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For the avoidance of doubt... Yes... I definitely have an opinion... |
| Prompt: October Is there something about this October and the fall season that makes you feel peaceful or calm? Or is October's energy exciting and stimulating? *** I LOVE October. It's my birth month, so I am very biased. Before I moved to the underside on the world... October represented nights drawing in, a wash on colour in the countryside, cosey evenings with hot chocolate or warm spiced apple juice (sorry US I can't call it cider unless it's alcoholic), storms rolling in, the switch in the weather and of course spooky season. And not just the trick or treating, because who doesn't like sweets/candy/lollies, I like Samhain - love the bon fires and divination in the flames, it's when I light a candle for my dad and talk to him. In Wales, where I am from, it's known as Nos Calan Gaeaf which means 'night of the winter calends' which I think is quite beautiful. It is very similar to Samhain ina lot of ways, which I think is Irish/Scottish, though technically the dates are different: Nos Calan Gaeaf 31st Oct and Samhain 1st Nov. However, I now live in the topsy-turvy world of Australia where the season are turned on their head. I find this incredibly discombobulating. I don't have seasonal affective disorder, I have seasonal what the actual f... disorder, because my head says its Oct therefore Samhain, or Dec therefore yule... but the weather says it's spring and summer and about 25C+ It's been the bane of my life since I moved here... This means I have to celebrate Halloween and Beltane at the same time - which because there's always a bon fire... but still. |
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