When we eat seasonally, we align ourselves more closely with the Wheel of the Year, and its lessons of constant change as we move through the cycles of life: birth, decay and rebirth. Create a warming Mabon feast - a stew or soup - with seasonal vegetables such as squash, pumpkins, beetroot, apples and beans, sprinkled over with toasted pine nuts. Cook up a Mabon feast!Ĭelebrating Mabon with food is easy with the delicious autumn harvest that is currently available. Mabon is the hiatus between the inhale of summer and the exhale of winter. Every inhale is followed by an exhale and vice versa – and so it is in the Wheel of the Year, where winter follows summer. Sit quietly and consider the inflow and outflow of breath. Take time to meditate at Mabon, to contemplate this lesson of balance. However, after periods of intense activity, come times of stillness. We've enjoyed a full, rich summer in the great outdoors, and we have kept ourselves busy and active during those long sunny evenings with friends and family. If there's anything the Wheel of the Year teaches us, it's the importance of balance. Place your treasures upon your altar, and light a candle with thanks for all your blessings, received and yet to receive! Mark Mabon with meditation Perhaps it's a feather or a fallen leaf - always receive it with gratitude. Take a long walk in nature – or in your local park – and collect whatever Mabon treasures Mother Earth has for you. Add a posy of flowers in vibrant autumnal colours and create a Mabon mandala of crystals such as amber, ruby, citrine, tigers' eye and jasper. The colours of Mabon are autumnal oranges, rusty reds, copper browns and warm ochres – take the changing leaves for inspiration! Use these colours to create your Mabon altar. So how can we celebrate Mabon, and what can this autumn festival teach us?
It is one of the eight Sabbats in the Wheel of the Year, and in the northern hemisphere, Mabon usually falls around 21 September. The Celtic festival of Mabon, also known as Autumn Equinox, marks the tipping point of the year, when the night and day are of equal length and we start our journey into winter.
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