FEAST OF APPLES - SAMHAIN

October 31, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

I’ve no doubt candy filled bags of loot and masks of the ghoulish variety are all that’s on the minds of kids. If Halloween fancy dress isn’t your jam, then here’s the download on the true meaning of Samhain. With some very on point cross cultural synergies with Humble apple.

SO WHAT IS SAMHAIN?

Halloween or 'Samhain' (pronounced SOW-win) as Celts called it, was first and foremost a celebration of the end of harvest time and the beginning of a dark half of the calendar year. Naive Irish speakers will know that the calendar months of May and November are called Beltaine and Samhain respectively (oh and August is called Lunasa). These are three of the four Cross Quarter days on the Wheel of the Year, Imbolc in spring completes the quartet. Witches know these markers as Great Sabbats. These power points are Midpoints or Culminating points of a given season - Samhain occurs between the Fall Equinox and Yule (Winter Solstice).

Double NINTH Festival

October 29, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Happy Seniors’ Day! Since 1966 the Double Ninth Festival has celebrated Senior members of the community. The ‘Double Ninth Festival’ is also known as Chong Yang Festival; which burrows its name from the calendar date meaning the ninth day of the ninth lunar month in the Chinese calendar. In Chinese ‘Chong’ means ‘double’ and ‘Yang’ is a nod to the number nine (9) which is the highest Yang number. and its also known as as the Chrysanthemum Festival. This year the festival falls on Sun 22 Oct 2023, in the Universal calendar.

Symbolism of Bats

October 15, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

image by Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849. — image by Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 via public domain

Bats and Halloween have a ubiquitous relationship. It’s most likely due to the nocturnal habits of the bat, that link the two - after all Hallow’s Eve is a festival that’s celebrated at nightfall. Spookiness aside, the winged creature is known to conjure up high levels of anxiety, day or night, for folks with long hair! (Myth No. 1, they don’t get tangled in your tresses). That said, without doubt that humble Bat is steeped in myth, negative omens and superstitions. Yet in some cultures, the omen is of an auspicious nature.

2025 FENG SHUI FORECAST

September 18, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

This article was originally published by Wellbeing Astrology 2025– Universal Media, Australia

Fuxi and Nüwa — primordial beings with serpent bodies, take on added timely significance. The father of Emperors Fuxi discovered the Ho-t’u arrangement of trigrams, a key tenet of Feng Shui and the underlying nature of all things. While Nuwa the supreme mother, shows up as the annual moderator. Together when depicted as conjoined serpents they form a double helix — the secrets of life; cells, DNA, and years later its double helix shape all occurred on snake’s watch.

2025 ASTROLOGY FORECAST

September 8, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

snake coiled pine tree 1821 by keisai Eisen public domain via rawpixel

This article Part 1 of 2 was originally published by Wellbeing Astrology 2025– Universal Media, Australia

Standby mode is set in motion. Snake is poised to jettison the divesting of an outdated status quo. Ready to reveal, ready to reconcile and ready to reignite — what is woken?

CHINESE NEW YEAR'S EVE - Chuxi

January 27, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Brioschi54, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

If January’s New Year resolutions have fizzled out, tune into the Chinese New Year’s as the Year of the Wood Snake amps up on 29 Jan. 2025. Lunar New Year follows Moon (Luna) cycles therefore commencing with a New Moon. The upcoming lunation is the first New Moon AFTER the Winter Solstice which dictates the beginning of a Chinese New Year. It also kick starts the more widely known and celebrated of the Lunar New Year festivities - beginning a two week long Spring Festival. Li Chun is a Solar Festival marker and technically occurs on 4 Feb 2025, when the Chinese Solar New Year begins.

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