Samhain and Shadow Work: Unveiling Your Inner Mysteries

As the wheel of the year turns to Samhain, we enter a time of reflection and transformation as the harvest season ends and we enter the beginning of winter's dark half. It is a powerful time for shadow work—a practice that invites us to explore and heal the hidden aspects of ourselves. The concept of shadow work finds its roots in the psychological theories of Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Jung introduced the idea of the "shadow" as a part of the unconscious mind that contains our repressed weaknesses, desires, and instincts. According to Jung, acknowledging and...