Blessed Samhain to all my Pagan readers. A day late is better then not at all.

Now that Halloween/Samhain is over, it is full steam ahead into the holiday season. The gift shop where I work (still!) has been slowing putting out Christmas items for the past couple of weeks. And, surprisingly, people have been asking about cards and various gift items since the end of September. This Sunday, when the store is closed, we will do out annual all day blitz to get most of the Christmas items out. The following day we will start to see the the mad Christmas holiday rush, where people buy anything and everything.

Instead of turning this into a rant about the commercialism of Christmas, I’d rather talk about what I plan to do during the month of November. For Wiccans and other Pagans, the time between Samhain and Yule is set aside for reflection and remembrance. It is a time to take stock of what has gone before and what is yet to come. This month quanta and I quite literally plan to take stock; we will be finally doing a home inventory. There are also a few personal projects I will tackle, including extracting myself from my job.