# Happy New Year, Pagans! (& Happy Halloween To Everyone Else!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171 "2000-11-01T01:02:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/1 "2000-11-01T01:02:29Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/2 "2000-11-01T01:12:46Z")
Here’s to creative costumes, sugary sweets, and fun, non-destructive pranks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/3 "2000-11-01T01:40:51Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/4 "2000-11-01T04:00:48Z")
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: “When shall we three meet again?” " . . . erm, I dunno. Next Tuesday?" Happy Sammhain, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/5 "2000-11-01T05:36:32Z")
Happy new year!!! And for those of you who deal with the fae, don’t forget to leave something out for them tonite. They move their court at midnite. Be well my friends and safe journies through the new year. Merry Meet, Merry Part, and Merry Meet Again! Blessed Be ---
**Author:** ![Pandora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pandora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandora)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/6 "2000-11-01T13:14:31Z")
Happy New Year Everyone!! Blessed Be 🙂 -Pandora ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/7 "2000-11-01T14:53:26Z")
Let’s see did anyone else remember the dead last night? I performed no ritual this year but instead decided to have an early night. MMM Sleep. HUGS and Happy Samhain! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/8 "2000-11-01T15:45:07Z")
To all my pagan friends: Happy New Year! Best wishes and blessings for the coming year. For all my non-pagan friends: Wait until January 1. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-pagans-happy-halloween-to-everyone-else/39171/9 "2000-11-01T23:02:26Z")
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? \ 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…