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Welcome to the ancient festival of Samhain - the time when the barrier between the visible and invisible is at it’s weakest and those that have left this world on their timeless journey can draw closer to us.

This is the time when our Celtic ancestors celebrated their ancestors and the legacy of life and dreams, myths, magic and legends that they inspired - reflecting not only on those that have gone before us but on their own mortality.

In Celtic lands the passing of someone is always celebrated with a ‘wake’. This is not a sad time but a cause of celebration - a time to rejoice at the passing of the soul to a better place. This time, the time of Samhain was a perfect time to reflect and reconnect with those we have loved and cared for.

This is also a time of primeval energies when barriers fall and worlds merge. The tradition of ‘trick or treating’ came from these lands when on this - of all nights - but it was also done throughout the year - the earth spirits (the Sidhe or the faery) had to be placated - ‘treated’ or they would curse your lands (trick) and livestock.

Today our children take the role.  Playful, in the moment, spiteful when crossed - who better reflects the earth spirits? Hallow’en (All Hallow’s Eve - the Christian festival of the Holy Souls which is tomorrow) is not a time of terror - but of reflection, reconnection and joy.

Happy Hallow’en. I’m off to fill my bags and drink the health of the ancestors and earth spirits!

I came across something about ‘la petite morte’ recently - the French for ‘the little death’ or the period of blackout during or after sexual orgasm.

This blackout or intensity has often been linked to the ecstacy of enlightenment and is the intensity of the experience during communion with the Divine. It amuses me how religion has controlled or removed the power of sexuality from any form of faith in the Divine. How the very religions which are meant to celebrate and honour creation have also sought to control that creative process through rules of how and when it can make itself manifest in relationships - usually by controlling the feminine power. Yet the saints and mystics of these religions are the same ones who have dedicated themselves to achieving the ecstacy of divine union.

In ancient times sexuality and sex was as much a part of the celebration of life and spirit as any form of prayer or ritual. Girls would offer themselves at temples to celebrate the act of sex as the act of creation and acknowledgement of our place as co-creators in the world.  The act of union of the divine in the masculine with the divine in the feminine is a powerful affirmation of the place that joy plays in creation and the power that ‘communion’ has to lift us to alternate experience. Where the ‘animal’ within us can unlock the bridge to the ‘divine’.

A friend and colleague’s father died recently in Australia - when she was just hours from touching down and being at his side. It struck me as very sad. Not just the death - that is after all not something to fear - it is a transition between levels of being. What was sad was her being so close, having almost seen the journey to its end and then not being there for that final goodbye in this world.

Death and taxes - the two sureties of life they say. What is inconstant in death is the manner in which it comes for us but what is constant about death is it’s transformation to a new place for the dying, the freedom from fear and pain and the sorrow for the living left behind.

Do we know what exists beyond the portal that leads us from this life to the next? No, not with any certainty. But I know this - energy can neither be created nor destroyed merely changed from one form to another. If this principle holds true, then the soul energy that lights our body - that gives it consciousness and emotions and purpose and passion - can only be released to another place when the body that carried it, for however brief a time, has reached it’s own natural span.

Death is a tranformation only, a freedom - a continuance of the adventure and not it’s end. It may be time before the souls that knew each other in this life meet again but meet they will. If life is energy then each life, each consciousness, is bonded by the frequency of the vibration of life - the harmony, the soul song - that they shared in this one.

Those we love share our thoughts, our emotions and our souls while we share the light of their lives in this world. Why would not share that same song in the worlds to come?