So, get your costumes ready and prepare to blend in with the demons walking beside you on All Hallows’ Eve. The cluster, a small dipper shaped arrangement, isn’t too much farther past Aldebaran. Follow the line upwards until your eye meets the first bright star, Aldebaran, a part of Taurus. Draw a line upwards using the three stars on Orion’s belt. To find Pleiades, start by locating the famous constellation Orion. This Halloween week watch out for this cluster in the night sky. Pagan rituals were practiced as the stars rose to their heights at midnight. It is also thought that Samhain occurred on the night the Pleiades star cluster climbed to its highest point. This placed a relationship between the end of October and darkness and shadows. During this time of year in the Celts location the nights lasted more and more hours. The last month of the Celtic year matched up with the full moon closest to the midpoint between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, which as mentioned previously, is the month we know as October. The Celtics relied on astronomy to tell the day of the year, and counted the full moons throughout the year to determine the month. This is where the idea of dressing up as monsters and ghosts and roaming the streets stems from. This allowed demons, ghosts, and spirits alike to pass over to the side of the living. The Celtics believed that on the night of October 31st, the gates to the Otherworld opened up. October 31st, the host of Halloween and Samhain, is also the astronomical midpoint between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. The tradition of Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. But what many people don’t know is the origin of Halloween. Halloween is a widely celebrated holiday, and one of my favorites. You know what that means! People of all ages are picking out Halloween costumes, skeletons and spider webs are being hung, pumpkins are being carved, and soon enough children will be knocking at your door begging for candy.
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