Pagans, Heathens, Wiccans...?

Question

The veil is thinning.. what are your plans for Samhain/Wynterfylleth?

We always have an altar to our departed loved ones, leave food out for the spirits, and make candles from wax we've saved throughout the year.. we do the traditional pumpkin carving, I make pumpkin soup and pan de muertos and we give an offering to the mother as she goes to sleep until spring. Whatever you celebrate.. may it be blessed in every way.

Answer 1

Candles and pumpkins (or I might go turnip this year! Lol!)
Sweets for the kids at the door. Pumpkin lights and autumn wreath. Sausages(veggie) and apple pie. A quiet ritual and a raising of the glass to those we have lost - and some time spent with the Dark Mother as I look back over the year.. I love Samhain.

Answer 2

We are holding our annual Althing during the Winter Nights celebration. Our group has a seidhkona, so she may do the siedh. It is the traditional time for such a ritual.

I will be bringing some bottles of pumpkin mead. It's the "Howling Jack" recipe.

Answer 3

Aaaaah, Winternights.

I do a spirit feast for my ancestors and honored dead, and a Disablot . . . a rite of offerings to the Disr, which in my traditions are familial mother goddesses, bearers and weavers of our luck and protection.

Ascended ancestresses, more or less.

There'll be tobacco and parched corn for the Tsilagi ones, single malt Scotch and shortbread for the Highland ones, and something decadently sweet and complicated for the Normannii ones . . . we did, after all, spent some time in France. And homemade mead, of course.

Timing's inexact. It would be the 13th or so in most of Scandinavia, but in South Texas, we wait for the heat to break before we break out words with "winter" in them. *G*

Answer 4

samhain is my favorite time of year. i'm not sure what i'm going to do yet besides decorating the house and passing out candy to the neighborhood kids.

i am hoping to go to a larger festival where there would be many different paths and and a huge bonfire. it's been several years since i went to join a group to celebrate. it feels like it's time.

bright blessings to you.

Answer 5

Different time of the wheel here.....I promise to Honor Love and Cherish her until she comes back to you.

I love Samhain~ We dont have Halloween over here in Aus~ I love having the chance to honor my mother in the summerlands~ and feel she is closer that one night of the year.
Be Blessed
Ariel

Answer 6

it starts off as the samhain ritual. on to the initiation of a new priestess then parrtay all with our loved ones.
also scaring the living daylights out of the local kids a tradition i have each year they love it

Answer 7

Nothing really major. My mom and I will be lighting candles and placing them in the windows for our lost loved ones of course. probably handing candy out to all the kids that come to the door. cooking. drinking. laughing and remembering the good times we had with those we have lost. Its always a very nice evening and has always been my very favorite day.

Answer 8

Dinner with the family,(here and passed) Trick or treating (school night) and later on..cut a path and a portal for the lost or wandering...The veil is so thin I feel like I could poke my finger thru it!!!!

Answer 9

Giving our candy, dressing up, carving pumpkins, heck I might even cook!

But then, I also plan on leaving offerings of respect for my ancestors and looking through my old family photo albums. And, of course, meditating and doing a ritual to celebrate the end of the year.

Answer 10

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