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SUMMARY:Samhain
DESCRIPTION:Samhain -- different ways to celebrate. It's a great time 
 of year to honor your ancestors and host a feast!  Some people celebra
 te it as Halloween, but for Practitioners, October 31 is typically kno
 wn as Samhain. It's the old Celtic new year - sometimes called the Wit
 ch's New Year - and it's a time for honoring those who have crossed ov
 er into the spirit world. This Sabbat has roots that go back thousands
  of years.  The evening of October 31 is known as Samhain. It's a time
  to mark the endless, ongoing cycle of life and death  Samhain falls o
 n October 31, and is known as the Witch's New Year. You can celebrate 
 it as the end of the harvest, and honor the return of the King of Wint
 er.  Man's relationship with animals has evolved over thousands of yea
 rs. Where once they were only a source of food, now they are our compa
 nions or food. Take a moment to honor the animal spirits in a ritual f
 or Samhain.  For many Practitioners, the honoring of the ancestors is 
 a key part of their spirituality.  In some Practitioner traditions, pe
 ople choose to honor the God and Goddess, rather than focusing on the 
 harvest aspect of the holiday. If this is something you'd like to do, 
 this ritual welcomes the Goddess in her persona as Crone, and the Horn
 ed God of the autumn hunt.  Samhain is known as the witch's new year. 
 It is a time to think about the endless cycle of life, death, and rebi
 rth.  It's Samhain, and that means for many Practitioners it's time to
  commune with the ancestors.  Samhain is traditionally a time for divi
 nation. In many agricultural societies, divination was used to reveal 
 the name of a suitor or potential mate, and were practiced in rural ar
 eas for centuries.  The Dumb Supper - A Feast With the Dead In many Pr
 actitioner traditions, Samhain is celebrated with a Dumb Supper, or a 
 Feast with the Dead. This is a solemn and sober occasion, and includes
  place settings for relatives and friends who have crossed over in the
  past year, as well as a chance to tell them what you never got to say
 . Gods and Goddesses of Death and the Underworld In many cultures, god
 s of the underworld and death are celebrated during the harvest time. 
 Mexico's Day of the Dead Blended from Aztec tradition and Catholic ide
 als, the Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday in which families rememb
 er their dead, place altars in their homes and decorate tombs in cemet
 eries. Although not common Practitioner paracticed, it's worth reading
  about because of the focus on man's own mortality and the idea of anc
 estor worship.  Samhain night is a great time to sit around a fire tel
 ling spooky stories.\n\nFor more information visit https://travelingwi
 thintheworld.ning.com/events/samhain-1
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