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🍁So what’s Samhain?

Often known as the witches new year, Samhain (sow-in) is the pagan festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter. It is said that that the veil between our world and the spirit world is the thinnest.

🥧When is it?

It begins the evening of Oct. 31 and ends the evening of Nov. 1

🍺Food & drinks: apples, pumpkin, squash, grains, corn, beer, wine, root veggies, pomegranates, potatoes, hazelnut

🍯Crystals: pretty much any black crystal, smokey quartz, fluorite, bloodstone, carnelian

🦊Herbs & spices: Patchouli, rosemary, cloves, sandalwood, sweetgrass, sage, cinnamon, nutmeg

🧀Activities:

Go for a cemetery or nature walk

Cook some old family recipes

Divination!! This is the best time of year for it (in my opinion)

Make a bonfire

Set up an altar to honor your ancestors

Collect fallen leaves/acorns

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Altar Update: September 2018

After over 40 hours of work and at least twice as many imagining the idea, my new bedroom and altar have finally crossed over from dreams into reality! I just finished my Mabon altar cloths and my new drapes this weekend during the Equinox holiday, and I am so thrilled to share them with everyone.

Since I’m designing the rooms in my home after different seasons, my bedroom will keep these lovely Autumn trees year round. After the incredible amount of effort it took to build them, I intend on enjoying them for years to come.

It’s fascinating the way modern witchcraft is this giant amalgam of old and new traditions. Like, we have witches who are getting super into crystals and Buddhist meditation. Witches who keep their BOS online and do things like make sigils under their nail polish. Witches who embrace ancient shamanistic practices of earth worship and animism, and witches who use modern technology to work their magick. Witches who worship Frida Kahlo. Witches who worship the most primordial earth goddesses. Witches who worship no one.

We’re quickly approaching a new era (the Fourth Turning, as some describe it), and our renewed interest in magick, spiritual fulfillment, and the spirit world reflects that. The old ways of magick-working still run through our veins, calling us back to a time when we heeded our inner magick and the world of spirits all around us. And our unique expressions of witchcraft perfectly sum up how diverse and pervasive this desire to connect with our inner power is.

Witchcraft isn’t “fake” if it incorporates new elements from all across cultures. Witchcraft evolves and changes with the human race. As we grow, so does our craft. Keep on being yourself and shaping your craft based on what YOU feel is powerful and awe-inspiring.