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Enchanting Ways to Celebrate the Spirit of Halloween

The spirit of Halloween has a tradition for everyone to enjoy including spending some quality time with family and friends, while keeping it budget friendly this year. The economy is hitting everyone hard these days and it might not be the year to throw your most extravagant over the top Halloween party.

No worries, there are as many ways to celebrate Halloween as there are days in the year.

In the spirit of the season, I offer ten tradition-filled ways to celebrate and embrace the magic of the season including:

1.    Find love with a magic apple.
If you’re single, select a juicy red apple and peel the skin in one long piece. Hold the peel of the apple in your hand and say aloud, ‘As I fling this apple peel, my true love’s name will be revealed’. Fling the apple peel over your head and turn around to look at the shape that the peel forms on the ground. It is said that the apple peel will form into the first initial of your true love’s name.

2.    Dancing under the moonlight.
It’s a Crescent Moon Halloween, but Lady Luna will still be working her magic. Let your hair down, put on some music and dance in the moonlight.  Need I say more? Let your inner wild child come out and play!

3.    Celebrate the ‘Day of the Dead’ – Mexico style.
Honor friends and family who have passed on to the other side. Host a special dinner and set a place for departed loved ones at the table. Light a candle at their seated place of honor and include framed photos of them at the table. During dinner, share stories about all of the wonderful memories of your deceased loved ones.

4. Have a ‘Come As You Were’ costume party.
Take a step back in time and explore who you were in your past lives. Invite guests to come to your party dressed in a costume representing who they were in a past life. The conversations will be endless as each person shares who they were in a past life and how they lived.

5. Volunteer to help others enjoy the holiday.
Nursing homes appreciate volunteers to help out with holiday festivities, as do hospitals and charities with fund raising events. Spend Halloween spreading the spirit of the season with others and make a difference in your community.

6. Have a seed planting celebration.
Many cultures celebrate Halloween as the end of the year and November 1st as the New Year. Invite friends to celebrate on Halloween by making resolutions for the new year. Hand out packages of seeds to each of your guests and invite them to plant new seeds of thought this Fall which will manifest and bloom with new dreams in the Spring. Don’t forget to plant your carved pumpkins in the ground with your seeds, they make great compost.

7. Dim the lights and scare yourself silly by reading some good books including:

• The World’s Creepiest Places by Dr. Bob Curran
• Ghosthunting North Carolina by Kala Ambrose
• Weiser Field Guide to Witches by Judika Illes
• Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters and Beasts from the Dark Side by Brad Steiger
• The Real Men in Black by Nick Redfern

8. Enlighten others on the history of Halloween and help end harmful and baseless superstitions.
Help debunk a superstition that is based on fear, like the one that says black cats are bad luck. In Ancient Egypt, black cats were revered in honor of the goddess Bast. Many cultures find black cats to be the luckiest color of all. Read WikiAnswers for more information on how black cats have been revered throughout the ages by many cultures. Share how Halloween is celebrated in various customs around the world. This website has some beautiful photos showcasing how the holiday is celebrated in different countries.

9. Have a horror movie trivia competition and film festival.
Rent several classic horror movies and invite friends over to engage in a movie trivia competition followed up by watching the films. Read my article on Best Paranormal Movies of All Time to find a great selection to rent.

10. Listen to supernatural interviews on the Explore Your Spirit show with Mary Ann Winkowski the Ghost Whisperer (on whom the tv show Ghost Whisperer is based on) along with Werewolves with Dr. Bob Curran, Vampires with Brad Steiger and in October, watch Explore Your Spirit TV with psychic Gary Spivey.

Most all, enjoy yourself and the spirit of Halloween! Happy Haunting!

Enjoyed this article? Kala welcomes your comments and reads them all. For more articles by Kala Ambrose, visit her main page at National Haunted History Examiner.

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Are you planning to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part One?

How about making an event of it, by hosting a Potter Party Dinner and a Movie?

