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Halloween and pumpkin recipes. Halloween celebrates the last day of the year in the ancient Celtic Calendar, the end of a year in the times of the old gods, followed by Samhain - new years day. Pumpkin is a versatile food with many traditional, warming recipes ideal for this time of year. Halloween celebrates the last day of the year in the ancient Celtic Calendar, the end of a year in the times of the old gods, followed by Samhain - new years day. Pumpkin is a versatile food with many traditional, warming recipes ideal for this time of year.The sun is in Scorpio and the colours of Mars (one of Scorpio's rulers) are in all the trees (in the Northern hemisphere). Within Scorpio is the star Antares - or anti-Mars, showing the dualistic nature of this planet. It is the place of Mars to look into the mirror and become a reversal of itself, finding profound depths in the process. Mars is the pioneer, the warrior, the gladiator. The spirit of Mars in Scorpio is to sting itself to death, opening the deepest wounds in itself to find new possibilities - even though they may spell death, but still to move relentlessly on. This is transformation, ending life in violence to bring new life. So there are two manifestations of Scorpio, firstly the desert scorpion, depicted to resemble the severed tail of the dragon, an erect serpent vigorous and dangerous, a symbol of earthly energies. Secondly the eagle, symbol of the sun, a spiritual messenger who can gaze into, and fly into the light and remain unharmed, fearless against corruption as death has no sting for this mythical beast. The other sign of Scorpio is Pluto, the planet of transformation itself. So make your New Years Resolutions now.

Halloween is a time for merrymaking and feasting, sitting up late and jumping over fires to make wishes. There are many ancient games associated with this time, making Halloween cake', divination by nut popping on the fire and other seed based lovespells, wood faggot divination, apple bobbing and so on. In ancient times people would make The Halloween Man' (or woman (except for guilty secrets about witch burning)) to be burnt in the fire, hence casting off the old self of the old year. They would put pretty things onto the figures, bags of sweet smelling herbs, a tiny crown and burn it with the passing of the year, then letting the fire go out to be relit for the next year. This ritual was assimilated into Guy Fawkes night'.
The making of a Lucifer Lantern', originally a turnip rather than

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