There is much that I like about Halloween. I love costuming and making costumes, and having an excuse to dress up. I like going around my neighborhood door to door and meeting some neighbors that I might not see much otherwise.
But the creepy, scary, gory, gross parts of Halloween, I find bizarre.
How did a holiday develop that is about blood, dismembered limbs, or zombies?
But especially now that daylight savings time ends AFTER Halloween, I see some sense in it.
We are heading into the dark of winter. Whether we admit it or not, the dark scares us all. So we have a time to pull those fears out into the open and face them.
I believe that it is Jung that says it is good for us to face our shadows. (at least that's what star trek said he said, I like to have my sources straight)
So I can go along with a day of facing our fears and facing the darkness in ourselves as we head into winter and start waiting for the solstice.
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