2012 will be the first leap year starting on Sunday (dominical letter AG) of 3rd Millennium in Gregorian calendar.
The leap year starting on Sunday will have three occurrences of Friday the 13th throughout the year which superstition holds to be a day of bad luck..combination of two: thirteen, an unlucky number and Friday, an unlucky day..
Leap year start with Sunday:
| Millennium | Century | Year | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Millennium: | 18th century: | 1764 | 1792 | ||||||||
| 2nd Millennium: | 19th century: | 1804 | 1832 | 1860 | 1888 | ||||||
| 2nd Millennium: | 20th century: | 1928 | 1956 | 1984 | |||||||
| 3rd Millennium: | 21st century: | 2012 | 2040 | 2068 | 2096 | ||||||
| 3rd Millennium: | 22nd century: | 2108 | 2136 | 2164 | 2192 | ||||||
Friday has been considered an unlucky day because, according to Christian scripture and tradition, Jesus was crucified on a Friday.Besides, another theory by author Charles Panati, that the superstition can be traced back to ancient myth, in which Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, 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."
What had been happened in the pass, Friday the 13th?
There are events that purposely planned on this special day to create dramatic effects, higher publicity and attention perhaps. Here are some events that were intentionally scheduled for Friday the 13th:
- Resident Evil 5 was released in the US and UK on Friday March 13th 2009.
- Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album was released in the UK on Friday, February 13, 1970.
- The Opening ceremony of Athens Olympic Games took place on Friday, August 13, 2004.
- The 13th book in A Series of Unfortunate Events was released on Friday, October 13, 2006 by Lemony Snicket, also known as novelist Daniel Handler.
- Four of the twelve films in the Friday the 13th series, including the most recent (reboot of a second film), were released on a Friday the 13th. The sequel to the reboot is planned to be released Friday August 13th, 2010
. - Every Friday the 13th thousands of bikers ride to the small town of Port Dover Ontario, Canada.
- Boston Lee Day is celebrated every Friday the 13th. Participants gather to enjoy the Boston Lee Drink for which this day is named.
- The 2009 film "2012" is set to be released on Friday November 13th 2009.
While, natural disaster occur on Friday the 13th, notably:
- Hurricane Charley made landfall in south Florida on Friday, August 13, 2004.
- The "Friday the 13th Storm" struck Buffalo, New York on Friday, October 13, 2006.
- Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence, New York late Thursday, February 12, 2009, causing a fire that lasted until that Friday morning (February 13) and killed 50 people.
- Plane crash in the Andes in 1972 which turned the survivors into cannibals.
- On Friday July 13th, 1733 22 Ships depart Havana Cuba destined for Spain. Encountering a Hurricane shortly after departure the ships return to Havana, only 4 make it back. 12 of the wrecks make of the 1733 Spanish Galleon Trail off the coast of the Florida Keys.
2012 with three Friday the 13th can be the unlucky year perhaps, but could it possibly the end for billions of people and creatures on earth?
Why 2012 says to be the end of the world?
From the calendar says:
The Maya used a 365-day calendar called the Haab. They measured long time periods by means of a Long Count, in which one 360-day year (a "Tun"), consists of 18 x 20-day "months" ("Uinals"). Twenty of these Tuns is a Katun; 20 Katuns is a Baktun (nearly 400 years); and 13 Baktuns adds up to a "Great Cycle" of 1,872,000 days, 5200 Tuns, or about 5125 years.
Mayan scholars have been attempting to correlate the Long Count with our Western Gregorian calendar, since the beginning of this century. There has been massive variation in the suggested correlations, but as early as 1905, Goodman suggested a correlation only 3 days from the most popular one today. Known as the GMT correlation, which was finalized in 1950, and puts the start of the Great Cycle (day 0.0.0.0.0) on 11th August 3114 BC, and the end-date (known as 13.0.0.0.0.) as 21st December 2012.
So, it is end of a cycle and new cycle will begins.
From astrology says:
According to some astronomers, on the winter solstice of 2012, the noonday Sun exactly conjuncts the crossing point of the sun's ecliptic with the galactic plane, while also closely conjuncting the exact the center of the galaxy. Since the Mayan calendar began in 3114 BC, they had never experienced anything like this before. The Mayans called this event the Sacred Tree. This alignment with the center of the galaxy also allows for maximum mass and thus maximum gravity... With this phenomena happens, there will be probably an impact on the stabilization of earth planet.
Indeed, the National Earthquake Information Service of the US Geological Survey reported that earthquakes have gradually increased from 1 severe quake between 1890 and 1899 to 765 from 2000-2004. Could this be due to our solar systems movement towards this Galactic Equator?
The Russian mathematician Sergey Smelyakov of Khartov University taking the constant Phi (1.6180339), the so called Golden Mean or the Fibonacci sequence, and applying it to solar activity and planetary orbits, found that everything seemed to spiral in on itself on December 21, 2012 implying a time implosion or point of bifurcation.
Besides, there is another prediction about Planet X crushing on Earth. Planet X is a planet that orbits the sun every 3600 years. The first real pictures Planet X were photographed shortly after January 26, 1983, when NASA launched the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). The astronomers calculated that Planet X was over 50 million miles away from us at that time. In 2004 they claimed that this Planet X appeared again, determined to be only 7 million miles away and it's moving closer. Therefore, this Planet X will be here by the end of 2012, appealingly as two suns in the sky, and says to be the doomsday arrive?
From other ancient prediction:
This apocalyptic date of December 21, 2012 is also supposedly found in Hopi myths, the I-Ching, Aztec writings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Roman Oracles, writing of Seneca Elders, the chief Shaman of the Cherokee Tribe in NC, and even the writings of Nostradamus.