Correspondences for Mabon
The Autumn Equinox, which occurs when the Sun moves into zero degrees Libra
Also called Second Harvest, Festival of Dionysus, Wine Harvest, Alban Elfed, and Cornucopia
Usually on the 21st or 22nd of September
One of the two days of the year�the other being Ostara�when there are exactly twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness
Mabon is the time to�
- Celebrate the second Harvest
- Meditate on the theme of balance
- Perform spellwork to bring balance to your life
- Honor the Aging deities
- Honor the Spirit world
- Celebrate the art of wine-making
Fire Festival
Traditional incense: benzoin, myrrh, sage
Traditional candle colors: brown, red, gold, green, orange, and yellow
Traditional gemstones: carnelian, lapis lazuli, sapphire, yellow agate
Traditional foods: corn, wheat, breads, nuts, vegetables, apples, roots, cider, pomegranates
Traditional herbs: acorns, asters, benzoin, ferns, honeysuckle, marigold, milkweed, mums, myrrh, oak leaves, passionflower, pine, roses, sage, Solomon�s seal, thistles
Traditional animals: dogs, wolves, birds of prey
Suggested decorations: Hazel, corn, aspen, acorns, oak sprigs, autumn leaves, wheat stalks, cypress cones, pine cones, harvest gleanings, grapes, wine, vines, garlands, gourds, burial cairns, rattles, horns of plenty, Indian corn, Sun wheels
Suggested activities: wine making
Taboos: passing burial sites without honoring the dead
Attunement teas: all berry drinks, grape drinks, heather, hops, sassafras
Ritual oils: apple blossom, hay, straw, black pepper, patchouli
Goddesses of Mabon:
- All Grape and Berry Goddesses
- All Fruit and Vegetable Goddesses
- Akibimi (Japanese)
- Amaterasu (Japanese)
- Anapurna (Hindu)
- Ata Bey (Caribbean)
- Baubo (Greek)
- Ceres (Roman)
- Cessair (Welsh)
- Changing Woman (Native American)
- Chicomecoatl (South American)
- The Corn Mothers (Native American)
- Demeter (Greek)
- Epona (pan-Celtic)
- Erishkegal (Sumerian)
- Freya (Norse)
- Gula (Babylonian)
- Harmonica (Greek)
- Hecate (Greek)
- Inanna (Sumerian)
- Ishtar (Semitic)
- Isis (Egyptian)
- Lilitu (Semitic)
- Mama Alpa (Peruvian)
- Mawu (African)
- Modron (Welsh)
- Morgan (Welsh-Cornish)
- The Muses (Greek)
- Nikkal (Canaanite)
- Ningal (Sumerian)
- Ninkasi (Sumerian)
- Pomona (Greek)
- Persephone (Greek)
- Prosperpina (Roman)
- Rennutet (Egyptian)
- Sin (Irish)
- Sophia (Greco-Hebraic)
- Spider Woman (Native American)
- Sura (Hindu)
- Tonantzin (Mexican)
Gods of Mabon:
- All Wine Gods
- All Fruit Gods
- All Non-Grain Harvest Gods
- All Gods of Abandonment
- Bacchus (Roman)
- Dionysus (Greek)
- The Great Horned Lord (European)
- Hauran (Canaanite)
- Hermes (Greek)
- Hotei (Japanese)
- Iacchus (Greco-Tuscan)
- Mabon (Welsh)
- Prcus (Roman)
- Thoth (Egyptian)
Suggested chant (by Starhawk):
"Everything lost is found again,
In a new form, in a new way.
Everything hurt is healed again,
In a new life, in a new day."
Mabon Incense:
- 2 parts frankincense
- 1 part sandalwood
- 1 part cypress
- 1 part juniper
- 1 part pine
- � part oakmoss
- 1 pinch pulverized oak leaf
My sources include, but are not confined to, the following works:
- Bereyl, Paul. The Master Book of Herbalism
- Cunningham, Scott. The Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews.
- ------------------. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner.
- Dunwich, Gerina. Wicca Craft.
- Galenorn, Yasmine. Dancing with the Sun.
- K., Amber. Covencraft: Witchcraft for Three or More.
- McCoy, Edain. The Sabbats.
- Starhawk. The Spiral Dance.
- Stein, Diane. Casting the Circle: A Women�s Book of Ritual.
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