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31 October 2019 20:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaon(Bless my Very Christian mother in law - she did once throw away my husband's playstation games because she thought they were possessed by demons and so forth. But we came home early and so obviously gloomy at not having had a Halloween party as planned that she sat me down and insisted on going through the TV listing looking for spooky films for me. It's super kind of her.
It IS weirdly sad and difficult doing Halloween at a place where i can't be like spooky tat all over the place and listening to Monster Mash and all.
My husband makes fun of me for being a witch who prefers Halloween to Samhain -but I do, and I can't help it. Halloween is colourful, joyous, childlike, creepy, kooky, mysterious, ooky, and so on. It's not a serious festival, but it is playful and it makes me happy. I have tried to do Proper Samhain - ive tried doing Wild Hunt ones, and ghostly funereal ones, and ancestor ones, and the veil just won't thin for me. I want to be inside with friends, carving a pumpkin, meeting trick or treaters, listening to Thriller and watching the Addams Family or the Craft or Goosebumps or some other gently gothic young adult telly, and feeling cosy and safe. I love this time of year, and I love it through its human culture and it's symbolism and it's consumerist tat. I try and feel the infinite in the undergrowth and leaves - but Samhain's wild hunt/meat feast qualities attach themselves to Mabon for me, and the ancestor work to Christmas Eve.
Samhain feels like...the feast of autumn. Rather like the Holly King's court at Yule. A time for friends, for crafts, for food, and joy in the season.
It IS weirdly sad and difficult doing Halloween at a place where i can't be like spooky tat all over the place and listening to Monster Mash and all.
My husband makes fun of me for being a witch who prefers Halloween to Samhain -but I do, and I can't help it. Halloween is colourful, joyous, childlike, creepy, kooky, mysterious, ooky, and so on. It's not a serious festival, but it is playful and it makes me happy. I have tried to do Proper Samhain - ive tried doing Wild Hunt ones, and ghostly funereal ones, and ancestor ones, and the veil just won't thin for me. I want to be inside with friends, carving a pumpkin, meeting trick or treaters, listening to Thriller and watching the Addams Family or the Craft or Goosebumps or some other gently gothic young adult telly, and feeling cosy and safe. I love this time of year, and I love it through its human culture and it's symbolism and it's consumerist tat. I try and feel the infinite in the undergrowth and leaves - but Samhain's wild hunt/meat feast qualities attach themselves to Mabon for me, and the ancestor work to Christmas Eve.
Samhain feels like...the feast of autumn. Rather like the Holly King's court at Yule. A time for friends, for crafts, for food, and joy in the season.
