Exploring the Energy of Mabon
Balance. Equilibrium. Harvest. Gratitude. Release.
Integration. Reciprocity. Offering. Turning inward. Completion. Abundance.
Reflection. Composting. Generosity. Sharing. Gathering.
Mabon: The Season of Balance & Gratitude
Blessings as we dance around the Wheel to the West, marked by the gateway of Mabon on September 22, the Autumn Equinox.
Time of Harvest. Of Introspection. Of Sharing, of Letting Go.
A time of the natural world beginning to wind down, withdraw the life force energy to the core, to the center.
Let's weave these ancient energies and apply them to our modern-day experience, and receive these invitations to enliven them as our life experience. In this article, you can find the Herbs of Mabon, a seasonal recipe, and a ritual to deepen the medicine of this holiday. To learn more about this holy day, and walk the wheel with me, access my instant download course, Wheel Walkers.
May these rhythms, recipes and rituals craft a doorway for deep reclamation and remembrance of who you truly are. Blessings.
The Herbs of Mabon
Myrrh
Sage
Tobacco
Mums
Rosemary
Goldenrod
Acorns
Grains
Honeysuckle
Marigold
Milkweed
Passionflower
Learn more about the herbs of Mabon in Wheel Walkers!
Mabon Ritual Practice
Offering to the Grandmother Within
This is a potent time to do an inner journey, to make an inner offering to the grandmother within, to the elder woman within, to the crone within, to the hag within.
To bring a balance for that for that which we’re looking forward to versus a lamenting. To honor the gray hairs, to honor the wrinkles, to honor the release of the moon blood as a celebration and a full landing of where we are so that we have somewhere to grow toward.
These offerings of cider, wine, grape juice, herbs, compost - we’re offering them to the earth, the trees, the fire, our own bodies. It speaks to this threshold of autumn equinox really being the harvest of the fruit. The wine harvest. The fruit harvest. The feast of Avalon, which by the way, has its roots in the meaning in the word “apple,” so we’re acknowledging the apple harvest. It is known as the second harvest festival. In the Gregorian calendar, the medicine wheels of North America, and traditionally, this marks the beginning of autumn. But in the Celtic tradition, we’re in mid-Autumn, so we’re in a mid-harvest time. We’re in the second of three harvest festivals. We also begin to tune into that which we’re letting go of, which is more of a northwest energy, we’re going to look at that in another six weeks.
Mabon Recipe
Pumpkin Apple Muffins
INGREDIENTS
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
3 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 chopped peeled apple
INSTRUCTIONS
In large bowl combine flour, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
Combine eggs, pumpkin and oil.
Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
Fold in apples.
Fill greased muffin cups almost full.
For a streusel topping combine 1/4 cup sugar, 2 tablespoon flour and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter until mixture resembles course crumbs. Sprinkle 1 heaping teaspoon over each muffin.
Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until done.
Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.
Yield: 12 Muffins