Cat’s Morning Bits Friday Sept. 22. 2023 ‘Mabon Edition”
Good Morning Beautiful Souls! Grab a cup of your favorite morning brew and start things off with “Today’s Inspirations”. I hope you find something here that will make you feel good or help you on your path today.
Blessings, Cat
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September Quotes
“Equal dark, equal light
Flow in Circle, deep insight
Blessed Be, Blessed Be
The transformation of energy!
So it flows, out it goes
Three-fold back it shall be
Blessed Be, Blessed Be
The transformation of energy!”
Night An’Fey, Transformation of Energy
gardendigest.com
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September Events
Sept. 1 Labor Day
Sept 2 Celtic Tree Month of Vine begins
Sept 3 Venus goes Direct
Sept 15 Mercury goes Direct
Sept 14 New Moon at 2:38 am PST/ 3:38 am MST/ 5:38 am EST
Sept 23 Autumn Equinox / Mabon
Sept 30 Full Harvest Moon at 6:35 pm PST/ 7:35 pm MST / 9:35 pm EST
Sept 30 Celtic Tree Month of Ivy begins
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Backyard Banshee: Mabon Tarot Spread – Second Harvest Sabbat
The harvest season is in full swing, and that means it’s time for the autumn equinox! This witchy holiday is all about balance, harvest and gratitude. It’s also known as Mabon, after the Welsh god Mabon. In this blog post, we’re going to take a look at a Mabon Tarot spread.
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Celebrate Mabon 2023 with the history and traditions of witchcraft
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Spirituality & Health: Mabon and the Divine Feminine
by Megan Shoop-Volz
Celebrate the autumnal equinox—also known as Mabon—by honoring the divine feminine in your life and feasting on two warming autumnal recipes.
My paternal grandmother was born in 1930 in the Appalachian Mountains and has lived her whole life with the rhythm of the seasons. Her parents grew much of their own food, which she helped plant, harvest, and preserve. In 1948, she married my grandfather, and they established a home farm of their own.
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“the air is different today
the wind sings with a new tone
sighing of changes
coming
the harvest gathered
a flower, a nut
some mead, and bread
a candle and a prayer
returning the fruits
in thanksgiving
to the grove
and receiving
it’s blessing
again”
Rhawk, Alban Elfed
gardendigest
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Learn Religions: Mabon Incense Blend
By Patti Wigington
Published on March 11, 2019
As the Wheel of the Year turns with each season, you may wish to use different types and scents of incense for your ceremonies and rituals.
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Moody Moons Blog; Mabon Spiced Offering Wine Recipe
This Mabon, celebrate the transition to fall with this recipe for autumn offering wine.
Offering wine is a wine or libation made to honor a specific holiday or spell intention. The process of making it is as sensual and enjoyable as the act of drinking it.
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Exemplore; Seven Crystals to Use for Mabon
CLAIREAUG 3, 2022
Crystals for Mabon
Mabon, also known as the autumn equinox, is the second harvest festival in the pagan wheel of the year. At this time of year, all or the majority of grain crops have been harvested and stored for winter, and there is an abundance of fruits and vegetables. This is a time of plenty, gratitude, celebrating the stability of home and hearth, and sharing our bounty with those who are less fortunate.
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Other Worldly Oracle: Mabon Crystals and Herbs: 20 for Your Autumn Equinox Rituals
Mabon. Also known as the Autumn Equinox and Witches’ Thanksgiving. It’s a powerful, liminal time that brings in the Autumn season, as well as balance in many aspects of our lives.
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“The Druids call this celebration, Mea’n Fo’mhair, and honor the Green Man, the God of the Forest, by offering libations to trees.
Offerings of ciders, wines, herbs and fertilizer are appropriate at this time…. Mabon is considered a time of the Mysteries. It is
a time to honor Aging Deities and the Spirit World….”
Mabon by Akasha
gardendigest
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Moody Moons Blog: At-Home Spiritual Retreat for Fall Equinox
Feeling blah? Stuck? An at-home spiritual retreat may be just the thing you need to lift your spirits and get in the swing of autumn.
As the Veil Between Worlds begins to thin, the Fall Equinox (or Mabon, for those of you who celebrate the Wheel of the Year) is a perfect time to turn inward and nurture the soul.
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Patheos-Pagan: The Astrology of Autumn Equinox
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 BY STARLYS
Autumn is fast approaching and in just a few days we will reach the Equinox, on September 23rd. The sun rises and sets at the midpoint between it’s most northern and southern positions and day and night are of equal length.
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Pagan Playlist: Lisa Thiel – Mabon (Autumn Equinox)
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Heathen at Heart: How To Use Leaf Magic This Fall
Heathens, Pagans, and Witches; we’ll make magic out of just about anything. Especially when it comes to the natural world. I’ve read blog posts on sun magic, moon magic, bone magic. I own an entire book on Water Witchcraft. But I haven’t heard much about my favorite autumn practice, leaf magic.
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“The tale of Mabon of Modron, the Welsh God, (the “great son of the great mother”), also known as the Son of Light, the Young Son, or Divine Youth, is celebrated. The Equinox is also the birth of Mabon, from his mother Modron, the Guardian of the Outerworld,
the Healer, the Protector, the Earth. Mabon was taken after he is a mere three nights old (some variations of the legend say he is taken after three years). Through the wisdom of the living animals — the Stag, Blackbird, Owl, Eagle and Salmon — Mabon is freed from his mysterious captivity. All the while Mabon had rested within his mother’s womb; a place of nurturing and challenge. With strength and lessons gained within the magickal Outerworld (Modron’s womb), Mabon is soon reborn as his mother’s Champion, the Son of Light, wielding the strength and wisdom acquired during his captivity.”
Joyous Mabon
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Today’s Recipe: Warm and Spicy Autumn Punch
The aroma of this fall punch recipe tells you that autumn is in the air. Make a batch, and your home will have a fragrance that will alert anyone’s sense of smell.
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Magical Correspondences for Mabon
Mabon/ Autumn Equinox/ Harvest Home
September 23, 2023
Colors: All shades of red, gold, brown, rust
Dieties: All harvest dieties, Earth Mother/Sky Father, Persephone, Epona, Greenman, Mabon
Symbols: Acorns, apples, dried flowers, pine cones, chrysanthymums, Ferns, ivy. Cornucopia, Indian Corn, Grapes and Grains.
Food & Drink: Wine, ground veggies (potatoes, onions etc), beans, squash and multi-grain breads
Herbs: Marigold, sage, myrrh, honeysuckle, rose, sweetgrass
Sacred Stones: All yellow stones, Lapis, multi colored agates
Mabon Activites: This is such a beautiful season to go outside! Take some nature walks and collect pinecones, acorns, colored leaves and interesting seeds and pods for decorating your home and altar. Other activities include making gourd rattles, harvesting from your garden, share your gardens abundance with others, fill your bird feeders with treats for your avian friends. Most of all, count your blessings. Have everyone in your family make a list of all the things they are thankful for and then read them aloud. I will also include my favorite activity…”feeding the trees”. We share a drink of apple cidar or wine with our trees. This honors not only the tree spirit but my husbands patron The Greenman.
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