Samhain in the Southern Hemisphere
It’s Halloween! Or, at least in the Southern Hemisphere, it officially is! (Traditionally 1st May, but the exact time this year is 5th May 9.00am)
Halloween also goes by the pagan festival name of SAMHAIN. It signifies that the third and final harvest has arrived, and we are on the threshold of winter…
“As the last harvest festival on the Wheel of the Year, it ushers people in from the cold, barren fields to the comfort of their hearths and homes. Like Beltane, Samhain is a liminal time when the veil between this world and the next is thin. The ancient Celts believed that the Sun descended in the otherworld and that Donn, the Lord of the Dead in Celtic mythology, roamed the Earth with his fellow spectral denizens. Ghostly legends, faeries, and reanimated corpses were all thought to walk amongst the living on Samhain – an event for which the ancient pagans prepared.”
So, Samhain is recognised as a time of death, ancestor veneration, divination, spirit communication and harvest and feasting.
For her Samhain altar Irah has used the following crystals to symbolise:
Aromatics to symbolise:
