October is my favourite month of the year. I think my Celtic ancestry may have a part to play in that but it wasn’t until a friend invited me to share her nuptials on 31 October one year that I learned that this date is celebrated as the Witches’ New Year. It’s a powerful milestone in the spiritual calendar, a time when the veil between this earthly world and the spirit world becomes sheet thin.

With its roots in Samhain (read: paganism) it’s a time when nature begins its transformation, shedding the vibrancy of summer, to begin to turn inwards in preparation for winter. Although it is still glorious in its transformation. The trees turning hues of orange and brown, little furry creatures begin to grow their winter coats and even the tiniest of insects starts to change their working pattern to conserve their energy and prepare for the tough winter months ahead.

As women, we are cyclical beings, and this is the perfect time to tune in to ourselves, with reflections on all we have achieved, ancestral veneration and breathwork and meditation practices that help us let go of all that does not serve us so we make space for the new. It is a time to align with our inner cycles and reach deep into the ancient wisdom we hold within, to reflect on our own lives.

And while the external world will celebrate it as Halloween, in all its commercial representations, I will celebrate my ancestors and embrace the passage into a more introspective season.

With Love, Light and Little Ayama Magic

Nikki x