Happy Halloween, blessed Samhain (Beltane for my Southern hemisphere friends) and nos Galan Gaeaf hapus for yesterday folks.

Here in Wales today is Calan Gaeaf, the first of winter, and it’s a a new moon. New season, new calendar month, new lunar month.

Though the moon isn’t visibly new yet, it’s at its point of most dark which means it is new in that darkness, new in the mystery.

I like taking a moment in these in between spaces, where one chapter is ending and the next beginning to reflect and reorientate. It’s a great time, in this darkness before the new crescent, to ask yourself:

What am I doing in my life, and is it what I want to be doing?

Is what I’m doing now making me feel how I want it to?

What can I transform in this darkness, this inner moment, in this cave of the in between, to bring that which I choose with the new light?

At our local pagan Samhain ritual we divined to listen to the advice of the ancestors and beloved dead. I invite you to take a moment to ask for their guidance, and pull a card or rune today.

As we move into the dark half of the year that guidance and support of the unseen realm can be precious. Let yourself be supported, you don’t need to know how intellectually, our dead have always been near, it’s only our modern Western culture that has tried to forget.

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