Did you know that it’s possible to use Samhain/Halloween as a marker for the beginning of the turning of the sacred wheel of seasons? It’s the perfect reset time, actually, with its roots in the ancient, Celtic, pagan festivals of death… a necessary part of…
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Happy Halloween, lovelies. Who loves this day? Who doesn’t really get it? And who feels that it’s just a little spooky + weird? I think that with all of the commercialism + consumerism in these modern days, we tend to forget, overlook, and misunderstand…
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With this new moon, we enter the phase of the year that holds the darkest days and longest nights as we make our way toward Halloween. On Thursday we are entering the moon phase of the Halloween season. There will be a dark new…
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it’s time to dive deep into our souls. and just dwell there for a moment. deep down it’s dark. and that is most often very frightening. but, it is also magical. there is much to be learned, even if there is much that we…
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it’s no secret that i love holidays. and one of the perks of being in an bi-national marriage is that you have the opportunity to celebrate double the holidays. of course, many holidays overlap. even if they overlap, though, there are unique traditions to…
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i love halloween. i love getting spooked. i love the mysterious + supernatural. i love dressing up, telling ghost stories, and wondering about all of the things that we don’t really understand. plus i love any reason to gather with friends and have a…
7 Commentshello, friends! it’s been a while, but lina and i are back with a new video blog! give it a little look and then leave us a comment – we challenged you to help us with something. wink wink. we recorded it a bit…
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“when i die, i’m alive. when i lose, i find my identity.” – the middle east the american in me loves october because of halloween. i mean, what’s not to love? costumes. candy. parties. trick-or-treating. scary movies. ghost stories. witches + goblins. haunted places.…
3 Commentsdarkness has arrived. halloween has been celebrated with all of its ghostly and ghoulishly fun. all saint’s day, the day we remember + celebrate the dead, has passed as well. and for us in the states, we have changed to winter time (no more…
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I loooove Halloween. Always have. Always will. And while we are in the States, we want to take advantage of all of the Halloween craziness that is around. But, all week long we could never decide what to be for Halloween – actually we’d…
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