Your Samhain Gift is Here
walking the wheel of the year
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Today, October 31st is Samhain, also known as All Hallow’s Eve or Hallowe’en. This special night opens the season of Hallowtide or Samhain, which takes us through the deepening darkness until Yule/Winter Solstice/Christmas when the light returns and the sun is reborn.
For now, though, we are entering the darkest part of the year. This is a deep time fraught with a primal remembrance of uncertainty, fear, and death.
Victorian Celtic Revival, neo-gothic, and neo-pagan contributions to this season include the idea that Samhain marks the start of a new year and the beginning of the Celtic Wheel of the Year. There isn’t any historical evidence to back that belief up. Instead, it is a part of the ever-evolving and rich growth of the mythic landscape that is part of our heritage in the West.
Beginning in the darkness has something distinctly feminine, lunar, and High Priestess-esque. Many cultures follow a lunar calendar, and their days, weeks, and holidays begin at nightfall. Remnants of this are seen in All Hallow’s Eve, Beltane Eve, aka Walpurgis Night, and the importance of Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
Entering the darkness to begin anew requires courage. It is an initiation that promises to reveal insight into the mysteries of the holy day or season.
Walking the wheel of the year is a way to organize your life, intentions, focus, and energy to create resonance with the cycles of the season and the energy of the earth. It is also a roadmap for understanding and entering into the mythology, astrology, and spiritual beliefs that define each season. By allowing those influences to claim a part of your life and your awareness, you begin to live in a new way, with a new frame of reference and new values, information, and wisdom.
The Hedge Mystic School of the Season’s mission is to help you become a seasonal soul and find the flow of energy that carries all things forward and back around again on the spiral path of life.
Your Sahmain gift awaits in the Hedge Mystic School of the Seasons, a series of rich, creative, self-guided explorations and experiences.
Your Samhain Exploration & Experience includes a history of Samhain and Halloween, shrine building, working with ancestors for wisdom and healing, inner child work, a visual meditation video, and more. Click the button below to go to your Samhain materials.
Enjoy this season and delve into all it has to offer. The darkness is often the best place to find illumination.
Don’t forget that a Tarot reading is an excellent way to bridge the gap between what we see and what is going on but obscured from our sight. Contact me for a special comprehensive reading using the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, the Halloween Oracle by Stacey DeMarco, and The Mysterious Spirit of Nature Oracle by Moksha Kusa Marquardt, along with my own Moon Wheel created to help you understand your current situation through the correspondence of moon cycles, natural plant life, and Greco-Roman deities. This comprehensive intuitive + psychological reading works perfectly for a complex question and a general reading of energy for the upcoming season of Samhain. Paid Hedge Mystic subscribers receive a 20% discount on all Tarot readings. Contact me to schedule your reading.
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Samhain Blessings Jan! Thank you for your gift! I really needed this meditation in my morning.