Mabon / Autumn Equinox

 

Now that Autumn is here, and wanting to know how to celebrate the beginning of the changing season, and the coming of Samhain (Halloween)

This celebration is named after the God from Welsh folklore, Mabon. He is the Offspring of Light and the child of the Earth Mother Goddess, Modron. 

The festival partner is Ostara or the Spring Equinox. Night and day are again of equivalent length and in wonderful harmony - dull and light, manly and female, inward and external, in balance. Yet, we are again on the cusp of progress and from now the year presently starts to fade and from this second haziness starts to overcome the light. The pattern of the normal world is moving towards fulfillment, the Sun's power is disappearing and from this point forward the evenings develop longer and the days are more limited and cooler. The sap of trees gets once again to their foundations somewhere down in the earth, changing the green of summer to the fire of pre-winter, to the flaring reds, oranges, and golds. We are getting back to the dim from whence we came.

However, before we do that, we will party (once more)! This is the Subsequent Reap, the Organic product Collect and the Incomparable Blowout of Thanksgiving. The Goddess is brilliant as Collect Sovereign and the God at last passes on with His endowment of unadulterated love with the cutting of the last grain. He will return. As the grain reap is securely accumulated in from Lammas and arrives at consummation, we partake in the overflow of products of the soil as of now. The time has come to thank the winding down Sun for the abundance of reap presented to us. It once in a while appears to be that every Celebration requires the creation of festivity and the giving of much obliged, however, this truly is thus, each turn of the Wheel brings both internal and external gifts and experiences.

So Mabon is a festival and furthermore a period of rest after the work of reap. As far as life way it is the snapshot of harvesting what you have planted, time to take a gander at the expectations and desires of Imbolc and Ostara and consider how they have shown. The time has come to finish projects, to get out and give up that which is not generally needed or required as we plan for the drop, so the colder time of year can offer a period for reflection and harmony. What's more, the time has come to sow seeds of groundbreaking thoughts and expectations which will lie lethargic however sustained in obscurity, until the arrival of Spring. The Cornucopia, or Horn of Bounty, is a conventional image for Mabon. It is a brilliant image for the abundance of gather and is a flawlessly adjusted image which is both male (phallic) and female (empty and responsive)
The apple is the image of the Natural product Collect.

The apple figures fundamentally in numerous consecrated practices. It is an image forever and interminability, for recuperating, recharging, recovery and completeness. It is related to excellence, long life, and reestablished youth. The Ogham name for apple is Quert and Quert is the embodiment of wellbeing and imperativeness. The apple is at the core of the Ogham woods and is the wellspring of life. For Agnostics, the apple contains 'confidential'. Cut an apple width way and it uncovers a pentagram containing seeds. It is a much-cherished image of Agnosticism. The five focuses to address the components of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water with Soul at the top, and in this manner the bearings of East, South, West, North, and Inside.

A circle around the pentagram addresses the timeless circle/pattern of life and nature, and of completeness. In custom and service, the pentacle relates to the component of Earth. It is accepted to be an insurance against evil for both the individual and the home, worn as a talisman or used to watch passageways to the home through windows and entryways.

From green to red, orange, yellow, brown, and gold. Your raised area ought to be wearing the absolute best products you can find from fields, woodland, and market, from gardens and nature. Apples, pears, damsons, sloes, rose hips, elderberries, blackberries, hawthorn berries, the conceivable outcomes are huge. Assuming you gather from the wild, be not voracious - consistently leave a lot of leafy foods preposterous and small animals.
Make an open-air place of worship for the nature spirits in gratitude for the abundance they help to give. Leave one of each blossom, products of the soil that you have, as a gift.

Above all, have fun, celebrate Life & learn