Woven by shadow and light
As a child, I loved Halloween for the ritual of dressing up and candy. Being part of a swarm of kids going house to house and filling up bags of candy was pretty fantastic. Now I’m a grown up, living in UK where the candy bagging tradition is not very prevalent. As a Quaker and explorer of polarity/paradox ,one of the things that really fascinates me about Halloween is how interwoven the Christian tradition of All Souls Day is with the pagan Halloween. The shadow side of All Souls and All Saints days is never far away from the light. And I love the polarity inherent in Halloween itself – it is a day where the underworld, the afterlife is supposed to be very close to the surface. The boundaries between the two are blurred ~ as the boundaries between the Christian and Pagan worlds. The lighting of candles in church and the lighting of candles in a jack o’latern ~ traditions woven by shadow and light.
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