Friday is named for the Goddess of Love. Can't get more feminine than that. The root crosses a host of languages. Freyja, Goddess of Love, in French, Friday is Vendredi, a celebration of Venus.
The Moses-inspired religions (Christian, Jewish, Moslem) view the female as subservient to the male, weaker and needing guidance, unclean during menstruation. That cycle follows the lunar cycle. Until the time of the Tudors, the English calendar had 13 months: (See wikipedia for "Old English 13 month lunar calendar") In French, "time of the moon" is the word for menstruation. It was considered a punishment for Eve disobeying God.
So, suppose that Friday the 13th is actually a celebration of a double dose of the feminine energy. Why did that become associated with evil?
I believe it has to do with our conscious mind's limitation that causes it to see opposites where they don't really exist. We imagine that male and female are opposites. Then, we list opposing qualities for each. Male is rational, female is emotional, male is strong, female is weak, male is hard, female is soft, male is light, female is dark and mysterious. Now, we are getting there. Dark and mysterious, certainly somewhat responsible for inciting lust in men which leads to crime and insanity.
I think that we will eventually wake up and realize that we are not opposites at all. The things that are different between men and women actually fit together quite nicely. And so I celebrate Friday the 13th as a "Good Luck" day.
Incidentally, while i was filming my Cuba documentary, I found that the Cubans celebrate all the same holidays as Americans, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Labor Day, all of it. I asked someone if they also feared Friday the 13th. He looked at me puzzled and said, "You mean Tuesday the 13th, don't you?"
This intrigued me. I found that Tuesday in Spanish is named for the God of War. That is the mind's concept of the absolute opposite of the Goddess of Love. So, in their culture, evil is born of the clash between the God of War and the Goddess of Love. In our culture, that same evil is born of too much Goddess with the attendant energies of weakness, susceptibility to lust and dark energies out of control.
I think we have feared the feminine long enough. It is time to retire the old story and to tell a new story in which male and female are equally magnificent, that we were born saved and remain so, and that evil is a product of a limitation of our conscious awareness, one that we will eventually learn to see beyond. HAPPY Friday the 13th
