31/10/2025
🖤 SAMHAIN BLESSINGS 💜
And the wheel of the year turns.....
Summers end/Halloween
Start of the shortening of the days and the lengthening of the nights considerably. All souls night/feast of the dead. Festival of remembrance. Feast of apples. New year. This is a very important festival it is the third and final festival of nuts and berries and a fire festival. After this time any nuts and berries remaining should not be picked but left for the wildlife. All the harvest is in, fields are bare, leaves have fallen from the trees, all complete it is the end of the cycle of birth and regrowth. The point of death ~ the seeds of the harvest have fallen deep into the dark earth ~ unseen, dormant and apparently lifeless. The Sun as Sun King is sacrificed back to the land with the seed until the winter solstice and the goddess now as Crone mourns him until his rebirth at Yule. He travels the underworld learning its wisdom. Fires are lit in honour of the sun god.
The veils between worlds are thinnest this time of year ~ boundaries dissolve ~ all is laid bare allowing spirits to pass through. Reconnect with our ancestors. Honour the ancestors who came before us. Death is always followed by rebirth, end of old year and beginning of a new year. Before there was light there was darkness ~ they are inseparable, necessary and interdependent. Darkness is fertile with all potential ~ this is an opportunity to rest and reflect on the past and dream of new beginnings. We begin to slow down ~A time of going inwards and reflecting on our shadow self.
The goddess is very pregnant and in the Crone stage ~ the sun child sleeps still in the womb of the goddess ready to be born at solstice.
The apple is a symbol of life and mortality ~ traditionally they were buried at Samhain as food for those souls who are waiting to be reborn. The apple cut crossways reveals the five pointed star or Pentacle at is core ~ a symbol of the goddess.
💫 Into the portal the witches shall go, To hear the call of the ancestors flow. Connect our spirit this Samhain night, insight wisdom bring to light. 💫
Blessed be. Xx💫💫🙏🍂🍁🔥🔮🖤💜✨💫
Artwork: Leanne Ta Iki Anawa & Mary Bonas