Come celebrate Samhain With Us:

Date:Saturday 30th May 2011

Time : 7pm door closes at 7.30pm for Ritual

Cost: $10 and a plate of goodies

Venue: The Magickal Broom Closet
            633 Hight St
            Thornbury, VIC

Please phone: 03 9480 4431 to register your interest. or email events@magickalbroomcloset.com.au

Sabbat Info:
Samhain
Samhain, All Hallow's Eve, Last/Blood Harvest, Ancestor Night, Feast of the Dead, Nos Galan Gaeaf (Welsh)
North: 31 Oct – 2 Nov (alt 5–10 Nov) South: 1 May (alt 4–10 May)

Samhain (pronounced Sow-ain) is considered by most Wiccans to be the most important of the four 'greater Sabbats'. It is generally observed on October 31 in the Northern Hemisphere, starting at sundown. Samhain is considered by some as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved ones who have died. In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of Beltane, which is celebrated as a festival of light and fertility.

The Wiccan Samhain doesn't attempt to reconstruct a historical Celtic festival. In actuality it was also widely believed that on October 31, the vail between this world and the afterlife is at its thinnest point of the whole year.