Our Samhain Celebration!

BLESSED SAMHAIN AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL! Yesterday was a typically beautiful autumn day with a bit of a breeze blowing. My sister Aurora Skye and I held our annual Samhain ritual celebration in the early evening. I spent the entire week preparing everything and after adding some finishing touches, we were finally ready for this very special night ...

The sabbat stone we used on our altar was Smoky Quartz. Other gemstones and crystals may also be used such as snowflake obsidian, carnelian, lepidolite, and rhodonite.

My new black cat chalice we used for our ritual wine/libation.

Our ancestor altar set up for our ritual ceremony - adorned with photos to honor our loved ones who have passed on ...

We lit a pink votive candle to signify love and friendship.

After casting the circle and calling the four corners - the elements of west/water, north/earth, east/air and south/fire, we sealed and protected the circle with salt ...

As the veil between the world of spirit and the physical world is thin at this time of the year (most especially at Samhain), it is the perfect time for divination and connecting with our ancestors ...

Such as using pendulums, crystal ball gazing, tarot card and rune readings, etc. We chose to use our pendulums and crystal ball gazing ...

Since this is the "Witches New Year" we also performed our witches cords as well. After making our wishes for the coming year, we charged them "with postive intent by the powers of the Divine Lord and Lady" then hung them ...

After ritual, we enjoyed some DELICIOUS snacks Aurora brought for us! ...

Cranberry nut bread, dark chocolate Chex Mix, fudge graham cookies, and chocolate and vanilla decorative cupcakes! 

We both wore our pumpkin bells around our neck which we bought at "Celtic Myth & Moonlight" a couple of weeks ago for ritual - love them! ...

Some of the decorations in the altar room ...

Before our ritual celebration, we had lunch and did a bit of local shopping - one of the places we frequented was a store called, "The Gem on Penn" were we found a couple of new items ...

I found this Pisces symbol necklace, a moonstone ring with a moon face on it ... very cool!

And, in addition I bought these two chakra soaps - each soap has a gemstone in it ...

Amethyst and Carnelian soaps ...

They were giving out these neat little Halloween rub on tattoos for free at the check out register. Of course, I picked out a CAT! LOL!

From all of us here at The Wiccan Life, we wish everyone a VERY BLESSED SAMHAIN & A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 🎃