The Wheel of the Year: Why Samhain Is the Great Transition
There is a moment in the year when the atmosphere changes. The days grow shorter, the light begins to fade, the fields have been harvested, and nature starts to withdraw. At first, we simply call this autumn. But from the perspective of the Western Mystery Tradition, a deeper law reveals itself: everything that comes into being must eventually lose its form again. And within every ending already lies the seed of a new beginning. Samhain stands precisely at this threshold. Symbolically, it marks the transition from harvest to decay, from decay to death, and from death into the stillness of winter. Yet this darkness is not the end. Within it, renewal is already preparing to emerge. To understand this mystery, we must see the year not as a straight line, but as a circle. Nature moves in rhythms: day and night, inhaling and exhaling, becoming and passing away. In spring, life rises. In summer, it reaches its fullest expression. In autumn, it bears its fruit. And in winter, it withdraw...
