I am curious if others have tradtitions that they follow.
Rituals...Things planned with their children...
Basicly what does it mean to you and how are you spending it.
If you have a really good idea for something to do share it.
2007-10-10 17:00:51 · 8 answers · asked by Lil'witch 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In spite of what d-cider has to say about Hallowen/Samhain, it IS possible to do BOTH. Samhain, the Solemn feast of the dead. is usually celebrated around later afternoon and is a time to remember those who have passed in the past year and those who have gone before as well. It is a time to communicate with the dead and pass meessages back and forth, messages of love, remembrance and joy.
Halloween, the Secular party time is totally acceptable as well. It can be a time to celebrate the dead and also a time to dress up in costumes, and party hearty. Have a feast, set a plate outside with all of those who have died's favorite foods. Do some divination, do some dancing, do some singing, visit with friends and relatives. Allow the children to have fun and go door to door, Trick or Treating. In other words, death as the theme need not be a time of solemnity. After all what IS death? It's a time of Graduation from the lessons of this life to a period of rest and reflection before one takes up the mission of the next life's lesson. Graduation is a time of celebration, not of mourning.
D-cider seems to want to be one of those Pagan Fundamentalists. Let's leave the Fundamentalism to the Islamo-Judeo-Christians, they're SO much better at it than us Pagans. THEY are the ones who seem to have an inherent FEAR of Death, not us. We eagerly look forward to death, even our own (whjen it's time, we are NOT into hurrying it up, in any way. LOL). Death is an important part of existence and is NOT to be feared, but celebrated and honored for the GREAT occasion that it Truly IS, in our existence.
Brightest Blessings,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-10-11 02:55:29 · answer #1 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am curious as to your knowledge of Samhain, and if Holloween was just a typo.
Hallowe'en is a chance for our family to play "dress-up" while acknowledging the influence on us that our ancestors have had.
Samhain is not an occasion to have fun. Neither is All Hallow's Evening (same thing). It is a night to remember your dead. It is the night when the line between the living and the formerly living is at its thinnest.
Holloween (to use your spelling), on the other hand, is a time to be spoooky and to step away from your normal self.
Samhain should be recognized as a Rite, and not given the Xmas treatment that other pre-Christian worship days (e.g. Easter) have been given.
Not that I am against Xmas or Easter, or Hallowe'en, they just have a lot of baggage behind them.
2007-10-11 01:57:21 · answer #2 · answered by d_cider1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We usually have a close knit get together around the fire, and celebrate the new year. We mourn and revere those past, since it's easiest to get in touch with them when the veil is at it's thinnest, and we discuss what we want to bring into our lives in the coming year. Just as a part of our own tradition, we dress in ways that symbolize what we want to bring in. Then we mostly party and feast the night away, and end with a sunrise circle. Those who have children bring them, and they help out during circle if they are old enough. It helps to get them into the religious ceremonial aspects by including them.
Happy Samhain to All!! )O(
2007-10-11 00:23:28 · answer #3 · answered by Kimberly A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well there is a Halloween fair thing at the UU church I take the kids to and then the kindred near by that I socialize with is doing a Winter Nights feast type thing with a turkey and stuff. Everyone will make a family recipe to honor our ancestors. And then the usual secular trick or treating.
2007-10-11 00:10:44 · answer #4 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Got a Halloween party to go to, and we're having the kids dress up as whatever they want, and we're going to take them to a Safe and Sane Halloween carnival type thing put on by the local Community College.
2007-10-11 10:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weather permitting I normally stay in a cemetery all night.. but, if it is anything like tonight.. that's not going to happen.. It's freezing..
I do some "ritual" type things, but I am very much into letting my intuition tell me what to do and when..
2007-10-11 00:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by kaijawitch 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I thought we would tie-dye some christians and hang them up for ornaments. no, wait, that's christmas tradition. For halloween, me and the kids are going to go watch the nuns drink beer in the alley behind the convent.
2007-10-11 00:06:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Going to Scream and a festival with my sister, the probably handing out candy and checking out costumes.
2007-10-11 00:32:32 · answer #8 · answered by Zombie Princess, (2012) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