Day of the Dead Humboldt

10/23/2025

🕯️Ancestor veneration, also known as ancestor worship, refers to honoring the ones that came before us and venerating the spirits of our deceased forebears.🕯️

✨To believe in the concepts of our ancestors living on in the beyond, one must be able to dismantle the veils of perception and see into the unseen energies. ✨

🏵️The cosmic forces that often rule this universe are invisible to most of our eyes, yet this magic lives deep inside. Many know this feeling and it's passed on from generation to generation.🏵️

✨I speak to the ancestral magic and medicina that is stored in our bones and blood as ancient memories. Our ancestors live on…✨

🕯️Our ancestors are waiting for us to say their names and evoke them aloud.🕯️

✨They are our guardians, here to help guide us, and protect us, yet most people have forgotten that they live on en mictlan.✨

🏵️We may have lost sight of them and lost their touch, yet when we remember them and venerate them they walk on in another form of body.🏵️

✨Our sangre y huesos hold memories of our antepasados, our abuelos y abuelas, our bisabuelos y tatarabuelas… all those who came before us.✨

🕯️Our blood holds our power of generations of wisdom and lives lived. Our bones hold our memories and teachings of what once was and what still will come.🕯️

✨Thus if you feel the need to connect with one of your loved ones, light a candle this evening as you speak simple words of beckoning. Listen not only with your ears, but with all senses wide open, for once called on, they will surely come.✨

🏵️Day of the Dead Festival of Altars / Dia de Mu***os Festival de Altares🏵️

November 2nd 2025 Old Town Square, Eureka CA📍

4:00 - 8:00pm

🏵️Looking for volunteers to build family or themed ofrendas. Message us if interested.🏵️

10/21/2025

Vengan a celebrar con nosotres ! Nov 2 en Eureka 📍

10/21/2025

Today we would like to share a little about the symbology of the 2 months that originally celebrated Dia de Mu***os.

This is history you may have not heard before and represents the power of the flowers and fruit, which symbolize both life and death.

In the 365 day Mexica solar calendar, el xiuhpōhualli there are 2 months which measure 20 days each and they are Tlaxochimaco and Xocotl Huetzin.

Our Mexica people celebrated each August the month Tlaxochimaco – mes de flores or month of flowers with festivals & rituals dedicated to life.

At this time they went up the mountains to gather flowers. These offerings were then placed on statues of the deities or teteo.

During the month they sang & danced, all leading up to the grand festival of the offering of flowers, Miccaihuitontli.

The following month was known as Xocotl Huetzi & was around September ending just before the Autumn Equinox. Xocotl Huetzi is el mes de frutas or month of fruits.

At this time of year, the beautiful wild flowers that had blossomed in the previous month now begin to wither and begin the process of death.

The festival celebrated was Wey Mikailwitl. It's dedicated to the fruits that nature gives, which are the sweet death of a flower.

Thus these 2 months are symbolic for the transformation of the flowers into fruits or life into death.

It is the maturity of the fruits, the falling of fruits to the ground, when the sweet nectar of the flower ripens and dies.

Thus, Tlaxochimaco is the offering of flowers, dedicated to honoring the beauty of life. To flower or flowering, represents growth, to be full, abundant, estar en plentitud. Corazón florecido represents a happy, young, alive person, with a flowering heart.

And Xocotl Huetzi, which is the maturity of fruit and the relief of death that surely will come. The fruit represents what you do with your life, what are you going to leave behind?

Thus this 2 month celebration has always been a time dedicated to both life and death, the cycle we all run.
Día de mu***os is an ancient Mexica celebration that honors the abundance of all life and the ones that have gone before us.

🏵️Day of the Dead Festival of Altars / Dia de Mu***os Festival de Altares🏵️

November 2nd 2025 Old Town Square, Eureka CA📍
4:00 - 8:00pm

🏵️Looking for volunteers to build family or themed ofrendas. Message us if interested.🏵️

10/18/2025

10/17/2025

🏵️ In Mexico dia de mu***os is an annual celebration of death and life. 🏵️

Celebrating and commemorating those who came before us.

