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Have A Spooktacular Day!!

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Merry Samhain & Happy Halloween

Today is a day to let the child inside come out to play. Nothing wrong with having fun and letting yourself play a little.

Halloween has become a secular holiday for Trick or Treat and nothing else. It’s not a Pagan holiday and it’s no longer a Christian holiday. So let the children play and have some unencumbered fun!

Once the children have had their fill at play, you can focus on the spiritual aspects of the day. For Pagans that means honoring Samhain.

Whither you use the Gaelic pronunciation “Sow-en”, “Sow-ween”, Sah-ween” or the Americanized version “Sam-hain” (yes that is an acceptable pronunciation), it’s still the biggest holiday on the Pagan Calendar. We honor the Celtic New Year with ritual and reverence to honor the spirits of the past and the doorway that has been opened for this one night to communicate with those we’ve lost.

From everyone here at Spring’s Haven, we wish you a very Happy Halloween, a Merry Samhain and a Happy New Year!

You can learn more about The History Of Samhain And Evolution of Halloween here on Springwolf Reflections 🐾.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Magician –

Oct31

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Magik is aloft and floating around the spiritual & physical world. Be part of it! Success surrounds you today. Use your intuitive inspiration to resolve issues, conquer challenges and overcome burdens. Pull the magik into your heart and soul as the day progresses. By this evening you’ll be filled with a light that shines through your smile and lights your way toward a brighter future tomorrow. ~ Merry Samhain To One And All! ~

Additional Insight:

What a great card for Samhain and the spiritual New Year! The day is filled with magik and bright energy for a better tomorrow. It’s a day to Walk Your Talk and express your own inner peace and vibrance. Many around you question your character because of your beliefs. Others may actually avoid any contact with you. Today is your chance to pull the Divine Magikal energy into your spirit and allow it to work through you as a positive force of love, compassion and uplifting force.

Take time today to reflect on where you’ve been. Review your magikal journal and read the first pages you had written. How far have you come on your quest toward enlightenment and better understanding? How far have you come to change your life toward a positive future? You have made good and decent strides in your life. Celebrate those accomplishments, no matter how small or how large! YOU DID IT!

Take confidence from those achievements and make plans for the coming year. This evening when the world has grown quiet to sit in meditation. Take time to dance around a bonfire in your spiritual mind and connect with the spirits of the Divine realm. Communicate with relatives you lost this past year, or loved ones who can visit you in spirit on this special night. Make the evening as much about a spiritual celebration as it is a reverent time for reflection.

This weekend, use the magik you feel though today to set new goals and make new plans for the coming year. Spend time then to reflect on what you’ve learned and how you can apply those positive lessons to your path for the spiritual lessons you still want to work on and the achievements you still want to make. All year we’ve talked about “you can do it!”; now that you have done it, celebrate it! Because YOU DESERVE IT!

The History Of Samhain And Evolution of Halloween

Oct29

Photograph by Mukul Soman
National Geographic

Samhain – The Celtic New Year
Whether you use the Gaelic pronunciation “Sow-en”, “Sow-ween”, “Sah-ween” or the Americanized version “Sam-hain” (yes that is an acceptable pronunciation), it’s still the biggest holiday on the Pagan Calendar.

It’s the start of the Celtic New Year and honors the year that has passed. It is the time when the veil of forgetfulness is lifted between the physical world and the spiritual world. Where the dead are honored and communication with spirit can take place more than any other time of the year.

For pagans it’s a time of celebration, but it’s also a time of reverence and deep spiritual reflection for the past and the future year to come.

An article by the Library of Congress states: Pagans divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on our present calendar. The date marked the beginning of winter. Since they were pastoral people, it was a time when cattle and sheep had to be moved to closer pastures and all livestock had to be secured for the winter months. Crops were harvested and stored. The date marked both an ending and a beginning in an eternal cycle. Continue reading →

Tonight On The Ænigma Project – The History Of Samhain

Oct29

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10/29 Our Topic: The History of Samhain
Whither you pronounce it Sow-ween, or the Americanized Sam-hain, it’s still the biggest holiday on the Pagan Calendar. It’s the start of the New Year and honors the year that has passed. It is the time when the veil of forgetfulness is lifted between the physical world and the spiritual world. It’s a time of celebration! But how did it get started and how did it evolve into Halloween?

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