Correspondences for Samhain

  • Cross Quarter Festival, falling between Mabon and Yule
  • Celebrated on the 31st of October or the 7th of November, depending on Tradition
  • Also called Hallowe�en, All Hallow's Eve, Hallowmas, Day of the Dead, Feast of Spirits, Third Harvest, Samonios, All Saint's Eve, Martinmas, Celtic New Year, Samhuinn, Celtic Winter, Samana, Festival of Pomona, Vigil of Saman, Vigil of Todos, and Santos
  • A similar celebration, El Dia de Los Muertos is held in Mexico on the 2nd of November
  • Samhain is the time to�
    • Celebrate the wisdom of the Crone
    • Honor the Death of the God
    • Meditate on the theme of reincarnation
    • Reflect on our place in the Wheel of the Year
    • Celebrate the third and final Harvest Festival
    • Honor the dead
  • The time when the veil between the world of the living and the spirit realm is at its thinnest
  • Considered in some traditions to be the Witches' New Year
  • Traditional incense: apple, heliotrope, mint, nutmeg, or sage
  • Traditional candle colors: black and orange
  • Traditional gemstones: onyx, carnelian, jet, and obsidian
  • Traditional foods: apples, pumpkin pie, hazelnuts, Cakes for the Dead (or Pan de los Muertos), corn, cranberry muffins and bread, ale, cider, herbal teas
  • Traditional herbs: acorns, broom, apples, deadly nightshade, dittany, ferns, flax, fumitory, heather, mullein, oak leaves, pumpkins, sage, straw
  • Traditional animals: cats, bats, dogs
  • Suggested decorations: pumpkins, gourds, corn, acorns, autumn leaves, luminarias chrysanthemum, wormwood, apples, pears, hazel, thistle, pomegranates, all grains, harvested fruits and nuts, jack-'o-lanterns, balefires, besoms, masks, cauldrons
  • Suggested activities: divination, past life recall, spirit contact, meditation, drying winter herbs
  • Taboos: travel after dark, eating grapes or berries
  • Attunement teas: apple cider, angelica, catnip, Indian hyppo, sage, valerian
  • Ritual oils: frankincense, basil, yarrow, lilac, ylang ylang, camphor, clove
  • Mythical creatures: phooka, goblin, Medusa, beansidhe, fylgiar, peryton, erlkonig, harpies
  • Key actions: return and change
  • Goddesses of Samhain:
    • All Crone Goddesses
    • All Underworld Goddesses
    • Al-Ilat (Persian)
    • Badb (Irish)
    • Baba Yaga (Russian)
    • Bast (Egyptian)
    • Bebhionn (Irish)
    • Bronach (Irish)
    • Brunhilde (Teutonic)
    • Callieach (Scottish)
    • Carlin (Scottish)
    • Cassandra (Greek)
    • Cerridwen (Welsh)
    • Copper Woman (Native American)
    • Crobh Dearg (Irish)
    • Devanyani (Hindu)
    • Dolya (Russian)
    • Edda (Norse)
    • Elli (Teutonic)
    • Eris (Greek)
    • Erishkegal (Sumerian)
    • The Fates (Greek)
    • Fortuna (Roman)
    • Frau Holde (Teutonic)
    • Freya (Norse)
    • Frigga (Norse)
    • The Furies (Greek)
    • Hakea (Polynesian)
    • Hecate (Greek)
    • Hella (Norse)
    • Husbishag (Semitic)
    • Inanna (Sumerian)
    • Ishtar (Babylonian)
    • Isis (Egyptian)
    • Kali (Indian)
    • Kalma (Finnish-Yugoritic)
    • Lilith (Semitic)
    • Macha (Irish)
    • Mara (Persian)
    • Mari (Hindu)
    • Mari-Ama (Norse)
    • Marzana (Slavic)
    • The Morrigan (Irish)
    • Mother Holle (German)
    • Nephtys (Egyptian)
    • Nicnevin (Anglo-Scottish)
    • The Norns (Norse)
    • The Old Woman Who Never Dies (Native American)
    • Oya (African)
    • Persephone (Greek)
    • Pomona (Greek)
    • Proserpina (Roman)
    • Psyche (Greek)
    • The Queen of Elphame (Scottish)
    • Remati (Tibetan)
    • Rhiannon (Welsh)
    • Sedna (Inuit)
    • Spider Grandmother (Native American)
    • Tara (Irish)
    • Yellow Land Earth Queen (Chinese)
    • Yemaya-Olukun (Yoruban)
    • Zorya Vechernaya (Slavic)

  • Gods of Samhain:
    • All Death Gods
    • All Aged Gods
    • All Underworld Gods
    • Arawn (Welsh)
    • Am-Heh (Egyptian)
    • Arawn (Welsh)
    • Corn Father (Native American)
    • Coyote Brother (Native American)
    • Dis (Roman)
    • Eite-Ade (Etruscan)
    • Ghede (Voodun)
    • Hades (Greek)
    • Heimdall (Norse)
    • The Great Horned God (European)
    • Kronos (Greco-Phoenician)
    • Maderha (Lapp)
    • Odin (Norse)
    • Rangi (Maori)
    • Sekhet (Egyptian)
    • Xocatl (Aztec)

  • Samhain chant (by Starhawk):
    "She changes everything She touches
    And everything She touches changes."

  • Samhain Incense:
    • 3 parts frankincense
    • 2 parts mullein
    • 1 part heather
    • � part sage
    • A pinch pulverized oak leaf

    My sources include, but are not confined to, the following works:

    • Bereyl, Paul. The Master Book of Herbalism
    • Cunningham, Scott. The Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews.
    • -----------------. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
    • Dunwich, Gerina. Wicca Craft.
    • K., Amber. Covencraft: Witchcraft for Three or More.
    • Starhawk. The Spiral Dance.
    • Stein, Diane. Casting the Circle: A Women�s Book of Ritual.

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