It's Halloween Everywhere and Half of You Are Celebrating in the Wrong Season. Let's Fix It.
It's Halloween Everywhere and Half of You Are Celebrating in the Wrong Season. Let's Fix It.
It's October 31st.
In America — BeWitchy LLC girlies are in full spooky mode. Jumpers, leaves falling, pumpkin spice that costs $9, ready to talk to dead nan.
In the UK — my UK coven, you are the ORIGINALS. Dark by 4:30pm, cold as hell, mist everywhere, every pub is haunted. You don't need fake cobwebs, your whole country IS the vibe.
In Australia — BeWitchy AU girlies are sweating our tits off, putting fake spider webs up in 30-degree heat, trying to be spooky while the sun is trying to kill us.
All valid. But not the same sabbat. And if you're international like us, you need to know what you're actually doing.
The Real History — UK, This Is YOUR Story
Halloween = Samhain. Say it "sow-win". Gaelic. Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Wales. YOUR islands, UK.
End of harvest, start of the dark half. You lit huge fires, slaughtered cattle so you'd survive winter, put out food for the dead because the veil was thin as hell. You carved turnips, not pumpkins — pumpkins are the American glow-up because turnips are a bitch to carve.
The church slapped All Saints Day on Nov 1st to cover it. Didn't work. You kept the fires anyway.
USA made it big, commercial, costumes and candy. Australia imported it and said "yeah let's do it in spring, why not."
So UK witches — your streets have been doing this for 2000+ years before America existed. This is your dirt.
Where The Fuck Are You? Find Your Season
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE — You are in DEATH season. It's SAMHAIN. Oct 31st is YOURS.
USA, Canada, Mexico, UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland), Ireland, all of Europe, Russia, China, Japan, India — all of Europe and all of Asia are north.
Your season: Autumn / Fall. Your wheel: Samhain. Let shit die. Honour the dead. Protect your house. Go inward. It's getting dark. Correct.
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE — You are in LIFE season. It's BELTANE. Oct 31st is BELTANE for you.
Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Lesotho, Eswatini, Angola, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia
Your season: Spring. Your wheel: Beltane. Fertility, fire, sex, flowers, money. Plant shit. Make it grow. It's getting light.
STRADDLERS — You Live ON The Line, You Get Both
These countries are cut by the equator, so they sit in BOTH hemispheres. The equator passes through 11 core countries, 13 if you count Maldives and Kiribati.
The 13 are: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati
If you're in one of these — Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Gabon, Congo, Sao Tome, Maldives, Kiribati — you pick what resonates, or you work with rainy/dry season. No wrong answer — just know why.
Listen Up Australia — This Bit Is For You
I see you. You want to do Samhain today because all your USA friends are doing it on TikTok. You don't want to feel left out.
Here's the truth, and it's good news:
You are SUPPOSED to be celebrating Beltane today. And that's ok. That's powerful. That's what your land is doing.
And you DO get to celebrate Samhain too — you get it in late April / early May. You get the exact same energy, the same veil-thin, ancestor, spooky, let-it-die night. Just 6 months later. You get both. You don't miss out, you just run on a different clock.
So if today you want to stay in your own zone and do Beltane — that's better. That's working with your land. Your garden is screaming GROW, not die. Listen to it.
If today you want to fit in with your USA friends and do a little Halloween/Samhain ritual tonight because you love the collective energy and you don't want to feel left out — that's ok too. I do it too sometimes. Just know you're borrowing northern energy. It's collective, it's huge, it's fun.
But don't live your whole witch life borrowing someone else's season. Your power is where your feet are.
Stay in your zone as much as you can. Your Samhain will come. And when it does in April, your USA friends will be doing Beltane and you'll be the one who gets to be all smug.
What To Do TODAY, Wherever You Are
For my American Coven (BeWitchy LLC) + UK Coven (My OGs):
You're in Samhain. Do it right.
Clean your house like your ancestors are coming. One candle, one photo, one glass of water for them. Ward your doors. Salt, smoke, sigil — I don't care. You open the door for YOUR people, not every random pissed-off spirit from 1987.
Protection before divination. If you don't know how to close a door you opened, don't open it.
UK — extra for you: That cold damp 5pm dark? That's the veil. Light a fire, even small. Candles in every window to guide them home. Your Samhain is fire magick. And it's sacred first, costume party from Tesco second.
For my Australian Coven (BeWitchy AU):
Today is Beltane. What are you making fertile? Your bank? Your womb? Your business? Plant it. Bare feet on dirt, 5 minutes. Fire ritual — BBQ, bonfire, candle. Burn what you don't want to carry into summer.
Want to throw on a little Halloween tonight too so you can vibe with your USA besties? Do it. Light your ancestor candle, eat candy, watch a horror movie. Just don't forget — your REAL Samhain is coming in April, and it will hit 10x harder because your land will be dying with you.
Bottom Line
UK — you are the root. "The land under your streets has been doing this for over 2,000 years, long before the United States existed as a country. This is your dirt."
USA — you are the megaphone.
Australia — you are the rebel who flipped the wheel and gets to celebrate everything twice a year, just 6 months apart.
We are BeWitchy worldwide for a reason. We go where the power is.
Whether you're in Texas, Tottenham, or Perth — work with YOUR land first, then play with the global current.
And don't let anyone yapping their flaps off tell you you're doing it wrong.
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