A Delightfully Grim Celebration!

So I'm a day late (but never a dollar short) on the reporting of a fantastically grim holiday that just passed: Day of the Dead or 
Dias Los Muertes.

This Mexican holiday is celebrated every year to honor, mourn and pray for those that have passed into the spirit realm. Offerings are put out in remembrance of our deceased loved ones and prayers are recited to help them along with their spiritual journey.


It is around this time that the veil between the spirit world and this one is the thinnest so souls that have passed are able to roam the earth again. They can relive, celebrate and mourn their own journeys that have come to an end in this dimension. These spirits can visit loved ones and family and accept the love, prayers and support that us in the physical realm offer on this day.

Its important to remember that life never stops! Our souls continue on a journey of evolution even when our bodies physically die. On this day we show support to the spirits who may it need to to solider on!




Another cool fact about Day of the Dead is its origins. It goes back hundreds of years and originated as a festival to honor the great Goddess Mictecacihuatl (don't even ask me how to pronounce this name...just don't). She is the pre-hispanic Mexica goddess of the dead. She is said to be the protector of the souls residing in the dark underworld. Needless to say she is a Dark Goddess! You know we are ALL ABOUT the dark goddesses over here!

Statue of the Dark Goddess Mictecacihuatl

She was not feared but loved dearly by those who worshipped her. Her holiday originally fell at the end of July and throughout mid August to honor not only the dead but children (This is Leo season and Leo rules over children. Its an easy assumption to make that our Mexican Ancestors were star gazers!). After spanish conquest it was moved to the end of October to make it coincide with All Saints Day, a Catholic Holiday. The half assed attempts to convert the Dark Goddess to a Christian figure failed and to this day we still celebrate her and all of her dark glory!

The idea of death is frightening to some. We may look at it as a time where everything ceases to be and there is no more. The dark Goddesses Mictecacihuatl, Kali, Oya, Medusa ect are all here to show us that life is cyclical and eternal. On a symbolic level certain parts of yourself must die in order for you to be reborn new and better than ever. On a physical level it is inevitable that we all come face to face with death. But even this event leads us to transformation.

I think the idea of this holiday is to welcome death. Not fear it. Understand it and grow from it.

Morana. Slavic Goddess of Death.

Asase Yaa. West African Death Goddess.

And of course Kali. Hindu Death Goddess.

Feliz Dia Los Muertes Sistars y guardas la cabeza en las estrellas!