Happy Halloween!

This is my very favorite Holiday though it's been hard for me to get in the Halloween spirit this year. It's been years since I had a costume or an excuse to wear one. I think next year we need to have a Halloween party so I can create a cool costume and have somewhere to wear it. I've wanted to be a pirate for years but have never managed to pull it off.
Today is not only Halloween but it is also Samhain, the pagan new year and a very powerful night for magick. We are participating in a ritual put on my our local community. I am looking forward to participating in traditional Samhain activities to get me ready for this next turn of wheel. Looking behind me at what I've accomplished this last year, at the present acknowledging who I am at this very moment, and at the future and what I want to accomplish this next year.