Samhain Ritual to Honor Your Dead (Even If You Don't Know Your Ancestors)

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It's the day before Samhain, and this is the rite I wrote in a single day for my coven's first live ritual: a plate for my own dead, with names on it, for the first time. My line is unknown and it's staying that way, so this is a Samhain ritual that works whether you know your ancestors or not. I walk through what the night is actually for once you take everybody's gods out of it (the four jobs: frame the door, name and feed the dead, ask them one thing, burn what you're putting down), why "who stands at your door" replaced calling one goddess, the coven's new closing line, how the Deipnon is different, and why spells keep working for me on a screen. Then the full 12-step rite, quickly.

Chapters

0:00 Tomorrow, it's one

0:28 Housekeeping

1:01 The day before Samhain

2:18 A coven, and a rite for two

3:48 Whose gods? Who stands at your door

4:48 The four jobs of the night

5:28 A closing line: by salt we keep it

6:34 Now the names

7:48 The altar's a screen

8:53 Apollo and the honeycomb

9:36 Pressure off

10:38 The rite, step by step

12:34 The door stays open

The simple version of the rite is on the free Patreon and in the community ritual section of the app and website. The full write-up with all three versions (coven, solo digital altar, solo real table) is on the paid side of Patreon. Take all of it, or take the four jobs and build your own.

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