On 18 Feb 2006 "cybersurfur" wrote:
Why Halloween?
Iv not really come across anything that would suggest increased
paranormal activity on that day. Just hollywood making stuff up again.

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It's a good question. It's really a question about Time...

Truth being "scarier" than fiction, and notwithstanding
that Hollywood and authors of fiction understandably make
things up for a living (the more knowledgeable they are the
better writers they make), the month of October is so-named
because it was originally designed to be the eighth month
of the Roman calendar year; hence Sept-ember, Oct-ober,
Nov-ember, Dec-ember, etc. The second or third week of
each month was calculated (years in advance) to overlap
into the zodiacal month of the same rulership. To wit,
nowadays, the third week of October begins the zodiacal
month of Scorpio, the tropical time of the sting of Death,
or "change", as to change by surrendering our mortal body
at Death, into our immortal soul-body of the Spirit realm.

Hence Allhallows Eve marks the end of the Roman Calendar
October (eighth month, Death) entering the Spirit realm
beginning the ninth Month at sundown October 31st, which
in ancient times was counted as November 1st, which in
turn overlaps the tropical zodiac month of Sagittarius,
which zodiacal month is ruled by the feminine or evening
aspect of Jupiter, who the Romans called Juno (Gk. Hera).
That's why Juno, Junius, June, eventually named the fourth
month, because Jupiter exalts--is happiest--in the fourth
month, which overlaps the tropical zodiac month of Cancer.

That's why "Halloween", the very end of the eighth month
and simultaneously the beginning of the ninth month (what
we astrologers call their Roman Calendar cusp) is and has
long-since (forever) been associated with Spirit activity
through long centuries and millennia of associations with
the final end of Death, Scorpio, and beginning of Spirit,
the Archer of Fortune, Sagittarius. That what it is. See?

Notably all Roman calendar months, with the lone exception
of February (called the month of the "infernal gods", time
for consulting the oracles regarding the forecast for wars,
crops, kings, etc.), assured at least one Full Moon by or
before the thirtieth day thereof, each month being thirty
or thirty-one days except February. This was for religious
purposes (the Gods of heaven being devoutly worshipped and
honored in ancient times--*unlike* today). Occasionally, a
"Blue Moon", the infrequent second Full Moon of the month,
would light up the night sky, sometimes coinciding with
Allhallows Eve. The first Full Moon after the Harvest Moon
(around the autumnal equinox) was called the Hunter's Moon
in honor of Orion, who the Olympian God Diana (Gk. Artemis,
the Moon) loves but accidentally kills. Note the consistent
mythological association with Death, and Spirit.

So the orthodox claim that the Roman calendar ignores the
Moon entirely is actually false; rather it's commensurate
with the lunar synodic phases, just not dependent on them.
The Roman calendar was designed to accommodate and observe
the synodic phases of the Moon, but _never_ to ignore them.
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In conclusion, the association of Allhallows Eve with the
cusp, or "peak", of interaction of mortals with immortals,
i.e. spirit-person activity, is as ancient as time Himself
has been observed, predicted, and worshipped by mortal men.

This is a definitively mythological association regarding
the tropical time of the Earth, Gaea, in relationship to
the life-giving light of Helios, the Sun, whose sunlight
on Earth was named Apollon-Re by the Greeks, or Apollo in
the Latin. I.e., where myth and religion conjoin as one.

The Sun is the God of faith, belief. Hence belief that you
can interact with spirit-people on Halloween, or any other
day and night of the year, goes a long way in opening the
first door to the other side--to the spheres of heaven and
hell. Maybe that's why self-described "Skeptics", Atheists
and the like, believe that the heavenly and hellish realms,
spirit mediums, ghosts, karma, reincarnation, etc., simply
do not exist in _any_ dimension, vibration, or "plane" of
universal reality. Because to believe otherwise would run
the great risk of opening the veritable "Pandora's box"
to their pathologically aberrant and vulnerable psyche:


"Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise."
--Thomas Gray (1716-1771)


Enjoy!
Daniel Joseph Min
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