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Samhain
Celtic New Year
31 OCT - 1 NOV
On Samhain night the gates of the underworld open, allowing communion with the ancestors.
The Celtic New Year, it marks the beginnings of the winter season ; a time for introspection & rest; contemplation & reflection.
Dia de los Muertos
31 Oct - 2 Nov
The Mexican Day of the Dead dates back to pre-Hispanic times when indigenous people celebrated the temporary return of loved ones. Nov 1 - Todos los Santos (All the Saints) is dedicated to lost children • Nov 2 - Fieles Difuntos (Faithful Departed) is for the adults.
Guy Fawkes Day
5 • NOV
Remember, Remember the
5th of November.
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Learn more • Image • Poem
BEAVER MOON
The Full Moon of November
5•NOV•25
Frost Moon • Snow Moon
Geese Going Moon • Mourning Moon
The frost settles in, snows begins to fall. Beavers busy themselves with last minute preparation for the winter ahead. A time to bundle up & surround ourselves with things that will comfort & sustain us through the dark & cold days • Learn more
Claret Red
Intense & Passionate • A color of depth, strength + love • Helps us to see beyond the mundane & into the heart of matters • It integrates perception with detachment & inspires us to build on our dreams & ambitions.
- Colorstrology by Michele Bernhardt
Pantone Color for November • Learn more • Image
The Heart of Pluto
Reclassified as a dwarf planet, Pluto is the larger planet of the Kuiper belt. It has five known moons & takes about 248 earth years to orbit the sun. Pluto symbolizes the power of regeneration & the transformation of death into re-birth in the cycle of life.
BRUMAIRE
Month of Fog
brume
22 OCT - 20 NOV
From the French Republican Calendar created during the French Revolution. It removed religious, royalist & classical references & honored liberty & secularism. The twelve months were named after natural elements; the days were named for seeds, trees, flowers, fruits, animals & tools common to France & French country living.
SNAKE • FREEZE UP MOON
24 OCT - 21 NOV
EARTH ASTROLOGY • NATIVE AMERICAN
Birth Totem: Snake •
Element: Water w/Earth • Totem: Grizzly Bear • Clan: Frog
Your birth totem represents the teacher you chose to study under, not so much your personality or ego, as in Western Astrology - by Sun Bear + Wabun
RITTO • 立冬 • Little Winter
7 NOV - 21 NOV
二十四節季
NIJYUUSHI SEKKI • THE 24 JAPANESE SEASONS
The Japanese have 24 mini-seasons called Nijyuushi Sekki marked by celestial events including solstices, equinoxes & ecliptical degrees of the sun.
Ritto, when the sun moves from 225° to 240° along the ecliptic, marks the beginning of winter.
FEAST OF HEKATE
16•NOV•25
Hekate (or Hecate) is the ancient Greek Goddess of magic, life, death, herbalism & the mysteries. A goddess in triple form, Maiden, Mother + Crone, she guards the thresholds between the human and spirit world; presides over death, the dead, childbirth & life. Accompanied by her great hounds, she dwells at crossroads, doorways of homes & cemetery gates.
Art: The Triple Hecate, 1795. William Blake
Blackthorn
STRAIF
1•NOV - 1•MAY
CELTIC ASTROLOGY
The Dark Half of the Year
The Days from Samhain to Beltane
The Blackthorn brings cleansing & purification. Associated with the dark side of the year, it produces bitter sweet berries that ripen after the first frost and provides haven for birds who find protection amongst its long, prickly thorns. Cailleach, the Goddess of Winter, carries a blackthorn staff which she uses to create mountains, lakes & valleys and brings about snow storms and rough weather. She is reborn every Samhain.
NGETAL
20•NOV•25 - 18•NOV•25
12TH LUNATION
CELTIC ASTROLOGY
The Reed • The White Hound
Owl • Dog • Stone
Reeds are associated with the Underworld due to their deep, thick, tree-like roots. The Fire Festival of Samhain – the great spirit nights – falls during this time; when the boundary between the natural & supernatural worlds dissolve. The White Hound, not only aides in the hunt for the winter's meat, but represent the ghostly specters of the dogs that guard the entryways of mystery temples & other worldly realms.
- Celtic Astrology by Helena Paterson • Image
Bats & Cave Creatures
Creatures of darkness have their own kind of beauty & magnificence. Development of special senses - echolocation, elongated appendages & antennae, lack of pigmentation, blindness are some of the adaptations to their underground world.
They see the unseen.
Learn more • Conserve • Image
Fibonacci Day
23 • NOV
NATURE'S NUMBERING SYSTEM
The Fibonacci sequence appears is leaf arrangements, flower petals, pinecone bracts, pineapple scales and galaxies. Closely related to the Golden Ratio, the Fibonacci sequence is associated with beauty & is applicable to the growth of every living thing; from single cells, to grains of wheat, to beehives, to all of humankind
Windmill Blessing Day
25 • NOV
Millers would toss a handful of flour into the wind to appease the Windmill Spirits & honor the beneficent power of the wind. Our modern windmills are Wind Turbines, another gift from the wind – the clean, life-supporting power of an alternative energy.
Five Mountain Spirits
25•NOV•25
The 6th day of the 10th lunar month honors the FIVE MOUNTAIN SPIRITS of China's FIVE SACRED MOUNTAINS. Worshiped faithfully as places of authority & feared as realms of dark forces, each mountain represents an element and possesses corresponding cosmic deities, historical incarnations, chthonic beings, dragon gods & planets.
The sanctity of the Five Great Mountains is the reason why to this day these mountains host an exceptional diversity of plants, trees and animal species.
Soil
An Overlooked Ecosystem
Equal in importance as clean air & water; healthy soil is necessary for the sustainability & viability of all life on earth. A rich ecosystems, composed of both living & non-living matter, soil plays an important role in all of our natural ecological cycles including the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, water & nutrient cycles.
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