*Happy Mabon!*
Hi all,
As I live in Hungary, I celebrated Mabon yesterday, on the 21th of September. It was actually my very first sabbath, but I enjoyed it a lot!
Mabon is one of the eight sabbaths during the year. It’s the autumnal equinox when the sun crosses the equator on its apparent journey southward, and we experience a day and a night that are of equal duration. Up until Mabon, the hours of daylight have been greater than the hours from dusk to dawn. But from now on, the reverse holds true.Mabon marks the middle of harvest, it is a time of equal day and equal night, and for the moment nature is in balance. It is a time to reap what you have sown, of giving thanks for the harvest and the bounty the Earth provides. For finishing up old projects and plans and planting the seeds for new enterprises or a change in lifestyle. Mabon is a time of celebration and balance.This is the time to look back not just on the past year, but also your life, and to plan for the future. In the rhythm of the year, Mabon is a time of rest and celebration, after the hard work of gathering the crops. Warm autumn days are followed by chill nights, as the Old Sun God returns to the embrace of the Goddess.
I was in a festive mood all day long, even if some news of an incredibely sad accident shadowed my day a lil bit...
soo, yes, after my classes ended at uni, I got home and began cooking, I’ve baked some delicious spicy pupkin and made pumpkin-potato stew, plus baked apple-pineapple oat crumble for dessert while enjoying a couple glasses red wine.
As soon as I finished cooking I decorated my altar, put there some of the food too, and purified the room with sage and rosemary. A lit my apple-cinnamon candles and meditated. I prayed for the souls of the deceased and gave thanks for what I was given this year so far, and asked for protection for the rest.
After, I cleansed my little wrapped stone amulett I made some days ago, and burnt rosemary to add protection, and annointed with levander oil to give me calmness. I even
The ritual as a whole was empowering. I cried. I don’t know if this is okay, however it felt good. Afterwards I stilled my mind and meditated with my eyes half-open to see the light of the candles flicker, actually, once I opened my eyes completely as I thought something is on fire, so much was the light flickering, as if it had got the frequency of my brain while meditation, sounds stupid but this was what came into my mind.
I am just rambling, sorry, this is an unplanned post :) I just type my feelings and experience and sharing my thoughts and pics, I hope at least someone finds it interesting :)
sooo, let the pictures speak instead of me..
Recipes:
Spicy pumpkin:
Cut the pupkin into thin slices
Season with salt, pepper, thyme and rosemary
place a garlic onto each slice
sprinkle with olive oil
bake on 180 degrees for 40 min
Pumpkin-Potato stew with pumkin seeds and pumpkin seed oil:
bake the pumpkin as suggested above
dice 500 g potatoes
sauté onions on olive oil and then put the diced potatoes, fry for 2 min, add water until it covers the potatoes. Cook until they soften
season with rosemary, thyme, and nutmeg (just a lil bit) and salt and pepper
add 200 g of the pumpkin (mashed)
add pumpkin seeds as toppings and sprinkle with pumpkin seed oil
Apple-Pineapple Oat crumble:
dice an apple and add a tin of pineapple to a cake-tin
sprinkle with lemon
add diced butter (17g)
make the crumble: 25g oats, 25 g sugar, 25 g shredded coconut, 25 g rice flour, cinnamon - mix with 37 g butter until it gets crumbly. Put it at the top of the fruit
bake for 15 min on 180 degrees and 5 more min on 200 degrees
Enjoy!:)