Exquisite Equinox!

Exquisite Equinox!

Hail to all who share our celebration of the Earth’s successive seasons! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, Fall’s arrival brings cool evenings with the promise of bountiful harvests. The impending touch of frost will ignite leaves to blaze with vivid colors. Those in the Southern Hemisphere rejoice in the triumph of Spring’s warmth over frigid Winter. Nature shakes free from stasis, surging forth with renewed vigor.

Satanists luxuriate in vital, carnal existence, embracing the majestic seasonal cycles of our precious, fragile island in space. Our cognizance invokes humbling respect as we seek an ever-deepening understanding of our beautiful and dreadful Earth. May we all find health, sanity, and satisfaction as we move into the new season!

In the Haunted Hudson Valley, as Halloween draws nearer, we reflect on both the losses and arrivals of extraordinary comrades. The chill breezes impel falling leaves to swirl in mad dances through the lengthening nights. Soon, Samhain will sweep us up in its dark mysteries—as always, we Children of the Night can hardly wait!

—Magus Peter H. Gilmore