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lunavenefica · 1 year
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⛤Ways to Celebrate Samhain⛤
In the past it was a tradition to have a bonfire, but since doing so is not accessible to many people, you could instead light a big candle!
A lot of practitioners love cooking and baking fall foods using products they’ve planted and harvested themselves, but if you don’t have a garden or have a hard time keeping your plants alive (trust me, I understand you.) you could buy products that are sold by local farmers and small businesses.
You could also choose to use certain herbs and spices that are almost impossible to kill-Just sprinkle some rosemary on your store bought pumpkin soup if cooking is not what you’re best at, it’s the thought that counts!
You can also invite your friends and family over for a Halloween Party and have a feast with some booze and food! Have some earthy meals and a bunch of Halloween themed candies.
You can also decorate your altar with fall items like pumpkins, acorns or maybe even pinecones…Almost anything works as long as it reminds you of this celebration. 
You can check for correspondences if you’re having a hard time decorating your altar and need an idea or two regarding the arrangements!
After refreshing your altar you could think about giving offerings the deities/spirits you work with or paying respect to your ancestors.
You can also watch Halloween themed films or listen to music and sing/dance.
Remember that this day doesn’t have to be so serious and deep, pay your respects to Samhain and keep having fun!
It’s okay even if you don’t do any special spell or ritual! Just enjoy yourself!
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Happy Spooky Season to all!
⛤Isidora ⛤
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herbalgrimoire · 5 months
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phae-undergrove · 1 year
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SAMAHIN
CORRESPONDENCES
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Symbolism:
change, death and regeneration, end of old projects, knowledge, new beginnings, return, transformation,
Symbols:
acorns, bats, bones, besom or broom, cats, cauldron, crows/ravens, Death, gourds, Jack-o-Lantern, leaves, pumpkins, pentacle, skulls
Colors:
red, orange, yellow, green, purple, silver, gold, brown, black
Food and Drink:
apples, ale, beets, cider, cranberries, hazelnuts, mugwort tea, mulled wine, pork, pomegranates, pumpkins, potatoes, pies/cakes for the dead, squash, turnips
Alter decor:
Acorns,Apples, Black Candles, Brooms, Carved Pumpkins, Cauldron, Fall flowers & leaves, Nuts & Berries, Photographs of deceased loved ones, Pomegranates, bones
Herbs:
apple leaf, almonds, bay leaf, nettle, hemlock, cloves, cinnamon, mandrake, marigold, mums, mugwort, pine, rosemary, sage, wormwood, tarragon, rue, garlic, ginger, hazelnut, allspice, broom Allspice, Broom, Calendula, Comos, Chrysanthemum, Deadly Nightshade, Mint, Nutmeg, Thistle,
Incense & Oils:
Benzoin, Copal, Heliotrope, Mastic Resin, Sage, Sandalwood, Sweetgrass. Wormwood
Trees:
Apple. Hazel, Oak, Pomegranate
Deities:
Hekate, The Crone, Cerridwen, Bast, Persephone, Horned Hunter, Cernunnos, Osiris, Hades, Anubis, Loki, Arawn, Dis, and any other death/underworld god or goddess
Crystals and Gemstones:
black obsidian, jasper, onyx, bloodstone, smoky quartz, carnelian, Aquamarine,
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Animals:
cats, especially black cats, bats, spiders, rats, wolves, snakes, ravens and crows, owls, stags, jackals, scorpions
Magic:
Do NOT, entice spirits, disrespect them, or perform any other magic that is anything less than respectful.
This is the time to honor the dead.
Set up an altar,
serve them cakes,
and let them know they are not forgotten.
If you wish to communicate with deceased friends and family, this is definitely the best time of year. making communication easy.
in the form of runes,
scrying,
tarot,
tea readings,
etc.
Reflect over the previous year
perform blessing spells to ring in the new year.
Banishing magic( especially those for bad habits)
Astral projection,
lucid dreaming,
hedge riding are also seen to much easier to perform on this night but remember to be safe 🤍
Please keep in mind this is by no means a complete list but an overview of some symbols, colors, herbs, deities, etc. If I have missed something that you feel should make the list, please feel free to reblog and add to the lists! I try to stay on top of edits like that🥰
If you liked this check out my breakdown of samahin post!
