BS: Happy Samhain

Subject: BS: Happy Samhian
From:
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 12:07 PM

Just a thread to wish everyone who celebrates todays Festival a very Happy Samhain. May the year ahead be great and fulfilled for you all. For those of you who don't celebrate have hope you enjoy Halloween!

Blessings
Khatt

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhian
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 12:16 PM

my first Samhain greetings, and I still don't have my Samhain shopping done!!!! GOSH I NEED TO RUN TO THE STORE!!! Thanks for the greetings Khatt and good to hear your cybervoice! jimmyt

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhian
From: greg stephens
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 12:51 PM

catsphiddle: as i just love being pedantic, i thank you for your wishes, but cant help feeling that if we're really strict about this, samhain is really best considered as November 1, nd doesnt actually start till midnight tonight. Though of course, all things "Celtic" do tend to be a little on the vague side.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhian
From: Micca
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 01:12 PM

Greg, not quite right, as I understand it the "Celtic" day ran from sunset to sunset, so "Samhain" is from about 1635 today (31 October) to 1630 Tomorrow

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhian
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 02:35 PM

my first Samhain greetings, and I still don't have my Samhain shopping done!!!! GOSH I NEED TO RUN TO THE STORE!!! Thanks for the greetings Khatt and good to hear your cybervoice! jimmyt

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhian
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 02:37 PM

as you can see in my preSamhain zest I sent this again! Seriously, I miss you guys and hope to raise a glass with you again really soon,. Micca and Catherinejayne!   Have a great holiday!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhian
From: GUEST,Garydon
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 03:05 PM

Thank you and a Blessed Samhain to you as well. However, more accurate a date would be the next full-moon arriving on November 8. The calander no longer follows the moon cycle. May all your celebrations plentyful.

Gary®

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 03:47 PM

HOw am I supposed to get in to the holiday spirit if you guys can't agree on the date? Even us crazy Christians can remember Dec 25 is Christmas!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 03:50 PM

So celebrate All Hallow's Eve - that sticks to October 31st!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:00 PM

and - tho' many people don't celebrate them - All Hallow's is the first of three consecutive holidays - Nov1 is All Saint's and Nov 2 is All Souls.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:02 PM

Merry Samhain to you, too, Khatt and the rest of you. Thanks, Khatt, for starting this.

I thought this was interesting in view of the actual dates. I found it was www.witchvox.com (thanks, Micca!):

November 8th will be what is called the Harmonic Concordance. This means, that 6 planets will be in an alignment and make the Star of David, or Seal of Solomon, pattern. Also, there will be a lunar eclipse. This day is the Full Moon of Scorpio(in which many Pagans actually celebrate Samhain on this day). The veil this day will be it's thinnest in many many many years. Also, some astrologers think that this is the day when the Mayan Calendar ends, thus a new age begining.

And, now, just for fun a kids' party quiz from an old treasure of a book, Halloween by Robert Haven Schauffler, published in 1933. The answers are at the bottom:

1. Of what should Hallowe'en (sic) candlesticks be made?

2. When a witch goes to school what does she do best?

3. What relatives are always present at a Hallowe'en party?

4. Who takes charge of the lights on Hallowe'en?

5. If a witch could change herself into something to eat, what woudl it be?




















1. Broomsticks
2. Spells
3. Pumpkin
4. Jack O'Lantern
5. Sandwich

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:02 PM

those are just upstate new york holidays

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: AliUK
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:03 PM

Well the sun is setting yet another tropical day for me here in Brazil, the sound of samba floats up from the little bar on the corner and....I have cider mulling on the stove and we´re going to bob for apples and tell spooky stories later.

a bheanachd


Gum bi a' bheatha a' frasadh ort, a bhig, an fhallaineachd, an ionracas, an sonas mar thiodhlacan.


slainte ( as Allison would say)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: Alba
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:09 PM

Merry Samhain and Brightest of Blessings to all.
Thank you for the greeting Khatt!





another couple of giggles:
Who was the most famous French Skeleton?
Why did the Vampire subscribe to the Wall Street Journal?
answers below








Napoleon Bone apart!
He heard it had great circulation!
Merry Samhain<:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:14 PM

Ask Micca why witches wear no underwear!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 06:07 PM

Please Jimmy - that is such a terrible mind picture.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: Cluin
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 06:22 PM

A skeleton walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a beer.   And a mop."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 06:30 PM

Liz, I think it was your cooking that loosened up MIcca to the point of telling that joke, or could it have been one of the few bottles of wine we consumed?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: open mike
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 09:54 PM

I will be celebrating in the style of the mexican day of the dead.
Nov. 2 this year i believe.
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/daydeadindex.html
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html
and i will be joined by many women as we celebrate the
21st annual women's gathering on t4eh first weekend of Nov.
also I will have ashes of both of my parents here to remember
them. also i have found a recipe for making candy and a mold
which shapes it into skulls.....one of the mexican info links
above tells about bread of the dead which you make into bone
shapes, and sugar skulls are often found in mexican celebrations;
I remember one show on Northern Exposure t.v. show where in the
north west there was a celebration that had many skeletons and
crows or ravens....any one know about this tradition? is it at
the same time of year??

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: LadyJean
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 11:42 PM

Did you hear about the Roman Catholic, the Southern Baptist, the Presbyterian and the Pagan who camped together at the S.C.A.s annual Pensic War?
We had a very nice time together. I'm the Presbyterian.

But as I have told my pagan friend, there is no rest for the wiccan.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: mg
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 11:42 PM

tomorrow Nov. 1 is Watchfires...just light something (if it is safe where you are to do so) at 9 p.m. your time...to bring home any wandering souls from various wars. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: Tig
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 07:53 AM

Just got a minute to actually get on Mudcat.

I know it's now Nov 1st but Happy Samhain anyway.

Lots of love and hugs,
Tig.

PS For those of you worried about Magician the date for his op has been set for Dec 3rd (unless he gets any probs before).

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Samhain
From: Hollowfox
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 02:59 PM

Thanks for the reminder, Mary G. Me, I'll celebrate them all. In fact I'll celebrate anything that can't run fast enough to escape! Have a good one, all of you, whatever you choose to call it, and whichever date works out best for you.