The Samhain Shadowlands….

Image by Sarah Gottesdeiner

“ No, my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence." Antonio Machado

The veils are thinning allowing you to connect with your own “thin” places, the world behind the world, the unseen.

This Samhain /Scorpio season is a Hecate Crossroads we all instinctively recognise, a liminal moment when you need to shed a skin, a mask, a disguise. If you do, you’ll feel exposed, raw and need to take extra care of yourself for a while. If you don’t, that old skin will harden around you. Winter and Wintering is not the death of the life cycle but its crucible.

Choosing those deeply unfashionable things - slowing down, letting your unaccounted - for time expand, getting enough sleep, resting -are radical acts these days but they are essential to thriving not just surviving.

In the face of this dark night of the global soul - where none of our old avoidance tricks and tactics touch the sides - those of us who are empaths and sensitives are having to develop our gifts to a new level of skill, learning to live moment to moment, honing our ability to scry, to Know without knowing, to intuit, to sense energy as if we have fur and feathers.