Happy Halloween

 

October 28, 2023 Hunter’s Moon

 

Hunter’s Moon

 

the name "Hunter's Moon" is believed to have originated in the 1700s, when hunters would prepare for the winter months by going hunting. 

It's also the time that animals would begin to "fatten up" ahead of the cold season

After the harvest moon comes the hunter's moon, 

in the preferred month to hunt summer-fattened deer and fox unable to hide in bare fields. 

Like the harvest moon, the hunter's moon is also particularly bright and long in the sky, giving hunters the opportunity to stalk prey at night.

The hunter's moon, also known as falling leaves moon and freezing moon, historically signals a time of year when Indigenous groups stock up on food for winter 

— especially since deer and other prey have fattened up after feasting all summer.

Other predatory creatures, such as foxes and wolves, would also come out to hunt their prey.

 Sanguine or blood moon are other common names for the hunter's moon. 

These terms are believed to be derived from the blood of hunting or the changing color of fall leaves.

So a full moon near the horizon – any full moon near the horizon – takes on a yellow or orange or reddish hue. 

Big moon near the horizon. The bigger-than-usual size of a moon seen near the horizon is something else entirely. It's a trick that your eyes are playing – an illusion – called the Moon Illusion.

Why is the Hunter's moon red?

It's sometimes also known as a blood moon. Sometimes the air molecules from the Earth's atmosphere can scatter much of the blue light we would normally see reflected from the moon, making it appear more red

Hunter’s Moon

 

• October 28, 2023 (4:24 PM) Hunter’s Moon
  This moon marked a crucial time for hunters to store up meat before winter. The Hunter's Moon also was considered a feast day for Native Americans and many Western Europeans.

 

 Every Halloween we make a choice about what kind of costume we're going to wear. 

Something sexy, maybe we'll be someone scary, or you could be a superhero

Halloween is not for the faint of heart. There's a surprise around every corner. 

Some of the surprises are good, and some of the surprises are bad. 

What's important is that you can't let the fear of the surprise stop you from getting dressed up and wandering to a stranger's house to ask the question.

 So, what'll it be? 

Trick... or treat?

Samhain

 

Samhain is observed from sunset on October 31st to sunset on November 1st. 

It is the celebration that is the origin of Halloween. 

Samhain was first observed by Celtic Pagans. 

Samhain marked the Celtic New Year, the end of summer, and the end of the harvest season

October 31 became known as All Hallows Eve, or Halloween, and contained much of the traditional pagan practices before being adopted in 19th-century America through Irish immigrants bringing their traditions across the ocean

For the Celts, who lived during the Iron Age in what is now Ireland, Scotland, the U.K. and other parts of Northern Europe, Samhain (meaning literally, in modern Irish, “summer's end”) marked the end of summer and kicked off the Celtic new year

According to the later Dindsenchas and the Annals of the Four Masters—which were written by Christian monks—Samhain in ancient Ireland was associated with a god or idol called Crom Cruach.

Samhain, also known as the origin of Halloween, was a powerful and special demon of Hell and was one of the 66 Seals. He could only rise when summoned by two powerful witches through three blood sacrifices over three days, with the last sacrifice day on the final harvest, Halloween.

If we define it as a celebration of the pre-Christianization or kind of the Mexican Day of the Dead or the Irish Samhain, the Viking did have that kind of celebration. The Vikings themselves had the celebrations called the Blóts

In addition to being a time to honor family members, friends and pets who have passed away, Samhain is the final harvest holiday and marks the end—and therefore beginning—of a new cycle on the Wheel. Most Wiccans believe in reincarnation and view death as simply another stage of life.

The name Halloween comes from a Scottish shortening of All Hallows' Eve 

In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor saints. Soon after, All Saints Day came to incorporate some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before All Saints Day was known as All Hallows Eve, and later, Halloween.

Many Christians believe that participating in Halloween is a form of involvement in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness, which is forbidden in Scripture: Ephesians 5:7-15. Don't participate in the things these people do. For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord

On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.

