This Month at HP

This month, we continue our early fall theme: “Life and Death“.

Oct 5  “Death: Sacred, Necessary, Real” by Michael Dowd

Oct 8  “Vulture” by Robinson Jeffers

Oct 12  Postpagan Ceremony & Ecology by Glen Gordon

Oct 15  Mid-Month Meditation: “Breaths”

Oct 19  Starstuff, Contemplating by Jon Cleland Host

Oct 22  Samhain poem by Linette Jensen

Oct 26  A Pedagogy of Gaia by Bart Everson

Oct 29  The Wheel of Evolution by Eric Steinhart: Samhain

Oct 31  DE NATURA DEORUM: “On the Road with the Wild Huntsman” by pagainaidd

HP Calendar for October

Oct 2  Gandhi’s birthday and International Day of Non-Violence

* first Monday in October is World Habitat Day

October 8 – Total Lunar Eclipse. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes completely through the Earth’s dark shadow, or umbra. During this type of eclipse, the Moon will gradually get darker and then take on a rusty or blood red color. The eclipse will be visible throughout most of North America, South America, eastern Asia, and Australia. (NASA Map and Eclipse Information)

Oct 12  Cosmic Calendar: First photosynthesis occurs 3 bya

Oct 16  World Food Day

Oct 17  International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Oct 29  Cosmic Calendar: Oxygenation of atmosphere occurs 2.4 bya

Oct 31/Nov 1  Neo-Pagan autumn cross-quarter day (Samhain) / Halloween

Oct 31  Anniversary of the publication of The Spiral Dance and Drawing Down the Moon