Jing Jingly time is here again.

True Halloween, or Samhain (usually pronounced sow-win) occurs when the Sun is 15 degrees of Scorpio.

This year, True Halloween occurs at 8:46am EST on November 7th, the day of US midterm elections.

Cast your Boo! Vote.

Fresh from the Yahoo oven, Yahoo!Food is well-organized and pleasant to behold.
Jumping on the Seasonal, It’s heavy on the Thanksgiving cuisine and sports a soothing autumn color palette. Cooks need soothing this time of year.

Plenty of other foods are offered. Yahoo developed this site after noticing that food searches skyrocketed around 4pm. Dinner Time.

This really is a wonderful site. Easy to follow recipes, easy to follow navigation, will have you meal planning happily in minutes.

Recipes, Restaurants, Wine, Entertaining, and Cooks on Yahoo! Food: “”

Full Moon in Taurus opposite the Scorpio Sun.

Mourning Moon, Dark Moon, or Mad Moon, are all appropriate names.

We don’t take time to think, with our lights burning and refrigerators running, what the coming of the cold days meant to people not hooked to an electricity grid. Food had to be preserved, fuel for fires had to be figured out. There had to be planning ahead and even the best of medieval pocket organizers could still leave you hungry and freezing trying to fight off the latest disease.

The ancients recognized seasonal depressive disorder too. Festivals and honorings, making merry, anything that got people to keep their spirits up and not kill themselves. They were needed for the spring plantings.

From now until vernal equinox, pay your respects to the dark and cold. You never know when the plug gets pulled.

October-Halloween Night

A mere four pictures of Halloween night. Next year, we are already planning, we’ll be more prepared.