Friday the 13th: The Day They Tried To Bury, But Instead Made It Sacred Forever

By Audra English

Days come and go like the weather.

Friday the 13th comes at us like an earthquake under our feet.

You don’t always know why you feel it first. You just do.

A hum in the body. A tightening in the air. A sense that the veil isn’t thinner so much as irrelevant. Like the universe leaned back in its chair and said, go ahead, show me what you believe.

The world taught us to fear this day. To laugh nervously at it. To call it unlucky and keep moving.

Witches were never fooled.

Because Friday the 13th was never cursed, it was concentrated.

And anything concentrated—anything that carries memory, rhythm, power—eventually gets named dangerous by systems that survive on control.

Friday Belongs to the Goddess

Friday is ruled by Venus.

Not the sanitized Venus of greeting cards and romance novels—but the ancient one. The sovereign one. The Venus who governs attraction, pleasure, fertility, beauty, wealth, desire, and the magnetic force that pulls things toward you without force.

Friday was never a working day in goddess cultures. It was a receiving day.

A day for adornment.

For love.

For sensuality.

For money magic.

For fertility—of land, body, creativity, and future.

In Norse tradition, Friday is linked to Freyja—goddess of love, sovereignty, gold, sex, death, and seiðr magick so powerful it unsettled even the gods. Freyja didn’t rule by command. She ruled by gravity. Things came to her because they wanted to.

She chose.

She desired.

She received.

That is Venus.

That is Friday.

And that is exactly why it had to be dismantled.

Thirteen Is the Number of the Moon—and the Body

Thirteen is lunar.

There are roughly thirteen moon cycles in a solar year. Thirteen tides. Thirteen rhythms. Thirteen opportunities to shed skin and begin again.

Thirteen was never random. It was biological.

In matriarchal cultures, thirteen was associated with the menstrual cycle, with blood wisdom, with the understanding that the body is not linear—it is cyclical, spiraling, returning again and again to itself with new information.

Thirteen was completion. A closed circle. A threshold.

In tarot, thirteen is Death—not destruction, but transformation. The moment you cannot go back to who you were, even if you wanted to.

Thirteen scares systems that rely on permanence.

It terrifies anything built on the idea that this is the only way things can be.

Witches learned to live inside transformation. We didn’t fear it. We partnered with it.

When Friday Meets Thirteen - Friday the Thirteenth

Now pause and feel this:

Venus (Friday)

meets

the Moon (13)

Desire meets transformation.

Attraction meets rebirth.

Receiving meets release.

This is not chaos.

This is alchemy.

Friday the 13th is a convergence point—a crossroads where feminine magnetism and lunar change overlap. A day when spells don’t need to be forced because the current is already moving.

This is why workings cast on this day feel inevitable rather than frantic.

How the Patriarchy Rewrote the Day

The fear of Friday the 13th wasn’t born organically. It was constructed.

As goddess traditions were erased, lunar calendars were replaced with solar ones. As women’s bodies were controlled, blood cycles were labeled impure. As intuition threatened hierarchy, it became suspect.

Friday—once sacred—was reframed as indulgent.

Thirteen—once holy—was reframed as dangerous.

Magick—once woven into daily life—was outlawed, mocked, or burned.

One of the most cited historical moments tied to this date is Friday, October 13, 1307, when the Knights Templar were arrested en masse. Power shifted. Wealth was seized. Secrets were buried. Fear became policy.

But the deeper truth is simpler:

Anything that teaches people—especially women—to trust their own timing, desire, intuition, and cycles is a threat to control.

So the day was cursed instead of honored.

Astrology Knows What This Day Is

Astrologically, Friday the 13th often activates Venus, the Moon, and whatever sign the Moon happens to be traveling through—making it a live wire for manifestation.

The Moon governs:

• emotion

• memory

• intuition

• the subconscious

• the body

Venus governs:

• money

• love

• worth

• beauty

• attraction

When collective attention (even fearful attention) pours into a single day, it amplifies whatever is intentionally placed there.

Fear still feeds energy.

Witches just know how to redirect it.

Why Friday the 13th Is Lucky for Witches

Luck isn’t random.

Luck is alignment.

Friday the 13th is lucky because:

• it carries centuries of ritual memory

• it sits at the intersection of Venus and the Moon

• it is already energetically charged by belief

• it favors receiving over chasing

• it supports endings and beginnings simultaneously

This is a day where spells don’t just land—they root.

The Kinds of Spells We Cast

Friday the 13th is not for small, timid wishes.

This is the day for:

• prosperity spells that rewrite your relationship with money

• justice work that calls truth to the surface

• protection and reversal magick

• love spells rooted in dignity and self-worth

• cord cuttings that actually hold

• timeline shifts where you choose differently—and the world responds

This is not desperate magick.

This is decisive magick.

A Matriarchal Memory

Witches were never afraid of the dark.

We were raised by it.

Friday the 13th doesn’t belong to superstition or horror movies. It belongs to women who remembered the moon before they were told not to. To healers who trusted their hands. To people who knew that power doesn’t need permission to exist.

If this day feels electric to you instead of ominous—if it feels like something inside you stands up a little straighter—that’s not a coincidence.

That’s inheritance.

How to Work With the Day

Light a candle—not because you’re afraid, but because you’re present.

Choose colors intentionally. Speak what you want clearly. Don’t shrink it down to be reasonable.

Release what you are done carrying.

Claim what you are ready to receive.

And move slowly.

Friday the 13th doesn’t rush. It rearranges.

The Truth They Couldn’t Erase

Friday the 13th was never unlucky.

It was unmanageable.

And anything unmanageable eventually gets labeled dangerous.

But witches remember.

And remembering—truly remembering—is its own kind of spell. 🖤🌙✨