Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead, and All Souls day
This is my favorite time of the year. It’s time to celebrate past loved ones. They even have holidays for them.
I am a big kid at heart and love Halloween. It is one of those holidays where it is just fun. Children (and some adults..I admit I am one) dress up in costumes. Some children like the scary costumes, some like the fun costumes. I have a nine year old son. This is his first year he wants to dress up as something scary. It takes me back when we first adopted him at 5 months old and his first costumes was a chicken..haha. He was the cutest chicken. As he grew up, so did his costumes, from trains to super heroes and now a new phase in his life. I think back and wonder “where did my little chicken go?”. Then I look at the boy he is now. He is a good boy. He is extraordinary in math, I can barely keep up already. He has his challenges in life that constantly need working on too.
I wonder sometimes if that same little boy is even in there…he has completely transformed into a big, growing, hyper, loving, boy. But that is what things do when we constantly give it energy. It grows and transforms. Hopefully we learn along the way.
Halloween was grown to be the eve of celebrating many holidays of past loved ones. Just like my son, those who have departed, their spirits (soul) have grown and changed energy into something that is sometimes hard to recognize. I know it is a different. When you see through my eyes as a Psychic Medium, and I see that we are all energy and light it really isn’t that different to me. The hardest part is the people left behind. They are left with emotions. The heavy emotions of sadness, grief, loss. The longing to have them back. I am a firm believer that everyone should honor every emotion and take that time they need. When the heavy energy clears from the emotions (the emotions don’t really go away, just the energy behind it does and the energy is the part that make it hurt) they can hopefully start to feel or sense that the never really left. That the body changed and the energy of the spirit transformed into something lighter and freer. That really is a blessing for them. So Let’s all relax and find the joy in Halloween and starting the day after starts they holidays of remembrance. There are many traditions and holidays that celebrate past loved ones. I have listed a couple that you might have heard of.
Samhain is a Gaelic festival of the Dead. Meaning “Summer’s End” and is a celebration of the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year.
The Day of the Dead is traditional celebrating you ancestors. Sugar Skulls and chocolates were put on the alter to honor passed loved ones.
All Souls Day celebrates every soul laid to rest. It is celebrated Nov 2, the day after All Saints Day.
It is said that the veil is thin this time of the year and it is easiest to connect to past loved ones. I am not one to disagree or contradict, especially when I don’t have any research or proof otherwise. HOWEVER, I have found with pure love and intentions you will connect when you are ready. Let’s take this time and honor those who have not died (because energy never dies) but transforms and passes through the veil. Let’s celebrate life and the “after life”.
Keep your lights shining bright, because I can tell you even after you shed your body and you transform, your light stays with you…I see it all the time, that is one of the ways I connect with my clients past loved ones.
