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Samhain

Samhain (pronounced sowen, soween, saw-win, saw-vane or sahven, not sam-hayne), celebrates the third of the three harvest festivals, and honours the harvest of the nuts. (Lammas celebrated the harvest of the wheat and grain, Autumn Equinox celebrated the harvest of the fruit).

Samhain represents endings and beginnings.

Summer is far behind us, Autumn has ended, and winter officially begins.

Samhain is marked on the eve of the 1st November, typically celebrated on the 31st October.

This is the dark time of the year. A time of mystery and transformation.

The darkness draws in, and is an essential part of the cycle, as it brings with it a period of rest and regeneration before the rebirth that will come.

The seeds of your ideas, your future plans, and the direction you are ready to take your life in, are incubated within the darkness, ready to be re-birthed in the Spring.

The ‘death’ of the old, makes way for the new. This endless cycle of change, allows you to get to know yourself, and your ideas, on a much deeper level.

Often we have been taught to fear the darkness, or those things that we can not rationally explain. We dismiss our intuition, and have lost connection with our own sacred wisdom, and the great Mysteries of life.

We can often live our lives based on unconscious thoughts, patterns, beliefs, and learned behaviour, seldom stopping to question if these are still valid ways to life our life by.

The darkness holds the energy to explore these inner realms within yourself, to face what remains buried deep within, so that you can awaken and remember your inherent wisdom and power.