Wheel of the Year

SAMHAIN BLESSINGS 2024

On November 6, 2024 by

November 6, 2024  @ 2:21pm PST
Sun at 15° Scorpio / Earth at 15° Taurus
Full Earthly Manifestation of Death
As the mystic veil grows thin,
Let the hallows dance begin! 

ENERGIES
Axis: Scorpio / Taurus
Death / Life
Psychological / Physical
Depths (of earth) / Surface (of earth)

Trivinity: Circle
Contained and sustained energies
These signs concentrate (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius)

Sabbat: Major
The Major Sabbats come at the peak of concentrated energies

WHEEL OF THE YEAR
Samhain is the time to face the shadows and prepare the compost.  As with Beltaine, themes of attachment, release, and sex are prominent.  However, at Samhain the merging and ecstasy of orgasm facilitates ego-death – the release of the Self as a path into the Soul. 

The God at Samhain
The Sun has reached the peak of Scorpio, the watery sign of depth, transition, and the occult.  After his sacrifice at Lughnasadh and his descent through Mabon, the God has now reached the Underworld and donned the mantle as Lord of the Dead, Pluto (guide of Scorpio).  The power of his seed is held in the tomb awaiting rebirth. 

The Goddess at Samhain
The Goddess at Samhain is simultaneously Earth Mother, Demeter, and Queen of the Underworld, Persephone. 

With the Earth reaching the peak of Taurus, the Goddess fully embodies the grieving mother; experiencing the pain of loss and death.  Life on Earth withers with Her grief, as the Goddess mourns the loss of her daughter, Persephone (who has left for Her Underworld realm.) 

However, at the same time, Persephone has become the Queen of the Underworld, fully embodying the energies of the Dark Goddess. 

So, even as one part of the Goddess experiences death as pain and loss, another part embraces it as a gateway to new life, and the Underworld as the seat of the Shadow and the Soul. 

GIRDLE OF THE GODDESS
In the language of Theodomy, the 12 signs of the zodiac are further divided into 36 primordial energies of the divine feminine, called the Girdle of the Goddess. 

At the time of Samhain, the sun is in the 23rd primordial energy activating Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Dead and Goddess of the Underworld.
See my post ERESHKIGAL for more details.

SOME NOTES ABOUT DATES

October 31 (Hallowe’en)
Start of the season
Physical manifestation date

November 6 (Samhain)
Peak of the season – strongest energies
Personal/Soul date (bridging the individual and the primordial)

November 19/20 (Cosmic Coven Sabbat)
End of the season
Spiritual/Cosmic date (primordial)
 
Suggestion for Practice
The seven days of darkening between Hallowe’en and Samhain can be treated as a personal descent and journey beyond the Veil.  Connect with the dead – ancestors and spirits of the Otherworld – and commune with the Dark Goddess. 

Let Ereshkigal help you remember, respect, release… and renew.