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Samhain Prayers

These Samhain Prayers are still used on Halloween. They celebrate life and honor death.

Traditional Pagan Prayer for Samhain Night

This symbolic harvest is of our thoughts.
Seeds - planted and nurtured throughout this past year.
May the good come to pass and the bad be cast aside.
With your divine guidance and protection,
we step into the New Year,
May we have good health, prosperity, and happiness.

As the New Year is born, we are all reborn,
with new hopes and dreams.
Guide us in the future as in the past.
Give us strength and courage, knowledge and fulfillment.
Assist us as we attempt to achieve our goals

Every beginning has an ending.
And every ending is a new beginning.
In Life is Death, and in Death is Life.

Watch over us, our loved ones, and all of our brothers and sisters, here and departed, who tonight are joined together again for fellowship and celebration.

Bless us all as we light our bonfires, our hearth fires, and the eternal fires in our hearts.
Guide and protect us, tonight and throughout the coming year.

Blessed Be!

A Prayer to the Ancestors for Samhain

This is the night when the gateway between
our world and the spirit world is thinnest.
Tonight is a night to call out those who came before.
Tonight I honor my ancestors.
Spirits of my fathers and mothers, I call to you,
and welcome you to join me for this night.
You watch over me always,
protecting and guiding me,
and tonight I thank you.
Your blood runs in my veins,
your spirit is in my heart,
your memories are in my soul.

[Recite your genealogy here. Include your blood and spiritual families.]

With the gift of remembrance.
I remember all of you.
You are dead but never forgotten,
and you live on within me,
and within those who are yet to come.

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