Current mood: still pensive
Current weather: Cool (12°C), clear

Ah, Samhain. It's that time of year. The veil is thin, and yes, the dead are afoot. In this time when the light is dwindling, and the winter encroaches, it seems natural to turn one's thoughts to one's own mortality. As life recedes with the bite of winter taking hold, so does the spirit of death come to the fore--from this comes the tradition of honoring the deceased.

The winter is coming in this hemisphere, though, and reminds us that nothing lasts. Old things are swept away, in order to make way for the new, and so the world renews itself, and in so doing, continues to grow and evolve. Thoughts of this nature come to me naturally as the winter encroaches, as I pointed out in my last blog entry.

The Southern hemisphere is coming into spring and summer of course, and in some parts of the Southern realm the wheel is turned a half-cycle to fit the southern seasons, and thus it is time for Beltane, the time of life and the promise of abundance and bounty, but in any seasonal climate the rebirth of spring comes about from the death of the previous winter. All that rises must fall, and even literal death is to the enlighened mind merely a transition, a passing--whatever you hold to be beyond death in your belief.

Light and dark blessings to all.

--Dreamlight