
22/09/2025
🍂✨ Blessed Mabon! ✨🍂
Today we celebrate Mabon – one of the great Sabbats of the Wheel of the Year, marked on the Autumn Equinox. It is the time when day and night stand in perfect balance, as light and darkness meet before we step into the colder, darker half of the year.
🌾 A little history
The name Mabon comes from the Celtic figure Mabon ap Modron, the “Great Son” – a god of youth, renewal, and return to the Mother.
In ancient times this day was connected to the end of the harvest: people gave thanks to the earth, the sun, and the gods for the abundance of summer, offered the last fruits, baked bread, and shared food with their community. It was a time of gratitude, reflection, and preparation for the winter rest.
🍁 How it is celebrated today
In modern traditions, Mabon keeps its essence:
it is a festival of thanksgiving, when we honor nature, the world, and ourselves for the gifts of the year;
it is a time of balance, when we learn to embrace both the light and the shadow within us;
it is a home celebration, often marked by a warm table adorned with autumn fruits and harvest offerings.
🔮 Traditions & simple rituals for this day
Harvest Altar
Decorate it with apples, pears, nuts, grapes, wheat stalks, and candles in red and golden tones. These symbolize gratitude and abundance.
Ritual of Gratitude
Write down all the blessings of this year. Speak your thanks out loud or in silence. Then burn the paper in a candle flame, or keep it safe in your journal of power.
Sharing Food
Bake bread, pie, or a dish with apples and share it with family, friends, or even the birds and animals outside. This act of generosity opens the way to future blessings.
Meditation of Balance
Sit with two candles – one white, one black. Light them together and feel how balance awakens within you: the harmony between light and dark, chaos and peace.
🍂 May this Mabon bring you peace, gratitude, and inner strength.
Accept the gifts of the year, release what is no longer needed, and step with trust into the turning of the seasons.
It is a home celebration, often marked by a warm table adorned with autumn fruits and harvest offerings.ar.n, and The gods, for the abundance of summer, offered the last fruits, baked bread, and shared food with their community. It was a time of gratitude, reflection, and preparation for the winter rest.