Tell me your plans!
2006-10-06 01:45:17 · 6 answers · asked by Elle 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
After the usual candy giving we invite our closest friends over and begin the real celebration. First, a silent dinner, with places on the table for those who have passed on. We take this time to meditate on their memory. After this we celebrate the upcoming New Year and all it holds as good. Then we build the bon fire and supply everyone with paper to write down hopes, and wishes, and negative things they wish to change to toss into the fire.
2006-10-06 01:55:12 · answer #1 · answered by fuguee.rm 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My one solid tradition--and I have no idea where I picked this one up from--is to let an orange candle burn all night. Something about attracting good spirits. One way or the other, I like it and I do it.
Our earlier-in-the-evening candy-giving plans have been shot (my significant other was planning to build the prow of a pirate ship and throw candy from it, but he's been having terrible flare-ps with lupus and it isn't likely at this point), so my fellow practitioner and I are planning to do a number of general good rites and reinforce many we have up (good night to do it), and then we've discussed a few other crazy ideas...nothing concrete yet, though.
2006-10-06 09:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm Catholic so I don't "celebrate" Samhain, but for Halloween, I"m making my pagan and athiest friends dinner and we're watching asian horror movies. For some reason, subtitles make it less scary for them.
2006-10-06 08:49:04 · answer #3 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I appreciate that you know what the celebration really is.
Or parts of it anyway.
We usually darken the house so the doorbell won't ring and watch TV.
2006-10-06 08:49:34 · answer #4 · answered by rangedog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Umm ive never celabrated it, I am Pagan but i dont know much about it.
2006-10-06 08:50:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL, don't know yet! Hard to have a full-on celebration when you are a solitary!
2006-10-06 08:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by Ana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