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A Time for Death
Greetings, witches and Pagans and Happy Samhain. Samhain is the Celtic holiday honoring the dead and marking the beginning of winter that forms one of the primary influences on Halloween, along with the Catholic festival All Souls’ Day. Here in the northern hemisphere we celebrate our ancestors and examine our mortality while down in the south they celebrate the renewal of life with Beltane.
As we do every year we’ve gathered all our content for this very special day, along with a few links from elsewhere. We hope you have a spooky (but not too spooky) Samhain!
—Aryós Héngwis
Samhain / Halloween Posts:
- Steven Posch. "Beholding Mystery"
- Deborah Blake. "Blessed Samhain"
- Karen Clark. "Born Into Life, Born Into Death"
- Colleen DuVall. "Ecstatic Pumpkins"
- Molly. "To Light a Pumpkin"
- Steven Posch. "The Other Side of Samhain"
- Joanna van der Hoeven. "Samhain Ancient and Modern"
- Steven Posch. "Samhain Is When They Count Us"
- Rachel Patterson. "Samhain Meditation"
- Arwen Lynch. "Samhain Mysteries 2018"
- Steven Posch. "Secular Samhain"
- We'Moon. "The Veil between Worlds"
- Steven Posch. "Whenever You Find It"
- Robin. "The Witch's Year Tarot Spread"
- Morgan Daimler. "Witches, Fairies, and Hallowe'en"
Autumn/Fall Posts
- Olivia. "Autumn in Japan"
- Nimue Brown. "A Carpet of Leaves"
- Cerridwen Greenleaf. "Chinese Harvest Festival"
- Steven Posch. "The Eternal Apple"
- Tasha Halpert. "Fall Means Apples"
- Laurie Novotny. "Healing Power of Autumn"
- Cerridwen Greenleaf. "Homemade Harvest"
- Meredith Everwhite. "Leave the Leaves Alone!"
- Suzanne Tidewater. "Releasing"
- Cerridwen Greenleaf. "Scorpio Soul Stones"
- Steven Posch. "Shine on Harvest Moon"
- Steven Posch. "Urban Procession"
Darkness Posts:
- Cerridwen Greenleaf. "The Burning Times"
- Robin Fennelly. "Deep into the Belly"
- Jude Lally. "A Prayer, Whispered into the Dawn"
- Shawn Sanford Beck. "Ancestors, Spirits, and Reconciliation"
- Ivo Dominguez, Jr. "Bone & Spirit"
- Cerridwen Greenleaf. "Crystals to Connect You with the Other Side of the Veil"
- Laura Perry. "Dining with the Ancestors"
- Erin Lale. "Eye in the Sky"
- Mark Green. "A Gift from the Dying"
- Eileen Troemel. "Honoring the Dead"
- Cerridwen Greenleaf. "Plant Your Own Sacred Grove"
- Molly. "Saying Goodbye to My Grandmother"
- Rachel Patterson. "Seed Charm for the Ancestors"
- Danu Forest. "A Soul Cake for the Dead"
Winter Posts:
- Danu Forest. "The Cailleach Stirring"
- Jude Lally. "A Gift from the Cailleach"
- Kristoffer Hughes. "Mari Lwyd"
- Shawn Sanford Beck. "Oats in the Snow"
Cool Stuff We Found:
- 6 Seriously Scary Horror Books to Read for Halloween
- 10 Ways to Celebrate Halloween with NASA
- Behind the Scenes at the Day of the Dead Parade
- The Best and Worst Afterlifes in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- As Halloween Grows More Popular in China, Many Youngsters Are Combining the Occasion with Chinese Elements
- How We Know Ancient Humans Believed in the Afterlife
- Introducing Sabrina's Real-Life Behind-the-Scenes Pagan
- Jardin du Luxembourg
- Love & Death
- Monday
- A Path Beyond Death
- Pumpkin Queen
- Samhain Ritual 2018
- Spooky Styles from a Century Ago
- Storm
- Suspiria and Border Offer Two Very Different Tales of Otherworldly Creatures
- We All Have a Dark Side to Us
- Why Is Samhain Considered the New Year?
- Why We Love to Scare Ourselves on Halloween
- Why We Still Love Hocus Pocus 25 Years Later
Top image by huk_flickr
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