Mabon, Feast of Avalon, Cornucopia, Harvest Home, Festival of the Vine . . . there are many names for this magickal holiday that celebrates the autumn equinox, the first day of fall. Ellen Dugan takes a fresh look at this "forgotten" Sabbat and demonstrates how to make the most of this enchanting season.
Featuring craft projects, recipes, enchantments, and valuable information on harvest deities, Autumn Equinox offers countless ways to bring fall magick into your life. Learn to create witchy wreaths, cook seasonal foods, put together a homemade centerpiece, make herbal soap, and practice spells and rituals using easy to find, natural supplies. This new addition to Llewellyn's Sabbats series also provides magickal correspondences on harvest deities, herbs, plants, and foods for those who want to create their own autumn spells and charms.
ADDITIONAL TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR
Book of Witchery Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
The autumnal equinox as well as what we now call the first of August have both been celebrated as festival days of the harvest season across Europe and North America. As August first approaches, we must reflect on what what these harvest celebrations mean and what they mean to us.
As we enter the season of autumn, we have the opportunity to take a long and fruitful journey with the goddess Persephone. She is quite the intriguing lady. As bringer of spring and Queen of the Underworld simultaneously, she is paradox incarnate. ...
My new book, Autumn Equinox: The Enchantment of Mabon, takes a fresh look at this “forgotten” Sabbat. This holiday is often overlooked by magickal folks, so right at the beginning of the book I dive into many of the questions that have confused ...
We all have our own interpretations and honoring of the four elemental quadrants. Some of us enter our Circles in the East, direction of dawn and new beginnings. Others prefer to start in the North, that their working be well grounded and strong. At Samhain, we open a gate in the West, the direction of the Ancestors and of the Land Beyond, and we... read this article
