R.I.P.

Feeling Sad around Halloween?

It's perfectly natural to feel sad right before or even during Halloween. Halloween is all about endings.

This portion of your life is at an end. That is what Halloween is really all about.
It is the end of the cycle of transformation into witch (pun intended, sexual in-u-end-oh! a byproduct of intended pun) (lol!) anyway, {how about?} THROUGH witch (the death and decay of the old hag is magically reborn as the young sexy vixen once again....who then fertilizes the seed of the new and cycle begins again.

If you find my reference to sex glaring, that is really because it's pretty much unavoidable here. Harvest and renewal. It is the way of Earth. It is WHY you cannot separate witches from sex, sex from old pagan rituals, and old pagan rituals from Earth's seasons.

We are meant to CELEBRATE death. Death isn't the stopping point, or the bookstop at the end of life, but rather, it marks the TRANSITION between one point in the cycle of transformation...and another. This makes DEATH....a vibrant part of what we experience as LIFE. It doesn't even have to be a physical death. It can mean then end of a way of thinking, or acting, or RE-acting as the case may be. Death represents FREEDOM from that which binds. Look at the imagery. Ghosts dragging chains....etc.
The Grim Reaper with the blade to sever the connection from what once was...allowing the spirit to be released and allowed to progress to something new.

It is symbolic and in line with both animal and vegetable lifeforce life cycles.
So if you find yourself feeling a bit bittersweet about everything right now...
my advice is to GO with it.

If you feel mellon-choly: go carve up a jack-o-lantern.

Write up a list of all that has been bothering you the last year.

(things that you wish to put to rest....as in R.I.P)

Then put that list into Jack and let it burn baby, let it burn. It's kind of like the other side of a nye's resolution list. So make your list, bless it, burn it, and allow all of what you write there to be OVER. Clear your mind, your heart, your emotion of it. Celebrate it's death. For, what will resurrect from the old will, magically, be brighter, and shinier than what was before.


I hope this helps, and have a HAPPY...HAPPY....Halloween.

Love Chiron

Afraid of Love

Afraid of love.

Flashes…

of moments past.

Mental visual movie clips in my scrapbook of confused emotion, flicker, in front of my minds’ eye.

Simple exhaustion finally overcomes the defensive fear that has stood guard over a mending heart for years with the cold efficiency of an angry protective wolf.

Clenched knuckles, cold and white, from holding on too tight for too long, lose their grip and finally………release.

To my astounded confusion, I do not fall.

My world doesn’t fly apart.

The memories are powerful, the strength of their current, still, easily emotionally overwhelming.

But the concrete resolve of my new foundation…holds.

The fear that has kept me safe, sleeps soundly in my lap.

My hands and my heart begin to warm, as blood finally begins to return to them.

I choose a path, tentatively, stepping out into the world, determined…

Not to be afraid to love.

Halloween's a Comin'!

Halloween's a comin'!

It's a time when the veil between the worlds grows the thinnest.

A time when dimensions merge.

A time when all that frightens you the most, comes.....unbeckoned.

A time when the dead remind us to cling tightly to our lives,

(no matter how bad they may seem)

for they will gladly exchange places with us...and remind us

to dare....to dream.