Samhain: Prompts for Entering the Dark Cycle

Samhain: A time of threshold, of engaging in the mystery. A time of trickster, liminal time, the gossamer, the numinous, the veiled light, the 'all that's seen may not be all'. This passing over into the new Celtic Year signals the entering into the dark unknown, into the falling of leaf then the fallow of leaf, into the time of invitation to the underworld, the subterranean, the submerged.

Tonight, as masked figures and caped beings knock on the doors, as flames rise from the bonfires, as ghouls and shadow seep, we are called into 'thin time', where ancientness and ancestors bring questions of how to connect with and reclaim the old ways, to renew and revitalise how we move through the longer cycles of time. It is a time too to reflect on this turning towards the stillness and dark of the winter months, to prepare for our own return to the deep unknown.

Some questions as guides:

What areas of your life are craving silence and stillness?
What masks have you been wearing? What masks are you ready to shed?
What does the darkness have to teach you?
How can you honour all that is yet to be discovered within you?

Samhain blessings to you all.

Clare. xx