You can still have a lot of fun with this holiday with non-Pagans. Get a bunch of people together and dress up for a showing of Rocky Horror. If your campus is holding a daytime Trick-or-Treating event for local children, see what you can do to volunteer and join in (even if it just means handing out candy). If you're out of the broomcloset, and don't mind speaking about your beliefs, talk to members of your school newspaper about a factual article about Samhain.

You can also make this a very introspective holiday. Samhain, meaning "summer's end," indicates another change in the cycle of the year. The Goddess gives up Her dominion over the earth to the God of the Hunt. In other words, it is no longer a time to cultivate food, but a time for hunting and gathering. We don't do so much of this anymore on our own, but a trip to the grocery store will reveal which foods are no longer plentiful. Enjoy the third harvest by holding a special meal of the foods of your area that are prominent at this time.

Hold a ritual for yourself to focus on the themes of Life, Death, and Rebirth. In another myth, the God dies at Samhain, spends some time (approximately 6 weeks) in the Underworld, and will be reborn at Yule. This is also when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is said to be its thinnest. This is a good time to practice scrying as the energies are especially good for that kind of work. You may wish to learn a new form of divination...if you are already good at Tarot, consider using this time to learn about the Runes, mirror scrying, or something else that interests you.

Above all, enjoy this holiday! Clip articles from the newspaper that have anything to do with Paganism and put them in a scrapbook...it can be a lot of fun over the years to see how attitudes change at this time of the year. Just make sure that if you eat a lot of candy, you have a good toothbrush! Have fun!