Samhain or Halloween corresponds to the midpoint of the lunar cycle between the 3rd Quarter and the New Moon. It is the rupturing of the Spiritual Planes in an upward direction bringing past and buried things into conscious awareness as the energies and events of one layer flow upward into another.
It is the astral activity at this time that helps us identify just where ghosts and other spirits exist within the astral planes! Apparently they live at the lowest levels of the Spiritual Planes and this is the time of year when the veil is thinnest and we are able to communicate with them.
Technically Samhain and Beltaine are the two times during the year when the veil is thinnest and they were the two most sacred festivals of the ancient Druids. But at Beltaine the unseen vital life force energy bursts into the physical and at Samhain the vital life force energy leaves the physical and bursts into the unseen giving it strength and energy. The natural time of death in nature.
The astral activity in the Spiritual Planes acts as a wave as it propels energy and events upwards into the higher planes for resolution. This is when the individual energy we have generated merges with that of others to create a collective event or big picture of the coming year. At the moment of the Winter Solstice all is unified and balanced as much as it can be within the Spiritual Planes.
The time from Samhain to the coming Winter Solstice is the darkest time of the year and many people find that their supply of light and spiritual resources has run out and they find themselves in desperate situations. That is why there are so many suicides around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. There is a darkness in their souls because they have run out of spiritual light.
That is also why this is the natural time of the year for meditation and spiritual introspection as we try to get in touch with the divinity within us. It is also a time for helping those less fortunate than us to help them get through the bitter winter months.
The adept or those with a permanent connection to the spiritual light of Source will experience an extra blessing of incoming spiritual light during the New Moon immediately before the Winter Solstice. So they will spend much time in preparation for this influx with prayer and meditation. This is the time of the Christmas miracle for those open to it.
Samhain also marks the final harvest and is a celebration as those things that will not keep over the winter are sacrificed and enjoyed by all.
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