71: What Is Samhain? It's So Much More Than Halloween

Samhain, the beautiful traditional Celtic celebration that is marked also by the more commercial festival of Halloween.

Let's begin by looking at the word itself for a moment because I mispronounced this word so many times in the beginning when I first began to shift to the more traditional ancestral language.

witchy celebrations at this time of year and it's spelled s-a-m-h-a-i-n but you don't say as you see it and it is pronounced s-a-h-w-i-n sawin okay and its roots go back to celtic traditions so Back in the day, the ancestral people of these lands, these Albion lands, the Celtics, they traditionally only celebrated two seasons.

The year was split in half.

The lighter, longer days... and the darker, shorter days and the longer nights.

And Samhain is actually not one particular day.

It's not the 31st of October.

It's not even the 1st of November, but more a transitional phase and period as we move into the depth of autumn.

and the beginnings of winter.

So it's that time of year when the last harvest, the last fruits have been harvested and finally gathered in, and the first frost would have traditionally begun to form on the ground.

That is the shift.

It's this transition, this threshold period.

But more and more in modern days, in some places, it's still celebrated across about a space of seven days.

But often it's been... narrowed down to just this one day of the year, the 31st of October.

But what it's really about is that it would have marked the end of a year and the beginning of their new year.

It was traditionally the Celtic new year because their new year didn't begin when like what we would see in class in spring, like the growth of new seeds and sprouts and plants and that growth coming alive that we see in nature, but rather when the seeds fall from the trees, from the nuts and the berries, and are buried in the ground, in fertile soil, and go into incubation for a rebirth, for a transformation.

It's the planting of the seed where the new year itself begins.

And I think that's a really beautiful and wonderful way to look at it, because if you've been following me for a while, you will have heard me say, don't wait until New Year's Eve, this traditional Gregorian calendar of January, to then decide what it is you want to create in 2027.

But rather, now is the time to start thinking about that.

And now is the time to start putting the preparation in and planning and figuring it out and getting clear in your mind, basically the planting of the seeds, the internal work that we need to do so that then it can come into fruition in the new year when everything is ready to come forth and grow and come into this material 3D world.

So that's the Celtic roots of Samhain.

Samhain, the beautiful traditional Celtic celebration that is marked also by the more commercial festival of Halloween.

Let's begin by looking at the word itself for a moment because I mispronounced this word so many times in the beginning when I first began to shift to the more traditional ancestral language.

witchy celebrations at this time of year and it's spelled s-a-m-h-a-i-n but you don't say as you see it and it is pronounced s-a-h-w-i-n sawin okay and its roots go back to celtic traditions so Back in the day, the ancestral people of these lands, these Albion lands, the Celtics, they traditionally only celebrated two seasons.

The year was split in half.

The lighter, longer days... and the darker, shorter days and the longer nights.

And Samhain is actually not one particular day.

It's not the 31st of October.

It's not even the 1st of November, but more a transitional phase and period as we move into the depth of autumn.

and the beginnings of winter.

So it's that time of year when the last harvest, the last fruits have been harvested and finally gathered in, and the first frost would have traditionally begun to form on the ground.

That is the shift.

It's this transition, this threshold period.

But more and more in modern days, in some places, it's still celebrated across about a space of seven days.

But often it's been... narrowed down to just this one day of the year, the 31st of October.

But what it's really about is that it would have marked the end of a year and the beginning of their new year.

It was traditionally the Celtic new year because their new year didn't begin when like what we would see in class in spring, like the growth of new seeds and sprouts and plants and that growth coming alive that we see in nature, but rather when the seeds fall from the trees, from the nuts and the berries, and are buried in the ground, in fertile soil, and go into incubation for a rebirth, for a transformation.

It's the planting of the seed where the new year itself begins.

And I think that's a really beautiful and wonderful way to look at it, because if you've been following me for a while, you will have heard me say, don't wait until New Year's Eve, this traditional Gregorian calendar of January, to then decide what it is you want to create in 2027.

But rather, now is the time to start thinking about that.

And now is the time to start putting the preparation in and planning and figuring it out and getting clear in your mind, basically the planting of the seeds, the internal work that we need to do so that then it can come into fruition in the new year when everything is ready to come forth and grow and come into this material 3D world.

So that's the Celtic roots of Samhain.