Friday 13th June 2025 - Black Friday

Today is Black Friday, 13 June 2025, also known as Friday the 13^th, and the next Black Friday will occur on 13^th February 2026. If the month starts on a Sunday, there will be a Friday the 13^th. There is a least one Friday the 13^th each year and can happen up to three times in a year.

Superstitions and bad luck are often associated with the number 13 and going back in history Friday 13^th has been deemed a day for caution and avoiding situations which may bring bad luck. Friday 13^th March 2020 is a date that reminds many of the start of the Covid-19 world pandemic. The time when the world started to close down to stop the spread of the Coronavirus.

Checking out the web pages there is discussions of the last supper, the burning of Knights Templers, or Norse mythology regarding the Norse God Loki. Quite a few of today’s skyscrapers and hotels don’t have 13th floors or a room 13. I also read that there are more than 60 million people worldwide have a phobia of Friday the 13th to varying degrees. I remember the 1980s horror movies “Friday the 13^th”, these were filled with terror and violence which must also affect the way many think about Black Friday.

Common superstitions many of us grew up with or were given as advice, do not open an umbrella inside your house or walk under a ladder. Breaking a mirror will give you seven years bad luck. These are superstitions, or a belief that something bad will happen even if there is no reason to think that it will.

Many of those who were born on Friday the 13th, or whose birthdays fall on the 13th and occasionally occur on a Friday, consider themselves immune to any negative repercussions.

In recent years, "Black Friday" has become synonymous with significant retail and online sales occurring on the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, marking the commencement of the Christmas shopping season.

I hope everyone has a safe Friday the 13^th, the next Black Friday is early next year on the 13^th February 2026.

Betty Matthews

13 June 2023