MONDAY, October 27 – SUNDAY, November 2
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I’ve never been much of one for Halloween. When I was a child, we simply didn’t make a big deal about it. Now, it’s a festival celebrated all over the world, and here in Blighty, you can’t move for pumpkins and cobwebs and cauldrons. Although I did have a fabulous Halloween some years ago at the Voodoo Lounge at the top of the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas…
Halloween dates back more than 2000 years to Ireland and the ancient festival, Samhain. Samhain means summer’s end, and bringing light into the darkness in view of the winter months ahead was symbolized by lighting bonfires. At this time of the year – and, of course, it is the time of Scorpio whose ruler Pluto is the Lord of the Underworld – the veil between the real world and the spirit world was believed to be at its thinnest allowing the living to communicate with the dead.
Mercury and Mars will also be in Scorpio this Halloween, so the scary-spooky vibe is even stronger. Fun and festivals aside though, the astrology is giving us plenty to think about. As the week goes by, Mercury and Uranus will draw ever nearer opposition. You could say this combination is all sparks and sputters, and with the US military repositioning warships to waters off the coast of Latin America in what appears to be a major escalation of the Trump Administration’s war on the drug cartels, it’s shaping up to be quite the firework display.
In my Friday Bite, I pointed out that the unprecedented configurations which have presided over so many dark and difficult events this year, have also inspired great scientific breakthroughs and other leaps for mankind. And although it’s been a hard year for most of us, the good days have been all the sweeter for our struggles.
My new video on the Full Moon in Taurus is on my YouTube now. I’m covering the period from 29 October to 9 November. Sparks and sputters indeed.
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Onward and Starward.