Tag: HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN ~ Cherokee Billie

Have you ever wondered about the tradition of Halloween?  How did it start and why is it still celebrated today?  I answer all of this in my article about this special time of year. It’s Halloween – the celebration the ancient Celts called Samhain. Samhain, means November in the Celtic culture, This marks the Celtic beginning of the New Year and winter. This celebration starts at sunset on October 31 to sunset November 1.

It’s Halloween – the celebration the ancient Celts called Samhain. This marks the Celtic beginning of the New Year and winter. This celebration starts at sunset on October 31 to sunset November 1. Samhain, means November in the Celtic culture, it is the Gateway to winter, where the veils are especially thin between these worlds of the seen and unseen. The Celts called the unseen realms the ‘Otherworld’, a place of beauty, rest, and renewal. Samhain is a time in the cycle of the year for slowing down. For connecting to your deep self and resting there in the healing power of your inner nature. It is the turning of the seasons where you can commune with the earth mother’s womb from which all that is created is birthed.