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Wishing everyone a blessed Equinox.
May you find your way to a comfy balance whatever the season.

I'm celebrating tonight with a refresh of my altar for the autumn season (I'm in the Southern hemisphere) and a tarot reading with the Mystery Traveller's Tarot (including Red Court cards)

Tomorrow, I'll cast on my Mabon knitting project.

The annual solar wheel is complete! I’ve been doing this for quite a few years now with my family, the wheel is made of daylily shoots and grapevines.

We decorate it with all of the ripe and flowering things we can find around the property. Later in the evening, the day’s festivities close and we light it on fire to release our intentions for the dark season.

Mabon is a pagan holiday celebrated during the Autumn Equinox, marking the balance of day and night and symbolizing the transition from summer to autumn.

Mabon is named after Mabon ap Modron, a figure in Welsh mythology.

Celebrations often include feasting, gratitude rituals, and honoring deities like Demeter and Persephone, reflecting themes of harvest, balance, and renewal.

history.co.uk/articles/mabon-t

Sky HISTORY TV channelMabon: The pagan festival that marks the autumn equinoxThe Cornucopia acts as a metaphor for a healthy harvest, while its shape imbues the fundamental characteristics of male and female

The Autumn Equinox holds a special significance for me because it was the first big Wiccan holiday ritual I did by myself back in 2000. I had done a few little spells here and there, taken part in group rituals, and I spent years just reading and studying without actual practice.

That equinox ritual was the first time I finally felt the energies of what I had learned, and the gods' presence, and it was the first time I felt like a “real” Pagan. So I consider it my paganniversary, and I've now been practicing for 24 years!

The chant I used in that ritual was the point where everything clicked for me, and so I still use the same chant today, attributed to Ian Corrigan:

“Hoof and horn, hoof and horn
All that dies shall be reborn,
Corn and grain, corn and grain,
All that falls shall rise again.”