The generations are tightly woven together and within each cycle, our loved ones will become an ancestor.

🏵️This cycle of death and life is understood as a cosmic thread with no beginning or end. All life is sacred and is circular. 🏵️

Thus when death meets us, as it surely comes for us all, we greet death as a friend, knowing our spirit will live on as we transcend as an ancestor.

Ancestor veneration is at the heart of this annual celebration.

🏵️Our elders understood the importance of honoring our loved ones thru ritual payment and offerings of enticing copal smoke, sweet and savory dishes, water to quench our thirst, and rich smelling cempaxochitl flowers. 🏵️

In prayer, families gathered at cemeteries and left these offerings while communing with the dead.

Sharing stories of the past to the young children about how brave or wise their tatraabuela was.

🏵️Ofrendas of music were sung and played throughout each pueblo and many waited till sunrise before leaving their loved ones’ sides. 🏵️

For it is deeply embedded in the culture that our dead live on and the more we venerate them, the more they will show up at our sides.

Showing up not as physical manifestations, but as spiritual guidance, protectors, and warriors helping us battle thru the hard times.

🏵️Our ancestors spiritually live on as guardians and we can call on them and venerate them at any time.🏵️

This may be most known as only a 2 day celebration, yet in each pueblo in Mexico they hold different traditions.

Many honor their loved ones for different amounts of time, many starting on the 28th.

🏵️Tomorrow we will share the more ancient Mexica history and how this sacred tradition of honoring the dead was once a 2 month or 40 day long celebration.🏵️

🕯️🏵️🕯️Day of the Dead Festival of Altars / Dia de Mu***os Festival de Altares🏵️🕯️🏵️

November 2nd 2025 Old Town Square, Eureka CA📍

4:00 - 8:00pm

✨✨✨Looking for volunteers to build family or themed ofrendas.

Message us at If interested✨✨✨

10/11/2025

🏵️Day of the Dead Festival of Altars / Dia de Mu***os Festival de Altares🏵️ November 2nd 2025 Old Town Square, Eureka CA
Vegan! Celebración de cultura, con musica, danza, comida, y ritual. / Join us to celebrate culture & our ancestors with live music, dance, food, & ritual.
4:00 - 8:00pm
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10/30/2024

🌽Another elemento to our ofrendas on dia de mu***os is our offerings of comida. Pan de mu**to has now become a symbol of a traditional ofrenda, tho i wish to speak to it, as it is a colonized food.🌽

🍞 Wheat and sugar these days are highly processed and not part of our ancestral diet of Mexico.🍞

🌶️Some families perhaps have kept more original diets, and abstained from processed sugars and sweets, keeping to our ancestral foods of corn, beans, & chilies.🌶️

🫔Perhaps this is your favorite time of making tamales, the sweet smell of your abuelitas masa combined with her secret filling.🫔

🥑Each familia has their own traditional recipes, each familia grows up offering their ancestors their favorite foods and it varies across each region of Mexico & Latin America, as
👉🏽 THIS celebration isn't just Mexican.🥑

🌮Thus instead of speaking to the famous foods that belong on an ofrenda, we want to encourage you to think about your raices, your history, and your familias.🌮

What are some family favorite recipes???

✊🏾What are some Ancestral foods and original diets that your family still keep or that you are wanting to bring back?✊🏾

👉🏽Please share with us in the comments, what is your favorite food to offer?👈🏽

What was your grandparents favorite dish?

🍍Find these food offerings and include it on your ofrenda this year, take time to make your abuelitos favorite comida or your most recent muertitos beverage.🍍

🍓If you are pulled to make an ofrenda and do not share any Latinx heritage, know then its important to make a traditional food from YOUR culture as you appreciate and honor Dia de Mu***os and your ancestors.🍓

No one cultura gets to venerate their ancestors, it belongs to all people. Yet how you do it, with respect, sincerity, love is very important.

This isn't a cultural holiday of just dressing up & Bess dressed catrina contests, it is NOT Mexican Halloween, this time is a ritual act of devotion to the ones who came before us...

How do you celebrate & honor your ancestors?