Proposed: Counter-Halloween

Presumably, if Halloween is the day each year when "the veil between the worlds is thinnest," there must exist somewhere in the calendar its opposite: a day when the veil between the worlds is at its thickest.

While we can only speculate which day this might be (March 4th is a strong contender), we can certainly hazard a few guesses as to the spiritual nature of Counter-Halloween:

• The all-pervasive Great Mystery is as far from our perception as it is possible to get
• Everyday illusions remain strong and powerful
• Curtains remain tightly closed
• Least magical night of the year
• Impossible to get a hold of even the very recently dead
• No transitions between seasons
• Constant change is given a miss
• Nobody is one with anything
• Numbers are whatever
• Time is barely sacred
• Dream guides offer no advice
• Transformational experiences basically impossible
• Ditto rejuvenation
• Never-ending struggle between life and death declared a tie
• The spirit realm keeps a polite distance
• The finite and the infinite do not meet
• Animal behavior seems pretty regular
• The circle of the year is on an unremarkable spoke
• Food and drink serve no special ritual purpose
• Sidhe otherwise engaged
• Liminal world indistinguishable from mundane world
• Moon is basically useless

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