It's Samhaintide! 

Soon Samhain will be upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere, and those in the Southern Hemisphere are welcome to join in, too!

I get excited about Samhain.  And since you are your own Priest or Priestess, you have much to be excited about at Samhain, and for the same reasons.

We've got a wonderful - and powerful - group here, so let's do a Samhain celebration together!  There is so much that we can do!  This is when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest.  That means that we can reach to the other side, and those who are on the other side can reach to us.  There is so much that happens at Samhaintide that there isn't room enough in all of cyberspace to list it all!  But especially, with the frequent focus of Samhaintide being what it is, it is natural to look at endings and beginnings at this time of the Cycle of the Year.

The thing some folks forget about endings is that they are paired with a beginning.  They also forget that every beginning is paired with an ending.  And so much of the magick of Samhaintide deals with endings and beginnings.  And what does that mean for us?  Endings and beginnings exist together as pairs.  If we seek an ending to something, we should also seek a beginning.  If we seek a beginning of something, we should also see what ends.  Some pairings are obvious, some are much more subtle.  But they are there.

And let's celebrate this together.  A place is prepared, and it's ready.  Watch with your third eye, and see what you might see!  And see what you might be able to take with you from the celebration!

Samhain is coming, and I'm excited!

It has so many meanings, but the one that means the most to me is the basic one that the veil between the worlds is thinnest at Samhain.  And that has a special meaning for us.

If a ritual is going to be powerful at anytime, it will have the most power at Samhain.  And so, if the wind is at our back and we're sailing with the current, let's make the most of it!

And so, some thoughts that can be used at any time, but especially now. 

Of all of the magical messes I've seen people make, they center around one principle - get that one principle, and you'll be ahead of many.  That's just one of a few things worth sharing as Samhaintide approaches.

I feel that this is going to be a most special Samhain.  Here's some ideas on how to "make it so."

Next week: A Samhain Celebration!

I came across an interesting statement by a Rabbi which begins with "If you had a small, cheap god that you bought in the dime store, then of course you can reach it, you can have him in your pocket, and you can even play with him and kiss him."

It reminds me of the song that used to play on jesusdance.com about the "plasic Jesus, riding on the dashboard of my car."

And that's one of the problems that some folks have.  Their god is actually that small.  For some people, that's all they want.  According to others, that's all they're going to have.  And let's not forget the folks who not only don't want to have any more god than that, they don't want anyone else to have any more than that, either!

There might not be a lot of dime stores left, but there are dollar stores, religious gift shops, Wiccan shops and other places where it is possible to find a nice small figure of a god, goddess, other deity, or other subject of veneration - and at a reasonable price.  Whether it is Jesus, Mary, Shiva, a Buddha, a Saint, or anyone or anything else, thay all have in common one basic factor, and one basic connection to each other.  And that is why that little figure you buy can become so powerful for you.

Take it in common with the infinite nature of the Divine, and you have a weapon for spiritual self-defense.  Not only that, it will show you some of the wonders of the Divine that are beyond the most powerful imagination.

And exploring this can be a lot of fun, too! 

Revenge.  That is a subject that needs to be addressed from time to time.  We live in this world, and we are human.  Anyone who has never felt the desire for revenge about something must have led an extremely sheltered life.  And that, too, might be an issue to be dealt with.

The trouble is, so often the desire for revenge results in some really stupid deeds that cause trouble and/or cause your adversary to want their own revenge in turn.  So, what to do?

We can learn from anyone, so long as we look at the lesson being taught and what is within the message being shown to us.  It might not be what the speaker actually wants us to learn, but nevertheless we can learn.

In this case, I found two sayings which I once considered to be Pollyanna-style advice to do nothing except be trampled upon.  But within them, there is something else - and it is something that we can use.  And there is the secret!

Never lose sight of the fact that what we think and say we want or need might not be what we really want or need.  Look within for the answer, and see what the answer is. 

And we can look at a few examples of how satisfaction was obtained without getting into too much trouble.

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