The final spoke on the Wheel of the Year comes 6 weeks after the Fall equinox and that is Oct 31, Halloween or Samhain .
It is a 2 fold holiday. First it is the Feast of the dead, as it is the time when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. Second it is the Meat harvest when farmers would choose which animals would be kept for Spring breeding and which would slaughtered for Winter.
Till next time
Starwolf
10/07/2010