Samhain Dusk Procession at Lone Fir Cemetery

Name: Samhain Dusk Procession at Lone Fir Cemetery
Start: 2024-10-31T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-31T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Lone Fir Cemetery

Schedule

Thu Oct 31 2024 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Lone Fir Cemetery | Portland, OR

💀October 31st, whether you regard it as Halloween or as Samhain, both or neither happens to fall on the Dark Moon this year….perfectly timed to the lunar cycle of Hekate’s Deipnon night.
💀This is the end-of-monthly ritual in celebration of the Queen of the Crossroads and Guide of Souls when food offerings are left and libations are poured in the name of HEKATĒ for the benefit of the Restless Dead, the Lost Souls, to those who wander or who are trapped or otherwise inauspiciously situated in our densely haunted world.
💀in reverent copresence with the unhallowed hosts and with the Psychopompic Queen Who manages the most difficult cases as well as the easy transitions, we will make a circumambulation around the big loop of Lone Fir Cemetery to make simple offerings at nine crossroads on our way.
💀These offerings will take the form of a handful of barley, a coin, a pour of wine and a wafting of specially prepared incense from a masked and garlanded group of chanting devotees.
💀The masks for various aspects of HEKATĒ, Persephone, Selene, Nyx, as well as Hermanubis, Serapis-Aidonios and other Chthonic gods/daimones will be provided and the offerings likewise provided.
💀All that is needed is a quorum of folks to actually inhabit the deity vestments and to carry the censor, wine vessel, barley vessel, devotional banners and lustration water aspergillum (we won’t be assaulting with salt-water, since it is the place and the time for the spirits to gather, not disperse so we will lustrate with spring water to quench the thirst of the dead rather than exorcise anything).
💀We will meet at five pm at the east gate of Lone Fir, will garb and embody the spirit-masks, then will start our lap around the loop with the goal of being done by actual sundown one hour later. Cemetery closes at sunset and on Halloween this may be more strictly enforced than usual due to vandalism concerns related to previous Halloween jackassery. (Might not be a big deal this year but some years were intense about security after dark.)
💀I will be posting pics of the different God/dess-Drag vestments and please let me know if you would like to embody one of the masks/ensembles/presences.
💀I will be making special ritual preparations such as this cense blends and soaps/oils with which to make ready in the days leading up to this conjunction of the calendar holiday and the lunar holy night.