Samhain! Samhain! Samhain!

This is our Jack O'Lantern for 2005; B. based him on an 'Evil Rabbit' although you can't really make out the Pumpkin Ears in this particular picture! He's now glaring down on the lane by the river to scare any unruly night-time walkers! Mhuaahahaha!

I feel really Halloweenish for some reason this year - I've been jumping out on R. in the corridor in the dark much to his annoyance. Parents, huh!

But it feels like a New Year starting, which is good. Going into the dark is no bad thing - time for learning, healing, recuperating, preparation, planning, warmth, hibernation, transformation, protection and the Sun at Midnight.

Someone was reminding me yesterday about a tunnel we used to get taken a walk through as kids - it was so long that although you could see the end from the entrance, half-way through, just for a few metres, it became pitch-black, and you had to keep your nerve, or put hands on the shoulders of the person in front, in order to ensure you kept going the same direction. It's like that in all sorts of things - projects at work, relationships, learning, creativity - at some point you enter the darkness and just have to keep faith that the Light you started out for will still remain, and be evident in just a few moments now ...