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Showing posts with label the circle of the blue moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the circle of the blue moon. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

12. How do you celebrate Samhain/Halloween?

I separate Samhain and Halloween into separate parts. Halloween is just fun with my daughter. We like to dress up and go trick or treating or hand out candy. Usually Dh and I will take turns walking around with our daughter while one of us (Namely my husband) sits on the porch handing out candy. Where we use to live we didn't get too many TOTers so by 7pm he was normally indoors and we were "Stuck" with candy. Oh poor us. lol.

For Samhain we would meet up with The Circle of the Blue Moon for the day. We'd spend it participating in ritual or just hanging out talking about various Pagan topics. We made a lot of good friends that way and helped a few people along the way. Usually there is at least one or two people who need healing and the High Priestess would ask me to assist once in awhile.

Now that we are in Ohio I'm not sure what we are going to do. There isn't much money to buy candy or costumes. Though my daughter is determined to make her own costume if she has to. And I think she may have sweet talked my mother into sending her something. She's almost 10 yrs old now and I've tried to convince her to just hand out candy. After all that can be fun right? Nooo. Evidently not. She won't have it. I'm not even sure if there is TOTing in our area. I assume so since there are a lot of kids around here.

As for ritual, I have to ask Lynn from Innanas Spiritual Center if she'll be doing anything. If not, or if she is leaving town, I may just skip it this year. Or maybe I'll just bake a nice pie for Dh and enjoy his pleasure at eating something I made. Who knows. I'm a bit spontaneous and not making plans kinda gal!


Sierra Belle as Cleopatra

This is apart of 31 Days of Samhain
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

9. Share a Pagan/Wiccan story about Halloween/Samhain.

Hmm. A Story about Halloween or Samhain. Well I could recite mythological stories about Samhain, but chances are you've heard them before or can easily look them up on other various sites. So I'll save that for another time. My story is more personal.

Many years ago at another Samhain festival with The Circle of the Blue Moon the group was doing a small reenactment. At the time I just thought it a sad story about young witches who chose to kill themselves rather than be killed or convert to Christianity. That is until the reenactment sparked a vision and I saw myself walking into the sea. The vision brought me to tears, and it makes sense why I am so fearful of deep water, and why I refuse to eat any fish! I can taste the dirty water I choked on in a past life.  I knew from that day on that the High Priestess had shared that life with me, which is why she chose to do the reenactment. It was the most powerful vision I have ever had. But I needed to see it to spark more interest in learning about Wicca and following my path.




Lisa Thiel- Samhain Song


The Witch's Sabbat

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