Samhain

Autumnal festive love to you on this fine day! Lots of us know it as Halloween, the day of children demanding sweets from strangers in the dark, and carved pumpkins. I'm much more of a fan of marking this time in the Celtic or Pagan way, and thinking of it as Samhain. 

Samhain means the time of the year when the world where the living, and the world where those who have passed over reside, draw close. The vein is thin, so it is said.  For this reason I find it a particularly powerful time to communicate with animals who have passed over.

Another interpretation of this time is that it's neatly in between harvest and new year - a time to take stock (and I don't just mean of the five whole tiny cucamelons I managed to grow this year!), and ask for help to let go of what no longer serves us as we look towards overwintering and ultimately the new beginnings that are coming after that. It's a great time to have a clear out of physical space as well as some mental decluttering. 

I've been taking the Smol one on some of our less well trodden paths recently. She's quite frightened of an underpass near us, as there are often children on bikes who like to whizz through there whooping and shouting. This time there it was fairly quiet, so I took the opportunity to try to help her to declutter her expectations that this was always a scary place. I used my own self-regulation to help her with hers, and after five minutes or so she managed to go from tense and really quite ready to go home now thanks, to, if not fully chilled than relaxed enough to look around and take a treat (and she didn't even have to do a trick! Get it?! *Groan*). I'm proud of her.

Self-regulation to help both yourself and your animal is something that we always cover in my 1:1 confidence coaching sessions: Schedule Appointment with Kathryn Knock Animal Intuitive (as.me)