Witch’s Almanac – 8th November 2025: The Quiet Between Fires
- Sorcha Lunaris
- Nov 7, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 27, 2025
“The fields sleep, the air still hums—the in-between is alive.”
Witch's Almanac 8th of November 2025
The 8th of November lies in that rare stillness between Samhain’s fading glow and winter’s full claim. The feasting fires have dimmed, the offerings have cooled, and the veil, though thinning still, begins to settle. Yet the air hums quietly — alive with memory, warmth, and breath.
This is known among witches of the Old Craft as The Day of the Hearth Breath — a time not of summoning, but of settling.
The ancestors have crossed back to their rest, and now the land draws its own deep inhale, steadying itself for the months of frost and silence ahead.
It is a pause of power — a whisper between worlds.
The Land’s Low Breath
In Irish folk belief, the days following Samhain were watched with care. It was said that the earth itself shifted its rhythm, preparing to sleep. If you rose early or lingered at dusk on the 8th of November, you might hear the land breathing — the wind moving low through roots and hollows, the pulse of winter stirring below the soil.
Witches of the hearth knew this sound well. They would stand quietly at their doorway, feeling the air thicken with calm, and murmur blessings to honour the stillness:
“Rest, oh land, and dream of spring.
We tend your fire through everything.”
It was a day for slow magic, for sweeping the hearth sunwise, lighting a single candle, and listening.
The Waning Gibbous Moon in Gemini
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