posted October 31, 2010 09:26 AM         

In traditional Halloween spirit can we enjoy ourselves and the customs and rituals associated with this festival in celebrations with others or simply having fun with the Moon traversing Leo until 11:51 pm EDT when she will ingress Virgo and we could be feeling that’s time to withdraw.

Tarot card of the day is the ”Queen of Cups”, representing a welling up of deep feelings, which are bottomless and may have been hidden or unacknowledged for some time or simply be an overflow of sentimentality. This card indicates the feminine principle working in a loving and nurturing environment through empathy, caring, nurturing and unconditional love when we respond with our hearts, not our heads. The interaction of imagination and action to create a balance within relationships is represented.

posted October 31, 2010 09:28 AM         

Halloween truly is a pagan practice, and most people now recognize that this so-called holiday is actually rooted in the old Celtic festival of Samhain. Although Halloween is commonly celebrated on October 31, the festival of Samhain is a cross-quarter holiday that occurs at the midpoint between the Fall Equinox and the Winter Solstice on November 7.

Astrologically, Samhain (along with the other cross-quarter days of Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasad) is celebrated at the midpoint of the fixed signs of Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius and Leo. Fixed signs are the signs of power – like the square, their stability and fixed nature leads to a buildup of energy that opens up a doorway to an explosion of raw power. In Scorpio, that power is directed within, fearlessly exploring the invisible dimensions of life and reaching across dimensions to discover what awaits there.

Samhain was celebrated as the New Year in pre-Christian Celtic lands, and it was thought that during this time the veil between the worlds was at its thinnest. Communication with the dead was widely practiced during Samhain rituals, not surprising because of the association with Scorpio and the underworld of darkness that it rules.

When Christianity attempted to subsume the pagan Celtic festivals into Christian holidays, All Saints or All Hallows Day was established on November 2 with the night before being the Eve of All Hallows which has come down to us as Halloween. Participants still celebrate the souls of the dead during Hallows Eve, but now the creatures from the other side were reviled as evil. Wise women became the evil witches; offerings of food and drink were left out for the dead souls to placate their evil spirits.

Sig Lonegren from Glastonbury writes about Samhain and Scorpio:

So as this Samhain approaches, what is ending in you? What do you have inside that it is time to let go of? No healing is complete until you get beyond recovery. Use Samhain to take the thirteenth step: Transformation. In the Tarot, the thirteenth card of the Major Arcana is Death, and it is ruled by Scorpio. Samhain occurs in Scorpio. The card of Death doesn’t necessarily mean physical death (though it can mean that), but more productively, it can be seen as an inevitable heavy change or transformation. Something old must be gotten rid of to make room for something new to be able to come in. Use the magic of this time to say good-bye to an old habit or addiction, an old relationship, or anything else it is time to leave behind.

Scorpio is the sign of death and the underworld, and in the face of death we must let go of any artifice and emerge exposed and living in Truth. However, the rising of Venus as the morning star this week suggests the potentiality now for re-emerging into the world of light and grace.

Venus as the morning star is also called Lucifer, the light bringer. Venus is in Scorpio now, where she forces us to face the Truth about our relationships to others and to ourselves as well. In order to advance in our personal and spiritual evolution, we must face all Truths about ourselves, even if these Truths force us into darkness, and re-emerge into the light where the darkness is transmuted into awakening.

This is a powerful time of discovery and unfolding in which we are simultaneously descending into the darkness of raw power and ascending into light and Truth. This can be excruciatingly difficult if we hold on to any false protections, and ecstasy if we let go into the bliss of awakening.

http://astrodynamics.net/blog/

posted October 31, 2010 09:57 AM         

And if you don't normally speak to your loved ones who have already crossed over, today is an excellent opportunity to do so. The veil between the worlds is very, very thin today.

Today is a wonderful opportunity to tell them that you love them, or to ask their forgiveness... if they left before you had a chance to ask them for forgiveness, to tell them you're sorry.

posted October 31, 2010 10:03 AM         

Transit Akashi 23 in SAG and in conj my BML/Ceres

Transit Samhain 19 in leo

Transit Uranus and jupiter and Draconic pluto now in conj to my Draconic venus 27 pisces
Draconic hygiea/lova/mars/tyche/akash//samhain

I feel my whole life in a new phase and turn into a new way. I dont know how it will end but I feel it will be good.

posted October 31, 2010 10:13 AM         

the veil has been thinning quite a lot in recent days.

Actually felt it was VERY thin, nearly non-existant last night.

posted October 31, 2010 10:23 AM         

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Anyone else feels this prickling electric sensation and feels like they are not alone, when they are alone?

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posted October 31, 2010 04:20 PM         

"For better or for worse, every day is like that for me lol"
Yes, it`s like that every day.

Just the intensity of it felt more "focused". Dunno how to explain it better.

VIG,

I am sorry about your loss.
But your description made me smile.

Maybe it`s just that I am more focused or centred, so I am even more susceptible than usually.

posted October 31, 2010 04:53 PM         

May all evil sleep,
May all good awake,
In thy way.
—(Source: “Mystery on the Isle of Skye”