Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
All Hallows: An Entanglement Today is All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en, with all the sweet treats, riotous good fun, and spooky debauchery that entails. Tomorrow is All Saints Day, All Hallows, a reincarnation of the ancient Irish festival called Samhain, which means “end of summer”. Samhain is one of the few clear remnants from at least… Continue reading The Daily: 31 October 2025
Tomorrow is All Hallows' Eve, Hallowe'en, the night before Hallowmas, All Souls' Day, the Christian reincarnation of the ancient festival of Lemuria, the Roman festival of the dead, merged with the ancient Irish celebration of the end of summer, Samhain. These days, we hardly remember that it was once a sacred festival. But, while the… Continue reading The Daily: 30 October 2025
It's the last week of autumn in my calendar. Just as well, because they're predicting snow by Thursday. The forecast started out as "well, it's going to be cold enough so if stuff falls from the sky, it might be snow". This morning that turned into "best dig out the snow shovel". I think they're… Continue reading The Daily: 27 October 2025
The Harvest Moon is full today at 11:47pm my time. Moonrise is at 5:55 tonight, preceding fullness by less than six hours and sunset by about twenty minutes, eliminating the time of darkness between sunlight and moonlight. This is the Harvest Moon because it is closest to the autumn equinox, and geometry at this time… Continue reading The Daily: 6 October 2025
Today is All Hallows' Eve, Hallowe'en, the first night in the ancient new year's festival that Celtic language speaking people called Samhaine. We hardly remember that it was once a sacred festival, celebrating endings and beginnings, nor that it was converted by the Catholic Church into a day for honoring the dead. It's possible that… Continue reading The Daily: 31 October 2024
All Hallows: An Entanglement It's the most wonderful time of the year... Tomorrow is All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en, a new year's eve in former days with all the sweet treats, riotous good fun, and debauchery that entails. Friday is All Saints Day, All Hallows, the ancient new year festival called Samhaine, which is usually translated… Continue reading The Daily: 30 October 2024
I'm not feeling it this year... I have the hat. I have the broom. I have a house full of actual pumpkin spice from the bread in the oven. But... the trees are all bare... it's snowing... and I just feel grey... Hallowe'en was the best holiday of the year when my kids were young.… Continue reading The Daily: 28 October 2024
Autumn rolled in last week. The mountains are not green, but a glorious pumpkin orange. The late apples are ripening. Several farms put the early glut of winter squash on sale already. My favorite place, Burtt's, is doing 3 pie pumpkins for $10 and 5 winter squash of any size and variety for $30. That's… Continue reading The Daily: 7 October 2024
The Harvest Moon goes dark tomorrow at 2:49pm here. The Hunter's Moon is new on Wednesday. However, there is an annular solar eclipse with tomorrow's dark moon, so I thought I would get the new moon post done early. Not that the eclipse is all that exciting. The moon is too close to earth right… Continue reading The Daily: 1 October 2024
All Hallows: An Entanglement It is All Saints Day, All Hallows, the ancient new year festival called Samhaine, which is usually translated as “end of summer”. Last night was the All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en, a new year's eve in former days with all the sweet treats, riotous good fun, and debauchery that entails. This is… Continue reading The Daily: 1 November 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 