Samhain is a sabbat marking the end of the harvest, and for celebrating all the great things about the fall season. 

Outside:

• Light a bonfire at night with friends
• Carve or decorate a pumpkin (maybe with astrology!) 
• Visit a cemetery and leave an offering for the dead
  
• Harvest the last of your herbs before winter
• Appreciate the autumn season by collecting colored leaves

In the Home:

• Decorate with apple tea light votives
  
• Tell stories with loved ones about those who have passed
• Make fall candles to light up the coming winter
  
• Burn incense scented with pine, myrrh or cinnamon
• Knit or crochet scarves and hats for the coming winter

In the Kitchen:

• Bake a classic pumpkin pie and draw sigils in the crust
  
• Make traditional Samhain soul cakes
• Prepare homemade apple cider and bless it for healing and health
• Make seasonal comfort foods and spicy teas

In the Bath:

• Bathe in a mixture of allspice, sage, and mugwort* for a ritual bath
• Take a lazy witch halloween LUSH bath 
  
• Banish negativity (and dead skin) with a DIY fall scented body scrub or cute little sugar scrub cubes 

On your Altar: 

• Decorate with symbols of death like scythes or bones
  
• Add personal items of passed loved ones or their pictures
• Represent the seasonal harvest with foods like pumpkins, apples, dark bread, and ears of corn 
• Use colors like black, red, orange, brown, and deep purple 
• Incorporate black obsidian, smoky quartz, amber, or fossils 

*Note: Mugwort should NOT be used by those who are pregnant or nursing

• Shielding & its purpose
  
• Shielding vs aura manipulation
  
• Using external power to shield 
  
• Forming a basic shield - creation and sealing 
  
• Altering shields 
  
• Shielding for general protection 
  
• Shielding for specific protection 
  
• Stealth shielding 
  
• Two-sided shielding 
  
• Stacking shields 
  
• Checking and repairing shields 
  
• Removing and deactivating shields 
  

How to see faeries:

• Wearing one’s coat inside out.
• Wearing a posy of primroses.
• A four leaf clover crushed and put into an ointment may give one sight of the Faeries as well as placing Faerie Ointment on the eyelids.
  
• Bending over and looking backwards through your legs.
  
• Looking through a Fir knot hole.
• Looking through a loop made with a Rowan twig may cause Faerie sight.
• Looking through a hag stone. 
• Meditating on a daily basis.
• Averting one’s vision.
• Dawn, moon, dusk, and midnight are the best times for faerie sightings.
• Believe - faeries will most likely not show themselves to non-believers.
• Have good intention - faeries can sense it.
• Looking for a long time without blinking.