Samhain
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Samhain is an ancient Celtic festival that marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.
It holds deep spiritual significance as it honors our ancestors, acknowledges the time of year when the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is thinnest, and embraces the mysteries of life and spirits.
The translation of Samhain means “Summer’s End,” and it’s actually pronounced saah-win or saah-ween.
During this contest, you can compete in different Samhain rituals for winning a CW. You may participate in as many rituals as you want and can also enter several HAs for each. Each ritual requires new HA(s) and the answer to the question which comes with it.
Please create new HA(s) for this contest and don't reuse old ones. All wearables are at your disposition, you don’t have to own them. It is not necessary to add the prize items to your HA.
The contest ends Saturday 18th of November at midnight Subeta time. EDIT: Extended until Monday 27th of November.
Contests
The Festival of Tara
Prize to win:
On the Hills of Tlachtga, twelve miles away from Tara, the big feast was held during the ancient days.
Create a HA dancing at the hill or around the bonfire there or even cross the big fire for a cleansing ritual.
Write a small poem song to accompy your dance, honoring the Samhain concepts.
Samhain Nature Walk
Prize to win:
Take a meditative walk in a natural area. Observe and contemplate the colors, aromas, sounds, and other sensations of the season. Experience yourself as part of the Circle of Life Gather some natural objects and, upon your return, use them to adorn your home.
Depict a HA on the nature walk and tell us what you bring home from your walk.
Samhain Table
Prize to win:
Decorate your table with symbols of late fall and ad an additional token of your connection with the spirits.
Create a Solobia style picture showing up your table and tell us about your placed gift.
Séance and Divinatory
Prize to win:
If there’s anyone on the other side you’d like to communicate with, now is an excellent time!
Depict a HA absorbed in seance or divination or showing up other methods of fortune-telling like reading runes, laying tarot or scrying.
With whom do you want to speak or communicate?
Divine Invocations
Prize to win:
Call upon a divine creature associated with Samhain, such as the Crone Goddess, the Horned God of Nature or another one of your liking and depict the deity with your HA.
Why did you choose this special deity for guidance?
Herbs and Spices
Prize to win:
Many plants that tie in closely with Samhain, to name a few: allspice berries, broom, catnip, mountain ash berries, mugwort, mullein, oak leaves, acorns, rosemary, sage, pine cones, straw and others.
Depict a witch or wizard using these herbs and depict your featured plant with a second HA Solobia style.
Why did you choose this very plant, does it have some meaning for you or is it only beautiful or spooky?
If you participate in every contest, you have a chance to become the overall winner who is going to win a recolor of my Thin Veil necklace colored in their fav colors.
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Ah. I've made so many Samhain HA's... It's gonna be hard to come up with new ones! , come back to this!
The Festival of Tara
Late night, lantern light
Come hither, do not fear
Flames rise, feast full, many delight
A warrior queen awaits, my dear
O' ambitious Medb
A hillside between worlds of spirit and man, destiny Dance for the spirits, dance among the free For one man shall be made a king, noble thee Now take this mead, and come dance with me
O' cunning Medb
Many lovers and kings, many fights For she holds a warrior's might Come hither, come with me For thee shall see
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Samhain Nature Walk
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Samhain Table
Outfit Not Found My placed gift is thread, representing the threads of life that connect us all and those weaved to make us who we are. In some cultures thread is used in rituals.
Séance and Divinatory
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Divine Invocations
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Herbs and Spices
Mushrooms and sage
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That Necklace in those colours...hnn
We are the ones who remember, the ones who see what was, and is, and will be.
Me~
Festival of Tara by pythonesque Crisp autumn nights dancing under the open sky Honoring the summer months that have passed by Autumn is here The harvest is near For the feast and the food and the changing season we rejoice And sing a fiery tune with our chorus like one voice
Samhain Nature Walk by pythonesque I take a nature walk for edible plants and mushrooms! I'm also careful not to disturb nature too much and dress in layers, along with a hat, to keep safe in the elements.
Samhain Table Outfit Not Found The offering table is full of food from gardens and plants. I make sure to bring some extra mushrooms and plants I foraged on my walk, as well as some food for all the animals who show up, because they're an important part of harvest and nature and the cycle of how things work.
The Festival of Tara
Outfit Not Found The end of summer is near But there is no need to fear Our spirit friends are here So there is no need to shed a tear We offer this dance to you Won't you come dance with us too?
Samhain Nature Walk
by Xealias Strolling through the forest, I collect colourful leaves and flowers and place them in my little basket to decorate my home. It feels so good to breathe in fresh air and enjoy the chirping sounds of birds. As I walk deeper into the forest, I stumble upon an area where apple trees are grown, and so I pick up a few to enjoy. Little did I know, a squirrel and a birdie followed me home because they wanted to eat some delicious apples too!
Samhain Table
by Xealias My placed gift is a candle. It seems to have the ability to attract spirits. Could it be because the bit of warmth can soothe their souls?
