💀 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.
🕸️ And last but not least, don’t forget to have fun and, most importantly, celebrate every sabbath in the way that feels right to you and connects you deeply with your own magic. Blessed Samhain!!! 🎃♡🕷
