Celtic Goddess

Happy Samhain!

October is almost Octover, and that means that Hallowe’en and indeed Samhain, draw near.

Samhain/Samain, pronounced ‘sa-win’, ‘sow-in’, - with the ‘ow’ pronounced as it is in ‘cow’ - is a Gaelic festival that marks the end of the harvest season and the onset of the ‘darker half of the year’. It begins at midnight on the 31st of October and celebrations often run into the 2nd of November. It is regarded by many pagans and witches as the end of the year itself.