 Hello people! I'm Ginny Metheral, I am a fourth generation witch! Today's video is of course my ever popular Almanac series and we're going to be looking at witchcraft throughout the whole month of October, what to do, when to do it and how October's energies might affect those spells. As with all these videos I'd like to give a general overview for the whole month of October and from there we'll dive down into the nitty-gritty daily detail and I'll give you the important events and dates that are happening throughout October. Now October is synonymous with that incredibly wonderful and one of my favourite Sabbath's Halloween sawn however you wish to celebrate it. Halloween is of course a high point in a witchcraft year and due to that I'm not going to discuss too much about Halloween in this video and I will be dedicating my own video to the Sabbath of Halloween. October is of course a month of migrations, the swallows are leaving, the field fairs and red wings are arriving, the eels are migrating and of course we do a little bit of migrating ourselves by going trick or treating, migrating around our neighbours I say. I love the eel migration on this month because we know so little about these mysterious creatures, the eels have spent up to 14 years in our lakes and rivers and streams and suddenly they decide, we don't know how or why or what cycle they decide at, apart from the fact that obviously they want to go and spawn, to leave our shores and head on this huge migration to the Sargasso Sea, which is the only sea not surrounded by any land but surrounded by currents, it's filled with a Sargasso seaweed which is the perfect place for them to spawn, we think, we don't know because we've never seen it happen. During the migration they become silver eels so their eyes become huge and wide to cope with the darkness of the Sargasso forests, their stomachs dissolve so that they live on their own fat reserves and they become silver so they cannot be seen so easily in the water. I love a bit of the eel migration it's one of my favourites, they're following an age old impulse and we really don't know anything about it. Of course humans also migrate in their own way, as I said we can migrate through trick or treating, this is a true Gaelic and Celtic tradition. When the Irish had their mass migration during the famine they went over of course to America and imported this tradition of trick or treating and the Americans bought it back in spades to this land. When I was growing up I was the only person I knew who held a Halloween party because one of my siblings was born on Halloween and everyone said oh my god how strange that's really odd you're trick or treating having a Halloween party are you American? We're like no no no but I loved it and I have continued having a Halloween party every single year. October is also the time if I can reach them for apples and Apple Day is officially on the 21st well more about that later. I did want to talk a little bit about the witchcraft associated with apples because they are a really ingrained part of traditional witchcraft in this country. Traditionally apples were used as a token of fidelity and love, this is quite a Victorian people say but actually it goes back to the ancient Greeks who used apples, think of Aphrodite's apple if anyone knows the story, look at apple wittapida because I don't have time to go into that here. Apples are also incredibly pagan, they were one of the most important staple crops of our ancestors and apple trees were pretty much considered sacred for example the medieval law of stealing one apple was a fine of two ounces of silver which is a huge amount I think I mean that sounds a huge amount I don't think I could come up with two ounces of silver surely that's a peasants lifetime income. The great wizard Merlin of Arthurian legend who I thoroughly believe existed by the way don't tell me otherwise in fact I think I have spoken to him in the world of spirit, very interesting person there I say. Merlin was the person who lived in a glass castle on the Isle of Avalon. His castle was surrounded by apple trees and Merlin's apples were said to be in fruit all year round. It is here that Nimway and Morgan Le Fay who is King Arthur's half sister came to the Isle of Avalon to study under the great wizard Merlin and in fact when King Arthur was mortally wounded in battle Morgan Le Fay brought him to the Isle of Avalon and to Merlin's castle he was put to sleep by Merlin underneath the apple trees where he sleeps still until he is required to sit back on the throne of the United Kingdom. Apples have been used in traditional folklore poisoning and love. Think of Snow White and her biting of the poisonous apple or Aphrodite's apple or Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Apples really are a dichotomy in themselves raw they're very good medicinally as a laxative and cooked they're very good at treating diarrhea so you know but one bit of the other. Traditional folk witchcraft has it that if you have any warts upon your body and being a witch you probably do you need to cut an apple in half and rub both halves of the apple over the wart. Take those halves out and bury them in the ground and as the apple rocks so will the wart. It is also important that if you have an apple tree in your garden you mustn't pick all of the apples you must leave one apple for the fairies if you don't they will be extremely upset and let's face it we don't want to upset the fair now do we? It is also a sign of utter disaster if you find you've got apple fruits on the tree as well as blooms or something terrible is going to happen. Applewood is also particularly well used as a wand. Folklore has it that applewood wands are very good for love spells and also immortality king Arthur was put to sleep by the great wizard Merlin using a wand of applewood so tradition states but I haven't actually ever used an applewood wand I might go and get one and make a video about it actually because it would be quite interesting wouldn't it and let's see if my warts fall and finally apples are great for spells in order to mend cracked relationships the spell is to get the couple to eat a half each of the same apple and this will bring them together so now