Between Worlds: Working with Scorpio Season + Samhain

Everyone talks about Samhain — the thinning veil, the ancestors, the dark half of the year — but no one mentions that it always lands in Scorpio season. These two aren’t separate energies; they’re intertwined. Scorpio brings the inner work and emotional depth, Samhain brings the ancestral and seasonal shift. Together, they form one long spell of release, repair, and regeneration.

It’s not about manifesting or writing your intentions 50 times. It’s about getting your hands in the dirt, working with what’s decaying, and turning it into something alive again.

Scorpio Season: Emotional Alchemy

Scorpio season isn’t cozy — it’s clarifying. It digs around in the shadows to see what’s rotting and what still has roots. This is the season of compost magic, shadow tending, and facing the uncomfortable stuff you’ve been avoiding.

If autumn asks us to let go, Scorpio demands that we understand why.

Try this:

Smoke Jar: Layer ashes from spent incense or candles, crushed eggshell, black pepper, and salt. Label it “for endings.” Shake it gently when you’re ready to let something die without guilt.

Cord Coil: Instead of cutting cords, coil a string or wire around something that symbolizes what you want to contain or transform — not destroy. Scorpio teaches direction, not just release.

Mirror Bowl Divination: Fill a dark bowl with water and hold a small candle above it. Don’t ask questions — just watch what forms in reflection. Scorpio prefers truth to comfort.

Samhain: The Sacred Rot

Samhain marks the exhale of the year — everything that’s done returns to the soil. Honoring your ancestors doesn’t have to mean an elaborate altar or ghostly ritual. Sometimes it’s about working with decomposition, memory, and preservation in small, tactile ways.

Try this:

Ancestral Salt: Mix salt with herbs your family loved or that grow locally. Keep it in a small jar and use it on food as an offering to both you and them.

Candle Bone: Take a taper candle, drip black or red wax down the sides, and carve names or symbols into it. It’s less about summoning spirits and more about remembering what endures.

Bone Throwing for the Modern Witch: Make a simple divination set with natural or household items — a button, nail, dried bean, pebble, key. Cast them on a dark cloth and read their placement: left for the past, right for what’s forming.

When Scorpio and Samhain Merge

When Scorpio season and Samhain overlap, you get something potent. Scorpio shows you how to let go. Samhain shows you why.

This is a time to make magic that decays on purpose — spells that aren’t meant to last but change form as they go.

Try this:

Rotting Spell Jar: Combine fallen leaves, candle wax drips, coffee grounds, and a note of what you’re done with. Don’t seal it. Let it sit until it starts to change. When it’s good and gross, bury it.

Ancestor Smoke: Add rosemary, bay, mugwort, and clove to a fireproof dish. Burn it slowly and waft the smoke toward photos or heirlooms. Whisper thank-yous. Then open a window. It’s not about summoning — it’s circulation.

The Scorpio Stitch: Sew, knot, or wrap black thread around a stone, twig, or bundle of herbs. Each loop is something you’re reclaiming — your voice, your body, your focus, your power. It’s not about cutting cords; it’s about weaving boundaries.

Closing Thoughts

This stretch of the year isn’t just spooky season — it’s the annual audit. What have you grown? What’s overgrown? What are you finally ready to compost?

Let Scorpio teach you to face it.
Let Samhain teach you to honor it.
And then, like the earth, let yourself rot a little — just enough to feed what comes next.