* Perform rituals to honor the dead (especially those who have passed in the last year), send messages to your beloved dead, and perhaps even invite them to visit for a time.

* Acknowledge human existence as part of a cycle of life, death, and rebirth, reflecting on your mortality and confronting your fears of dying.

* Prepare for the long, dark months of winter by honoring this as a time of introspection and drawing inward.

* Give thanks for what you have and project for abundance through the winter.

* Bid goodbye to the summer with one last celebratory rite, with harvest feasts of vegetables and fruits you have grown and home-brewed cider or mead.

* Practice divination (e.g., scrying, tarot, runes).

* Celebrate with a costume party, dressing in a costume meaningful to you and enjoying treats and good times with friends.

* Meditate on death and the afterlife.

* Burn symbols of something you wish to give up.

* Explore your past lives.

* Give children candy to sweeten the future.

* Perform services for elders to make peace with the past.

* Light bonfires for protection, purification, offerings, and celebration.