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🎃🎃MORE SAMHAIN!!!!🎃🎃

Samhain tarot spread from- Marieke Shwartz

💀 Connect with the spirits of the dead through meditation or rituals.

🕸 Watch your favorite spooky/witchy movies to awaken Samhain's energy.

💀 Pull some tarot cards for guidance.

🕸️ Take a walk in nature for grounding, clear your mind, and appreciate the beauty of autumn.

💀 Since Samhain is also a fire festival, connect with the element of fire by lighting candles or a small bonfire (always safely).

🕸️ Craft yourself a Samhain mask, inspired by ancient Egyptian funeral masks, which were believed to protect the soul on its journey. By creating your own “death mask,” you symbolically protect yourself when the veil is thin.

💀 Celebrate Samhain also as Nutcrack Night, by enjoying the season’s nuts, you can crack them open to release their energy and use them for their magical properties, whether by eating them or using them in spells.

🕸️ Practice candle and fire magick.

💀 Try scrying or mirror gazing, divination is especially powerful when the veil is thin (this whole month especially, and in November too).

🕸️ Do a simple releasing spell: take a leaf, focus on something you want to let go of, crush it gently, and then release it into nature.

💀 Host a Samhain feast for your loved ones. Leave an empty place at the table with food and a photo of the deceased, inviting their spirit to join you.

🕸️ Do some trick-or-treating with baked cookies or small crystals to share your energy with others.

💀 Try an apple peel divination: peel an apple in one long, continuous spiral and throw it over your shoulder. The shape it forms is said to reveal the first initial of your future love.

🕸️ Offer wine libations or food offerings outdoors (make sure they’re safe for animals).

💀 Visit a cemetery or the grave of a loved one. Leave flowers or other offerings to honor them.

🕸️ Add photos of your ancestors or deceased loved ones to your altar.

💀 Wear black to honor the Sabbat and the departed.

🕸️ Bake Samhain treats (like soul cakes, barmbrack, Colcannon, or pies) with your desired intentions and positive energy.

💀 Harvest the last fruits and vegetables of the season.

🕸️ Dance and celebrate both life and death.

💀 Invoke and honor deities associated with this sabbath, such as Hades, Hekate, Morrigan, Persephone, Anubis, and more.

🕸️ Use divination tools like pendulums, dice, or tarot cards to communicate with spirits or seek guidance.

💀 Collect acorns, chestnuts, or hazelnuts and keep them until Ostara. Care for them and charge them with your energy, then return them to nature in spring as an offering.

🕸️ Collect animal bones or feathers to honor the natural cycle of life and death.

💀 Play apple bobbing (traditionally done to honor the goddess Pomona). Successfully catching an apple symbolized a successful future relationship. You can place your caught apple under your pillow to dream of your future partner.

🕸️ Try reading in tea leaves.

💀 Carve pumpkins with sigils, runes, or symbols you want to attract into your life.

🕸️ Bake a pumpkin or apple pie and carve a sigil on top.

💀 Focus on healing and transformation spells.

🕸️ Wear Samhain colors in your clothing, makeup, or nails (orange, purple, white, black, brown, and gold).

💀 Set up your altar with Samhain or autumn symbols.

🕸️ Use crow feathers or crow motifs to honor death and transformation.

💀 Carve symbols onto candles and anoint them with essential oils and herbs.

🕸️ Visualize your intentions and desires clearly, and ask your deities or ancestors for help, but remember, they guide you, they don’t do all the work for you.

💀 Try a dumb supper, eating in silence to connect with spirits and ancestors.

🕸️ Connect with crystals associated with Samhain (hematite, obsidian, black tourmaline, bloodstone, smoky quartz).

💀 Decorate your home with Halloween or Samhain-themed decor to welcome the energy of the season.

🕸️ Prepare a dinner and leave offerings for your dead loved ones.

💀 For many pagans, Samhain marks the Witches’ New Year, so channel your energy into spells for new beginnings, healing, transformation, and manifestation, and honor deities connected with witchcraft.

FAMILY FRIENDLY RITUAL

If you’ve got kids at home, try celebrating Samhain with some of these family-friendly and kid-appropriate ideas.

1- Honor your ancestors

In many cultures, ancestor veneration is an important part of the season. Depending on how old your children are, you may want to use this time of year as an opportunity to introduce your kids to the people whose blood runs through their veins.

