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Autumn Equinox

Autumn Equinox, also known more recently as Mabon, celebrates the second, of the three harvest festivals, and honours the harvest of the fruit. (Lammas celebrated the harvest of the wheat and grain, and Samhain will celebrate the harvest of the nuts and berries).

The name of Mabon comes from the Welsh God Mabon. He is the Child of Light and the son of the Earth Mother Goddess, Modron.

The Autumn Equinox represents balance.

Day and night are in perfect balance all over the world. The harvest is winding down. The fields are nearly empty, as the crops have been harvested, and stored for the coming winter.

Autumn Equinox is marked between the 20th-22nd of September, depending on when the equinox actually occurs.

Up until this point the hours of daylight have been greater than the hours from dusk to dawn. But from now on, the hours of dusk to dawn will become longer, winter has begun.

As the days become shorter and colder, they remind us that change is coming.

The Autumn Equinox is a time of giving thanks, of sharing what that you have accumulated, and learnt, with others.

It’s a time to celebrate the Earth and all of her gifts, as well as your family, friendships, creations, achievements, and your own personal harvest.

It’s a time for balance. To reconcile opposites, and see them as part of the whole.

Everything co-exists, and we need to be able to see both sides in order to be balanced and whole; light and dark, masculine and feminine, creation and destruction, death and rebirth.

As we celebrate all aspects of ourselves, and of life, we prepare for the transition into the darker days that reconnects us to our inner wisdom, and reminds us that we are part of the whole, not separate from it.