What is it with Friday 13th?

What does Friday the 13th mean to you? What does it bring to mind, to heart, to body, to soul?

As I contemplate my day ahead, rage rose within me once more as I liberated yet more of my soul trapped and suppressed by the archaic mental health system.

The archaic system telling me I was wrong for feeling, wrong for sensing, wrong for feeling: wrong for seeing beyond that which they can see…

As I tap it out (using EFT - the Emotional Freedom Technique), I feel the angst so many women have been through, for a long, long time. Suppressing their cycles to conform with man-made systems, borne of those who wanted their workers to fill their coffers whilst they suffered, living just well enough to ensure they could fulfil their roles.

And women? They scrubbed and begged, and submitted, and held things together.

Not because they were weak, because there wasn’t another option.

And I know it all too well.

Held down and drugged against my will, threatened every day with the same treatment if I didn’t conform, the hospital became a microcosm of the macrocosm: power over others, suppression of will, suppression of feelings, suppression of wisdom…

No wonder this burning hot coal of rage had sat deep within my soul, realising as I had, back then, that there was not one inch of myself I could express without more labels, more toxic “medication” from people who really shouldn’t be doing what they are doing.

As I release the anger, hear my inner self, letting them finally have their say, I relax, remembering I have freedom now, and feel so grateful for the time we live in, the wisdom I’ve gained by walking away from the systems that shut me down and the people who questioned my sanity in a world of insanity (Tr*%p anyone?)….

Peace comes, and with it wisdom, and the memory of my “Coming other Peace” offerings, and the specific “Coming To Peace With Your Cycle” PDF I wrote some years ago.

I realised I wanted to share it, a gift for women to find the freedom and peace I have found during my cycle, by honouring, instead of suppressing, my natural flow.

Yet, do you know the irony?

I hadn’t published it.

Such is still the fear instilled in me for speaking my truth, sharing my little piece of the world with the bigger world, this document was still sat on Canva, yet to be released… and so it is now on my website for you to enjoy…

Because this number 13, should be honoured, as we honour our 13 cycles every year, instead of being feared, shamed, suppressed, hidden and made dirty for this most natural of occasion…

For over 12 years now, I’ve honoured my cycle in relation to the moon, and the excruciating period pain I suffered from the moment I received my moon time (around age 13 I might add), has gone.

I surrender, I allow, I use cloth pads to honour my body and my blood, and no longer conform to expectations on those days. I simply allow myself to journey deep and heal, and receive the wisdom that carries me forward.

Yet, for others, I’m sure, they seek to conform with societal norms, seen clearly by pictures of women in gyms wearing period pants, (which is a great step forward at least), yet I have to ask: given the real choice, would they really prefer to be at home, resting, and giving themselves time to “be”?

If you’re experiencing unrest with your cycle, check out my free resource here,(you’ll need to scroll down to find “Coming to Peace with your Cycle”).

This number 13 though, why is it so feared, when there are in truth 13 moons in a year, rather than 12? And so, shifting women out of kilter to their natural cycle?

Exactly why and when it was chosen that our current time construct would deny the natural cycles? What happened in history?

It’s said that one of the main reasons that Friday 13th has been feared, or remembered at least, is that on Friday 13th in 1307, King Phillip IV of France had every Templar knight arrested and imprisoned (and probably killed or tortured), under the charge of blasphemy, sodomy, and heresy. These Knights had offered protection for pilgrims travelling to the Holy Lands, and offered diplomacy in those areas.

So why were they so punished? What were they protecting? What did they represent that was so dangerous to the crown?

Will we ever know why Friday 13th has caused such myth and superstition?

I’m not sure, but, for me, it’s a time of remembering the wisdom of women, the wisdom of the moon, of our moon time, and honouring myself and the wisdom of seeing beyond the here and now, that our modern era had all but suppressed until recently.

If you’d like to explore your cycle, and why honouring our 13 moons is so empowering and so helpful, go check out the workbook here, and let me know how you get on…

And if you’d like coaching or healing to help you come to peace with your cycle, do look me up xxx