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October 28, 2025 (Gregorian calendar/Day 300)
Tuesday, 18 Tikimt 2018 (Ethiopian calendar/2nd month)
Būl (Bul) לב 5 (Enochian calendar/8th month/rain for crops)
October 21, 2025 (International Fixed calendar)
Self-existing Moon 4, Kali 11 (13 Moon calendar/first quarter moon)
~ Self-existing Owl Moon of Form, October 18th – November 14th
Reed Moon: October 28 – November 23 (Celtic 13 Month calendar)
Day 7, 8th lunation at 36-46%, 4012 (lunisolar calendar)
13.0.13.0.14 5 Ix 12 Sak’ (Mayan Long Count calendar)
Wild Foods Day

Reed Moon: October 28 – November 23
(Celtic 13 Month calendar)

(internet image)

The month of Reed is a time for pause.
It allows you to reflect on what has passed
before the start of another year.

“Reed is typically used to make wind instruments, and this time of year, its haunting sounds are sometimes heard when the souls of the dead are summoned to the Underworld. The Reed Moon was called Negetal, pronounced nyettle by the Celts, and is sometimes referred to as the Elm Moon by modern Pagans.”
(Lear Religions)

~ reed signifies the 12th month of the Celtic Tree Calendar, the time of the year when the veils between the worlds are thinnest
~ reeds are associated with the dead and the Underworld
~ reeds are used to make wind instruments, like flutes or panpipes, and at this time of year, it’s said their haunting sounds can be heard when the souls of the dead are being summoned to the Underworld
~ reeds, or rushes, as they are also known, are more closely related to grasses than trees. They are included in the Tree Calendar as a gateway to the Otherworld. Reeds grow in muddy waters, their roots reaching deep into the unknown, symbolically linking the Underworld with our World above.
~ In Egypt, the durable, strong fibres were employed for many important practical uses. Not only paper, but also cloth and sails were created from them, whilst the hollow stalks could be bundled and used for thatching and for building light structures such as reed boats or effigies of the gods

Correspondences
Stone: Black Obsidian
Colour: Crimson
Bird: Geese, Kingfisher
Deity: Coventina, Morrigan, Rhiannon, Manannan Mac Lir, Poseidon, Pwyll

Folk Names:
Sweet flag, myrtle grass, Norfolk reed

Folk uses:
~ Reed was used as a floor covering, for roofing, and as a room deodorizer.
~ The powdered root was used as an insecticide against fleas.
~ Soaked in fat the stalks made a cheap alternative to candles.
~ They have been used for arrow shafts and writing pens.
~ It is believed that the Pied Piper’s magical flute was made of reed, and Pan’s flute may also have been made from reed.
~ Reed was used to treat eye problems.
~ Dreaming of Reed means not all your friends are true. Handling them in dreams mean that you may be deceived in business.
source: Reed Moon by Heather

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Government Shutdown Clock – The White House
…Day 27 – and counting ~ this will be a new part of my posts until the gov opens back up…
The Year the Army Wasn’t Paid: American Thinker …“A compromise between the political parties in the angrily disputed presidential election of 1876 placed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in office and ended the last vestiges of Reconstruction in the South.  In short order, the already depleted U.S. Army units attempting to counter an ascendant Ku Klux Klan were transferred to duties elsewhere as the Service braced itself for a round of personnel cuts now that the mission in the South was at an end.  What happened next caught even some of the most pessimistic soldiers by surprise. The winding down of Reconstruction had seen corresponding reductions in the Army to roughly 39,000 men in 1869, 30,000 the following year, and 25,000 in 1874.  In 1877, the House of Representatives, now under the control of Southern Democrats little more than a decade after the Civil War, moved to cut the Army — “the unholy instrument of repression” during Reconstruction — to 17,000, then 15,000, lest the federal government be tempted to use it again domestically. Proposed amendments and legislative maneuvering also resulted in the 54th Congress adjourning in March, before they had passed an appropriations bill for the coming fiscal year.  For the sake of political expediency, the president did not call Congress back into session to rectify the matter.  Thus, as of June 30, 1877, neither officers nor enlisted men, be they soldier, sailor, or marine, was able to draw even a dime of pay.  The delegation from Texas, however, broke ranks with the Southern Democrats and made it clear that they wanted even more troops because of the ongoing problems with the Apaches along the Mexican border and continued raiding by the Cheyenne.”