I hope your ritual at your new place goes well, I’m sure it will!
My husband and I are going up to northeast Texas, to a rental cabin we love and we’ll be doing some of the things I mentioned in my recent post, Celebrating Samhain as a Couple.
I’m thinking of doing a Dumb Supper this year. Not sure how to work it, since some have food being set out and some don’t. I’m headed towards the don’t, because my Mom hated food waste and good food being thrown away.
You could add in Fall Cleaning for those who do a good cleaning twice a year rather than just in spring time. It’s a good time to check back stock of food for outdates, too. Remember to spray keys, phones, door knobs, keyboards, and light fixtures with disinfectant to help stay healthy.
It’s a good time to weatherize the house or apartment to help save energy through the winter. I find that sealing windows saves me about $25 a month. It’s a big job, but it’s worth it. Stretching blankets across an unused patio door after sealing saves another $5-10 a month.
I always just placed an empty plate with a chair and I always left some mead. I would leave the mead out for 24 hours and then give it back to Mother Earth with gratitude.
See, I can’t pour anything out here at the apartments. And yeah, I don’t even have beer much less mead. I tend to use either Spring Water, herbal tea, or juice for my offerings. We’ll see what I figure out.
Yeah, but I hear my Mom’s voice in my head about throwing away or wasting things. That was one of her biggest pet peeves in life. How they’d have food fights or things like that on TV and she’d be like, there’s starving people on our streets that need food and they’re just throwing it away. So I usually use Spring Water, or herbal tea. That soothes my brain enough to let me pour it out.
My daughter and I combine Halloween with Samhain (but we follow a Seax Wica ritual for Samhain).
On Halloween, we watch Skeleton Dance again (a Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon), and Arsenic and Old Lace. We set out a box of Hot Tamales Candy for my father and light a candle for him. I make corn bread and chili, and she and I walk the neighborhood to see the decorations and costumes. I love to dress as a witch.
We then come home, turn off the lights and watch Bela Lugosi’s ‘Dracula’.