Celebrating Mabon, 2018
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One of the eight festivities that make up the Wheel of the Year of Neopagan culture to celebrate the changing cycles of nature, the progress of the seasons, fertility, life, death and the rebirth of the Gods, is Mabon.
Mabon is a celebration of the autumnal cycle, this festivity is a ritual to give thanks for the fruits that the earth has given us, to value abundance and balance, and it is also a time of work in family and in community preparing the food that will be stored in the hands of humanity to survive the coming winter.
Although the Autumnal Equinox was celebrated by the Celtic cultures, many of them under the name of 'Mabon ap Modron' or 'Mabon fab Modron', bearing the name of a god consort of Welsh origin, it was from the 70's when the renowned Author Aidan Kelly popularized the term "Mabon" as the official name of this holiday around the world.
On the dates when the equinoxes are produced, the day lasts approximately equal to that of the night in all places on Earth, because at this moment the balance of nature now grows in favor of winter and the powers of the Gods find balance on earth.
This is the festival where we thank for the harvests of the year, we are entering the dark half of the year, the father God travels towards the shadows (process that will culminate in Samhain), and we welcome the Mother Goddess, now in her face of Elder wise, is the cycle where God is preparing to die then reborn in Yule (Christmas), while the elderly Goddess will take care of the forests, nature, gardens and all the animals that inhabit it.
This is the time to celebrate the duality of nature, life, and death, as well as the past and the future, it is a time to paint your face black and white symbolizing the balance, dance the sacred dance of life in half of the woods and stay awake in celebration until dawn where we will see the new sun come out.
Magical works in Mabon.
Many Wiccan sorcerers prefer not to hold magical works during this period of transition because these will not receive enough light to take them to action, because the Sun God is dead, and in turn is a period that out of respect remains the mourning of the God who It is in the process of dying. However many other practitioners prefer to make use of this period of change to contact the spiritual plane and the darkest worlds hidden in the night because the God Light has lowered the guard.
This is a good time to collect, consecrate and store different herbs such as sage, roses, cypress, hazel, corn, pumpkins, apple, myrrh, and benzoin.
The colors red, orange, yellow, golden, brown and green are used to channel the spirit of nature and burn incense of cinnamon, myrrh, benzoin, cedar, and honeysuckle to honor the spirits of nature that are passing through in our world and live the mourning of their leading God.
The time has come to honor the ancestors and contact them, work with the world of dreams, carry out long meditations, clean all our magical instruments by passing them through the smoke of sage, honeysuckle and cedar incense.
It is also the magic moment to make the popular doll of wheat ears that symbolizes the presence of the inner goddess and allows to connect with the Goddess of nature and mother earth, many choose to make the doll to capture the spirit of the harvest that jumps out of the last sheaf of cut wheat, while there are also those who prefer to make the wheat doll by candlelight wax and then keep it on a farm so that the next spring cycle will start to grow, symbolizing the regeneration of the power of nature and the incarnation of the Goddess in the mortal world.
I hope we read again very soon.
Sending Blessings and Hugs full of light for all.
Elhoim Leafar.
Read too: Happy full Moon of September.
