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Thursday 31st of October 8.41a.m. Heavy dew o'nite. Sunny and warm. Light 5.5 / 11.1kph SSE, Hg 52%, 19.9C / 67.8F top of 23C / 73F. Showers developing.
Moon is 2.3%
Samhain or Sauin is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish language name for November. Celebrations begin on the evening of 31 October, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset.
This is about halfway between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice.
Samhain (“summer’s end”) is celebrated as today’s Halloween. Many historians believe it served as the start of the new year in the Celtic calendar—their “New Year’s Day.”
It was the day when the cattle were brought in from pasture; those needed for the winter’s supply of meat would be slaughtered. Since Samhain was the death-night of the old year, it came to be associated with ghosts and graveyards. During this dark time of year, it was believed that the spirits of the dead wandered from sunset until midnight. After midnight, the ghosts are said to go back to rest. (That day, November 1, later became All Saints’ Day.) Samhain has happier associations too, such as apple bobbing, which was a form of telling fortunes for the new year.
Moon is 2.3%
October 31, Samhain/Halloween
Samhain or Sauin is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish language name for November. Celebrations begin on the evening of 31 October, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset.
This is about halfway between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice.
Samhain (“summer’s end”) is celebrated as today’s Halloween. Many historians believe it served as the start of the new year in the Celtic calendar—their “New Year’s Day.”
It was the day when the cattle were brought in from pasture; those needed for the winter’s supply of meat would be slaughtered. Since Samhain was the death-night of the old year, it came to be associated with ghosts and graveyards. During this dark time of year, it was believed that the spirits of the dead wandered from sunset until midnight. After midnight, the ghosts are said to go back to rest. (That day, November 1, later became All Saints’ Day.) Samhain has happier associations too, such as apple bobbing, which was a form of telling fortunes for the new year.
