Amethyst Rose
November 2nd, 2002, 03:56 PM
...or however it is that you celebrate Octover 31st (or not).
Hehe....that's the problem with having such a wide ranging scope as paganism does.....there are so many different religions under the umbrella, and different ways of celebrating that I can never be sure if I'll offend someone by leaving something out, or by including them in something that they'd rather not be included in..... sigh......oh the age of pc-ness.....
Anyway, I didn't do much here. Hallowe'en isn't really celebrated in the British Virgin Islands...there are a few trick or treaters, but it's such a religious place, that the majority of people here consider it an evil holiday, so they don't participate.
I, however, did something that I have never done before, and I'm quite proud of myself. I had a 24 hour fast, from midnight to midnight, and I did my own little ritual in my living room, for the first time not carring who on the outside could see me (we don't have windows)....my air conditioning blew out my candle twice, once at the end of a spell for self improvement, and once (quite appropriately) right after I had opened the circle to shut everything down. It was really all quite rewarding...I missed doing that sort of thing. I think that with a lack of pagan community, and lack of empathy from my athiestic life partner, I've been holding back and not doing rituals etc., choosing to keep my religion to myself. I didn't realize at the time, however, just how my relationship with the goddess was suffering, because of it. I felt her presence so strongly that night, that it made me cry....it was so totally rewarding.
Anyway, enough about me and my blathering about.
I hope everyone had a wonderful day, regarless of how you spent it, and I hope the coming year (because I do believe that Samhain marks the end of a year) is just as wonderful.
Hehe....that's the problem with having such a wide ranging scope as paganism does.....there are so many different religions under the umbrella, and different ways of celebrating that I can never be sure if I'll offend someone by leaving something out, or by including them in something that they'd rather not be included in..... sigh......oh the age of pc-ness.....
Anyway, I didn't do much here. Hallowe'en isn't really celebrated in the British Virgin Islands...there are a few trick or treaters, but it's such a religious place, that the majority of people here consider it an evil holiday, so they don't participate.
I, however, did something that I have never done before, and I'm quite proud of myself. I had a 24 hour fast, from midnight to midnight, and I did my own little ritual in my living room, for the first time not carring who on the outside could see me (we don't have windows)....my air conditioning blew out my candle twice, once at the end of a spell for self improvement, and once (quite appropriately) right after I had opened the circle to shut everything down. It was really all quite rewarding...I missed doing that sort of thing. I think that with a lack of pagan community, and lack of empathy from my athiestic life partner, I've been holding back and not doing rituals etc., choosing to keep my religion to myself. I didn't realize at the time, however, just how my relationship with the goddess was suffering, because of it. I felt her presence so strongly that night, that it made me cry....it was so totally rewarding.
Anyway, enough about me and my blathering about.
I hope everyone had a wonderful day, regarless of how you spent it, and I hope the coming year (because I do believe that Samhain marks the end of a year) is just as wonderful.