By Terry Smith • October 31, 2009
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The Wheel of the Year comes to its last spoke, as the most sacred of Pagan holidays arrives.
It is the time of the final harvest of the beasts of the field, and the crops, in preparation of winter provisions, the eve of Winter's first day, and the beginning of the next Wheel of the Year.
We Pagans believe that this night is a time when the "Veil Between Worlds" is at its thinnest, and when the love of the living and the dead could transcend through that thinned Veil, and each side could reach to the other, to express that love.
Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Pagan Year, the other being Beltane on May 1. We hold a 'dumb' or 'silent' supper in remembrance of those who passed over, placing a setting of food and drink for them at the family dinner table, or just simple cakes and wine.
We hold this as a perfect time to use varying divination methods, that we may call upon our ancestors to give us guidance and warnings of things that might come to pass in the coming year, and to be in touch with those loved ones, or to learn what values need to be learned or released. We do this via crystals, pendulums, runestones or tarot cards.
Because Pagans acknowledge human existence as part of a cycle of life, death and rebirth, Samhain is a time when we reflect on our own mortality, and to confront our own fears of dying.
May the dreams you have this night, or the whispers you hear in the quiet, be hints of past loving memories, as they filter through the Veil.
Blessed Be!
Terry Smith is a Pagan living in Pineville, LA.
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