Other Names: All Hallows Eve, Halloween, Samhain Night, All Souls’ Eve, Day of the Dead, Guy Fawkes Night, Bonfire Night, Oidhche Shamhna, Hop-tu-Naa, Calan Gaeaf, All Hallowtide.
Symbols: Third Harvest, wisdom of the Crone, death of the God, reflection on our place in the Wheel of the Year, New Year, reincarnation, the dark mysteries, Rebirth after [...]
October 31st
This is the beginning of the Celtic and Wiccan New Year. Samhain [...]
For users of our free Pagan blog hosting service, Witches Grimoire, we have set up an additional support forum here on the main Pagan Connection website.
Should the blogging site be down, you should be able to access the forum on this site to request assistance.
Visit the support forum.
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The Autumn Equinox or Harvest Home is also called Mabon, pronounced ‘MAY-bon’, after the Welsh god Mabon ap Modron, which means literally ’son of mother’.
Mabon appears in ‘The Mabinogion’ tale. The Druids call this celebration, Mea’n Fo’mhair, and honour The Green Man, the God of the Forest, by offering libations to the trees. The Welsh [...]
Avalonia Books are offering a 25% discount on pre-orders for their new book, “Horns of Power: Manifestations of the Horned God” if you order before 7 August 2008. The retail price is £12.99 but you can order now for £9.75 including postage and packing.
The book includes essays by Sorita d’Este, Hortus St Michael, Gareth [...]
We’re involved in a new project which is looking to launch the first Pagan video podcast, based right here in London. There are several audio pagan shows but, as far as we’re aware, none which are video based!
It’s going to be a monthly hour long show and we hope to feature interviews, pagan news, clips [...]
Dawn discusses Original Sin on Pagan Magic
One of the concepts of Christianity that I have never got to grips with is that of Original Sin.
Original sin is said to result from the Fall of Man, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. This first [...]
We’ve switched to some new Forum software this week, which should make using them a lot easier. All the previous posts have been transferred.
There are loads of new features too including the ability to tag posts and create ‘Social Groups’ - if you have friends on the site, or members of a local group, [...]
We’ve decided to use vBulletin, the powerful forum software that we have loads of experience with from previous projects. All the posts have been transferred over and you can log in at paganconnection.org/forum. Passwords may not have been copied across, as they are encrypted in the database, but hit the ‘Forgotten your password?’ [...]
We’ve previously published Pagan Connection Updates on our site so that those of you using a feed reader could find out what’s been posted in the Forums without having to log on. Now that we’ve changed our system and news & events go on the main site, this could overload you a bit. [...]
