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Newsletters: Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #77 (Samhain Special)
Posted by: Nyxks on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 04:08 PM
Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #77 (Samhain Special)
10-25-2004 to 10-31-2004
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WEEKLY SPECIAL - All Hallow's Eve
WEEKLY ASTROLOGY REPORT
RITUAL - A Solitary Samhain
RECIPE - Jack-O-Lantern Pizza Pan Cookie
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WEEKLY SPECIAL - All Hallow's Eve
by Mike Nichols
Halloween.
Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep.
But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin?
'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves
under the Halloween Tree.
'You don't REALLY know!'
--Ray Bradbury from 'The Halloween Tree'
Samhain. All Hallows. All Hallow's Eve. Hallow E'en. Halloween. The most magical night of the year.
Exactly opposite Beltane on the wheel of the year, Halloween is Beltane's dark twin. A night of glowing
jack-o-lanterns, bobbing for apples, tricks or treats, and dressing in costume. A night of ghost stories and
seances, tarot card readings and scrying with mirrors. A night of power, when the veil that separates our
world from the Otherworld is at its thinnest. A 'spirit night', as they say in Wales.
All Hallow's Eve is the eve of All Hallow's Day (November 1st). And for once, even popular tradition
remembers that the Eve is more important than the Day itself, the traditional celebration focusing on
October 31st, beginning at sundown. And this seems only fitting for the great Celtic New Year's festival.
Not that the holiday was Celtic only. In fact, it is startling how many ancient and unconnected cultures
(the Egyptians and pre-Spanish Mexicans, for example) celebrated this as a festival of the dead. But the
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