Banishing is used across all forms of magic. Banishing means to make something go away, to put it in the past, and remove it from the present and likely future. It is a loss that is welcome or needed. Most changes, especially deliberate changes, involve some kind of loss or banishment. This can be big things and it can be little things.
Read MoreGrief is love with nowhere to go. There is a lot to grieve right now, and there will be a great many more losses before the COVID-19 mess is over. This article gives some insight and advice around grief and the grieving process, and offers full and new moon rituals to help with processing your grief.
Read MoreDeath is about more than just the dead. Death is also about radical change and the transitions, good, bad, and neutral, we continually experience as time marches on. Radical change often leads to mourning and commemoration of what used to be. As a result, the energies of Samhain are powerful for any kind of mourning you may be experiencing, and for commemorating any important parts of your past.
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