Updated 4/11/2019 for Astronomical Samhain...
Samhain is a holiday which has great meaning for our folk, one in which we have met with and honored our ancestors, our Gods, and the Great Spirits and heroes of the Dead… for tens of thousands of years. It is thrilling and awe inspiring and has deep and wonderful meaning. It is a time of sacred communion with our Gods and reunion with relatives from other realms, a time when we can see more clearly than usual, when the spirits of our loved ones can more easily communicate with us.
The real meaning of All Hallows Eve, All Souls Day, and All Saints Day, which were renamed by Jew worshipers, has been repressed and perverted, and our European holiday has even been outlawed several times by Christians and the Jews that control them, and yet, the bright, spirited, soulful quality of this special time of year remains undimmed. It is not a holiday about horror and watching Jewish made horrible horror movies, or mindlessly distributing and collecting candy bought by ZOG corporations to increase their profit as though we were zombies. It is much more than that.
We can still choose to be great like our ancestors and seek life and Victory rather than slavery and death. Be more rather than less. Be who you were meant to be.
A major aim of Christianity has been to depersonalize and strip away the meaning and bonding aspects of any native European religious traditions and holidays. This usually involves forcibly removing real wisdom, truth and spirituality, changing the dates of our sacred observances to make them out of step with Nature, obscuring the actual meanings of our customs, and replacing the Gods and ancestors we honor with a Jewish “god”. This is part and parcel of reducing the holy nights of our tribal religions to the one- size- fits- all Walmart cult of Christianity, complete with fake festivals from which all meaning has been removed and replaced by Jewish supremacism.
In the case of Samhain, a European festival celebrated by our folk since our beginnings, it has proven hard for the Jews who hate our religion and tribe to eclipse. Like the waxing crescent moon tonight, there is only a hint of the great light of this joyous time left around the edges of an orb covered with darkness, but this is enough for us to restore it so that the full brightness can come again. At the moment, for many of us, they have managed to insert a crass Jewish profit machine into our sacred celebration insuring that instead of enjoying our actual holiday and honoring our ancestors, we perform like trained apes for Jews so as to secure Jewish profit.
Instead of honoring actual spirits, much of our modern celebrations are reduced to decorating with plastic, and for centuries, continuing until the present time, the real beauty and meaning of these sacred nights is disparaged as demonic widely. A Jewish supremacist “one god”, and cultural Marxism, are, of course, added into the equation too, in order to keep us well and truly subdued and to dampen the spark of the Great Spirits who visit our realm at this time. They seek to interfere with our loving bonds with our family members who have gone to the afterlife, but they cannot do so if we do not allow it.
Our traditions are not evil, but deep and meaningful. They connect us to our ancestral Gods and to Nature.
For example, in the past we used to make soul cakes, for the living and the dead… and even when this custom became less popular due to yet more manipulation, ladies still made real treats for neighborhood children who were “trick or treating”. Some treats were quite wholesome, others less so, but it was personal. There was individuality, creativity, trust, and bonding involved. Costumes were not store bought , but sewn by women who were not brainwashed to work for Zionist corporations because so much money was being extracted from us by Jews that women had to leave their families and work too to continue to feed the monstrous maw of Israel.
We are constantly scammed into believing that we can do nothing, but we can restore our real religion and protect our people. If our efforts are deserving of aid, our Great Ones will help us and we shall win our freedom, for their power is far beyond that of the trolls that afflict our realm, as is ours, if we can find our true selves.
Jewish financial slavery and feminism have been presented as “freedom” just as living in a Jewish occupied nation in which we have increasingly fewer rights is presented as “democracy”. After a bogus article by the Zionist controlled New York Times in the 1970’s, suggesting there were razor blades in apples given to kids on Al Hallow’s Eve, the apples that represent our European Goddesses, Idun and Pomona, have been replaced by sugary sweet chemically toxic trick- treats by Jewish corporations.
