Page 4 - AstralRealm Magazine - October 2019

It is believed that on this day, the veil between the

world of the living and the world of the dead was at its
thinnest point, and the barriers dissolved, creating an

atmosphere which facilitated communication with the

dead, with ancestors and departed family members,
with Gods, fairies, and other spirits and invisible

beings. The line between the physical and spiritual

worlds could be more easily transcended, and spirits
could more easily come through to our physical plane.

It was believed to be a day in which ancestors who had
passed could once again walk the earth to be with their

loved ones, where spirits were free to roam the
earthly realm and interact with mortals. This was a

spiritual day of respect and honour for the dead.

The word ‘Samhain” has been translated by linguists

as meaning “summers end”, this is perfectly fitting,as

Samhain is known as the “day of the dead” - a day to
show love and respect toward the dead, our departed

loved ones and ancestors who have passed over, also
to gods, and to spirits and invisible races of beings.

At this time of year came the Harvest, and the ascent
of winter - A symbol of the cycle of death and birth, a

natural cycle within the universe, which Celtic pagans

treated with respect, and not with the same degree of
fear our current society associates with death and the

ending of a cycle.

Samhain was described as a day of “mystical

intensity”.