That’s right, tonight is New Year’s for us Pagans. I’m spending it doing…well, not much, at the moment. My daughter is at a Halloween party (with her babysitter, at–get this–a Baptist church), my son is in bed, and my husband is working.
However, after my daughter gets home and I manage to get her wildly sugar-buzzed three-year-old butt into bed, I will spend what’s left of the evening in quiet contemplation, and perhaps a ritual. I’ve got a cool book by Gerina Dunwich, called The Pagan Book of Halloween, and it’s got all kinds of nifty stuff in it.
Blessed Be to all of you, my friends, Pagan or not. May you be safe, happy, healthy, and loved through the next year!
Persephone, now is the time you gotta go back down into the innards of the earth and spend some time with Whatshisname. That’s the mythological agreeement, right? So, here’s the most juicy pomegranate I can find in the dearth of the western world…
Hope it serves you well, and, from a Buddhist to a Pagan, it’s all in your mind, so, see ya soon!
I went to a public Sammhain ritual on Saturday night. It was fairly cool, though too crowded for me to really get into the goings on. Consequently, I had a running MST3K/Terry Pratchett commentary in my head. When the Maiden, Mother, and Crone figures were gathered around the altar, I nearly said outloud:
Mi dankas vin! Kaj Felicxan Novjaron al vi alie!
Thank you! And Happy New Year to you too!
Now we northern-hemisphere types get to go hibernate and wait for the quickenings of spring. Or go to Hawaii. Or something.
Then again, we could move to Australia where the year is reversed, and they’re celebrating spring. Australian Pagans? Are you celebrating a new year now?
<ponder> Hmm. You could switch hemispheres every six months; if you did this one way, you could have nothing but spring and summer, with none of the corresponding harvest and decay needed for balance. (The stock market would love that one.) If you did it the other way, you’d get nothing but fall and winter…
Separate Pagan calendars for North and South? And what of the equator?
I think that the Common Era calendar will be around for a while at least…