Just as the sickly sweet candy being sold by Zionist corporations is not real food, a role for women in which they have no husband and children to love and be loved by, and no time to spend with them if they do, is a false one. Feminism is the false sugar coated lie that was applied to obscure this theft of our time, money, and effort, and the fact that Zionists are taking mothers away from their own children just so they can use European women as worker bees to make even more profit from them. In this scenario, small children are left unprotected so they can be better brainwashed. The fact that before the level of Jewish theft of our resources increased families could survive with only one bread winner was to be forgotten, and now we are supposed to not notice that we are paying for our own genocide and for invaders to have children so that we cannot do so. If we notice that we are being forcibly racially replaced and dare to object to it, we can always be demonized and called “racist” and “unchristian” or even “terrorists” and “extremists”, depending on what the current Jewish smear word for Europeans who love their own people is.
We can find the true spiritual Halloween if we look for it. It is all around us.
The sublimely joyous spirits of our loved ones, their visits, our hallowed dinner with them, the blessings they give us, and the riotous joy and fun still are suppressed by these actual demons, who misrepresent our great celebration of the immortal existence of souls as “evil” and “ugly” to distract us from the very real ugliness of their crimes against our race. They do not want us to have ancestors, tribal bonding, cultural identity, descendants, or souls. We need to fight them in every way we can, not go along with it like the “goyim”, or human cattle, they call us.
We owe it to ourselves, to our tribe, our ancestors to love our folk with a love that is more than superficial.. to see the beauty and the light of our worthy spirits, and to know that we too can be great like them. The purpose of our existence is not to find peace, but to ensure freedom and life for our folk, whatever it takes. We are meant to be so much more… but it is up to us to make it so.
This is a time for basking in the love and warmth our family, both living and dead.
Ways to Celebrate Samhain as our Ancestors did.
One might as well have an appropriate costume… A Samhain ceremony on Glastonbury Tor on November 4, 2017 in Somerset, England. Getty Images.
Samhain was celebrated throughout our ancient Heathen European world from ancient times everywhere European tribes have lived in one form or another, from Spain and Italy, to Germany and Norway, to Wales and Lithuania. . I call our festival Samhain, because the Celtic tradition of Heathen Halloween has proven to be particularly vigorous in its survival
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- Go souling rather than “trick or treating”. Sing a lovely Heathen song or recite verses rather than just saying “trick or treat”. Take a minute to talk to the people whose houses you visit. Offer them good wishes and ask if they have had loved ones who have recently departed so that you can join them in wishing them well and so that the worthy dead may be remembered.
- Set up an ancestor altar with pictures of your loved ones, especially those who have recently died. Meditate on good memories you have of them, and what they achieved in their lives that you admire and wish to emulate. Tell them things you wish you could have told them while alive. Share good news and ask for their blessings in your undertakings.
- Provide homemade soul cakes, cookies, or other appropriate toys or treats to European ancestry children and other European heritage Samhain visitors, living and dead. If they are not familiar with the meaning of our ways, and why a real homemade soul cake is better, explain it to them. Apples and nuts are also a good choice as treats, because they honor the Goddesses Idunn and Pomona and are foods traditionally left with our folk as grave goods. They have a strong spiritual aspect, as does honey, because like the soul, it is imperishable.
- Do not tolerate nonsense about White Europeans appropriating costumes of other cultures. Consider taking a few moments to make a complaint about this to those who are intruding upon our sacred festival due to their envy and hatred of our folk. Samhain is a European holiday. People of other races are not even invited, and attempts to tell us what to wear and dictate to us about our own religious holidays are not just outrageously rude and disrespectful but true cultural appropriation.
- Consider making your own costume or at least partially making it. Heathen costumes are far more interesting than the cookie cutter costumes that are pushed today and dressing up for Samhain is much more engaging when it is a creative exercise. It’s okay for us to use our imagination. It has not been outlawed by our (((Communist Regime))) yet. (-;
- Clean and organize your house or apartment and leave candles in the window as a beacon to the spirits. You can be doing other things you wish to do, but wait and watch for the Spirits of your Ancestors and other loved ones to come, keeping an eye and ear out for them.
- Have a supper with the Spirits. Be sure to set a beautiful Samhain decorated table with extra plates for the visiting Ancestors. In addition to regular fare, and soul cakes or cookies, old fashioned feasts including pomegranates, and red wine, grape juice or spiced apple juice are traditional choices. Please leave some soul cakes out for spirits with no families.
