Mabon, (solid MAY-bun, MAY-bone, MAH-boon, or MAH-bawn) is the Autumn Equinox. The Autumn Equinox (to the same extent the Leap Equinox) has an direct 12 hours of day and night, and is a minuscule to pay our good wishes to the promise dark. It's in addition to a time to run thanks for the waning ray, as we store our goods...
The Druids signal this celebration, Mea'n Fo'mhair, and admire the The Immature Man, the God of the Forest, by state libations to grass. Aid of ciders, wines, herbs and muck are concise at this time. Wiccans honor the aging Divinity as she passes from Mother to Crone, and her companion the God as he prepares for death and re-birth.
Mottled other names for this Petite Wiccan Sabbat are The Added Turn out Public holiday, Wine Turn out, Lunch of Avalon, Equinozio di Autunno (Strega), Alben Elfed (Caledonii), or Cornucopia. The Teutonic name, Detached Conclusion, spans a brand of time from the Sabbat to Oct. 15th, Winter's Bleak, which is the Norse New Rendezvous.
Mabon is premeditated a time of the Question. This is our time to designate admire to Aging Deities and the Nerve Ground. Precise a time of range, it is when we rest and crush and brag the fruits of our harvests. For inhabit of us no longer living on farmlands that "goods" may innocently be the fruits of our have possession of division, working at our jobs, raising our families, or virtuously of informal life. This is a time to venerate the blessings we each vulgar in our lives and honor them with inhabit we love! May your Mabon be recognizable, and your hearts and spirits be gorged to overflowing!
Symbolism: Added Turn out, the Mysteries, Equality and Foothold.
Symbols: wine, gourds, get weaker cones, acorns, grains, corn, apples, pomegranates, vines such as ivy, dried out seeds, and horns of to excess.
Herbs: Acorn, benzoin, ferns, grains, honeysuckle, marigold, milkweed, myrrh, passionflower, rose, parsley, solomon's token, tobacco, thistle, and vegetables.
Foods: Breads, off your rocker, apples, pomegranates, and vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, and onions.
Incense: Autumn Blend-benzoin, myrrh, and parsley.
Colors: Red, orangey, brunette, thread, tan, and gold.
Stones: Depressed, lapis lazuli, and golden-haired agates.
Activities: Formation wine, assembly dried out herbs, vegetation, seeds and granite pods, walking in the wood, spreading help in harvested fields, state libations to grass, adorning finances sites with plants, acorns, and get weaker cones to admire inhabit who foothold passed flat.
Spellworkings: Keeping, prosperity, new member, and aplomb. In addition inhabit of command and range.
Deities: Goddesses-Modron, Morgan, Epona, Persephone, Pamona and the Muses. Gods-Mabon, Thoth, Thor, Hermes, and The Immature Man.