Séance and Divinatory
Outfit Not Found A powerful fortune teller who uses a crystal ball to tell you everything that you want to know. It could be about the past, the present, and the future. With an incantation, she can also summon any supernatural beings including ghosts, spirits and souls. I would ask her to call forth my aunt who passed away a few years ago to ask if she's doing well on the other side.
Divine Invocations
by Xealias The Horned God of Nature (Hopefully I looked up the right one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_God) The Horned God is "the personification of the life force energy in animals and the wild" We humans sacrifice animals on a daily basis to help with our own survival. I chose the Horned God of Nature to honour the animals who passed away, may you all rest in peace.
Herbs and Spices
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Just a small reminder to not forget this contest, LOL. 10 days left.
Just looked at all your entries, and they are just lovely and perfect. Thank you for creating them.
Give a flower!
Samhain Nature Walk Outfit Not Found took a walk through the forest and brought home some pumpkins and leaves.
Samhain Table Outfit Not Found i decorate my altar with candles and flowers. scatter some pumpkins for the fall season. i include an old stuffed bunny as a token. the bunny represents youth and the years gone by. a very nostalgic item.
Séance and Divinatory Outfit Not Found a medium that can connect with the dead. if i could talk to anyone, i would like to talk to my ancestors and ask them about life in their time.
Divine Invocations Outfit Not Found Hekate, the Crone Goddess. i call upon her for her wisdom, knowledge, and healing. a goddess that can provide me with guidance.
Herbs and Spices
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Here are my HA's of all Categories....yes it took me this long to do it. >.>
Festival of Tara
Through the veil at the turn of night, like moths, are spirits drawn to light.
We light the candles and lanterns to guide the way, on the start of Winter this Sacred Day
The ones who've gone, the ones who linger, these are the ones whom we remember.
The Oak King kneels and bows his head, offering Holly his turn in stead.
We sing for joy, we sing for sorrow, into the dreaming Samhain shadows.
Taraby Khaiya
Samhain Nature Walk
Yes this is totally me in a cloak walking on a foggy Samhain night. I will often end up with pretty leaves and acorns to bring home on my walks. And photos of leaves with water beads on them.
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Samhain Table
I have a side table or buffet sort of table by my front door, and one end of it is my Altar. I almost always place a few autumn leaves or a few springs of flowers, herbs, a bit of moss..something from outside when I go on a walk. Here there are lit candles, and leaves...and maybe something that followed me home that sent the leaves flying.
Something followed me homeby Khaiya
Seance and Divinatory
This Medium is talking to someone. . . The space certainly has the right mood.
If I could talk to anyone who's gone now, it'd be my Dad or my Uncle. Especially Daddy though, I miss him so much.
Lady Sylvine&;s Seanceby Khaiya
Divine Invocations
My Invocation is to Mother Moon, always Her first, regardless of whom else I call upon. She is my Mother Goddess figure, and this is My prayer to her.
Mother Moon, guide my path, guide my head, my heart, my hands. Let your light fall from behind, that I may see what lies ahead. Mother Moon, with your blessing, I know I'll never walk alone. With your silver light above me, I will find my own way home. Mother Moon Samhainby Khaiya
Herbs and Spices
I am a baker, I bake Yule gifts every year. form cookies and cakes to bread and pastries. Caramels, and curds. I use warming spices like cinnamon and cloves, allspice, coriander, anise, star anise, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger and mace. They al taste lovely, but they also are all used as medicine. My kitchen is as much a healing space as a cooking space. Herbs are as varied as the spices, catnip and chamomile, skullcap, and peppermint, linden blossoms, and hyssop, elderflower and berry. Thyme and rosemary, sage, savory. Oregano's sharp resiny taste, basil's spicy sweetness. Have a belly complaint? I'll make you tea with honey and catnip, chamomile and mint. The first HA is me in my kitchen, baking up a storm with all the lovely things, orange and cinnamon shortbread is a solid favorite.
The second is the greenhouse I want to have, There will always be catnip growing..which is my choice for the singular herb in this...and apparently the space has been raided by things what like the herbs. but especially the catnip. Here it MUST be kept in a container the cats cannot get into.
Kitchen Witchby Khaiya In the Greenhouseby Khaiya
We are the ones who remember, the ones who see what was, and is, and will be.
Me~
Since we are driving up north and I am very occupied all week, I am going to extend this contest until Monday, 27th of November, midnight Subeta time.
Contests
The Festival of Tara
Prize to win:
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Your HA looks very involved in the festivities, congrats!
Samhain Nature Walk
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A cozy autumn walk, congrats!
Samhain Table
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The threads are a wonderful gift and a very lovely idea, congrats!
Séance and Divinatory
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Your HA looks very engrossed and wise, congrats!
Divine Invocations
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What a colorful and unique HA, congrats!
Herbs and Spices
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That looks so cozy and I can even smell the spices, congrats!
Overall winner is who is going to win a recolor of my Thin Veil necklace colored in their fav colors.
All prizes will be send this evening.
Khaiya, please smail me about your recolor wish with hex codes and explanations!
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Thank you!
And thanks for the Sub Hub prize too (thread already locked so I couldn't post there anymore hahah)
thank u and congrats to the other winners :D