Merry meet! Phae (b)
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theludicwitch · 5 months
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I'm doing a lunar ritual tonight and then on Samhain my family (who doesn't practice) and I are going to make a big dinner of beef stew, molasses bread, mulled apple cider, and soul cakes.
My family is very celtic and to start traditions like this means the world to me. We already do some Irish things that we've done since my great grandma came from Ireland (like my mom's shepards pie recipe handed down from my grandma or black eyed peas eaten on new years)
After the food festivities I plan on doing tarot with my sister or working on developing my claircognizance.
With all that being said I hope some of these things inspires you to pre-plan for Samhain too! Merry Samhain and Happy Halloween!
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raining-tulips · 6 months
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Current me to past me: what do you mean we didn’t do a yearly tarot reading last Halloween? That’s Halloween tradition? What do you mean there’s nothing to look back on and reflect? ?!?!?!
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domesticallyblissful
Apple candles are a cute, cheap, and easy craft for Samhain/fall
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firefrogging · 5 months
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happy samhain everyone!
how are we all celebrating?
i plan to cleanse the house and reapply protective sigils and pray for those who have left us too soon
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ironmandeficiency · 1 year
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samhain is starting tomorrow and i’m so excited! i’m making soul cakes i’ll share the recipe if anyone’s interested and setting intentions in preparation for one of my favorite pagan holidays! happy early samhain, y’all!
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listen to my samhain playlist
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cedar-bee · 2 years
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Happy Samhain I went for a bushwalk and brought a black onxy crystal. The autumn vibes are immaculate. Happy new year everyone. I hope everyone is doing well and achieves their goals this year. My goal is to save money and study a bit harder for the GAMSAT in September.
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grv350m3g4rr3tt · 1 year
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i did a whole ass ritual type thing last night for Samhain and it felt so nice to finally do something like this! I even dressed a candle with oil and herbs and stuff, I've never done that before but have wanted to! I called upon the elements and directions, and Archangel Samaël of course. I casted a circle, had offerings, and everything. it was super magickal 🕸🎃🔮🧿💕
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lunavenefica · 1 year
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⛤How To Celebrate Samhain⛤
Samhain, Celtic New Year, is the passage, threshold, conclusion and beginning.
It is the darkness from which everything begins, the silence from which the first vibration will arise, that initial void that must be in order for birth to take place.
Precious and necessary time. Time of rest and silent listening.
Threshold of this passage, of the limit between life, death and life, Samhain is an open door between the dimensions of time and existence.
The guardian of this threshold is Hecate, an ancient goddess who holds the keys of this Celebration.
Fairies and spirits are especially active on this night.
It is equally one of the many times to honor and host dead ancestors.
Prayers and food are left on the door steps and altar doors are left open and additional chairs are set outside. 
Hearths are clean and home hearths are rekindled by a sacred common bonfire that is lit by rubbing. 
The patron God and Goddess of this festival are the Dagda and the Morrigan.
On this day, spirits and fairy creatures invite mortals to spend a year together on the Hill of Delights with them; the druids act in the opposite direction, writing messages for the dead and entrusting them to the fire. 
With the food and drinks of the afterlife, wine, beer and mead, they feast for the duration of the festival, which takes place from a minimum of 3 days to a maximum of 6 weeks, including meetings, battles, prophecies, spells and ritual sacrifices, in honor of the god of fertility Dagda and his wife Morrighan.
In the Celtic tale "The Wasting Sickness of Cuchulainn", the feast of Samhain is celebrated for a total of 7 days, of which 3 before and 3 after the party night.
To worthily celebrate the full circle of existence we must recognize the reality of death and physical decline as natural events, not as something to be ignored or hidden. 
To these energies we must now pay homage but at the same time we must remember the new life that will come.
The Holly King teaches us that death is an end but also a beginning. 
Let us keep in mind the lesson of the ancient Celts and do not indulge in sadness!
⛤Little things to do for Samhain:
Collect acorns, giving an acorn to friends and family as a wish for good luck.
Toast the local orchard with ale and cider in thanks for a copious harvest. Part of the harvest was left on the trees to ask for a good harvest in the coming years.
Apples were also buried to provide food for the spirits waiting to be reborn.
Before pumpkins were introduced, turnips were carved outside and lit with small candles. They could then be placed on the windows or carried in procession around the neighborhood to ward off diabolical intentions.
Scary stories were told throughout the night until the crowing of the cock drove all the fairies and spirits back into their world.
