October 24, 2026

Bead Culture

Autumn Equinox in Vietnam: Children Carry Lanterns, the Moon Runs the Festival, and the Rain Still Doesn’t Ask Anyone About September 23 Lantern decorations during an autumn festival in Vietnam
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Autumn Equinox in Vietnam: Children Carry Lanterns, the Moon Runs the Festival, and the Rain Still Doesn’t Ask Anyone About September 23

Bead Culture September 12, 2026
If September in Vietnam were run by one large central office, the meetings would be a disaster....
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Autumn Equinox in Czechia: Mabon, Harvest Festivals, Hops, Wine — and an Autumn That Refuses to Follow One Calendar Watercolor Czech landscape combining a harvested grain field, hop garden and vineyard beneath a sky evoking the astronomical equinox.
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Autumn Equinox in Czechia: Mabon, Harvest Festivals, Hops, Wine — and an Autumn That Refuses to Follow One Calendar

Bead Culture September 6, 2026
Autumn has a small organizational problem in Czechia. Astronomers say it begins with the equinox. Meteorologists, for...
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September Equinox Around the World: Autumn in the North, Spring in the South — and Why That’s Not the Whole Story Watercolor illustration of Earth at the September equinox with the Sun and opposite seasonal transitions in the two hemispheres.
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September Equinox Around the World: Autumn in the North, Spring in the South — and Why That’s Not the Whole Story

Bead Culture August 27, 2026
Sometime around the end of September, the internet starts behaving as if the planet has been issued...
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