Happy Halloween! Happy Taurus Full Moon! Happy Samhain! Yup, you read that right; all three are happening on the 31st. Let’s add Day of the Dead in there too, also known as All Soul’s Eve in the Christian traditions. With so much collective focus on this date, there must be something to it.
Our Halloween, filled with witches and ghosts, comes from the ancient Celtic holy cross-quarter day Samhain (pronounced Saa-wen). Cross quarter holidays mark the halfway point between equinoxes and solstices.
Samhain is the cross-quarter between the September equinox and the December solstice. Shamanic Astrology says the cross-quarter day is when the sun reaches 15 degrees Scorpio. This is because the September equinox occurs when the sun is at 0 degrees Libra and the December solstice when the sun is 0 degrees Capricorn. 15 degrees Scorpio is the exact midway point between those two degrees. That occurs on November 7 this year. Read More
