Samhain celebrates the completion of the agricultural year and the impending descent into winter.

Death looms large in the human psyche as the natural world shrivels and dies before our very eyes.

All that was once green and vibrant, now dulls, droops and drops to the earth — ready to be decomposed and reassembled into nutrient-rich humus, to give birth to new life once more.

We are once again reminded of our own mortality and of all who have gone before us — making Samhain a fitting time to honor the
ancestors — their struggles and victories, their sacrifices and accomplishments, and all the gifts and unfinished business they’ve left to us — their descendants — to embrace and work on in deep reverence and appreciation for those who made our lives possible.