The Halloween tradition is a long & varied one, spanning the centuries, with its origins primarily deriving from England & Italy. Traditionally, it has been considered a time to reflect upon ancestors & loved ones who have gone beyod the veil. However, every culture has their own representation of the honoring of the dead.
Some choose to make it their new year, donning forms of that which they wish to become eventually.
Halloween is a time of transformation {lycanthropic & reflective}, & evolution. mirrorred in the Tarot's 'Death' card, which represents change.
Death is the great abstinence. Life, the great Indulgence. Satanists have a propensity to collect memento moris which remind us of this. Conversely, images of pleasure grant perspectives towards the appreciation of life.
A time to focus on life goals & aspirations.
Symbolically attire yourself in the form you wish to become. An ideal time to "plant a seed" as it were. Perhaps perform a ritual in which you bury some coins of whatever purpose along with a parchment, ideally, within thirteen days preceeding, on, & after Samhein itself, when the veil is the thinnest.
Conversely, Halloween's exact opposite on the calendar, the Spring season, is a time for the revelry of life, & for passion & loving, when FLESH is symbolically dominant over 'spirit'. Considering this, it is no wonder The Church of Satan was founded on Walpurgisnacht!
Still, that does not deterr us from extending our will the rest of the year, not only because The Gates remain routinely ajar for Us, by accessing certain 'keys', but Halloween is pretty much every day for the Satanist.
It's all in the symbolism & personal meanings to each individual. One's 'Unholyday" is another's holiday.
Children, who are the epitome of the Satanimal, purely natural beings, adore Halloween. Unless indignated by brainwashed blindlighter paranoiac parents.
This past Hallows, as I was on My way to Halloween festivities, I passed by a "Halleluiah Night" sponsored by some xoid church, which appeared to be the most boring & holy-watered down thing I've ever seen! xians routinely attempt to replicate secular & Satanic artistic expressions, whether music or events, but fail miserably at anything WORTHWHILE.
They are always quite a joke. Lucifer must be the "Minister of Music", for anything devoid of "his" influence is just plainly BAD. This is known.
Verily, to raise an innocent child in such a bland & repressive environment will only srve to retard their development.
To see Trick-or-Treaters run about vigorously, with such joy in their eyes, & laughter echoing through the streets, then gathering & ghoulishly consuming their candy joyfully - how is this "evil"? The simple answer is, IT IS NOT. Though xians corrupt this wonderful Pagan holiday towards their own enslaving ends. Just another tradition to label "sinful"; just another manipulation to implant guilt with. There is no 'sin'. There is no crime.
In fact, playing "dress-up" & pretending is in the fundamental nature of the human beast. xians do it when they 'pray', although they really believe it to be real. Satanists do it, unhypocritically & with realization. All religions do it in one form or another, thus preserving left-brain activation. But where blindlighter religions isolate left hemisphere from right, thus DUALISM; in The Satanist, they are merged into one whole. Cooperative, edifying, healthy.
Halloween is here to stay, & fortunate are those who partake in this Halloween "spirit"!