![]() Its allure is not intellectual, but visceral, dating back to a time when people explored the non-physical realms - the Other Worlds - as a natural and normal function of human experience.įor untold millennia before the Julian Calendar, Halloween, or Samhain (pron. It is a holiday that fascinates without requiring us to believe anything. The last secular festival remaining in the Western calendar, only Halloween has cleaved to its magical, primordial roots. Archaic collective imagery of a very special kind re-awakens every year when the sun is in Scorpio, sweeping us under its spell. The keen sense of nostalgia many of us feel at this time of year may be due to cellular memory, which keeps us in touch with Halloween’s long, rich history. ![]() ![]() Halloween reminds us of the existence of powers we cannot see, and yet still somehow understand. The energy in the air is ambivalent, prickling with unease but alive with the promise of connecting us to life in a new way, a deeper way. Halloween arrives with the brisk autumn wind, when our sensibilities are undergoing the same subtle but profound changes as Nature herself. ![]() Published in The Twelfth House Magazine, October 2003 ![]()
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