Intrigued? Read my article on Yahoo! Movies with tips on how to throw a Hogwarts Themed Party! http://movies.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-contributor-network/how-throw-harry-potter-hogwartsthemed-dinner-and-movie-party

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More about Kala Ambrose: Kala Ambrose is an award winning author, intuitive and talk show host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show. Her thought-provoking interviews entice listeners to tune in around the globe! Described by her guests and listeners as discerning, empowering and inspiring, she speaks with world renowned authors, artists, teachers and researchers delving into metaphysical, holistic and paranormal topics. Kala’s book, 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled delves into the mysteries of ancient Egyptian mystery schools and explains their wisdom teachings. Kala Ambrose is a highly interactive teacher on a mission to educate, entertain and inspire. She lectures on the Ancient Wisdom Teachings of Egypt and the Mystery Schools, Working with Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields, and Wise Woman Wisdom.

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This summer on the Examiner I shared the Best Metaphysical Movies to watch and discuss with friends. This fall as Halloween draws near, there’s no better time than the present to list the best Paranormal Movies that are entertaining, informing and at times, downright frightening. This particular list focuses more on (reportedly fictional) paranormal style movies, rather than horror. Horror movies are certainly based on paranormal circumstances, but for the sake of this list, I’m choosing to focus on paranormal monsters and events.

Don’t be shy, share your favorites paranormal movies with me and together we’ll grow the list to share with others. If you’re wondering what next “Best” list I have on order- coming this winter, I’ll deliver the Best of Sci Fi.

As promised in the Best Metaphysical Movies list,

I present

“Paranormal Movies, Chills, Thrills and Mysteries Galore”

In no particular order, my list of Best Paranormal Movies are:

• GhostBusters 1 & 2
• Dracula
• Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
• Wolf
• The Wolfman
• The Mummy
• The Howling
• Carrie
• An American Werewolf in London
• Young Frakenstein
• The Sixth Sense
• Interview with a Vampire
• Poltergeist
• The Entity
• The Exorcist
• Salems Lot
• Signs
• Witches of Eastwick
• Hocus Pocus
• Practical Magic
• Rosemary’s Baby
• The Shining
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

I always love to throw in a few tv shows too…

• True Blood
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Charmed

More about Kala Ambrose:
Kala is an award winning author, intuitive and talk show host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show. Her thought-provoking interviews entice listeners to tune in around the globe! Described by her guests and listeners as discerning, empowering and inspiring, she speaks with world renowned authors, artists, teachers and researchers delving into metaphysical, holistic and paranormal topics. Kala’s  book, 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled delves into the mysteries of ancient Egyptian mystery schools and explains their wisdom teachings. Kala lectures on Esoteric Teachings,  Developing Business Intuition, Working with Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields, and Wise Woman Wisdom. Kala’s Guided Meditations CD’s have just been released with Spirit of Hawaii and Egyptian Mystery Temple and Tibetan Mountain Journey.  More info: www.ExploreYourSpirit.com

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Over the years, I’ve compiled a list of movies that inspire and entertain and are sure to stimulate great discussion, whether you gather with a group of like-minded people to watch and discuss or cuddle up with a significant other to share two hours of inspired and thought-provoking moments.  With Summer around the corner, it’s a good time to stock up on movies and host a movie night once a week with friends and discuss universal mysteries under a star filled sky….

Next time, I’ll bring my top list of Paranormal Movies, Chills, Thrills and Mysteries Galore!  Without further ado, here’s my Best Metaphysical Movies List….

Kala’s Recommended Best Metaphysical Movies List

(In no particular order…)  Defending Your Life, What Dreams May Come, Powder, The Matrix Series, GroundHog Day, Ghost The Sixth Sense, Heart and Souls, Patch Adams, Field of Dreams, What the Bleep Do We Know, The Fifth Element, Star Wars Triology, Pay It Forward, The Bucket List, Dogma, GhostBusters 1 & 2, I Heart Huckabees, Peaceful Warrior, Heaven Can Wait, The Butcher’s Wife, All of Me, City of Angels, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Harry Potter Series, The Golden Compass, The Last Mimzy, Meet Joe Black, Michael, A MidSummer Night’s Dream, Phenomenon, Practical Magic, Somewhere in Time, StarDust, DaVinci Code, The 10th Kingdom, Chocolat and a personal favorite, cause there aint’ nothing more spiritual than the blues… watch Blues Brothers 1 & 2.. For more serious discussion, consider The Power Of Myth with Joseph Campbell. I also can’t resist adding some favorite TV shows, including: Babylon 5 – The Series, *   Charmed – The Series * and Buffy The Vampire Slayer – The Series

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