Halloween orgins date back 2000 years ago to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (prodounced sow-in).   October 31st is the Great Sabbat Samhain and fire festival.  Samhain means "end of summer" and is an ancient Celtic festival that celebrates the beginning of winter, marked by death and is considered to be the Witches' New Year.   

  In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honour saints and martyrs.  It is believed that the pope was attempting to replace Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday.  The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hollowmas (from Middle English Alholwesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually Halloween.  

November 1, the Day of the Dead (also celebrated by some on November 2) the dead were thought to return to earth.  People would leave food on the tables for them and would usually stay indoors.

The Celts called it Samhaïn, which means Night of the Druids. It marks a time dedicated to exploring the future with, the help of the Ancestors, all the loved ones who have passed on to the Spiritual World.

It’s a very special, unique time, the only day of the year when the border between the material and immaterial worlds becomes as fine as a veil, allowing men and women with a pure heart to enter into contact with the Higher Spiritual Forces, and benefit from their protection.

During this very rare exchange, the Druid Spirits send "magic energy" into your life, enabling you to be Lucky, find Love, stay healthy and obtain great good fortune.   All the "prayers" and sacred gestures you apply are to trigger the intervention of the Higher Spiritual Forces in your favor.   

There’s nothing complicated you need to do, as the Spiritual Forces guide you straight to success and happiness.  

Samhain is the Witches' New Year. We project correctness, health, and love for the coming year. At this time, the world of the living and that of the spirit are closest to each other. We honor the ancestors and invite them to join in our celebration.
 
Witches do divination for guidance. Witches also choose this time to release the "old" in order to allow for the "new". We move from here toward a time of inner growth and introspection as we approach the coming Winter months.  

If you have just been through a difficult period in your life, full of anxiety, fear, and moments of discouragement or doubt now is the time to open your heart and mind to those in the unseen world and ask for guidance.

 
  Summer is almost at the point where the season is merely a memory.  During the Autumn months the temperatures are trying to cool while the wind sweeps the leaves trying to change color as it moves the treetops.  Autumn is the balance between summer's light and winter's dark.  The season approaching is one that draws us inward and makes us reflective. 

 To Witches October 31st is more than trick or treating.        Know as Samhain (sow-een) to the ancient Celts, is the day on which the Celtic New Year and Winter begins.  Samhain is the end of one year and the beginning of the next.  A time for change, and a time to look to the future.  It is the perfect moment to be in touch with Spirit Guides and vision of the way you want you life.  The veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest point of the year making communication easier.       

To prepare for the ritual bathe in salt to purify the mind, body, heart and soul.  Dressed, slip in your pocket a picture of the person you will request to speak with or your Spirit Guide.  Indoors or out the summoning of spirit is carried out in dawn or dusk in the glow of flickering lights of candles.       

A secluded place is necessary, free from interruption, and then the magical circle is drawn out.  The reason for this is to avoidance of contamination from unfriendly spirits.       

Pause before you say what's on your mind.  Focus on the lit candle wick and slowly breathe in and out to connect with the ebb and flow of the universe.       

The universe is comprised of an invisible energy which is synchronized and flows without static.  Interlaced threads move from side to side, intersect, sends out ripples and generate a current.  Energy swirls around and around in its own inevitable rhythm of waves or vibrations on a vast range of different frequencies.  The magical energy is, above and below heaven and earth, and inhabits all living and non-living things.  The endless energies can be tapped into. 

 Acknowledge what you have already been given.  You have many blessings to be thankful for.  If you woke this morning with a healthy body you are blessed.  Some people didn't while others didn't wake at all.  

Say aloud:       
I am thankful for the wonderful things in my life.  I am grateful for all those mundane bounties that can be taken for granted which makes my life more stable - a home, heat, hydro, resources to pay bills and food in the fridge.  I appreciate my family and friends cooperation to make my life more peaceful; for mutual consideration and respect.       

I pray that peace be with my fellow citizens of my community, my country and the world at large.        Call out to your Spirit Guide bidding to appear.       

Spirit Guide who intervenes in my life with guidance and sympathy please come hither.       

I am never afraid of what I know - participate in the process of learning and teaching, to fulfil my potential through constructive productivity and whatever state I am in, to be content.       

In the previous year there were many ups and downs that I dealt with. Trouble is part of life.  Failure builds character.  I acknowledge what has been done; and what remains to be done.       

This year I will strive to ----       

Take time to visualize yourself being the person you want to be, living the life you desire.       

Say aloud:       
Spirit Guide I request your assistance along the way in the coming year.  Say farewell and then close the circle.  Blessed Be.       

For a variety of reasons, people who have died visit the earthly plane.  I don't believe they cut ties or release their attachments to the people they love and care for.  If you believe communication with the dead or spirit, it is possible.