Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:42 pm (PDT)
Monday's Correspondence...Oct 31 HAPPY SAMHAIN/HALLOWEEN
Today's Influences: Conjurations, Predictions, Knowledge, Writing, Eloquence
Today's Goddesses: Aset [Isis], Demeter, Ceres, Spider Woman, Bona Dea, Oya, Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette, Sekhmet, Het Heret [Hathor]
Incense: Cinnamon, Cinquefoil
Aromas: Sweetpea, Lavender, Mastic, Frankincense, Cloves
Color of The Day: Dark Purple, Orange, Black, White
Candle: Dark Purple, Black, White, Orange
Planet: Moon
Metal: Silver
Deities: Thoth, Selene
Gemstones: Pearl, opal, moonstone
Herbs & Plants: Wintergreen and other mints, catnip, comfrey, sage,
chamomile
Associations: Childbearing and family life, purity and virginity, healing, wisdom, intuition
Use for magick involving mental issues, learning, higher education, addictions, communications, travel, young people, messages, perception, self-expression, artists, poets, and writers
What's Happening Today:
The Witches New Year.
· Halloween
· Samhain
· Magic Day
· Druid's Samhain Autumn Sun Festival.
· Ancient Roman Feast To Pomona.
· All Hallow's Eve, 10th Century.
· All Saint's Eve.
· Old Celtic New Year's Eve. Struggle Between Old & New Years.
· Festival Of Inner Worlds.
· Joseph Campbell, 83, Dies. Mythologist.1987
· National UNICEF Day
· Beggar's Night
· Apple & Candle Night (Wales)
· National Caramel Apple Day
· 10/31 eve to 11/2 eve: Old Sumerian & Canaanite-Hebrew fast recalling the descent of Inanna/Astarte (Goddess of Life) to the Underworld. Ereshkigal/Sheol (Goddess of Death and Rebirth) detained Her until She agreed to have Dumuzi/Baal (God of Life and Death) remain there each Winter.
· 10/31 eve to 11/2 eve: Samhain--Old Celtic New Year and feast of Morrigan/Cerridwen (Goddess of Death) and Balor/Beli (the Holly King - God of the Waning Sun).
· 10/31 eve to 11/2 eve: Old Teutonic fast marking Hod (God of Darkness) unintentionally killing Balder (God of Light), and devoted Nanna (Goddess of Flowers) dying of a broken heart.
· 10/31 eve to 11/6 eve: Mid-Autumn/Day of the Dead/Hallowmas--Festival marking the transformation of life to death - the end of the agricultural year, departure of migrating and hibernating animals, and decay and death of vegetal and animal life. Observed by remembering departed ancestors and contemplating one's own mortality
Third Station of the Year
Kalends of November, ancient Rome
The Isia, ancient Egypt (Oct 28-Nov 3)
Day of the Awakeners, Bulgaria
Day of the Banshees, Ireland
El Dia de las Muerte, Mexico (Day of the Dead) - feast and festival celebrating Death and commemorating the dead.
Voodoo: All Saint's Day - ritual bonfires are lit for the sun loa Legba, symbolizing the re-firing of the sun at the beginning
of the new year.
All Saints Day is a day of religious feasting that, with no coincidence, follows the originally pagan holiday of Halloween.
More than 2,000 years ago, Celtic peoples in Ireland, Scotland, and Great Britain held harvest feasts to which they believed the
souls of their dead returned. These feasts evolved into what we now know as Halloween.
Voudun/Catholicism: All Saints Day - feast in commemoration of all the Christian saints. Moved from springtime to Nov. 1st to
counter the Druid's celebration of Samhain.
Kitano Odori, Kyoto, Japan (Nov 1-15) At Kamikyo-ku, Kitano Kaikan theatre, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture Dancing groups and music.
World Community Day--Day for celebrating the unity behind diversity and remembering we are all one people - all children of the one universal Deity of many names and aspects.
11/1 to 11/4: Diwali/Lunar New Year/Festival of Lights--Hindu festival for Goddess Lakshmi (source of health, fertility, and prosperity) and Her consort, God Vishnu (the
