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Samhain Meditation
Guided
Meditation For Samhain
Make sure you have quiet space where you can be undisturbed
before you begin. If you are able to do this at your altar
then I suggest you do it there.
Relax your body. Do this by concentrating on your breath.
Then on a line of relaxation that moves up your body and spills
over into your aura until you are completely relaxed.
Go back to your breath. Go inside your breathing.
Here you will find a dark wood. Most of the leaves have already
fallen from the trees. It's a dark, moonless night. You can
hardly see. It is cold and you do not have a coat. You move
through the trees shivering, frightened of the dark, until
you come to a clearing.
In the clearing is a cheery house with a garden that has just
been cleared of the last fruits of summer. You knock on the
door and a woman answers. She is not ancient, but her face
is creased with wrinkles. She smiles when she sees you and
invites you in. She is the Crone. She has something to tell
you, something about the year that has passed and the year
that is coming. Listen to her.
What does she say to you?
From here let the meditation take you where
it will. Enjoy!
Samhain Ritual
Clap or ring bell
three times:
I celebrate the dance of life to death to new life and the
balance of the cosmos in my life. The last harvest is gathered
and stored for the dark months ahead, and the Wheel has turned
to the time of the Hunter.
Clap or ring bell
nine times:
At this time is the veil between the worlds thin, and the
gates are thrown open, so do I welcome thee spirits who have
gone before and thee Others, who pass between two worlds.
This is the Crone's time and with the Lord of the Shadows,
She is the passage from life to life that all must take. They
give a refreshing rest in the continuous turning of the spiral
dance that goes and re-turns, yet ever moves on. With the
Ancient Onces (state names), I move with the dance unperturbed.
Love gives strength; give to gain.
Hold up wand with open arms:
Great Lady, Fruitful Mother, you have showered me with Your
bounty, and in this turning of the seasons, I bid you farewell
as you walk now as Crone with the Lord of the Hunt. I know
that within you is another fruit waiting to be born, and I
bide patient until the Mother returns.
Set Your Cauldron on a pentacle, light the black votive candle
from center Altar Candle: (write down your weakness/habits
on parchment paper)
Here is the cauldron of endings and new beginnings. Into this
burning flame do I cast my weakness and the habits that keep
me from attaining my potential. By the death of these things
I live a better life. So mote it be.
Burn parchment in votive, when reduced to ash, clap or ring
bell 9 times.
Pass white candle through patchouli incense or anoint with
patchouli oil and say: With this candle and by its light I
welcome you spirits of this Samhain night.
You can use this white candle for your pumpkin/Jack o Lantern.
Hold Heather/Lavender
over the Altar and say:
I call upon the power of this herb to bless this house and
the spirits that come to visit.
Drop the heather/Lavender
into the cauldron and say:
The air is purified and made pleasant for the spirits and
Others who may call upon me, Blessed Be.
Hold apple above Altar and
say:
I call upon Thee Lord and Lady, to bless this fruit to be
the food for the dead. Let any who visits find sustenance
in this apple whose center reveals the pentagram and reminds
us of the promise of the Lady of passage from one life to
the next. May the spirits who pass here move refreshed. So
mote it be.
Clap or ring bell three
times (bury apple outside after Sabbat concludes)
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