Mabon

Other Names: Autumn Equinox, Harvest Home, Pagan Thanksgiving

Date: September 21 (there about)

Celebration of: The God now sleeps within the womb of the Goddess

Colors: Dark Brown and Red

Symbols: Harvest Foods

Notes: Second harvest festival. Celebration of thanks for the crops that were harvested. Dark overtakes the light.

 

MABON, (say May-Bahn) the Autumn Equinox is the second of three harvests and a time of delicate balance between light and dark. Now is the time for gathering nuts, berries, and fruits of the vine. It heralds the need for valuing, storing, conserving. It is a

time to recognize our blessings and to honor and thank the Goddess and the God. Mabon is the traditional time for celebrations of thanksgiving and harvest festivals. The Goddess is the Harvest Queen but the God’s presence is shadowy; he is deep within the Underworld. He is heard in each sigh of the wind and glimpsed in the shades of early dusk. He leads us to the hidden, inward places of our souls and invites us to explore. It is time to make room for contemplation on the quest for balance. Significant symbols include nuts, berries, and grapes, the making of God’s Eye talisman, apples/apple disks cut to reveal the pentacle; the making of hazelnut divination pendulums.