10/08/2026
The Thinning Veil: Who Are We Making Room For? 🍂🕯️
You’ve probably heard someone say, “The veil is thinning.”
In spiritual language, the veil represents the boundary between our everyday world and the unseen. Around Halloween and Samhain, it becomes an image of a threshold—a meeting place between seasons, between the familiar and the mysterious, between those here and those remembered.
In Irish tradition, Samhain marked the beginning of winter. Folklore associated this turning point with spirits and departed loved ones returning to the family home.
And here’s a detail that stayed with me: some households left food or a cup of tea for those unseen visitors.
A cup of tea. A place made ready. Such ordinary gestures carrying something enormous: you are still remembered.
These are recorded traditions and beliefs. Whether you understand the veil spiritually or symbolically, there is room to explore their meaning without needing everyone to share the same explanation.
For me, this season invites a quieter kind of attention. To the stories we inherited. To the people whose love still shapes us. To what we want to carry forward—and what we’re ready to release. 🤍
You might remember someone through their favourite meal, a photograph, a prayer, or a story told to your children. You get to choose what feels meaningful.
Whose story would you like to keep alive—and what would you want the next generation to know about them?
Next, we’ll follow the thread into All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints, and All Souls, exploring how Catholic remembrance fits into October’s wider story.
If this season has you wanting time to pause and reconnect with yourself, explore sessions at Ki’smet Co:
https://www.kismet-co.ca/
Or find upcoming opportunities to gather:
https://www.kismet-co.ca/events
And to explore the other practitioners at Ki’smet Co, check them out here:
https://www.kismet-co.ca/practitioners
— Kiernan @ Ki’smet Co
