It is the first seen dark after the final colors of the fading sunset.� It is the feast of the dead, the night of otherworldly travels, the evening of ghosts and goblins and little childrens knocking on your door.� Samhain, popularly known as Halloween, is the night when the feil between this world and the otherworld is the thinnest.�

Dispite its reputation (Halloween), Samhain is in fact the height of the energies of Order.� Samhain marks the beginning of Winter, and is the ending and beginning of the majority of Lunar calendars.� Samhain usually occurs under the Sorting moon.�

The primary themes of Samhain are death and rebirth.� It celebrates death as the fullfillment of life, the end to which we all will come.�

Mother, in sorrow for the death of Father, Her Lover, the Mother rests.� She dons the cloak of Her dark aspect, as the crone who cuts the thread of live or the dark sow who eats the dead.� In this time, the Goddess energy dominates the God, and the earth turns to slumber.�

As in the Celtic feast, Samhain is associated with the thinning of the veils between this world and the other world.� It occurs as early as October 23rd, and as late as November 21st.� In the Lunar calendar, it often falls under the Sorting moon, but at times it lies on the Death moon.� It is the begining of the winter that stays until Imbolc.� In ancient times, Samhain marked the 3rd harves when all animals that had been culled from the herds, were slaughtered and the meat prepared for winter storage.�

Samhain is a time of letting go of the past and looking on to the future.� A time to deving the future and see what the coming year will bring.�

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