Beltane or Halloween? It depends where you live.
More and more New Zealand children, with the support of their unfortunately "uninformed" parents along with those commercial businesses wanting to make a dollar, are celebrating the Wiccan festival of Halloween or Samhain or All Hallows' Eve as it is properly called in the Northern Hemisphere on October 31. As a Wiccan myself for over 30 years and therefore someone who considers this day as one of my eight sabbats (special celebratory days), I am getting more and more irritated at the misuse of this festival and particularly as it is being celebrated in this country of NZ at the wrong time of the year. I have written using this blog about this issue back in 2014, but because nothing has changed and society continues to refer to this day as Halloween, as though we were citizens of North America enjoying the late Autumn instead of living in the Southern Hemisphere in late spring, I decided to inform people once again. Here it goes........................... Al