October invites us into depth - honoring our mental health, remembering Indigenous wisdom, entering the transformative waters of Scorpio season, and walking with our ancestors as the veil thins at Samhain. Each of these thresholds reminds us of the cycles we live within: tending body, mind, and spirit in harmony with the Earth.
Keep reading to discover October’s key ritual dates and how cacao can support you to connect with the powerful energies moving in collectively, interpersonally, and internally.
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🍂October Ritual Report🍂
- October 6th | Full Moon in Aries
- October 10th | World Mental Health Day
- October 14th | Indigenous Peoples Day
- October 23rd | Scorpio Season Begins
- October 31st | Samhain & Halloween
- Nov 1st | Dia de los Muertos
Oct 6 | Full Moon in Aries (Hunter’s Moon)
The Hunter’s Moon is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox - a time of illumination, harvest, and preparation for the darker months ahead. Aries energy encourages courage and bold release: what needs to be shed so your path is clear?
It’s a fiery lunation that illuminates both our drive and the baggage weighing us down, asking us to be intentional in what we carry forward into the winter months.
Ritual Idea: Light a fire or candle, write down what you’re ready to let go of, and offer it to the flame as a release. Pair with cacao to ground the clarity into your body.
Recommended Cacao: Vibrant Vitality combines cacao with a trio of maca varieties - red, black, and yellow - creating a broad-spectrum adaptogenic blend that nourishes the endocrine system and balances hormones. This synergy helps sustain energy, regulate mood, and restore grounded vitality during seasonal transitions.
October 10 | World Mental Health Day
This day honors the importance of mental health across all cultures and communities - recognizing both the progress made and the challenges still present. It honors not only our personal well-being, but also the collective efforts of healers, therapists, and caregivers worldwide.
Mental health is inseparable from physical and emotional health, and this day reminds us to pause, reflect, and acknowledge the journey - both our own and that of others. It’s a time to honor your resilience, the work you’ve done to get here, and the many professionals and caretakers supporting mental wellness across the globe.
Ritual Idea: Take five minutes with cacao in silence. Place one hand on your heart and one on your belly, and breathe deeply into both. Let the cup become a mirror of your inner state, inviting gentleness for wherever you are.
Recommended Cacao: Mystical Mushroom blends cacao with reishi, lion’s mane, and chaga - adaptogenic mushrooms revered for centuries for their stabilizing, nourishing properties. This formula is grounding for the nervous system, easing stress while sharpening focus. Especially powerful for balancing modern overstimulation, it offers a supportive foundation for honoring your inner and outer well-being.
October 14 | Indigenous Peoples Day
On this day, we honor Indigenous peoples across the world for their resilience, wisdom, and stewardship of the land. This includes the many lineages who have carried cacao for thousands of years, keeping its spirit alive through ceremony, farming, and reciprocity with the Earth.
It is also an invitation to acknowledge the Indigenous peoples whose land you now inhabit. Every place carries memory and lineage - honoring them enables us to root in connection with those who came before and those yet to come.
Ritual Idea: Look up the Indigenous territories where you live using native-land.ca. Offer a gesture of respect - a flower, a song, a prayer, or a drop of cacao to the Earth. This simple act creates a bridge of remembrance and reciprocity.
Recommended Cacao: Boundless Belize honors cacao’s ancestral roots with its earthy, grounding flavor and deep connection to Mesoamerican tradition. This cacao supports reflective and heart-centered rituals - an ideal companion for honoring Indigenous wisdom.
Go Deeper: Read our blog Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day to learn more about cacao’s lineages and how to carry this awareness forward in your life.
Oct 23 | Scorpio Season Begins
Scorpio season pulls us inward to explore the realms of transformation, depth, and renewal. It’s a season of shedding what no longer serves so we can step more fully into authenticity. Shadow, mystery, intimacy, and power all live here - reminding us that death is inseparable from rebirth.
Ritual Idea: Work with cacao in journaling or meditation to explore what wants to be transformed. Ask yourself: What layers am I ready to shed so I can meet my own depth with honesty and courage?
Recommended Cacao: Tantric Rose Blossom combines cacao with rose and damiana - plants long associated with the heart, love, and intimacy. This blend softens Scorpio’s intensity and helps integrate shadow work with compassion and tenderness.
Oct 31 | Samhain & Halloween
Samhain is an ancient Celtic festival marking the thinning of the veil between worlds, honoring ancestors, grief, and the cycles of death and rebirth. Our modern day celebration of Halloween originated from Samhain.
During Halloween, while we playfully dress up in spooky costumes, it’s a time when the “darker” aspects of the collective consciousness… ghosts, goblins, shadows, and the parts of ourselves we often keep hidden- are invited into the light. Rather than being excluded, they’re welcomed as part of the whole. This honoring creates space for release - teaching that balance is found not in denial, but in meeting both shadow and light with reverence.
November 1 | Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Día de los Muertos has roots in pre-Hispanic, Meso-American cultures in what is now Mexico. This holiday invites us to connect with our ancestors and celebrate their lives. When the veils are thin, this is a day to create shrines for our ancestors, share their favorite foods, tell their stories and offer gratitude for the paths they’ve walked before us. Like this, we get to integrate and normalize death as part of life.
Recommended Cacao: Oaxacan Spice has warming spices like cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, and cayenne to stimulate circulation and awaken the senses. This blend supports connection with ancestors and the unseen, making it a perfect ally for these threshold days.
Ritual Idea: Create a simple altar to honor your ancestors and loved ones who’ve passed. This could be indoors or outdoors - with cacao at the center, surrounded by candles, photos, flowers, autumn leaves, or meaningful objects. As you sip your cacao, speak their names aloud, offer gratitude for the paths they’ve paved, and invite their wisdom to walk with you.
October Invocation: Embers of Renewal
Autumn is the season of release and renewal - shedding what’s outgrown so we can tend the quiet flame that carries us through the darker months ahead.
This season reminds us
that it’s natural to grieve,
to feel the weight of what’s ending,
to shed what no longer serves.
Like leaves falling from the trees,
we release the burdens and stories
that keep us heavy and stuck.
In the letting go,
light seeps through the cracks.
We discover where our inner fire burns,
and how to tend it with care.
Autumn prepares us for winter’s hibernation
a time of deep reflection,
introspection,
and renewal.
This is the season of preparation,
of cultivating clarity and warmth
so that when the cold arrives,
we know how to keep the flame alive.
Grief and gratitude walk hand in hand.
Each loss clears space.
Each release reveals truth.
And so we arrive here:
with fire in our chest,
clarity in our hands,
and trust in the cycles that carry us forward.
May this season be your invitation
to burn bright from within,
to honor what falls away,
and to walk into the darkened months
with the courage of your own light.
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