Summer Waning Strawberry Moon My cards were good. I won some hands. But. Boy, did I screw up when I took a chance on a hand where winning would have offered double points, but losing, as I did, with below a minimum, quadrupled the penalty. Ouch! Sigh. The night was glorious. A warm summer night, […]
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Samhain: 2010
Samhain Waning Harvest Moon In the ancient Celtic faith Samhain (October 31) and Beltane (May 1) were the only holidays. W. Y. Evans-Wentz gave a folklorist’s account of that faith in his first book, . Evans-Wentz wrote this amazing work, little known in spite of his later and famous first translation of the Tibetan Book […]
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