Regardless of what you call this day, we offer our greetings...
We love Halloween/Samhain for all the obvious reasons that Pagans and non Pagans celebrate. We also love it because it brings the best out of us.
Fewer people worry about being lonely, abandoned, heartbroken, or alienated on Halloween.
There isn't as much emotional tension surrounding Halloween that surrounds other holidays.
On Halloween you don’t have to wear the emotional mask one many people put on for other holidays.
Along with the traditions of Halloween, Samhain is the night when the old God dies, and is mourned by the Crone Goddess for the next six weeks until he is reborn at Yule.
The popular image of her as the old Halloween hag menacingly stirring her cauldron comes from the Celtic belief that all dead souls return to her cauldron of life, death, and rebirth to await reincarnation.