Study Genealogy: All of us came from somewhere, so why not figure out what that place might have been? Get your kids involved in learning about their forbears, even if it's just something as simple as asking Grandma what it was like to live when she was a child. Take the information you learn, and fill out a family tree chart — if you're feeling really crafty, use that info to make an ancestor altar cloth!

Got photos and family heirlooms? Set up an ancestor altar in a place of honor in your home. Is your child — or are you — adopted? That's okay, you can still honor your kinfolk, you just have to go about it a slightly different way. Consider celebrating archetypes that represent your ethnic or cultural background.

2- Family Friendly Ritual

Let’s face it, sometimes ritual is hard to get through when you’re little. The trick to keeping young children involved is to keep them occupied – that means rethinking ritual ideas so that it can fun as well as spiritual. This ritual is designed to celebrate Samhain with younger kids.

Obviously, if your children are older, or you have younger kids who are very focused and mature, you may not need a “kids ritual.” However, for those of you that do, this is a rite you can complete, from start to finish, in about twenty minutes. Also, keep in mind that you are the best judge of what your child is ready for. If he wants to paint his face, bang a drum and chant, let him do so — but if he'd rather participate silently, that's okay too!

Use a basic altar setup for this ritual. If your kids are old enough to not burn the house (or themselves) down when near an open flame, you can use candles, but they’re not required for this ritual. A nice alternative is the small LED tealights, which can go on your altar safely.

In addition to your Samhain decorations, place photos of deceased family members on the altar. If you have other mementos, such as jewelry or small heirlooms, feel free to add those.

Finally, have a cup with a drink in it that the family can share — milk, cider (always a great option in the fall), or whatever you may prefer. Obviously, if someone is sporting a cold or runny nose, you might wish to use individual cups.

Gather your family around the altar, and ask each child to stand quietly for a moment to take a few minutes to think about the different family members that have passed away.. If your child is too young to know anyone who has passed away they can simply think about the family they have now, and all the living people who are important to them.

After everyone has taken a moment to think about their ancestors, and before anyone starts to fidget, begin the ritual.

Parent: Tonight we are celebrating Samhain, which is a time when we celebrate the lives of the people we have loved and lost. We are going to honor our ancestors so that they will live on in our hearts and memories.

Tonight, we honor [name], and [name].

Go through the list of specific people you wish to honor. If someone has died recently, start with them and work your way back. You don’t have to unleash the names of every single person in your family tree (because it could be Yule before you finish), but it’s important to mention the people who have had the most impact on your life. If you want, to help the kids understand who everyone was, you can go into more detail as you name the ancestors off:

“Tonight we honor Uncle Bob, who used to tell me funny stories when I was a kid. We honor Grandma, who lived in a cabin in Kentucky where she learned to make the best biscuits I’ve ever had. We honor cousin Adam, who served in the Army and then bravely fought cancer before he crossed over…”

Once you’ve named off all of the ancestors, pass the cup around the circle. As you pass it, you can say, “I drink in honor of my family, of the Holy Trinity, and of the bonds of kinship.” Take a sip, and pass it to the next person, saying, “I share this with you in the name of our ancestors.”

Once everyone has had their turn, replace the cup on the altar. Ask everyone to join hands and close their eyes for a moment.

Take a moment for quiet reflection, and then end the rite in whatever way works best for your family.

Adapted from

Woke to a gray sky and the kind of stillness that feels like the world holding its breath. The air has weight to it today. Every sound carries a little farther, every movement feels slower, more deliberate.

It’s Samhain morning. The last day of the harvest and the first step into the dark half of the year. Even the light feels different, softer but sharper around the edges, like it knows what night is coming.

I walked outside with my coffee and the air felt alive, humming low beneath the wind. The veil is thin enough to sense even in daylight. You can almost feel the old ones watching quietly, waiting for us to notice.

𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧

lighting candles in jack o'lanterns (to keep away the fairies)

roasting s'mores on bonfires (to keep away the fairies)

bobbing for apples, fortunetelling, ouija boards, and other assorted divination rituals (to forewarn those doomed to be kidnapped by fairies)

haunted houses (to preach against the dangers that lurk across the veil in the otherworld, home of the fairies)

community effort to stuff kids full of candy (that if whisked away (by the fairies) they might resist the temptation (of strange fae foods) long enough to escape)

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Lammas

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Mabon

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