I've given you the overview of the month of October which is all about Halloween and mainly apples and migration I think let's look at the nitty gritty detail daily witchcraft and rituals that you can use throughout the month of October and with that said we're going to start on the second of October the second of October is the costa monger day a costa monger was basically somebody who sold custards which were a variety of apple from barrels and then this developed into them selling barrel floats of everything you know it's a market stall person isn't it the costa mongers because they were itinerant workers um they sold everything you know they delved around and got all the leftovers from society and put them in their barrel and took them around they were persecuted they weren't allowed to sell in the smarter denizens of London and so they were pushed out to the east end and into the slums and as a result they elected each year a king and a queen and these are known as the pearly kings and the pearly queens they were people who literally stood up for the costa monger's rights and said well they should be allowed to sell their wares this is now a tradition in the uk and this tradition happens to fall on the second the reason why i'm including it here is because of their love of pearls they believed that using mother of pearl emulated the rich and therefore enabled them to gain access to the higher strata of society the fourth of october is known as punky night and this is a southern uk tradition this is the time when children would dress up and carve their turnips and gourds go around singing punky songs which essentially ask people for money it is obviously a full run into trick or treating or the derivation of the Gaelic and the Celtic traditions from Scotland and Ireland which migrated down south during this month the ninth of october is the night of the full moon and tonight's full moon is in Ares the full moon for october is known as the blood moon because it lit up the night sky so that you can continue the slaughter of your stock and salting of these beasts for winter hence why it's called blood moon full moons are a time for fulfillment of promises and the culmination of efforts done and tonight's moon because it's in Ares is a fulfillment of promises for facility for romance for together and partnerships so should you wish to fulfill your partnership once you would be blessed by tonight's full moon the 18th of october is st luc's day which is known traditionally as st luc's little summer this is a divination day the weather will be set fair from the 18th of october until the 25th of october and this is the time in this month when you should pick your fruits your apples your pears because their sack will be dormant at the moment and you have the calm weather to not hinder your progress 21st of october this is apple day and apple day is the celebration in the uk of all things apple the weekend around this day it will be our village's apple day where they hire a press and we go down and press all our apples and eat burgers and sausages and talk to our neighbors and have a great interesting fun afternoon and taste each other's apple juices because freshly pressed apple juice is delicious although too much of it does have a laxative effect so beware the 25th of october is the day of the new moon witches believe that new moons are good time to start developing your ideas for the coming month and to make new plans each moon is affected by the astrological sign that it is in and this month's moon is in scorpio scorpio is all about intensity and sexuality and so it's a really good idea to lay your plans for the coming month for personal empowerment and fulfillment as well as romance and integration with your significant other the 25th of october there is a partial solar eclipse which happens from 10 0 8 to 11 51 in this neck of the woods i don't know where it happens in your neck of the woods you'll be able to see a third of the sun obscured by the shadow of the moon but best to do it using a pinhole camera solar eclipses were always considered unlucky days and that is because the sun is darkened so although this is a new moon day and you should be looking at your deepest desires and the energy from the new moon maybe don't do that today it might be better for you to look at these new moon issues day after sometimes it's best to do nothing on certain days of course it's halloween on the 31st or so on whatever you prefer to call it i will of course go into a big halloween video for everybody out there about the rituals and practices that you can do on this particular day however i did want to say that halloween is a day for divination and especially love divination in years gone by when women couldn't have careers or jobs or lifestyle choices this subject of the person that they were going to marry was of utmost importance to them apple bobbing where you place apples in a bowl of water and try and take a bite from the apple is about divination the first girl to bite the apple when they were bobbing would be the first girl to marry her husband in the coming year if you then went to sleep with an apple underneath your pillow on the night of halloween you would dream of your future husband and of course the old halloween spell of brushing your hair and eating an apple whilst looking in a mirror lit only by candlelight at midnight you will see over your left shoulder the vision of your future love do love halloween can't wait to share my halloween video with you so do look out for that so my october coven meeting is coming up and this i think is all going to be about halloween we're going to do a halloween themed coven meeting do go to www.patreon.com forward slash ginny meatherill for more details there is something for everyone there you can also get one-to-one sessions with me quite exciting you will not be disappointed i promise if you have any particular traditions for halloween do let me know in the comments below i love reading your comments and i do try and reply to as many as possible if you can't manage to come and join our coven meeting please do like and subscribe because it really helps the channel enables me to continue making these videos otherwise i will see you in a few days