Hallows: A Compendium
I’ve written a lot about this time of year, this holiday, which I call Hallows.
I’ve been celebrating it for decades. And every year at this time, I think about mortality, the cycle of death/decomposition/recomposition, ancestors, memory. The past, the inevitable future. The Big Picture.
Dressing up creepy, or goofy, or sexy. Giving permission to people to let their wild side out.
I think about all of it.
I’m doing that this year, too. Updating my death packet, as I do every October. Rituals, and gatherings, and the wonderful creepy vibe. Candy for little monsters.
Taking the whole ride.
I’m even taking a week off, from Halloween through the actual midpoint between the equinox and the solstice, Nov. 7. I’m going to witch the hell out of this break.
So here, with my favorites first, are the posts I have made about this holiday.
What We Turn Back into the Soil
What We Turn Back into the Soil, Redux: A Guided Visualization
Revisiting the Sin-Eater for Hallows
LORE DAY: A New Holiday for the Hallows Season
On the Edge of Darkness–Hallows Reflections 2016
Solemn, Meaningful, Fun, Creepy
Mark Green
Author of ATHEOPAGANISM: An Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science and ROUND WE DANCE: Creating Meaning Through Seasonal Rituals, Mark Green is the initiator of the Atheopagan path and editor at the Atheopaganism blog. He volunteers as a staffer to the Atheopagan Society Council to support the growth of Atheopaganism throughout the world. In his home of Sonoma County, California, in the occupied ancestral lands of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples, he is best known as an environmental activist and founder of Sonoma County Conservation Action, the largest environmental activism group in his region. He continues to work in the conservation sphere, focusing particularly on protection of natural landscapes on California's federal public lands.
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