Day of the Dead and Samhain
Samhain is here again and it came quite suddenly for us at home this year.
R and I are going to celebrate the sabbat tonight. I spent yesterday at the
prison, which I'll write about separately.
We’ve only been back from Europe for ten days and have been readjusting to
having a normal schedule again. Normally, we would have had more time to prepare
for Samhain as it is something we do every year together in the house.
The net result is that our Day of the Dead altar wasn’t set up until just the
other day when R got the stuff out and placed it. R and I have the custom of setting up one of these, even though we
aren’t Mexican or Catholic. Every year, normally, we buy another couple of
figures to add to the altar. We haven't been able to do it this year.
For most pagans, Samhain is the season of the Dead and their memory. We’re old
enough that we’ve begun having friends and relatives die all too frequently. We
do our best to remember and honor those that we’ve lost and we miss.
Look past the cut at the full entry for pictures of our altar.
