⠀⠀ 🍂 .. OCTOBER — OCTOBRE

" My beloved October has returned—with its brilliant colors, cool temperatures and sunny, cloudless, azure skies, and I must enjoy it before it escapes for another year. ” – Peggy Toney Horton, Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling

october, we're really getting into the swing of it now aren't we? time for all the trees but evergreen to turn, the insects to get drunk on the fallen psychedelics, and... pumpkin everything. no, really, we get a lot of pumpkins for our Halloween decor this time of year. There's been years where we've carved over 50 pumpkins, and our house smelt like a cooked gourd for days. i think it's one of my favourite smells.

𝒾. — important dates

• 12 — ✧ reading week starts
• 13 — ✧ canadian thanksgiving
• 31 — ✧ samhain
• 31 — ✧ halloween

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“ October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. ” – Henry Ward Beecher

as always, i get sick of school around this time, but now is particularly worse... because i somehow picked out the strictest teacher in the world. midterms are booming, i have a week left to figure shit out, nothing is looking good. help me. i just want to play video games in my room. ARGH!

𝒾𝒾. — academics

• current stats
• fall semester courses
• homework

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“ October was always the least dependable of months… full of ghosts and shadows. ” – Joy Fielding

⠀⠀✧ samhain (SAH-win / SOW-in) — oct. 31

october is the month of the pagan holiday samhain (SAH-win / SOW-in). the name comes from Old Irish, translating directly into "summer's end". it's the third harvest festival after mabon, the last harvest season of the year. while Halloween falls on the same day, it's actually a very different holiday, though there are similarities. samhain is the most important holiday in the Wheel of the year! it's known as the "witch's New Year", honouring ancestors and the thinning veil between the physical and spiritual plane. it's a powerful time for divination.

𝒾𝒾𝒾. — spirituality

• (m)[www.pagangrimoire.com/what-is-samhain-how-to-celebrate/]ore on the history of samhain
• samhain rituals