SAMHAIN – DEATH AND REBIRTH  [10/31] – Greater

SAMHAIN:  October 31 — November Eve

PICTURES OR ITEMS: of your loved ones to place on an Ancestral Altar.
DUMB SUPPER:  Bring Cakes, cookies, Wines, or whatever choice of foods that your loved ones enjoyed to share in a Dumb Supper with our loved ones.

EVERYONE SHOULD BRING A SMALL CARVED PUMPKIN TO HELP LIGHT THE WAY FOR OUR LOVED ONES BEYOND THE VEIL…

PLEASE BRING INSTRUMENTS TO CHANT WITH, DRUMS, SHAKERS ETC. ..

Samhain is often equated with Halloween, but Halloween is a Christian holiday and has nothing to do with Witches and Samhain which is a pre-Christian holiday.  Today we celebrate it as a three day celebration, starting at sunset on the 30^th with the High Holy Day being on the 31^st and then ending on the 1^st of November. The night lengthens and we work with the positive aspects of darkness as it increasing. Many Craft traditions, following the ancient Celts, consider this the eve of the New Year (as day begins with sundown, so the year begins with the first day of Winter). It is the one night when the barriers between the worlds of life and death are uncertain, as the veil between the worlds are at its thinnest, allowing the ancestors to walk among the living, welcomed to feast with their kin, bestowing the Otherworld’s blessings. We may focus within ourselves to look “through the glass darkly”, developing our divination and psychic skills. It also allow us a greater awareness and connection with the realms of magick and with those who have gone before.

Samhain is our High Holy Day our New Year we do a grand celebration and dress up – the idea of dressing up to is to use your magick to become what we want to be for the coming year.  We invoke our future by wearing what we want to create for ourselves, the way we want our community to see us. We are casting a spell about who we are and what we are going to become in the coming year. Most witches dress in the finery, wearing their jewelry and best magickal clothing.  Some may do it in a comical, fun way.

Dressed in Witchy Garb we will eat drink celebrate and cast a magick circle honoring our ancestors and friends who have also passed on and those who died for our freedom to be able to celebrate this day as true Witches one and all! 

Children 7 and under are FREE

To Register to attend SEE LINK https://www.wiccanfamilytemple.org/seasons-of-the-witch/our-sabbat-ritual-gatherings/

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