Saturday, October 24, 2020

I LOVE HALLOWEEN!

It’s the Celtic New Year, a night of the year filled with mysticism and folklore when “the veil between the worlds” clears and the Ancients claim we can connect with the Unknown.

It’s a night for old fashioned scary movies (not the slasher kind), putting a log on the fireplace, (if you still have a wood-burning one), and laying out the tarot cards. It is an opportunity to dress up and become someone (something) else.

It’s also a time for ghost stories and ancient superstitions.

An interesting one is from the Gnostic tradition in which the labyrinth and the Cross are combined: “the True Cross on which Jesus died was made by his father, Joseph the Carpenter, and it was planted in Golgotha in the spot where the Tree of Life had grown. (the Tree of Life symbolizing the labyrinth) Also, during Neolithic times, the original labyrinth design contained a cross that penetrated through the opening as a male/female genital symbol. These designs can be found in Tintagel in England and Chartres Cathedral in France.”(1)(Lorie, Peter, Superstitions,1992)

The term “crossroads” is another example of the cross and labyrinth converging in which one must leave one path to embark upon another. When I traveled to Ireland, ley-lines were noted where towers were built in various locations throughout the country where energy can be detected with electromagnetic sensors. These ley-lines exist in Europe, China, and the United States.

“The leys have, it is suggested, been created by the passage of men and animals between various important places, such as towns and villages, or churches, on foot or horse, to and fro, over thousands of years. They have been detected between points where special shrines have been set up by the American Indians at crossroads between them, in the same way as the ancient Europeans did. They were places for weary travelers and places of worship to see them on their way. This was the very basis of the original crossroads, so that it wasn’t simply a matter of roads crossing one another, but a religious significance was built into the convergence and related both to the cross and a place of rest and meditation.”1 (Lorie, Peter, Superstitions, 1992)

This All Hallows Eve, we are definitely at a Crossroads in our nation, with Covid-19 and the election only days away.

Whatever one thinks about the two presidential candidates, it really comes down to one basic choice: Traditionalism or Socialism.

This Halloween Night, let’s light the candles, drink a mug of pumpkin cider, and read the Tarot cards to “see” which way it will go.

“Avoid grinning black cats, on full green moon,

If your lover is true, he’ll come back soon.

It breaks the charm, the witches scream,

And never return, till next Halloween.” (Old Postcard)