Why Breaking A Mirror Means Less Bad Luck Than You Thought
November 14th, 2009
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Is everyone here? I hope you all survived Friday the 13th. Yesterday was our third Friday the 13th of the year, which is the greatest number of times it can happen in one year. The next year with three Friday the 13ths is 2012, a year which now has yet another reason for people to fear it.
On Friday, February 13th, 2009, I wrote about why Friday the 13th is considered bad luck. There were many possible reasons, none of which sounded very convincing. But it shows that people can be afraid of something without having any idea why.
Now it’s time to talk about another superstition: that breaking a mirror gives you seven years of bad luck. I’m sure there are hundreds of millions of people who believe this. What’s interesting about this one is that not only is the superstition baseless, but what we’ve heard isn’t even the right superstition.
I had always heard that if you break a mirror, you get seven years of bad luck, simple as that. But I later learned that this wasn’t the original superstition. I’ve heard different variations, but I’ll tell you the one that sounds right to me.
The idea is that your reflection contains part of your soul. If you break a mirror while your reflection is in it, that part of your soul dies. But you get a new soul every seven years. So until the end of your current soul’s seven year lifetime, whether that happens in one year or five or whatever, you’ll be walking around with a damaged soul, and you’ll have bad luck.
This means that even if you believe the superstition, breaking a mirror is completely harmless if your reflection isn’t in it at the time. Granted, it usually will be, but it’s good news if you were holding the mirror away from you when you dropped it.
More importantly, you won’t get seven years of bad luck. It’s only until your age reaches the next multiple of seven, when you get a new soul. That’s three and a half years of bad luck on average.
There’s some bad news though. If a mirror breaks while your reflection is in it, you’ll get bad luck even if you weren’t the one who broke it.
Nobody believes in the original version of this superstition, though. At the age of 34 (one year before a new soul), someone will drop a mirror with a sheet draped over it (no reflection), and convince themselves that they’re getting seven years of bad luck.
But also, they’ll be standing in front of a mirror while someone else breaks it, and have no concern at all for themselves, not being aware that it doesn’t matter who breaks the mirror. If they don’t believe in that part, then they don’t have to believe in the other part.
How many people create a self-fulfilling prophecy of bad luck for themselves, because they believe in a superstition that never was?
November 14th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Hi Hunter,
I didn’t know the mirror superstition had anything to do with our souls, not to mention the alleged soul renewal at every seven years. If that is so, my business of soul reading would be severely affected.
I really think I want to say something as Akashic Record Reading specialist — considering I am esp big on soul shifting . . . I just don’t know where to start . . .
Blessings,
Akemi
November 14th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
@ Akemi, yeah, I thought about you when I wrote this. I know you would say that soul shifts happen rarely in most people, and always for a good reason, as opposed to being scheduled for every seven years. If the mirror people show up here, I’ll send them to your blog.
November 15th, 2009 at 5:56 am
That’s funny Hunter, about three days ago I dropped a mirror that was on my desk and it fell to the floor and broke. I wasn’t looking at myself though so my reflection wasn’t in the mirror. I did have a moment just when it fell when I thought to myself “Oh no, seven years of bad luck”; but that feeling quickly faded.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
@ Marelisa, I guess it was your lucky day then, since you weren’t looking at it. But even if you had been, it would only be bad luck until you turn 42!
December 16th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
so if i stepped on a mirror and it cracked but paper was over it is it still considered bad luck o.0 ? i was already getting alot of bad luck before it happen also
May 27th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
I too dropped one couple of days ago,I was quite upset,but it broke without my reflection in it,reading this article made me quite relaxed.
August 18th, 2011 at 7:42 am
TO DAY MORNING I HAD I FIGHT WITH MY HUSBAND AND HE IS SHORT TEMPER PERSON. HE TOOK THE MIRROR AND HIT THE FLOOR IT BROKE I WANT TO KNOW IF WE DID PURPOSELY IS THIS BAD LUCK FOE 7 YEARS. IS ANY SOLUTION FOR THAT
October 15th, 2011 at 2:02 am
I literally just broke a mirror in the the bathroom.. I was holding a little makeup mirror to pluck my eyebrows, and when I turned around to put it away it fell from my hand and broke when it hit the tiled floor. I don’t know if my reflection was in it when it broke, I can’t remember if it landed faced down or faced up (the front has a picture of the Eiffel Tower on it) but then again, my reflection could have been in the sides… I don’t know what to think, or believe! I’m a little stressed out here! And I am eighteen years old, so if I were to have to wait for my soul to renew it would have to be a total of three years “bad luck.”
October 17th, 2011 at 8:52 am
My daughter just broke a big mirror in the bathroom and I googled to find out about the 7 years bad luck myth. It was so relieving to know that that it doesn’t count if your reflection wasn’t in it.
The mirror fell and broke after she had left the bathroom. But anyway like mat says.. there is always bad luck and good luck around us .
Its just the timing and our mindset. Don’t feed the thought . Buy a new mirror and forget all about it.
October 27th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
OK, SO THIS MORNING I AM PULLING A LITTLE MIRROR OUT THAT IS ALREADY BROKE. TO TAKE A QUICK LOOK AND AS I AM PULLING IT UP IT FALLS OUT OF MY HAND. I DON’T THINK MY REFLECTION IS IN IT. BUT MAYBE NOT OUITE SURE….I AM 32 NOW SO IF MY REFLECTION WAS IT AM I GOING TO HAVE BAD LUCK FOR 3 YEARS. PLEASE HELP.
November 20th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
I just broke a mirror with my reflection in it, i have college entrances exams, interviews, and applications in the next month, i’ll be 21 in a couple of years………..