39ers Aging with ATTitude OCTOBER 2024

Makin’ Rock-tober a Rock & Roll Holiday! 

Happy UN-Birthday OCTOBER 39ers! Nothing new, here … yup … your fun 39er article was tragically late again (finally posted 10/10/24). But with this being Halloween month, you know it’s full of trivia and tidbits to make things special and spooky. By the 17^th we’ll all be ready to enjoy another Super Full Moon! 

֎ Celebrating OCTOBER 39ers ~ And More!  
Of course it’s Black Cat Awareness Month and the sponsoring site is a hoot. We also touch on Country Music Month and coming around the bend of 2024, October is a great month for life-changing reflection as we enter the straightaway to a New Year. This and MORE …  

֎ For 39ers who Follow the Stars

Start socializing now, 39ers! This month is especially open to mixing and matching for everyone.

Perhaps a little slow and tense at the start for you Librans (09/22-10/23), but by the Full Moon (17^th) you’ll be feeling loquacious and fun-loving, both personally and professionally. Have you been biding your time in making an important decision? You know timing is everything, and now’s the time …

So, Scorpios (10/23-11/21), how about you? Have you been feeling a little introspective lately? Don’t let anyone talk you out of your spiritual peace. This Un-birthday month, you need extra time to yourself, as you work through a few issues. But never fear, you will, and you’ll be better than ever … just in time to party! Listen to your Inner Child and you’ll be ready for a 39er UN-birthday and a ghoulishly fun Halloween.

֎ More OCTOBER Fun for Everyone  

Whether or not you support their peace effort for Ukraine, this October sponsoring link makes a great argument for Black Cat Awareness Month. For variety and more fun, I visited Critter Culture, which lists a brief, entertaining history of black cats from reverence to reserved fear. Not to be outdone, the History site chronicles early civilizations’ black cat divine symbols, to the midnight menace of pagan witches and the “familiar” black cat becoming divine threats. But don’t confuse them as being part of “black magic.” Not all witches are created equal. Personally, I think black cats are just divine. But then, I’m a winsome Scorpio witch.

For more October fun, how much do you love Country Music? Do you remember … it was four years ago + fifty that soon-to-be-disgraced President Richard M. Nixon, proclaimed October Country Music Month. Before the scandal took over, he managed to go down in history as the first president to visit the Grand Ole Opry. Raise your cyber-hand, how many 39ers are a li’l bit Country and a whole lotta Rock & Roll?!

Though there is no “official” link of sponsorship, a few sites celebrate October’s National Popcorn Poppin’ Month! I thought the Popcorn.org site would be a natural place to start, but … well … I have this thing about sites that won’t let us opt out of cookies. So, I found WheretheFoodComesFrom.com that extols all the virtue of popcorn. “From its humble origins to its status as a beloved staple, popcorn deserves to be celebrated for the simple pleasure it brings.” And then they direct you to Popcorn.org. LOL! And get creative with a few mouthwatering recipes for popcorn fixin’s… don’t forget the beer! 

There isn’t much else interesting to report this month, until of course …

Thursday ~ October 17^th: Hopefully, you began the month with a day (2^nd) of New Moon Musings that prepared you for a mini-fresh start to October’s Full Moon Magic. Always special as a precursor to Halloween and lifting of the spiritual veil, this month’s Full Hunter’s Moon is also noted as the 3^rd 2024 Super Full Moon.      
       Oooooh, spooky! Except it’s two weeks before Halloween, so the moon will be just a sliver, by All Hallows Eve, making the sky even darker …boo!
       As a harbinger of winter, however, October’s lunar spectacle, is also known to Native Americans as Falling Leaves Moon (Anishinaabe) and Freezing Moon or Ice Moon (Ojibwe). Whatever you call it, remember to use the Full Moon’s power as a release for that which no longer works or has come full term in your life.

And last, but surely not least …

Thursday ~ October 31^st: Is your Inner Child jumping up and down, donning cape or power bracelets as Superman or Wonder Woman? It’s Halloween!! There is so much to this enigmatic Holiday—it truly has something for everyone, even if you don’t believe in a spiritual lifting of the veil. To start with … there’s the candy! And as a 39er you don’t have to beg for it … it’s on sale. Do you only know the Holiday for its spookiness and mystical merriment?
       Its ancient Irish roots, Samhain (pronounced SAH-win), is believed to be Halloween’s origin. The Celts celebrated the end of Fall’s harvest season and winter’s beginning with festivals and feasts. To honor their dearly departed, place settings dotted the dinner table. Some Neolithic burial structures in Ireland and Great Britain are said to be aligned with the sunrise during Samhain.  

֎ October Song of Note ♪  

I tried to find a spooky song, but best I could do was honor the month that begins our rounds of Holiday parties. No song could be better to get you Rockin’ and partyin’ than our October Song of Note from October 1974 … “Kings of the Party” by the salacious Brownsville Station.   Of course, ya don’t have to be a guy/king to grab this song and hang on while ya boogie!
       While it may not have been their most popular song, it fits this month’s 39er ATT-i-tude just fine. Although it seems that by this time in Brownsville Station’s career, they were a bit full of themselves, we can celebrate their party fun ‘tude  ♪ … So we're gonna dedicate this song to everybody listening | Because the ones that get into it | Are definitely the kings of the party! … ♪ 
       Peek in on more tuneful tidbits to manifest your memories of 1974, and keep the Rock Rockin’ from 50 Years Ago this Month! 

֎ Aging with ATT-i-tude Platitude  
When we were young’uns our Halloween costumes were fun, innocent imitations of spooky ghouls, wishful superheroes, or cartoon characters. Now they’re judged violent, racist or sexist. Don’t let the world quash your Inner Child. ~ L. Rochelle 

Happy UN-Birthday 39ers ~ OCTOBER 2024 ~ Rock On! 
       This one’s for you, kids – Ron, Cheryl, Kim, Tammy, Lin and Terry!

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LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by trade, and author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books (of three) in her Blast from Your Past series, available on Amazon: Book 1 (currently eBook only, until updated) – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 (eBook, print & color!) – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic Seventies!

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