31/10/2025
Blessed Samhain (pronounced sow-in)
This is the celtic new year.
The perfect distance between autumn equinox and the winter soltice.
Our ancestors would have celebrated and feared this time.
Communal fires were lit, the bones of livestock cast into the fire, the community would douse their hearths to only relight them with the fire from the potent bonfire created, connecting them and also to guide spirits home.
The death of the sun decending into the underworld, allowing the ruler of the underworld to ascend to our realm, bringing with him spirits, gouls, fae folk and other worldly creatures.
Our ancestors would keep this fire burning for protection and to symbolise the suns feirceness and light.
They would don masks to scare, or confused evil spirits at the same time as honouring their ancestors and fae folk by leaving out sweet treats such as milk and honey, fruit, nuts, bread etc
Our ancestors and spirits couldnt physically eat the food and ritually the poorer people would be offered the food.
Celts knew for crops a d life to renew things had to die, so honouring the dead, the spirits the darker time of year was an important ritual.
This was a connectedness to nature and the natural cycles of life and death, an honouring of ancestors, an honouring of oursleves and preperation for the colder darker times ahead.
So when out celebrating tonight.
Remember your ancestors
Put a picture out alongside a candle, give offerings of sweet treats, milk and honey, or even modern day sweets! Share your last Rolo!
Blessed Samhain.
