- Carve a pumpkin and empower it to repel negativity or to protect the home
- Build a shrine to your ancestors
- Add divination to your ritual
- Drink apple cider warmed and spiced with cinnamon to honor the dead
- Research your family history and write a tribute to them to include in your ritual
- Set a place at the dinner table for the recently deceased
- Place small carved pumpkins at the four quarters
- Visit cemetery and place flowers on the graves of your loved ones
- Make a spirit candle.(White candle anointed with patchouli oil. Say:”with this candle and by its light, I welcome you spirits this Samhain night.” Place it inside jack o’lantern. This may be included in Ritual, or done separately.)
- Make resolutions and burn in a candle flame. This is not the same as ridding yourself of bad habits, but is more like New Years resolutions, as for many Samhain…
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