Photographer: Irina Kuznetsova
Taken in Donegal, Ireland - Invite a völva or family member who is gifted at rune reading to read the runes. On this night of all nights the ancestors might have something in particular they wish to impart to you or advise you to do, or even warn you about, and this is a time when they are better able to communicate with us than usual.
- Play traditional games and divination games, such as bobbing for apples, or, if you are a girl, leaving wildflowers under pillows or looking in mirrors to dream of or glimpse one’s future husband. There are many wonderful customs our people once enjoyed that we can practice again from making a Celtic bambrake cake with divination charms to telling ghost stories by a bonfire.
- Do some genealogical work on a family tree to learn more about your ancestors and their accomplishments and help younger family members learn about them.
- Consider celebrating at least some of our ancient rites, such as the rune reading or the supper for the Dead, on the actual astronomical dates for our festival which occurs beginning on the 7th of November this year. Our festival lasts three nights and is followed by the Celtic New Year. For more about the New Year ritual see the article on Nerthus linked at the end of this article.
- In honor of the age old traditions of the reunion of Njord and Nerthus, Hades and Persephone, and of the Dagda and the Morrigan at this holy time of year, try to make romantic matches between your tribal members so that your clan can continue.
- Take time to honor the Gods and Spirits of the Earth, and of the Harvest, and the Underworld by visiting a sacred mound, or ancient site connected to your ancestral tribe, or a cemetery where you can commune with your loved ones. Make a libation with wine over the graves of the relatives you visit to renew their life force and revitalize the connection between their realm and ours. Make a ritual offering to the Landvættir, the spirits and deities who inhabit your lands, asking for their protection. Honor and make a special offering to the Gods of the Afterlife, such as Hel.
- Remember that traditionally this is a time when the Spirits communicate with us through Nature either with or without our trying to initiate it, so it is a good time to pay attention and sharpen one’s senses. Scottish women of old would select a hazelnut to represent each love prospect and toss them in the fire on Samhain Eve. The nut that just popped could not be taken seriously, but the one that smoldered and burned to ashes was considered likely to be a future husband. From the movement of a stone after a Samhain fire, to the sound of the whispering of one’s name in the wind near an ancient Yew tree, both of which mean that death is coming, there are many ancient customs and traditions through which we can gain some insight into our tribal past and future at this sacred time. One can seek insight from our guardians spirits, Ancestors, or Gods, and receive omens and signs, divination from Nature, in response. At times we also can connect with unconscious knowledge we already have. Our ancient customs, and rituals give us a framework in our quest for wisdom and Nature itself can show us the right path when we seek it.
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A Russian corn doll which honors the journey of the Earth Goddess to the Underworld… and thanks her for her abundant blessings.
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May we honor the sacred spirits and may your ancestors visit and help you make your dearest wishes come true… and may all of your Samhain gifts, insights, and blessings not be false and sugar coated… but real. (-;
Waes Hael!
Odinia
I was interviewed for Samhain two years in a row by Renegade Broadcasting.. so if you are interested in Heathen Samhain topics, there are 4 hours of radio here for you.. These two shows are “The Cultural Appropriation of Samhain”, recorded 30th October 2016… and “Bringing the Soul back into Souling”, recorded on 1st November, 2015. Links to the radio shows from the Renegade Broadcasting website are below…
The Solar Storm: Kyle Hunt interviews Seana Fenner – Bringing the Soul back into Souling (11-1-15)
The Solar Storm: Kyle Hunt interviews Seana Fenner – Samhain & Cultural Appropriation (10-30-16)
You may also be interested in the following videos from the Odinistpodcast Station on Youtube… “Sacred Spirits of Samhain”, part one of a series about the history of Samhain…
Our most recent video, “Of Bagpipes, Burns, and Spiritual Plagues Part One Tamoshanter”, which is for Burn’s Night, but which contains themes very relevant for Samhain…
..and our Autumn Winter Finding and Mabon Video against White genocide… “Winter Finding – Mabon Meditation: Red Squirrel & Tribal Survival”
…and lastly, the Odinist Samhain article about Nerthus..
“Samhain Mysteries of Nerthus and Njord, a Surviving Hebridean New Year Ritual…”
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