samhain

  • The Season of the Void

    I think of this season between Samhain and Yule as The Void. Utterly empty. Inbetween. Death. The time of rest and hibernation. The time inbetween Samhain and Yule is the incubation, the preparation, the rest before rebirth. The decay and the fading away. The sun is winding down to it’s weakest strength, it’s coldest temperature, it’s […]

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  • The Crone at Samhain

    season of the crone goddess

    This week’s post is a repost! I wrote it a few years ago, but I still dig it and it still totally holds true for this season! The Crone is a shapeshifter, the young embraced by the old, the woman with the animal inside or beside her. I think this is what makes her so […]

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  • Why Frogs? I hear you ask.

    It is still Samhain Season. It hasn’t turned just yet – the leaves are still turning and still falling in my corner of the world, though I can see and feel Winter coming because it’s bloody cold in my house. I’m an animal person. I cast my witches’ circle calling in the animals of the […]

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  • Witches’ New Year = More Fun Please

    Why Hello there! It’s been a while! Samhain was awesome/odd, like most of my festival celebrations – I feel like I should be doing more/digging it more/riding high on a crazy wave of elite witchiness all day, and then when I don’t I feel really down and confused. But I freakin’ love Halloween. I wore […]

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  • Divination in the Waning Year

    This uber-sexy guest post is written by Jo Crawford of CraftingTheSacred.com  For me the time between Samhain and Winter Solstice is a perfect time to reconnect with my divination practice. In the weeks following Samhain I can still hear the whispers of my ancestral spirits through the veil, my dreamtime is fill with epic messages […]

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  • Tween-ing into Winter

    Ooooh I love this season. I love it when it gets dark early, the pavements smell of earth and there are still enough leaves to kick at the side of the road. I think it’s partly because I am at my most productive after dark, when I feel like I’m not wasting the precious sunlight […]

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  • Mermaid Pumpkin!!

    For Halloween, I made a Mermaid Pumpkin. (!) I also asserted my title as the world’s worst photographer. Evidence forthwith: and glamorously unlit How awesome is that?!?! I wanted originally to just make a scary crone face, in honour of the Samhain Crone, but I had a blank canvas/pumpkin and it NEEDED to be filled with a […]

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  • The Samhain Crone

    “The Crone is a shapeshifter, the young embraced by the old, the woman with the animal inside or beside her. I think this is what makes her so damned scary. She screams our fears into the night, and forces us to confront ourselves”.* I’m not sure we’re (well, I’m) so great at Crones. The problem is, […]

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  • Summer Solstice!

    Summer Solstice is one of my favourite festivals. The other favourites include Beltaine, Spring Equinox, Imbolg, Winter Solstice, Samhain, Autumn Equinox and Lammas. Woohoo! Today, it is muchos cloudy, with the expectation of rain. Well. it can’t be all sunny all the time. At the weekend I changed my altar for the Summer Solstice. Midsummer […]

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