October 31, 2018, 5:55 p.m.

Samhain

            …when the veil between the two worlds is most pervious.

            This third and last of the three pagan Autumn harvest festivals acknowledges a time of cleansing and preparation for the darkness of Winter.  It is the most important of the four "greater Sabbats."  

            Observance begins at sundown on October 31.

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(Photo by CDI)

I am the moon’s looking glass. 

My days are moon-dials. 

She will never be done with me. 

She needs me. 

She is dry. 

I leash to her,

a sea, 

a washy heave, 

a tide.

  

Eavan Boland, from New Collected Poems