Stones marked with the owners' names were thrown into the fire and recovered the next morning. The state of the stone indicated the person's luck for the coming year.
But you can also:
Invite your friends to dinner, dress up as witches and ghosts, decorate your homes with Halloween pumpkins and celebrate traditional games by trying to grab the sacred apples hanging from a string or floating in a basin with our mouths of water!
You can have fun carving and digging pumpkins and turnips, inserting candles in them to expose them to the windows or balconies of your homes.
Finally, it is a moment in which in order to favor our regeneration, we can ritually abandon all the things of the past that we must or want to leave, abandon (let die) the things that we do not like in our life. 
We can then write these things on slips of paper to burn them in our Samhain fire, which can also be a black or otherwise dark colored candle.
You can say a phrase three times like: "The so-and-so thing has come into being, the so-and-so thing has its season, and the so-and-so is going away!" Then, the slip of paper is burned in the flame.
We can then, more simply, give away or burn those objects that we no longer like.
It's time to give up bad habits, to change your life! In fact, before the new growth can begin, the soil must be fertilized with the remains of the previous year's crops and with the waste (if there were no death and decomposition there would be no Life).
An undoubtedly more complex ritual, but one that is worth performing, can be performed in our homes. 
At sunset, the eve of Samhain, all the lights in the house go out and you stand in front of a black or dark candle. We hear the old year that is about to die, we remember all the good or bad things that you have experienced, we remember the people dear to you who are no longer there, and when we feel ready we light the candle saying: "I welcome them with this light. spirits of those who left before me. Welcome! ".
 Let's take a cup or a glass full of wine and drink some, after having said: "To the dead!", Leaving a few drops. 
We can then light a special candle for each of your dead friends or relatives: it can also be white or colored candles. 
To light them we use the dark candle, and with the same candle we also light the Halloween pumpkin lanterns, if we have made any.
After doing this we take a plate or a tray where we will have put some bread or sweets (you can use the "sweets of the dead" if there are typical recipes in your area) and we invite invisible friends to share the food with us. 
Always leave a few portions.
Then, taking the dark candle, we go to all the rooms and turn on all the lights, maybe just for a few minutes.
Let's go out the front door and throw a coin: it should be silver but a common coin will do anyway.
We say: "Money on the floor, money under the door" and leave the coin on the floor for a month, perhaps sliding it under the doormat. It will bring good luck to our home.
Let us meditate on the meaning of this holiday and leave the door of the house open to let our invisible friends in!
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mitchismirage · 1 year
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Samhain Blessings
Samhain Blessings to all! This has been my first Samhain in the very first place I’ve ever owned. It truly was a beautiful night.
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coinandcandle · 1 year
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Easy Ways to Celebrate Samhain
With October 31st just around the corner, you may be wondering: What are some easy ways to celebrate Samhain? Well here are 5!
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Digital Altar - Either create a temporary one or decorate an already existing altar. Digital altars are a great option for those low on energy or in the broom closet! You can use apps like Pinterest and tumblr or create sacred spaces in video games.
Take a Walk - Put on your comfy shoes and take an evening walk. Be mindful of yourself and your surroundings. Stay present and experience the now. Appreciate the beautiful fall colors before they leave come winter. If walking isn't accessible then try to make your way outside still or open a window if possible.
Divination - Another tradition of the Celts, divination was often done on the night of Samhain. Runes, Tarot, Tea leaves, however you like, do some divining! This one can be a little more energy intensive if you dig too deep so if you're trying to save your energy maybe hold back a bit.
New Year’s Resolutions - Samhain was the mark of the new year in the ancient Celtic calendar. Take this time to create a New Year’s resolution or to reaffirm your existing resolutions. Perhaps meditate on how you've changed since last October 31st.
Honor your Ancestors - This time of year is known in a few different cultures as a time to celebrate the lives of our deceased loved ones. Set out photos, watch videos, and leave out offerings for your ancestors! This could be close relatives that have passed or more distant relatives.
I encourage you to look deeper into the holiday's history if you plan on celebrating but this can at least get you started!
For more information on Samhain, you can check out my post where I talk about its history, traditions, and some modern Samhain stuff as well.
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pumpkindevourer · 5 months
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND SAMHAIN EVERYONE!!!! I’ll drop more later, I had another essay due 💀
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raining-tulips · 5 months
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Morning witches and practitioners, hope everyone’s Halloween / samhain went well!
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