Samhain was known in Ireland as the “Lord of Darkness”. The Druid religion was practiced by ancient Celtic tribes that populated Ireland and parts of Europe. This religion worshipped Samhain, the Lord of Darkness. Some writings also speak of Samhain as the “Lord of the Dead”

All Hallows Eve eventually became Halloween. “Although All Saints Day is actually on November 1, the Celts began their festivals at sunset, so the holiday began on the evening before (Oct. 31) 

 

 

The most effective way to live is as a warrior. 

A warrior may worry and think before making any decision,

 but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts;

 there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. 

That's the warrior's way.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world

 

The world is such and such or so and so, 

only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. 

 

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. 

And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation;

 and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted 

or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to

Cardi Taki

 

Bardi (Cardi)
I have say he wanna touch it, and tease it, and squeeze it
While my piggyback is hungry, my nigga, you need to feed it

If the text ain't freaky, I don't wanna read it
And just so let's know this punani is undefeated, 

I have said I really want to see me more
I said we should have a date, where? At the Lamborghini store

I'm kinda scary, hard to read, I'm like a ouija board
But I'ma boss, bitch, who you gonna leave me for?

You have no class, you bitches froze still
I'll be talkin 'cash while I'm poppin' my gold grill 

I'ma hoe, rich bitch and work like I'm broke still (Cardi)
But they love me so fake, but they hate me so real 

The booty sticks out of my suit
I did not wear panties so he doesn't have to work for it

It's just that I know what you think you don't know
He says he doesn't want to but he wants to eat this package

Selina Taki

 

Careful when you come through my way
My body already know how to play

Work it, keep it tight every day
And I, I, I know you need a taste

I'm like ooh, falling in love
Give a little ooh-ooh, get it well done

Dancing in my ooh, make a girl wanna run

We keep moving 'til the sun come up
Because I am the party, I am party

Blow out your candles, have a nap
You can try but not one can stop me

What my taki taki wants, say my taki taki gets 

Selina Taki

 

 

 to be like the flame of a candle, 

which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars,

 remains intact, 

because it never pretended to be more than what it is:

 a mere candle

 

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse

 

 We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. 

The amount of work is the same

 

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. 

The amount of work is the same

 

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. 

There were no priests then, 

and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult

Jeffrey Dahmer Shrine

 

Memento Mori

 

remember you must die

 

Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning 'remember you must die'. 

A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull

 but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers.

 

All photographs are memento mori. 

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

 Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt

 

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not

 

Tori Amos

Years go by, will I still be waiting
For somebody else to understand
Years go by, if I'm stripped of my beauty
And the orange clouds raining in my head
Years go by, will I choke on my tears
'Til, finally there is nothing left

 

Billy Joel 

He says, "Son can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes"

Marilyn 

Men grow cold
As girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end

 

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not

The world's a hard place

It don't care. 

It don't hate you and me,

 but it don't love us, either.

 Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. 

Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. 

Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper

 

 doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently

Edgar Allan Poe

 

Short stories

• "The Black Cat"
• "The Cask of Amontillado"
• "A Descent into the Maelström"
• "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
• "The Fall of the House of Usher"
• "The Gold-Bug"
• "Hop-Frog"
• "The Imp of the Perverse"
• "Ligeia"
• "The Masque of the Red Death"
• "Morella"
• "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
• "Never Bet the Devil Your Head"
• "The Oval Portrait"
• "The Pit and the Pendulum"
• "The Premature Burial"
• "The Purloined Letter"
• "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"
• "The Tell-Tale Heart"
• "Loss of Breath"

Poetry

• "Al Aaraaf"
• "Annabel Lee"
• "The Bells"
• "The City in the Sea"
• "The Conqueror Worm"
• "A Dream Within a Dream"
• "Eldorado"
• "Eulalie"
• "The Haunted Palace"
• "To Helen"
• "Lenore"
• "Tamerlane"
• "The Raven"
• "Ulalume"

Other works

• Politian (1835) – Poe's only play
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) – Poe's only complete novel
• The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840) – Poe's second, unfinished novel
• "The Balloon-Hoax" (1844) – A journalistic hoax printed as a true story
• "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) – Essay
• Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) – Essay
• "The Poetic Principle" (1848) – Essay
• "The Light-House" (1849) – Poe's last, incomplete work