seasonal rituals

We are preparing for Samhain. I'll be celebrating with the same folks, and a few more friends, that gathered for Mabon. I'm really excited about this and looking forward to it. Even the anticipation stirs up joy.

Here's a quote from Phyllis' Curott's Book of Shadows that describes some of the significance of pagan holidays.

"In sabbat rituals, the spiritual meaning of the world is made visible. We experience the divine in the cycle of the seasons, the changes of heaven and earth, and our sacred connection to them. Through seasonal celebrations, the community links itself to the great sacred patterns, the ebb and flow of the energies of the universe. Rituals attune both the individual psyche and the entire community to profound shifts in these energies. They enable us to experience the sacred wisdom revealed by the earth and the heavens at these moments of transformation and change. People enact and embody these universal rhythms, bringing inner and outer, the human and cosmic into accord and illumintating the occult maxim 'as above, so below.' We discover how our own lives also undergo these changes, for the universe is a mirror of brilliant clarity, reflecting the rhythms of life and the seasons of the soul - birth, growth, maturity, decline, death, repose, and rebirth."

Learn more about Book of Shadows at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Shadows-Phyllis-Curott/dp/0767900545