And Things Go Bump in the Night!
It’s Halloween!
And we HOPE something WICKED our Way comes!
Halloween, October 31, 2022.

We create our Halloween Altars.
Here we are already at Halloween!
Honoring those who have died & gone to heaven.
Honoring the fruits of the season. And the Light in the darkness.
Today – October 31, 2022. A festival day today.

Today is Halloween.
All Saints and All Souls Days (tomorrow & Wednesday).
We still have time to create altars to honor both the living & the dead.
Altars filled with marigolds, chrysanthemums, pumpkins, sugar skeletons, copal (incense), pomegranates, persimmons, pineapple guavas, candy, corn and cookies in colors orange and black (so Saturn!).

Costumes – who we might want to be?
Dressing up as a way of experimenting with different cultures, peoples & realities. Note: don’t allow anyone to curb your creativity. Don’t fall for politically correct costumes. They are SO boring? Political correctness is a way of controlling people. Don’t fall for it. BE whom/whatever you want to be. Dressing up is creative, it’s a form of experimentation. Who do you want to be?

Today Aquarius (5) Moon, Scorpio (4) Sun & Venus (5).
Samhain – the Celtic roots of Halloween.
Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and acknowledging that winter is near – we are now in the “darker half” of the year. Samhain begins on 31 October, since the Celtic day began at sunset.
Samhain is the most significant of the four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice.
During this time of year, hearth fires in family homes were left to burn out while the harvest was gathered.
After the harvest work was complete, celebrants joined with Druid priests to light a community fire using a wheel that would cause friction and spark flames. The wheel was considered a representation of the sun and used along with prayers. Participants took a flame from the communal bonfire back to their home to relight their hearth. Offerings were left outside villages and fields for fairies, or Sidhs.

Source of Dressing in Costumes
It was expected that ancestors might cross over during this time , and Celts would dress as animals and monsters so that fairies were not tempted to kidnap them.

Lighting the fires of Halloween. Building an altar. Risa