den | (no subject)

Wha?! I thought it was October 31?

Perhaps in the northern hemisphere...

see http://dewhitton.livejournal.com/533890.html

it's not as if I can forget this fact *grins*

So I can celebrate Australia-ween? Any excuse is a good one to me!

That only works in the Southern Hemisphere. http://dewhitton.livejournal.com/533890.html

Hmm. I'll dress up anyway.

Dress up like the crankiest, scariest most dangerous creatur on the continent: Cassowary.

I thought that was the koala:D. Silly me.

Hmm, that might be tough. Yet oddly intriguing.

Members of NeoPagan, Heathen, and other Earth-Based or...
Bah. The terminology could fill a dictionary.

Wiccans, Pagans, Asatruar, et. al. (I'm in there somewhere) do generally observe Samhain on April 30, when in the Southern Hemisphere. Otherwise, it would mess up the whole calendar, since it's based around the solstices and equinoxes (is that the correct plural, there?)

Of course, if you have three Pagans in a room who actually agree on someting, it's generally:
A) Two people sucking up to the third
B) Co-Authors on a new book from That Publishing Company
C) Three people trying to get on a talk show.

So, the next person may disagree with me. :)

Me, I am in the Northern Hemisphere, barely out of bed, and...babbling.

--Talvin

P.S. Den: doing something for Aussie Halloween with our favorite Bugs? :)
("AHHH! Speedy! Fly! That monster ate the boss!" "No, silly, it's a costume." "That costume ate the boss!")

I wasn't planning on doing anything with the Bugs because I don't do Hallowe'en. It was never a part of Aussie culture until the mid 80s, and didn't catch on until the 90s. For me it's One Of Those Things you foreigners go on about that seems a bit silly. 8)

Speaking of silly, we have seasonal celebrations 6 months out of phase because we follow the Northern Hemisphere. Yule is in the middle of summer and Hallowe'en is mid spirng. This is why I made the list of alternative dates. The equivalent of Groundhog Day is August 2. Since we don't have ground hogs it's Wombat Day.

For the Southern Hemisphere, I think of Samhain as April 30, but Hallowe'en, which is more melded secular/Pagan/Christian (etc.), as October 31. (When I lived in Australia, no one noticed Halloween any more than secular Americans I know notice May Day (as an earth-based rather than a Soviet) holiday, anymore.

We're getting big on the hallowe'en now. I wish they'd do it at the proper time of the year.

Of course remember that when the norther hemisphere is getting shorter days, the southern is getting longer days and vice-versa

oops, sorry for the bleedingly obvious I must have read something incorrectly... or put the comment in the wrong place... Forgive me

Sadly, Halloween is defined as eve of All Saints Day. This year, halfway between the solstice and the equinox is November 7th, or May 6th, for a peculiar definition of solstice and equinox which I'm not sure corresponds exactly to day lengths.

And you can dress up like a bat any day! ;)