Autumn Equinox, Mabon.
Hello everyone. After some time away and a busy lammas, I am back and hoping to bring you more blogs over the coming weeks. I have had a wonderful holiday with my family from a pagan camp in Yorkshire to the mountains of the lake district. And the wheel of the year turns once more as we have reached the Autumn Equinox. Many Pagans call this time of year Mabon also. It is the time for the second harvest, of fruits and the last of the crops grown over summer. A time to make beer, cider, wine and mead. Fruit Preserves and foraging as the trees turn from green to brown before their inevitable slumber over the winter months. Equinox is a time for balance as the days and night become equal for three days and the focus here is on balance. Not to take too much so the animals have food also and to save and reserve foods for the winter months. The Norse Celebrated this time of year with a festival known as the Haustblot, a time when the sun goddess Sol begins...