#mabon.

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I guess I’m making a Mabon post for witches who can’t have cinnamon or incense.

Though I am not a wiccan witch, I do enjoy the sabbats and I get stoked for Mabon but I wish every Mabon suggestion wasn’t centered around cinnamon and incense. My roommate is deathly allergic to both and I’m sure there are plenty of witches who are too.

I plan on eating raw apples, drinking wine, and having carby foods. Making pies and stews is also a good idea (I made veggie ‘beef’ stew last year it was the fucking best). Get your friends and family together and bake some sweets. Light candles, I especially enjoy ‘crisp leaves’ or woodsy scented candles. Get a ton of squash and zucchini and cook it with onions and garlic, pile it up with some potatoes or rice. If you can’t have alcohol, get cider or apple juice. Have you guys had pomegranate juice? Do that. I’m not going to go over decor ideas because every mabon post basically has amazing ideas.

If you’re really poor, you can get some ramen and, if you can afford it, top it off with seasonal veggies. You can get a sack of potatoes most places for $2. Cook them(sliced) in olive oil with onion, garlic, and rosemary. If you can’t afford to go grocery shopping, you don’t need seasonal food. Look in your cabinets, make your favorite thing that you have on hand. This is the witches thanksgiving. Be with someone you care about, take a walk outside if you’re able.

I hope you all have fun celebrating.

[nekrophoria]

Feel my pain And your whimpers of broken mind And slow I fade As the darkness inside you shines

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Mabon

With the approaching Sabbat, I thought it was appropriate to write a little something about the importance of Mabon. 

Mabon is the Festival which falls upon the Autumn Equinox, this is a time of equal day and equal night. Mabon, is the second of the great harvest rites. 

Mabon is a time of thanksgiving and is the last sabbat before the witches new year, Samhain. This  is a good time for meditation on reincarnation and in some cases it is a time of rest after labor. 

Ritual often involves the Triple Goddess, the Maiden Mother and Crone, and is a time for giving of thanks for the time passed and for the times to come. 

Mabon was also named after the Celtic/Druid Divine Child Mabon, who brings the message of renewal and hope. He also symbolizes liberation, creativity and harmony. Mabon was seen as the mediator between the gods and mankind.

On the 90′s television series Hercules the Legendary Journeys, Mabon is a recurring character for a small story arc in the 5th season of the series. Hercules finds himself lost and wounded at the lost of his beloved best friend and in desperation to flee from Greece and the painful reminders of Iolaus murder. Here Hercules finds himself in Eire, the land of the Druids, and Celts. The Druids are 6 in total, and represent, Faith, innocence, Justice, Mercy Tolerance and Wisdom (Mabon being the Druid of knowledge and wisdom.) Mabon serves as leader of the Druids, who are, on the show, depicted as god like creatures, who are human in nature, but mystical and eternal. Mabon helps Hercules to liberate himself from the pains and woes he allows to rule him, as well as free another hero, the champion and newly appointed Druid of Justice, Morgan. 

Though greatly dramatized and fantasied, many aspects of Mabon were present in the character and the festival itself. 

Mabon is a personal favorite of mine as it is the First day of fall, and the beginning of my favorite season.  Want to know more, or have a question, feel free to ask. 

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