While Halloween has every opportunity to be a treat: dressing in costumes, teen slasher movies, and pumpkin-flavored sweets — the celestial bodies of the nearby cosmos have, in fact, joined forces to ...

CARBONDALE — The Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance celebrates the high point of the pagan year with its 2024 Samhain (“sou as in ‘ow’-win”) ritual, Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Gaia House Interfaith Center ...

Every October 31, the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain marks the midpoint between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. It celebrates the end of the harvest and the start of the darker half of ...

An example of a Samhain altar. Photo by Heather Greene This is the definition of cultural appropriation, she added. “The world is filled with racism, discrimination, colorism, classism,” she continued ...