This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en...
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Some musings on this Wheel of the Year festival and suggestions of rituals to honour this potent seasonal shift.
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We are investigating and paying respect to eight archetypes of mature, sacred masculinity. The Trickster at Samhain is the final installment in this series.
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The origins of Halloween trace back to Ireland. Several regions across the island lay claim to the birth of this globally celebrated event.
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Samhain is a major fire festival, where people in times of old came to celebrate the final harvest, to eat, drink and be merry!
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To be entirely too brief, Samhain (sow-wen or sah-wen are some pronunciations) is a Celtic holiday that marks the final harvest,...
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Happy Halloween Everyone,. I am at the gallery on royal, with the old french door opens. I put cranberry juice in a champagne flute and...
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The Winter Arc is a concept that refers to the period between October and January. During these months, many people experience a change in...
3 months ago

It turned out what I'd found were witch's eggs, the immature stage of the common stinkhorn mushroom, Phallus Impudicus.
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The last of the three harvest festivals; Lughnasa, Mabon, and finally Samhain. Traditionally, marking the harvest of the dried produce such...
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