On October 23, 2024
Columns

The dark creeps upon the light

It is the season where the dark creeps up on the light. In many cultures throughout the world, what we call “Scorpio Season” is the time of year when the veil between this realm and the next grows thin. 

In the ancient traditions of the far North, the children would embark upon a journey to the ancestral burial mounds to recover treasures from their ancestors and remember their past life. This tradition has morphed into children dressing up in scary costumes in the hunt for candy, which we now call Halloween.
When the veil is thin, and we are brave enough to peek through it, we’ll glean insights into who we were, who we are, and what we still can be. Some may need to do battle with ghosts and ghouls or what would be known as inner demons. For others, the journey will be sweeter than expected.

For those unwilling to see the darkness we all have within, the darkness will have no choice but to consume the light. As my own son said to me yesterday, “Mum, Limp Bizkit was right, you know, because hate is all the world has ever seen lately.” The song “Take a Look Around” might be what you need to do this week.

Do you want to submit feedback to the editor?

Send Us An Email!

Related Posts

 What’s in a name?

June 25, 2025
There’s nothing like a talk show to spark an idea for a column. Hosts Kelly Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, recently discussed how people’s first names often serve as clues to the decade in which they were born. Some names that are rarely chosen today were popular in previous decades.  The given name that…

No patch left unskied

June 25, 2025
I’m calling it.   I drove around the long way, hoping to catch one last glimpse of the patch before we actually began hiking up into The Canyon. Partly because I wanted to see what I was getting into and partly because I wanted to make sure she was still there. I honestly wasn’t sure…

Pack up your troubles

June 25, 2025
The longest day of the year has officially come and gone, which means we are now on the slow, downhill slide toward winter.  Given that the days are currently long and the temperatures are nearing their peak, my family has opted for the traditional summer beach vacation. This is nothing new since we’ve rented a…

Life in a shell: eastern box turtle

June 25, 2025
As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species I was particularly drawn to was the eastern box turtle. These charismatic terrestrial turtles have high-domed shells festooned with colorful yellow or orange markings…