SAMHAIM- Join us for our Family Feast on November 2nd!. Our carved pumpkins will be lit and placed outside to light the way for our ancestors who will be crossing over from the other side to join us for our Family Feast at sunset. We will be feasting on various family dishes that were passed down through the Kutin, travis, Meagher, Kosiniak, Kmiecik and Glavin families. We feel that Halloween as currently celebrated by our culture does not in any conscious way connect us with the Wheel of the Year, our community, ourselves and each other. The meaning has been lost beneath a mountain of marketing and candy. It is our intention to re-capture the meaning of this ritual time of year and make it relevant to our lives.

On Samhaim when the veil between worlds is thinnest, we will honor our ancestors and keep them alive in our hearts with talk about our ancestral origins. After dinner we will go outside for a fire and ritual in our garden. Lit pumpkins will be placed on the raised beds of ourgarden as we circle the beds with ancient steps drawing down the life-force into the earth and our innermost being as we begin our journey towards the renewing womb of winter's longest night. In honor of the season, a time of harvest and letting go of the old to make way for the new we are making costumes and drawings representing what we want to shed this year and the drawings will be placed into the fire to purify our intent.