Correspondence to honor the dead
Correspondence and activities for Samhain
Moon Blood Moon
Symbols
bonfire, candle in the window, Calderoni, Brooms, Pumpkins, Cats, Bats and Dogs, painted gourds, photos of the deceased, Apples, autumn leaves, autumn flowers.
Divinity
Crona The appearance of the Goddess, The dark side of God, Hecate, Cerridwen, Cernunnos, Osiris, Isis, Anubis and Hades.
Colors
Black, Orange, Red
Traditional Foods
Apples, corn, potatoes, pork, beef, nuts, cider, mead, pumpkin, beer, cakes of honey, herbal tea, pomegranates.
Herbs
Thistle, Chrysanthemum, Broom, Oak leaves, fern, Mint, Artemisia, Sage and Rosemary.
Incense
Apple, Nutmeg, Sage, Mint, Myrrh, Patchouli
Gems
Obsidian, snowflake obsidian, onyx and cornelian.
Patchouli essential oils, cypress and myrrh
mythological animals and
Bats, dogs, cats, Phooka, jellyfish (I would say even the raven ..)
Activities of Samhain ..
Samhain is the beginning and the end of Pagan. At this time we reflect on what happened during that year. A person can not (or at least could not) allow the Wheel of the Year 'to run without any kind of internal examination. We must try to learn from our actions and find ways to
live better in the year to come.
Go pick apples.
drink hot apple cider and spiced with cinnamon to honor the dead.
Bury an apple or a pomegranate in the garden as food for the spirits passing by on their way to rebirth.
Learn how to make and use the runes are very easy to make: salt dough, with das, written on wood, pebbles.
with friends Watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Make animated pumpkins.
Take a candle for the spirits (E 'a white candle on which you dropped a few drops of patchouli oil).
Place three bowls on the table. In a place water in a wine and one with the earth. Blindfold a friend and let them dip their fingers into one of three bowls. Water is successful, the wine is marriage and the earth is the work. You will have a small response.
Adopted a new wand. Select a tree and choose it among the fallen branches.
Give sweets to the children you know. (If you do it on the street will stop me)
Make a feast of the dead.
read the cards with some friends.
Look for all the spiders in the neighborhood and greet the day of Samhain.
Ask them to give your dreams the strength of their canvas.
Before going to bed, sit in front of a mirror in a room lit only by the moon or a candle. Ask a question. Then cut an apple into nine pieces. Get back in the mirror. Eat 8 pieces and throw the ninth behind the left shoulder. Then turn left and head always look in the mirror. You will see a picture or symbol to be a response.
wear a dress that reflects what you want to manifest in the new year.
Throw some nuts in the fire, burning with no problems if one of your wish will come true.
Use this as an opportunity, if you have not already done so, to talk about what you believe, without fear or hesitation.
play hide and seek.
Fate of the stones of dreams, accompanied by a prayer of dream vision.
Make a personal reflection on life, death and rebirth.
Hang the apples and the first bites a person who will be the first to marry.
Open the door of your house and leave it open for five minutes, allowing the spirits of Samhain to symbolically enter.
Watch the flames of the candles you lit. If one becomes slightly azzurina, perhaps a Loved One is around.
Make trick or treat your friends and dazzle them.
gather nuts with your hands if you take your love is unfaithful odd, if there is true equal.
It is said that if you sleep under a hawthorn tree at Samhain, the you will come to rapirvi.
go mushroom hunting!
Take a rope witch.
Give a friend a small gift from Sabbath.
Make a New Year's celebration.
Go near an oak tree and knock three times on the bark.
Make a mask.
Take a meditation on the past life. You will have special insights tonight.
Let the milk and honey to the spirits of the forest.
Artemisia burned.
Buy a tablecloth and orange falzolettini blacks.
winter seccatele Gather herbs for your handouts.
Take a ghosttour.
Ring a bell at midnight, 30.
Take a photo of a person who is gone now and remember the past that made you feel good.
Choose and crowned a king and Queen of Winter, the counterparties of Beltane.
Learn a new form of divination, such as runes or ball, or divination mirror.
Sit in a circle and raccontatevi scary stories, fear.
Fate of divination, by whatever means you feel appropriate.
Tell the story of Demeter and Persephone.
Cut an apple on the altar showing the star and say, "This is the fruit of life then of death."
find a branch of oak, lime, hazel, helmet, willow or birch.
Look at pictures of relatives and ancestors.
tell the stories of each.
Make faces in apples.
Make chains of apples, obtained by cutting the paper, putting on each apple, the name of a person dear to you is now gone.
Tie a string as an expression of what you hope to be manifested in the year to come.
Let this be the traditional time to make candles for the new year, filling them with color, power, herbal and aroma depending on the need and purpose.
Take stock of your life, write down what you wish would go away and burn with a candle on the altar.
Place the pomegranate in plain sight, a beautiful basket.
take a broom
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