Considered to be the number of an occult power, number 13 has the most contradictory beliefs attached to it. This makes it the most famous superstition among all the number superstitions. For many, number 13 is the origin of ‘Triskaidekaphobia’, the number 13 phobia. One of the famous number 13 superstitions is the 13th floor superstition. Many buildings do not have a 13th floor. Houses, streets and even rooms in hotels are no longer numbered 13 – they usually go from 12 to 14. On the other hand, the number 13 superstition is an old superstition that has proved lucky for many. Some sportspersons have made it big with number 13.
Number 13 Superstitions: Birthday on 13th
The impression of the number 13 superstition is very strong on the people born on the 13th of a month. They have a rebellious side and a strange sense of being lonely. They are also known to:
- Have a great number of enemies
- See everything from a different point of view
- Be inclined to social questioning and reforms
- Be very positive and unconventional
Some of the famous people born on the 13th include Thomas Jefferson (signed the American Declaration of Independence), Alfred Hitchcock (author and filmmaker), Margaret Thatcher (first woman PM), Robbie Williams (Singer), Fidel Castro (Cuban leader) and Orlando Bloom (actor).
The Number 13 Superstition: 13 in Religions
- Hinduism: A feast is organized on the 13th day of death so that soul of the deceased rests in peace.
- Christianity: There were 13 attendees of the Last Supper and the 13th dinner guest, Judas, betrayed Jesus to the Romans. It was on Friday, the 13th of October, 1307 that King Philip IV sent out his guards to systematically massacre the Templar Knights.
- Sikhism: It is a lucky number in Sikhism, in which it means ‘yours.’ The holy word of Sikhs ‘Waheguru’ appears only 13 times in the Holy Sikh scripture. The Baisakhi festival is celebrated on April 13.
- Judaism: God has 13 attributes of mercy. 13 years is the age of maturity. 13 circles, or “nodes” make up Metatron’s Cube in Kaballistic teachings.
Other religions and civilizations consider number 13 unfortunate and evil. In Paganism, 13 is the age when people start learning witchcraft. Mesoamerican divination, however states that there are 13 important cycles of fortune.
There is a world wide superstition that No13 is an unlucky number. In fact No13 has scared the lives out of many. But actually, No13 is a very powerful number. The belief that No 13 is unlucky has no numerological
basis.My first experiment with No13 was the study of the political fortunes of India’s s former Prime Minister, A.B Vajpayee, who was in the Prime Minister’s office for 3 times.
This numerologist has been passionately involved with numerology for the last 18 years and found that there is no reason to isolate No13 as an unfortunate number. Certain numbers are fortunate to certain people .Similarly certain numbers are unfortunate to certain people. There is no number which is fortunate or unfortunate to all. So by that yardstick, No13 may be unfortunate to someone.
The theory that number 13 is unlucky may be correct to that extent only.
My first experiment with No13 was the study of the political fortunes of India’s former Prime Minister, A.B Vajpayee, who was in the Prime Ministers office for 3 times. Interestingly, he was Prime Minister for 13 days and 13 months during the first and second term respectively. Naturally, after he was voted out of office during the second term many people began to declare that number 13 did not augur well for A.B Vajpayee.
At that time I, have predicted that No 13 was lucky for A.B Vajpayee and that he would return as Prime Minister after the election. The prediction was published in “The New Indian Express” daily May 17,1999.The prediction was mainly based on the fact that the upcoming election was for the constitution of the 13th Lok Sabha.
Detailed Analysis
Full details with which I had prepared the note for prediction are furnished below:
Vajpayee was born on Dec 25,1924 . Those born on 7, 16 and 25 of any month have the birth number 7. Because, numbers 16 and 25 individually adds up to 7(1+6=7, 2+5=7).Numbers 1, 2, 4 and 7are generally lucky for such people .But in the case of A.B Vajpayee, number 4 has an additional strength. This is due to the fact that No 4 represents his name number 31 which adds upto4 (3+1=4). No 13 is lucky for him since it adds up to 4 which is his lucky number.
What is a name number?
In numerology, every name has a number. English alphabet from A to Z is put into 8 groups and each category consists of certain letters. The letters are assigned a particular value from 1 to 8.
The groups, letters and value of each letters are as
follows:
1. A, I, J, Q,Y =1
2. B, K, R =2
3. C, G, L, S =3
4. D, M, T =4
5. E, H, N, X =5
6 . U, V, W =6
7. O, Z =7
8. F ,P =8
The name number is obtained by adding together the value of the letters of that particular name .Thus the name number of A.B Vajpayee is -
A+B+V+A+J+P+A+Y+E+E
=1+2+6+1+1+8+1+1+5+5 =31(3+1=4)
Other Factors
As already pointed out, numbers 1, 2, 4 and 7 are generally lucky or influential for Vajpayee.
1. He first became Prime Minister on May 16 ,1996 .Both the date and year represent number 7,since each of them individually adds up to 7. That is ,16 adds up to 7 (1+6=7) and 1996 also adds up to 7
(1+9+9+6=25,2+5=7)
2. He became Prime Minister for the second time on March 19, 1998 (1+9=10, 1+0=1).
3. During the second term, Vajpayee undertook the historic Lahore trip on Feb 20, 1999(2+0=2).
4.He was Prime Minister for 13 days and 13 months(1+3=4).
After showing the influence of numbers I,2,4 and 7 in Vajpayee’s scheme of things, the prediction was summed up as follows:
1.Election is for the 13th Lok Sabha.Since 13 adds up to 4and no 4 is lucky for Vajpayee. The coming election is likely to be in his favors.
2. The election year is 1999 which adds up to 1-his lucky number (1+9+9+9=28, 2+8=10, 1+0=1).
3. In the history of Indian democracy, no person defeated on the floor of the house and who conducted election as caretaker Prime Minister has returned to rule. Vajpayee is likely to ‘break the record as the first person’ (No 1 is lucky for him).
Vajpayee returned as Prime Minister after the 13th Lok Sabha election and was sworn in on Oct 13,1999.
Months before the election, Vajpayee had escaped a Pak shell attack on June 13, 1999 during the Kargil war.
Strangely, during Vajpayee’s third term as Prime Minister the Tehelka expose hit the govt on March 13,2001.Seeing that the expose came on his lucky day, this writer predicted through The New Indian Express daily dated March 20,2001 that Vajpayee will have the last laugh in the issue.
Strangely again, the attack on parliament by terrorists was on Dec, 13, 2001.1t did not unnerve Vajpayee. On the contrary, it made him more resolute and much stonger.
Just one more example. Shane Warne was born on Sept 13, 1969. It was on July13, 2004 that he equaled Muthiah Muralitharans record with regard to taking the highest number of wickets. Interestingly, Warne is leaving the field after the 4th Ashes series.
The above things irrefutably give credence to the fact that number 13 is not an
unlucky number.
i fell u because i am sitting by a young lady now her basketball number is 13 she thinks she has bad luck because she haven’t been scoring any points this year and i tell her n she is crazy.
am doing a paper on this value held on this number and am happy to see that the # 13 is a getting into a class of an irrational fear of. Originally was going to do paper on why there is a jump from 12 to 14 in high rise buildings beleiving at time that all buildings were like this. As I came to find out this was mostly earlier elevator plans that gave rise to this idea. I myself have always thought of 13 as a good number and never ever had bad luck on friday the thirteenth or think that 13 of anything a bad omen. I look at 13 as a bakers dozen or one more than 12 and the age you jump into from an adolescent to a teenager.