Samhain

Samhain this year was much more eventful than Mabon, which unfortunately is one of those sabbats which I often neglect to mark as it's usually moving time. On Thursday night I did my own ritual, and my mini altar ended up looking pretty swish given the limited resources I had to hand. My little ritual consisted of meditations to old Loreena McKennitt favourites 'All Soul's Night' and 'Dante's prayer', and the bulk of it consisted of writing things I wanted to get rid of on pieces of paper and burned them in a bowl, disposing the ashes to the four winds out my balcony window. The smoke went everywhere somewhat but I'm sure Spirit got the message. I also did two rune casts, Samhain night being the best night for divination, one for a general overview, and one for advice in what to put energy into manifesting over the coming year. Afterwards I went to the Halloween special of the weekly Beerlingual pub quiz (which I did badly at as usual lol.)

On Saturday I braved a trip to the wilds of Getafe (or so it felt for how long it took to get there) in the South of Madrid where I took part in a ritual recommended to me by someone in the Espiral group. It was in the local civic centre and we had a lot of space in a room used as a gym space for the fifteen of us to work in. They had me cleansing the space and calling in and out Fire in the South (which of-course I ballsed up, as I always do when I have to say something of any length in Spanish that I can't read off a sheet.) Funnily enough once again we had the task of putting things into knots in a cord that we wanted to get rid of and burning them in a central cauldron (great minds think alike), and the rest of the ritual consisted of meditations with ancestor candles, song and dance. As for the journey back, well I'd like to say I've got a firm grip on the Madrid public transport system - this journey back flushed that down the toilet. But hey, on the plus side, we all got hideously lost together so it was at least an opportunity to get to know some of the lovely faces there. :) Til next time. xx