Our monsters are coming out. Signs of this campaign are inhabited by graveyards and mock murder scenes and skeletons lining the streets in our neighborhood that seem a little more personal this year, with death hanging like a cloud this year.
We’ve all spent months through the presidential election campaign and the global epidemic, and this Saturday feels like an emotional culmination night, observing years of death and suspension. Halloween, a daylight saving time change and a full moon are all arranged on a single night.
While the trick-or-treating and Halloween parties have been reduced this year due to concerns about physical distance and the spread of coronavirus, scholars say accepting, if not fully celebrated, is a nightly escape valve dedicated to desolation. This is one way to purify the sentiments of the year before we announce our political objectives on November 3rd.
Allowing for a little deliberate chaos in our spirit can be a good thing. As the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “One must be chaotic in order to give birth to a dancer.”
Halloween night is also a full moon
The narrative tension is tight, and all this will unify on a full moon night only makes this spookier.
“It’s a tumultuous moment for many reasons. Even for those who don’t believe in the supernatural, we act as we do. The spiritual energy of the moment is vast,” said Regina Hansen, a keynote speaker at Boston’s Rhetoric. University and co-author of “Supernatural, Humanity and Soul: Highway to Hell and Back”.
Halloween is an opportunity to be irresistible in a strange country. For one night you can live in a new self. It could mean the fulfillment of a child’s dream of becoming an astronaut. You can live in a character who is braver, stronger or more guilty than you.
“It’s all over, it’s all advanced. There’s a sense of freedom that’s almost magical,” he said. “The kids keep the night under control. They go to strangers’ houses and ask, no, they want candy.”
Or it could be a way to convey a message of political satire that you want to let go of as an undead version of the political personality.
That means donating a bloody suit and parting your hair as a zombie politician (it’s done). For one evening only, if forbidden thoughts are allowed.
This Halloween full moon is also the blue moon. While the moon does not really appear blue, the blue moon refers to another of the two full moons occurring in the same month, occurring every 2.5 to three years, or “once in a blue moon.”
A full moon appears on Halloween in about 19 years, so it’s definitely worth studying by 2020 for a more rare feat. Not many times in the time zone until 2039, 2058, 2077 and 2096 will come again on Halloween because note when the full moon will rise on Saturday.
Although the full moon has long been associated with madness and our fascination with werewolves – the word “mad” comes from the word “moon” – there is no strong scientific evidence that more crime occurs when a pale orb hangs completely over our heads.
While the data is being stacked, that daylight saving time can release a bit of chaos. We calibrate our lives and blend in with the letter, and then we move our watches to mess up the order.
There are ways to move forward and prevent yourself from making mistakes due to a change in circadian rhythm.
In an earlier interview with CNN, Mayo Clinic’s sleep medicine specialist AASM President Dr. “You already know it’s coming,” Kannan Rama said. “A few days from the week before, it will be helpful to gradually move your schedule to that deadline.”
Halloween from a physical distance
Although Halloween is a night to overcome your obstacles, it is still important to find ways to do it safely during an epidemic.
CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Laina S. Wayne, an emergency therapist and visiting professor at the George and Washington Milken Institute at Washington University, said, “Really try not to come in with your family. Public health school.” There are many creative ways to celebrate Halloween outside and Much safer. “
Whether you have big plans this weekend or not, it’s worth taking a moment to accept this moment, to reflect on our deepest universal request to face our fear of death, and even then, to live despite it.
Hansen, a literary scholar at Boston University, explained that celebrating Macabre’s loneliness during an epidemic could mean curling up with a Stephen King novel or a favorite horror film.
Or maybe one of her Halloween favorites is Ray Bradbury’s novel “The Halloween Tree,” which tells tricks or treating children learning about the origins of the holiday. The story waxes about the children “Just the sheer joy of being alive and out tonight pulls their lungs out and shapes their throats into a scream … and a scream … and yell!”
Before the presidential election, there could be hiccups to draw the line between Halloween, the full moon, and the changing of time all happening together. But then again, maybe there’s something.
“The fact that we find vision says a lot about us as humans,” Hansen said. “It could mean the purpose of our suffering, or at least some structure.”
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