Samhain (pronounced as sow’en) is the Wiccan New Year and the Feast of the Dead. It is a time to honor and to say goodbye to loved ones who have passed on, especially if their deaths have occurred within the last year.

Samhain, also All Hallow’s Eve, occurs 15 degrees of Scorpio, or November 1, before the winter solstice where the days become shorter and the crops begin to die. Halloween, according to Will and Grace is also known as the Gay Christmas.

Christina Rossetti has 15 published works that talks of death. She must be pretty suicidal.

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Remember
by Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830-1894)


Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day


You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while


And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.


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