Blessed Samhain, witches!
It’s appropriate that my first blog post (after having this whole website thing for over a year), takes place on one of the most important holidays for witches. I find that I always have a creative surge between Mabon and Samhain and today felt like the perfect day to launch my online store and write my first blog post.
Today I’m feeling drawn to the rebirth energy that this holiday brings. While we can honor our ancestors and welcome the darkest part of the year, we can also see that in all destruction there is renewal and change. All death brings with it some form of change or movement. Something new must spring up because no energy is lost, just converted to something different, possibly better, possibly not, but needed all the same.
So today I will honor my deceased loved ones, those I knew in this lifetime and those I didn’t. I’ll light some candles, make an offering, and spend some quiet time thinking about them. I like to envision my ancestors spread out through time, like an infinite family tree. But generally I like to think about those I knew in this lifetime; those lost to me physically, but never spiritually. It’s interesting the messages and conversations we can have with our dead loved ones. They can still teach us so much, even in death. And if you think you’re just “imagining” the conversation, so what? Maybe it’s in your head, but who says it isn’t real?
As we head towards the darkest time of the year, think about how you can work on finding rebirth in it. What is something new that is calling to you? What can you let go of so you can begin again, so that when spring returns we are ready (or maybe already in the depths) for something fresh and exciting!
Happy communing with your dead loved ones, or trick-or-treating, or eating candy, or dressing up, or doing none of those things! May this day, and all others be filled with moments that ask you to pause and reflect on your journey in this life and what must die to be born anew!
Oh, and also go check out my new shop! Find it under “Treasures” in the tabs above!