Mabon, (pronounced MAY-bun, MAY-bone, MAH-boon, or MAH-bawn) is the Autumn Equinox. The Autumn Equinox divides the day and night equally, and we all take a moment to pay our respects to the impending dark. We also give thanks to the waning sunlight, as we store our harvest of this year's crops. The Druids call this celebration, Mea'n Fo'mhair, and honor the The Green Man, the God of the Forest, by offering libations to trees. Offerings of ciders, wines, herbs and fertilizer are appropriate at this time. Wiccans celebrate the aging Goddess as she passes from Mother to Crone, and her consort the God as he prepares for death and re-birth.

Various other names for this Lesser Wiccan Sabbat are The Second Harvest Festival, Wine Harvest, Feast of Avalon, Equinozio di Autunno (Strega), Alben Elfed (Caledonii), or Cornucopia. The Teutonic name, Winter Finding, spans a period of time from the Sabbat to Oct. 15th, Winter's Night, which is the Norse New Year.

At this festival it is appropriate to wear all of your finery and dine and celebrate in a lavish setting. It is the drawing to and of family as we prepare for the winding down of the year at Samhain. It is a time to finish old business as we ready for a period of rest, relaxation, and reflection.

Correspondence of Mabon

Symbols of Mabon-grapes,apples,vines,gourds,wine,juice
turning leaves,acorns,feasting,corn,sunflower

Herbs- Acorn, benzoin, ferns, grains, honeysuckle, marigold, milkweed, myrrh, passionflower, rose, sage, solomon's seal, tobacco, thistle, and vegetables.

Stones of Mabon- Sapphire, lapis lazuli, and yellow agates.

Incense of Mabon- Autumn Blend-benzoin, myrrh, and sage.

Foods-corn, nut breads, corn bread, apple pie and apple desserts, nuts, late blooming vegatebles

Colors - oranges, deep reds, yellows, fruit colors, browns

Goddesses - Modron, Morgan, Epona, Persephone, Cerrwdwyn, Demeter

Gods-Mabon, Thor, Hermes, The Green Man, Cernunnos

Activities- Make an altar. To dress up a Mabon altar you could get some fruit and fall print fabric for a cloth and place either real or fake grapes, apples and nuts of the altar. Have wine or grape juice in the ritual chalice and nut bread for the ritual feast. Have dark red or dark orange candles lit as well. It would also be neat to hold your Mabon ritual near graoes rows or in an apple orchard.

If this is your first Mabon, go outside and experience nature. Notice the subtle signs that fall is on its way, smell the scents of apples, dried leaves and grapes in the air, collect acorns and other nuts and berries. If you have a garden then this is the time to harvest. Give thanks to the Goddess for providing us live and nurishment and look inwards and feel the gentle, soothing effects of the season.


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