• pronunciation ▸ SAH-win
  • translation ▸ “summer's end”
• date ▸
  • traditional timing ▸ final cross-quarter
    • south 1st may
    • north 31 october (15° scorpio)
• alternate name(s) ▸ last harvest, third harvest
• origin ▸ celtic (gaelic)
• significance ▸ end of the harvest season, beginning of winter
• celebrations ▸ bonfires, guising or mumming, divination, saining¹, veneration of the dead, feasting
• correlated celebrations ▸ allantide, calan gaeaf (welsh), dia de los muertos, halloween
• keywords ▸ ancestors, death, rebirth

¹ a Scots word for blessing, protecting, or consecrating. sain is cognate with the Irish and Scottish Gaelic seun and sian and the Old Irish sén - "a protective charm."

C O R R E S P O N D E N C E S

• gender ▸ masculine
• element ▸ water
• colours ▸ orange, black
• flora ▸ acorn, allspice, apple, calendula, catnip, chrysanthemum, cinnamon, cloves, cypress, hazel, heather, mandrake, nettle, nightshade, nutmeg, oak, pine, rue, sage, straw, yarrow
• fauna ▸
• foods ▸ almonds, apples, bacon, corn, gourds, maize, pears, pomegranates, pumpkin, soul cakes, turnip; mulled cider & wine
• gemstones ▸ bloodstone, carnelian, jasper, jet, obsidian, onyx, smoky quartz
• incense ▸ apple, benzoin, copal, mint, mugwort, myrrh, nutmeg, patchouli, sage, sandalwood
• deities ▸
  • ♀ Ceres, Cerridwen, Demeter, Hecate, Lilith, Persephone, Psyche, Rhiannon
  • ♂ Anubis, Cernunnos, Dionysus, Hades, Hermes, Odin, Osiris
• craft ▸ ancestral offerings, astral projection, bobbing for apples, divination, dumb supper, meditation, séance