Samhain: a fresh perspective

Truthfulness, renewal and finding light in the dark

Good morning, good morning and happy Samhain, everyone! 😃

Today is the Witches’ New Year! A day to welcome in a brand new turn of the Wheel – today we commune with our ancestors and the long-since dead, so that we can appreciate life, renewal and embracing the now.

This post is actually going to be anti-spookiness. So if you’re all about ghosts, goblins and terrifying ghouls, look away now!

I’ve been a witch for 20 years and, each year, I get so disheartened when people tell me that autumn is the time to appreciate the dark side of life 🍂 I understand that life needs the dark as well as the light to function, but once autumn comes, the darkness sometimes feels all-consuming. Bringing up some not-so-nice feelings associated with the season…

But I want to find joy in Samhain and celebrate LIFE as well as death. I want to walk into the Witches’ New Year with hope in my heart and plans for an amazing year ahead 🧡

Who’s with me?

This newsletter is all about finding ways to embrace the lightness of autumn in the face of darker days. I've put 6 simple ways to do this at the bottom of this email ⬇️

Before we get going, I wanted to say: thank you, thank you, thank you!

First of all, thank you to anyone who has been to one of my half-term events over the past week. It was so fantastic to meet you all and share my passion for witchcraft with you. I’ve loved every minute of it.

A beautiful week of half-term author events 💜

Secondly, The Green Witch Writer Newsletter now has over 1,000 subscribers and for that I am so incredibly grateful! Thank you to all my subscribers for reading my words and helping me share the joys of magick and seasonal living with the world ♥️

And lastly (but by very much no means least), I want to say a special thank you to my paid subscribers – ever since I started my membership back in July, you’ve been such a fantastic support and source of inspiration to me. I love reading your comments and witchy insights and answering your questions in my monthly Q&A 🥰 I appreciate you so much and I love this community we’ve created together.

And now, let’s talk about what we came here for:

Samhain.

Let’s find some joy.

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If you know anything about me, you’ll know that I’m not autumn’s biggest fan.

There’s a lot of pressure in the witchcraft and spiritual community to be head-over-heels in love with October and these spooky, amber-coloured months. But for those of us with Seasonal Affective Disorder, this can be a time fraught with mysterious crying fits, lethargy and just plain naffness.

Which aren’t the most magickal feelings in the world.

While out on a wet and windy walk a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about the way autumn has the ability to make us tearful 💧 It's not called the season of water for nothing!

But why?