Also, as Christianity and the patriarchy began to grow, focus shifted towards the sun- or masculine/intellectual pursuits such as reading and writing and away from the moon- the feminine, creation and the cycles of life. Wealthy or religious men were allowed to be in these “intellectual” spaces to create an air of superiority. The lack of balance of the moon energies has caused the oppression of women and people of color, who could not easily access higher education or in careers that seemed “less’’ important-like the arts. Everyone, talks about STEM but without STEAM you get dumb things like Elon Musk and his dumb looking tank/car. The coming together of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine, is necessary because you can't have one without the other. No one likes 24/7 days a week of just the sun, you could never rest! But that's the energy we've been in for hundreds of years, and now it's time to shift us back to center. I very much appreciate that Biden and Harris will be running the country to perhaps balance these energies even more. It’s funny that Biden is a Scorpio (a feminine water sign) and Harris is a Libra (a masculine air sign) See how that works!
So let's celebrate today and all that comes with transformations, instead of being fearful of a number that really helps us let go and begin a new.
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