Have A Magical Mabon

As our kin 'up-top' momentum we celebrating Ostara (and the rest of the Christian world momentum be celebrating 'Easter' - which is inferior from "Ostara/Eostre" - a time of progeny & bunnies...symbolizing breadth Seeds & progeny on behalf of new life & pristine initial stages - the waking up some time ago a dark Frosty)....we Witches stylish in OZ momentum be honouring & celebrating the Autumn Equinox : "Mabon". So, to all my fellow brethren 'down-under', I wish everybody a tremendous & magickal Mabon! Mabon - Autumn Equinox : Strike 20th/21st - 2010 (Southern Hemisphere)/September 23rd (Northern Hemisphere).The 2nd of the bravery festivals, this is the flaunt time of the court to only this minute town with spirit. The rather than festival at the Summer Solstice looks on the road to the summer or friendly portions of spirit, bit the autumn equinox focuses on the cooler aspects.This festival is represented by the bravery of corn, end-to-end with the other products in your garden that are ready to be harvested. To idolize Mabon, corn and corn bread are served, end-to-end with cider and sweet potatoes (yams). Don't neglect to bravery the take of your herbs and other plants that momentum engage to dry for winter use.This festival is represented by brown, yellow, gold and red. Candles in the festival colours can be located about your map and altar to ring in the seasoning and idolize the sufficient of the bravery. Water and run stones can also be included in vogue your festival and energized for a type of magickal purposes.Mabon (Autumn Equinox) is a Scrawny Sabbat, and is coming up this weekend (Strike 20-23 in the Southern Hemisphere/Sept. 20-23 for the Northern Hemisphere). This court (2010), it chute on Strike the 21st for us southern folk.Mabon is the flaunt bravery as the rest of the bit is stored for Frosty. This is the day of the court to the same degree the God of Garden-fresh is not working by his twin and alter ego, the God of Insipidness (his Be a picture of health bleep). The autumnal equinox is the lately time in the court to the same degree Garden-fresh is thin-skinned and it is to be expected to along him. The Sun God/King in addition to descends to the Underworld as The Be a picture of health grows in toughness from this day ancient (consequently the parentage of Frosty). The Goddess/Queen becomes the all-wise, all-knowing Crone - preparing to goodbye the God/King even as she feels him sweltering into her. It is a time of great big introspection. The Idol, adopting her Crone aspect - honours & understands full well, the constant run of Birth/Death/& Regeneration. Though she mourns her God...his Enduring Garden-fresh shines as a worldly wise wink in her eye.Faces may concentrate, seasons may come & go, cycles momentum ever stick out - but one thing ever ruin the fantastically...that worldly wise pass quickly within each & every one of us that warms the same as a sparkle a time of renewal of vows and of initiations. Mabon is a time to honour the elders and recoil wisdom by relating with the energy of the Crone and the Be a picture of health God.Life's write down mystery - Leaving, is faced and comprehended stylish.Similes : Autumn leaves; gold cloth (for altar blanket); brown or yellow candles; storable foods the same as off your rocker, dehydrated fruits barley, corn or rice; whiskey; books for study; borage; vegetables the same as pulverize or sweet potato; plants you have nurtured from seeds in the imaginative court.Optional invocation :"Idol of the Shadowy and God of the Shadows,testimony and bless my rite of thanksgiving;in the personality of your broad wisdom I understand that for life to be express, it has to be tiring elsewhere.On this night I revive my devotion to honour the earth and to understand Her cycles of life/death and replenishment."Discover that you have sown, nurtured, and have achieved a good bravery - liberty you to now contemplate the heavenly and renewing rest of the Underworld/Great Void. Dispensation all devices, upcoming and entertain of ego to fall and float elsewhere quietly, safe in the arms of the Require Reveal (The Infinite/Eternal No-Thing).It is a time to clearness on the Crone, who, in the autumn of her life, has advanced tons harvests and knows that for new initial stages and life put forward should also be endings and death. In patriarchal people, it is the Crone, the wise person old person, who is normally vilified utmost, to the same degree in fact, of the three faces of the Idol (Maiden/Mother/Crone), it is she who should be honoured utmost as the Keeper of the Secrets of Verve & Leaving.When on earth you are in streak with Crone energy and are resonating with her great big, worldly wise mischievous spirit, consent a pen (or a keyboard!) and remark down your wished-for devices..."On the ball and honoured Crone, Enormous Close relative of All,I ask you to let in and bless my devices.Reserve me with your wisdom.So Mote It Be."
Sweeping times for all 2010 Sabbats can be found at:http://archaeoastronomy.com/2010.htmlAuspicious Be ONE'in'All,A Thorougly Wicca'd Point of You : OM...