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   From: odubhain@comcast.net   
      
   "Sidheseeker"  wrote in message   
   news:1156303582.536231.65650@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > Searles O'Dubhain wrote:   
   >> "Sidheseeker"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1156267328.875427.320740@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   >> > Since Oct. 31st  is the date set for All Hallow's Eve   
   >> > by the church.. I was just thinking.. some time ago   
   >> > I read somewhere that prior ro rhat.. ir fell on rhe   
   >> > second full moon after the summer solstice..   
   >> > (and no.. I'm not going to look for the reference..)   
   >> > any other ideas..?   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> Samhain is when the Dagda meets the Morrigan at the River Unshin.   
   >> It's   
   >> usually on the beginning of the Irish Month of Samhain which is   
   >> roughly   
   >> around the modern month of November. If I were to look for stellar   
   >> ways   
   >> to identify this month I'd look to the Pleiades and something   
   >> happening   
   >> with a planet or another constellation on a horizon at sunrise or   
   >> sunset.   
   >   
   > Hmm.. perhaps I should look up the reference..   
   > gonna take a while.. not sure what book it's in.. :-(   
   >   
      
   Here's a good site about such things run by a person in Ireland that I   
   respect muchly about such things. I also like it because it has an   
   article on the subject that I wrote about 8 years ago.:-)   
      
   http://www.mythicalireland.com/astronomy/celticastrology.php   
      
      
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