🍁Samhain activities and traditions🍁
The air is changing, with a crisp smell of leaves and a wind that tickles your skin! This is the time of year where the veil is thinning. Autumn is coming and the sun is ready to rest. This is third harvest, and the last one. The meaning for Samhain (sow-in) is that summer has come to an end.
🧙♂️🧙♀️This time of year is also known as the witches new year. 🧙♀️🧙♂️
During times of the year the veil can thin. We are coming up to Samhain, which means the veil is thinning. The veil is where the seen meets unseen, form meets spirit, known meets unknown. During meditation or rituals, you can find yourself gazing into a place between worlds. The reason it gets thinner is because there is a transition with the days getting shorter, nights getting longer. The natural world is withdrawing from the realm of life and growth. With this, the veil thins.
🎃 Set extra places at the dinner table for returning spirits, feast of the dead!
🎃 Samhain night is a great time for scrying
🎃 This is a good time for some reflection.
🎃 Meditation outside with fire and leaves! Or ground yourself.
🎃 Celebrate the cycle of life and death
🎃 Have a ritual to guide the dead home by opening the west facing window and putting a lit candle there.
🎃 Samhain ritual calling upon the gods and goddesess.
🎃 Clean or renovate a space in your house or room.
🎃 Write things you want to release in your life and burn that paper in a bonfire.
🎃 Connect with your spirit guides.
🥧Turnips, apples and apple cider, gourds, nuts, mulled wines, beef, pork, poultry, ale, bram brack (dark loaf or cake made with dried fruit), corn, mugwort tea, pumpkin, squash, and colcannon🥧
🍎 Apples- Cut an apple in half to see five seeds. This represents the pentacle. They are also divination tools. They are also considered the food of immortality.
🎃 Pumpkins, gords and turnups- Carve them and light them up! Tools for protection.
🌰 Walnuts, hazelnuts, and chestnuts- used for divination.
🥖 Bread and grain- using the harvest from mabon.
🌿 Rosemary- Dispells negative energy. Also used for remembering the dead. Amazing to put into your bread.
Great Aunt Gladys Pumpkin Bread
2 Teaspoons Baking powder
+ NOTE: Dry roasting the herbs in a pan for a few mins,
just until you can smell them, with give you a MUCH more flavorful end result
Or you can roast or boil fresh pumpkin 15 oz
1 cup walnuts or Pecans (optional)
Beat wet ingredients, eggs, add oil and water.
In another bowl mix dry ingredients, flour, sugar, salt and spices.
Make a well of the dry and gradually add wet ingredients.
Mix and pour into greased loaf pans (pound cake size)
Preheated oven at 350 for 1 hour.
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