Cat’s Morning Bits for October 29, 2021 “Samhain Edition”

Cat’s Morning Bits for October 29, 2021 “Samhain Edition”

Samhain Blessings Beautiful Souls! Grab a cup of your favorite morning brew and start things off with these “Sabbat Inspirations”. I hope you find something here that will make you feel good or help you on your path today.

Blessings, Cat

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October Quotes

“I will dance
The dance of dying days
And sleeping life.

I will dance
In cold, dead leaves
A bending, whirling human flame.

I will dance
As the Horned God rides
Across the skies.

I will dance
To the music of His hounds
Running, baying in chorus.

I will dance
With the ghosts of those
Gone before.

I will dance
Between the sleep of life
And the dream of death.

I will dance
On Samhain’s dusky eye,
I will dance.”

Karen Bergquist, An Autumn Chant

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October Events:

Oct 6 New Moon at 4:05 am PST/ 5:05 am MST/ 7:05 am EST

Oct 11 Indigenous Peoples Day / Thanksgiving day: Canada

Oct 18 Mercury goes direct

Oct 20 Full Blood Moon at 7:56 am PST/ 8:56 am MST/ 10:56 am EST

Oct 23 Sun enters Scorpio

Oct 28 Celtic Tree Month of Reed begins

Oct 31 Samhain / Halloween

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PaganLibrary: Samhain
Kenny Klein

Red leaves are carried in the salt west wind
And turn to brown on dry soil.
The sun is bright still, but not warm
On the last rich gold of scattered fall.
The great wheel turns, another year
Old, bright gold with death.
Bare branches now, the Old Lord’s limbs,
Chill wind the Old Lord’s breath.

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Celebrate Samhain with me | Folk Witchcraft | Ancestor Ritual | Witch vlog

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Exemplore: Seven Crystals for Samhain (Claire)

Samhain is one of the major festivals on the pagan wheel of the year. It is the time of the third and final harvest and the end of the cycle of birth, life, and growth. Samhain is the beginning of a time of quiet and stillness and is celebrated by many witches and pagans as the start of a new year.

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ThoughtCo: Sacred Plants of the Samhain Sabbat

In most modern Pagan traditions, plants and their folklore are an integral part of belief and practice. In particular, many of the Sabbats are associated with the magical properties of different plants.

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Journey Into Dreams: Ghost Dream Symbol and Meaning
Dreaming of a ghost usually symbolizes being haunted by something in the past or that old memories are being brought up again by recent events. Common Ghost Dream Meanings:

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3 Pagans And a Cat: Samhain Celebration: Review. Release. Renewal.

For Witches, the month of October is the Season of the Witch. a time when we celebrate the Craft, experience the thinning of the veil and enjoy the delights of Autumn.

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“Tonight as the barrier between the two realms grows thin,
Spirits walk amongst us, once again.
They be family, friends and foes,
Pets and wildlife, fishes and crows.
But be we still mindful of the Wee Folke at play,
Elves, fey, brownies, and sidhe.

Some to trick, some to treat,
Some to purposely misguide our feet.
Stay we on the paths we know
As planting sacred apples we go.

This Feast I shall leave on my doorstep all night.
In my window one candle shall burn bright,
To help my loved ones find their way
As they travel this eve, and this night, until day.
Bless my offering, both Lady and Lord
Of breads and fruits, greens and gourd.”

Akasha, Samhain Ritual
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A Simple Samhain Ritual

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Elephant Journal: Turnips, not Pumpkins: how to revive the True Spirit of Halloween.

More this year than any other, I have seen an increase of posts regarding pumpkin picking in the United Kingdom.
They talk of family fun days in farmyards, or rain-sodden, almost barren fields with some obligatory straw thrown around to give it an “authentic” autumnal, pumpkin patch feel.

The problem is, unlike in the United States, seeing so many pumpkins in the UK is not an authentic scene.

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MULLED CIDER FOR SAMHAIN

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EarthSky News: Halloween is an astronomical holiday

Halloween is a cross-quarter day
Halloween – short for All Hallows’ Eve – is an astronomical holiday. Sure, it’s the modern-day descendant of Samhain, a sacred festival of the ancient Celts and Druids in the British Isles. But it’s also a cross-quarter day. The cross-quarter days fall more or less midway between the equinoxes (when the sun sets due west) and solstices (when the sun sets at its most northern or southern point on the horizon). Halloween – October 31 – is approximately midway between our autumn (September) equinox and winter (December) solstice.

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Patheos-Pagan: Samhain Incense and Divination by Fire by Jessica Ripley

This is a Samhain incense recipe and divination by fire ritual that you can do to get the answers you need. Make offerings to your deities, ancestors, and spirit guides before performing this ritual. and..

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Pagan Playlist: Samhain by Lisa Theil

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“As I went out walking this fall afternoon,
I heard a whisper whispering.
I heard a whisper whispering,
Upon this fine fall day…

As I went out walking this fall afternoon,
I heard a laugh a’ laughing.
I heard a laugh a’ laughing,
Upon this fine fall day…

I heard this whisper and I wondered,
I heard this laugh and then I knew.
The time is getting near my friends,
The time that I hold dear my friends,
The veil is getting thin my friends,
And strange things will pass through.”

The Veil is Getting Thinner
gardendigest.com

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Kitchen Witch Cookbook: Pumpkin Spice and Brown Sugar Roasted Pumpkin Seeds for Samhain

Samhain is, among other things, the witches new year. We look back on the previous year, let go of what no longer serves us, let go of the phases in our lives/versions of ourselves that have reached their death, and look forward to/plan for what is to come. That’s why I decided to make some roasted pumpkin seeds for the New Year aspect of Samhain

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Magical Correspondences for Samhain

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Music for Halloween – Samhain songs (mysterious, creepy, dark, spooky music)

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Samhain Ritual and Tarot Spread for Witches at Wayfinder …

. What is your shadow hiding? Something to bring to life? What needs to be burned in your cauldron? What do you need to let go of? Something to celebrate. An intention you are planting for this witches’ new year. *You do not have to be of Scandinavian ethnicity for this practice to be meaningful to you.

The Desert Path

The Dusty Ramblings of a Desert Pagan

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