31/10/2026
Seeing as it's Halloween today seems a good time to share this
A Samhain ceremony I'm hosting on Sun 8th Nov
Now the date may seem off to some of you, but there's reason to my madness 😂
Halloween is a fixed date of 31 Oct and it's pretty embedded in the psyche these days, the origins of Halloween in these isles likely comes from the iron age and the festival of Samhain
Now way back then there wasn't a 31 Oct and the calendar was waaay different to this modern new fangled Gregorian calendar we use
The evidence seems to suggest the timing for Samhain was the 2nd new moon after the autumn equinox
Sometimes this is referred to as the lunar Samhain
It makes sense using the moon cycles and since I started connecting with the old festivals in this way, they have landed much more solidly for me
You could say they sit in my bones, rather than being forced into a convenient regimen of a fixed date
All part of my journey remembering my ancestors and connecting to my indigenous heritage of these isles
If that tickles your fancy and peaks your interest then I'd love you to join me on 8th Nov
Comment MUGWORT for the link