Samhain Magic Special

Samhain is a special part of the year for us. It celebrates the last harvest, the thinning of the veil between worlds, the dead, and, for some, the start of a new year. 

The last harvest is self explanatory, this is when the last things grown for the year are harvested. Mainly gourds and apples here in North America. 

The thinning of the veil is less explanatory. This is when the fairy worlds and the world of the dead are easiest to contact because the barrier separating us is thinned.

Honoring the dead is also a major part of this holiday, your ancestors, yes, but most especially the beloved dead that passed in the year before.

The start of a new year is only followed by some of us pagans. For those of us that celebrate Samhain as such it is a time of rest and small growth. It is a gestational beginning, a time for thoughts and ideas, not yet time for action.

If you’d like a more in-depth look, season 1 episode 9 is our Samhain episode.

Embracing Your Inner Witch

(Candle Magic)

Ingredients;

1 candle (silver, gold, or white - choose the color that most represents your gender)

1 mirror (preferably one you can set up on its own)

An Athame (or other tool) for carving into the candle

All tools: Athame, Wand, Cauldron, Stone, broom

1 Lighter

Create a Sigil before doing spell: the sigil should be your magical witch name or if you don’t have one use the name you are most comfortable with (first, middle) [ We have how to create a Sigil in season1 episode12 Powered By Magic podcast or notes through Wordpress https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/119952024 ]

When: On Samhain if possible

Where: A quiet place where you won’t be disturbed, graveyard if possible, or outside depending on what’s available to you and weather

Have your tools and ingredients ready on the altar. (Always have safety measures in place for any flame you have). Begin by cleansing yourself, then the place where you will cast your circle. Next cast your circle [You can find how to do this through Wordpress https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/119952024 or listen to our Powered By Magic podcast season1 episode3]. Now invite the quarters/elementals in and then the God and Goddess asking for their assistance in empowering your inner witch. Take your candle and visualize your magical self as you feel it when you first chose your name or how your name makes you feel now. Use your athame now to carve your sigil into your candle and any words or symbols that feel empowering to you. Then chant and churn above the unlit candle:

By Sacred flame bring me my might,

By Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth

By the (God, Goddess, or gender OR deity) may I burn ever bright

That I may be what I’ve been from birth

I am a witch, I know my worth!

So mote it be!

Once a cone of power (you can find how to do this in Season1 episode7 Powered By Magic podcast or in our Wordpress https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/119952024 blog)  is raised, pour all the energy into the candle and light it. Set in a safe place with the mirror behind it and gaze into the flame and mirror with slightly blurred vision. Allow yourself to let in whatever messages come (from ancestors who have gone before you, God/ Goddess etc, or deity). Journal them down. 

Offer your thanks to the God/Goddess etc and all of the elementals. Finally open the circle. 

How to Make an Ancestral Altar

Ingredients:

A place to put the altar that won’t get disturbed.

An altar cloth (preferably from natural materials or that has family significance)

Candle (Any candle is fine, though a color one of your ancestors liked would be good, also represents fire)

Something to represent all the elements( feather for air, salt for earth, water for water)

A place for offerings

A picture of several of ancestors or things to represent your ancestors 

Natural decoration corresponding to the time of year

Find and clean an undisturbed place in your home and put down the altar cloth. Note the cardinal directions and set the earth representation in the north, air in the east, fire in the south, and water in the west. You may arrange the altar any way you wish, but putting the offering plate in the middle would be good( just not required). You can use the photos and natural things pertaining to the season to decorate. Take time regularly to spend at the altar, leave offerings (things your ancestors liked for one or food), and talk to or meditate on your ancestors.

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