Autumn gusts;
Leaves blow along with me
As I walk.
It is a very windy morning here on the day before Halloween.
As you know, Halloween is the ending of autumn and the beginning of winter in the Hokku Calendar. It is one of the cross-quarter days, which means it falls halfway between an equinox and a solstice, in this case between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice.
Halloween marks the beginning of the long darkness of winter nights, when the days are at their shortest. So in the hokku calendar, it is the entry to the most Yin time of the year — Yin being associated with cold and darkness and the withdrawing of the energies of Nature.
The full moon after Halloween — the Frost/Frosty Moon or Beaver Moon — will be on November 4th this year.
Happy Halloween!
David
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