🎃 Samhain is coming: surviving the night of the spirits

🌙 Introduction

Samhain is THE wizarding New Year. The moment when the veil between worlds becomes as thin as a pair of torn tights. A night when the living and the dead brush shoulders, when spirits invite themselves in without asking your permission, and when you realize that Halloween is, in fact, just the commercial version of a much more intense sabbath.

But as always, you don't want to end up drowning in overly long rituals or pseudo-new age ceremonies where everyone sings off-key around a bowl of quinoa. So, let's talk straight: how to survive the night of the spirits , Lili style.

💀 Why Samhain is so special

• Because it is the real passage from one magical year to another .

• Because it's the perfect time to:

  • honor your ancestors,

  • cut the ties that exhaust you,

  • lay the seeds of your spiritual winter.

• Because it's the only night when a candle lit in your kitchen can be seen as a sacred lantern by the other world.

In short, Samhain is the annual checkpoint. And if you miss it, you'll miss out on a true cosmic reset.

🔮 What a shock

Prepare yourself to:

• Feeling presences (no, it's not your cat who drops things, well... not always).

• Having dreams so weird that even Freud would have thrown in the towel.

• Feeling nostalgic, melancholic, or downright gothic drama.

• Feeling the need to close certain chapters, even if it hurts.

🕯️ Prepare your altar and space

Your Samhain altar doesn't need to be a witch museum exhibit. A few essentials will do:

• Black and orange candles to mark light and shadow.

• Photos, objects or symbols of your ancestors .

• Apples, nuts, pomegranates, wine : seasonal food to feed the living and the dead.

• And if you don't have any of that: a simple candle in the darkness, it's already Samhain.

✨ Express mini-ritual “Surviving the night of the spirits”

Material :

• A black candle.

• An apple (or any seasonal fruit).

• A paper + pen.

Steps:

1. Light your candle in the dark.

2. Write on your paper what you want to leave behind as the witching year comes to an end.

3. Cut your apple in half, contemplate the 5-pointed star in its center.

4. Eat half, saying, “I nourish my life.”

5. Leave the other half on your altar as an offering: “I give thanks to my dead.”

6. Burn or bury your paper the next day.

Ritual completed. You have just marked your passage of the year.

😏 Sarcastic Samhain Tips

• Don't play Ouija if you're not up to it. Spirits aren't influencers available for your stories.

• If you feel the shivers, light a candle and say clearly: “This is my home, not yours.” Boundaries work with the dead, too.

• Samhain isn't just for distant ancestors. You can honor your departed loved ones... and even your "symbolic dead" (a former you, an old habit).

• You don't have to be goth to celebrate Samhain. But if you feel like dressing up as a dramatic witch, do it. It's therapeutic.

🎃 Conclusion

Samhain is more than just pumpkins and candy. It's the night you say goodbye, give thanks, and lay the foundation for your next cycle. It doesn't require a three-hour ritual: one candle, one intention, one offering.

So on October 31st, when the world celebrates Halloween, you will know that behind the costumes and the candy, there is a deeper truth: the veil is thin, and you have the power to walk between worlds... with your dark humor as your only armor.