Pagan Essentials
Samhain is New Year’s Eve for Witches, the Day of the Dead, and the Pagans holiday that lands on Halloween. Celebrated on October 31st, it’s the time when the veil between this world and the supernatural world is at it”s thinnest. It is the most powerful night of the year for divination and the best time of the year for magick. Samhain is a sacred time for thousands of witches, druids, Wiccans, and other pagans as it is the festival of the Dead. Samhain, pronounced saah-win, means ‘summer’s end’ and it’s also a celebration of the end of the harvest and the beginning of the coldest part of the year. It is considered by many to be the beginning of the spiritual new year. Pagans see Samhain as a time to honor the dead, not as the dead, but as the living spirits of our ancestors. It is a celebration of the afterlife where we do not die but rest and continue to learn and prepare for our next incarnation.
