| Mabon
September 21 Second Harvest Festival Pagan day of Thanksgiving: Preparing for winter and Samhain Other Names:
Harvest Home(Anglo-Celtic), Feast of Avalon, Wine Harvest, Festival of Dionysus, Cornucopia, Equinozio di Autunno (Strega), Chung Ch’iu (China), Night of the Hunter, Alban Elfed "The Light of the Water", Winter Finding (Teutonic, from Equinox ‘til Winter Night or Nordic New Year, Oct 15th.) Customs:
Make offerings to land, preparing for cold weather by bringing in harvest, cutting willow wands (Druidic), leaving apples upon burial cairns & graves as a token of honor, walks in forests, gather seed pods & dried plants, fermenting grapes to make wine,picking ripe produce, stalk bundling. Rituals/Magicks:
prosperity rituals, introspection, past life recall Goddesses:
Modron(Welsj), Bona Dea, Harvest Deities, Persephone, Demeter/Ceres, Morgan (Welsh-Cornish), Snake Woman (aboriginal), Epona (Celtic-Gaulish), Pamona(Roman), the Muses (Greek). Gods:
Mabon ap Modron (Welsh), Sky Father, John Barleycorn, the Wicker-Man, the Corn Man, Thoth (Egyptian), Hermes, Hotei (Japanese), Thor, Dionysus(Roman), Bacchus(Greek) Element:
Water Time:
Evening Foods:
cornbread, wheat products, bread, grains, berries, nuts, grapes, acorns, seeds, dried fruits, corn, beans, squash, roots (ie onions, carrots, potatoes, etc), hops, apples, pomegranates, carrots, onions, potatoes, roast goose or mutton, wine, ale and ciders.
| Symbols:
all harvest symbols, corn, autumn flowers, red poppies,nuts, grains, leaves, acorns, pine and cypress cones, oak sprigs, wreaths, vine, grapes, gourd, cornucopia,horns of plenty, burial cairns, apples, marigolds, harvested crops.
Animals:
Dogs, Wolves, Stag, Blackbird, Owl, Eagle, Gnomes, Sphinx, Minotaur, Cyclops, Andamans and Gulons. Gemstones:
yellow agate, carnelian, yellow topaz, sapphire, lapis lazuli and amethyst Incense/Oil:
pine, sweetgrass, apple blossom, benzoin, myrrh, frankincense, jasmine, sage wood aloes, black pepper, patchouly, cinnamon, clove, oak moss. Colors/Candles:
brown, green, orange, red, deep gold, scarlet, yellow, russet, maroon, all autumn colors, purple, blue violet and indigo Herbs:
myrrh, thistle, tobacco, oak leaf, hazel, mums, hops, acorns, marigold, rose, sage, milkweed, solomon's seal, aster, fern, honeysuckle, benzoin, myrrh, passionflower, pine & cedar, ivy, hazel, hops, cedar Mabon Incense Recipe: - 2 parts Frankincense
- 1 part Sandalwood
- 1 part Cypress
- 1 part Juniper
- 1 part Pine
- 2 part Oakmoss
- 1 pinch pulverized Oak Leaf
Mabon Oil Recipe: 4 drops each Rosemary and Frankincense oil, 2 drops apple oil, 1 drop chamomile oil. (Use almond oil as a base here) Mabon Rituals | |
