Samhain is also known as All Saint’s Day and Halloween. Now, we are heading into shorter, darker days. The world is going dormant.
Samhain is a liminal festival. It is the only one that straddles two days - the last day of April and the first day of May, in the Southern Hemisphere. It was believed that the boundary between our world and the Otherworld thins on Samhain - the living and the dead are as close as they ever come to each other.
I understand this, I see it when I look outside…Autumn is finished, but Winter has not yet started; old crops are drying out and going to seed, new crops are just going in; the mornings are cool and the days are warm. I still yearn for sunny beach walks, but my body is telling me to come into itself, to rest.
Likely, I will be spending this Sabbat with just my two girls as I will be fermenting with friends on Saturday and selling olives at the local market on Sunday.
I think I will serve pumpkin soup with corn bread, and vanilla poached pears drizzled with chocolate (and a bit of mulled wine for me!) for Samhain this year.
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