Eclectic Witch

It’s Only the Good Friday!

What is it?: Only The Good Friday
When is it?: Every doggone Friday
What do you post?: Anything you want, as long as it’s “good”–meaning “not negative.”
How do I join? Write a post. Link back to Only the Good Friday at This Eclectic Life

Pick up a banner made by yours truly here, if you want!

What’s good at The Eclectic Witch today?

Well, what isn’t? Haha! As bitchy and snarky as I can be, Friday’s I grab that halo and toss it up there to tip on those horns! Really, a positive outlook can change the way we view things, can’t it?

It’s Friday the Thirteenth! Ol’ Auntie thinks that’s good!  According to my sources, there are 3 of them this calendar year.  We had one last month, so this is 2 months in a row.  I read somewhere that that hasn’t happened for 11 years.  Is that cool and good, or what?

Now, I did a lil checking into the origins of the whole Friday the 13th superstition.  Most of them sounded like a load of christian propaganda bullshhhht, but I kinda liked a couple of them.  Check it out.

This one theory has it that it’s a combination of Paganism, Christianity, and the Battle of Hastings. Back then, the number 13 was considered a lucky number (such as 13 lunar cycles each year), but when Christian rulers decided that everyone had to follow the so called “One God”, of course they had to make sure that all things Pagan ended up either driven underground or in the dung heap so they promoted 13 as an unlucky number, with Friday thus also being considered a bad day of the week.

Then on Friday the 13th of October 1066, King Harold II decided to go to battle on Saturday the 14th of October, rather than allow his troops a day of rest (despite his army having made a long and arduous march from a battle near York just 3 weeks earlier). This bad tactical decision (the English lost and King Harold was killed), further led to Friday the 13th getting a bad rap as an unlucky day.

Now according to Norse mythology, Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes were converted to Christianity, the Goddess Frigga was banished to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. Seems that on Friday, (being her day and all), the Frigga gave a hollah to all her hos, eleven of her baddest bitches, plus the devil - a gathering of thirteen - and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as “Witches’ Sabbath.”

Buahahahaha!  So Friday is a good day to get together with your grrrls and..uh…raise a lil… good!

That’s OtGF for Ol’ Auntie for today!

Peace, Out!

What’s good in your world?  Remember:

Ol’ Auntie wants to know!!

So Shelly’s idea for this positive posting meme is:

Fear feeds upon itself. It’s like a contagious virus. I’m tired of adding to it. I want to start another kind of “virus.”

You see, I think that optimism can be contagious, too. If we consciously try to look at the good in the world around us, it will become easier to see.

Won’t you join us?? Help spread the good love for Only The Good Friday!

Share your good with me here or leave the link to your good in comments and I’ll repost it here! Thanks for participating!