31/10/2025
🎃✨ Halloween A Night of Magic, Memory, and Truth
Halloween, or Samhain (pronounced Sow-en), is one of the oldest sacred Celtic celebration marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of the dark half of the year.
We will be enjoying as always harvested vegetables from @ blackgrovefarm
Long before costumes and candy, this night was a time of fire, reverence, and renewal — when people lit great bonfires to honor the sun’s fading strength and to call in protection for the winter ahead.
🕯️ For witches, Samhain is the Witches’ New Year a night to honour cycles of life, death, and rebirth. True witches are healers, wisdom-keepers, and caretakers of the earth. Their craft is rooted in balance, intuition, and connection with nature, spirit, and the unseen.
Yet history twisted this truth.
For centuries, those who carried the old knowledge mostly women, midwives, herbalists, and wise folk were persecuted and branded as evil. Innocent souls were tortured and executed under the shadow of ignorance and fear.
Tonight, we remember them too the ones who kept the flame alive despite the darkness, whose wisdom still whispers through the wind and the trees.
This Samhain, I will be honouring my ancestors through rhythm and flame:
🪶 Drumming to call in the directions, honouring Earth, Air, Fire, and Water — the guardians of the sacred circle.
🔥 Lighting candles to welcome the spirits of my ancestors h'me.
🌾 Offering gratitude for their love, strength, and guidance as the Wheel of the Year turns once more toward winter’s quiet transformation.
May we walk with reverence for those who came before and with courage to carry their wisdom forward.
Blessed be, this Samhain. 🖤✨
Love Rachel
