Mabon, Fall Equinox.

At our house we are gearing up for the upcoming celebration of Mabon or the Fall Equinox for the rest of the world.  Traditionally the Fall Equinox is celebrated on or Around September 21st. The equinoxes are focused on balance between physical light and darkness as well as spiritual light and darkness.  In my post on coven cosmology, we view Mabon as the 2nd Harvest or the height of the fall season, not the true start of  fall as in the meteorological system.

In
Wiccan tradition and goddess spirituality, Mabon is the time of year we celebrate the Goddess becoming the Crone and the God becoming the wise Sage. 

This is the time of year kids return to school or adults to college classes. Football season is firmly started, the farmers market in my area are brimming with zucchini, pumpkin, and other goodies. The coffee houses start carrying their pumpkin pie spiced lattes and we in the northern tundra have a few more weeks before the snow starts to fly.  I do like this time of year the best mainly because of the groups of Canadian geese  that appear in the area, the start of the football season (go Gophers and Vikings) and that I can turn off my air conditioner briefly before I have to turn on my heater. 

So how does our coven and household celebrate this time of year? Glad you asked that question. This is one of those times of year that I deep clean the house from top to bottom before we are holed up during the long Minnesota winter. I rent a rug doctor to shampoo the carpets and I have to leave the windows and the door open to get some good air flow through the house. I also follow the air cleansing with a sage smudging and salt water sprinkling. If its been a particularly bad year we switch out the white sage with asafoetida.
We feed our house spirits and land spirits by offering the best quality organic cream,eggs, honey, and whole grain bread we can afford ( We use a potato/onion loaf or a rye bread). We also offer mead, hard cider, or whiskey as well.Coffee is kept on the altar as well as whatever tea we are into.  We also usually have a pot luck for folks and play card games or watch whatever tv show we are into at the moment so this year it will either be Hell On Wheels or The Walking Dead. Those of us who like having discussions on the parable around that episode go outside and have discussions on how the show relates to themes of the season.

Mainly we honor the God/dess for the good harvest our labors have brought and our friends and family that have labored with us.

As we prepare to welcome in the Crone and the Sage, may you be blessed by your own harvests and their wisdom in your life.

Blessed Be!