Mabon - Fall Equinox about September 21
Around 21 September the day and night are equal in duration. Sunshine Hours and hours of oxen are exactly balanced, we have the Autumn Equinox.
This is one of four children of the Wicca Sabbat, Mabon. With this
sand began a period of focal Wheel of the Year, which begins with the autumnal equinox to end the Winter Solstice, through Samhain.
The Autumn Equinox is in effect the death Samahin rest and the Winter Solstice rebirth.
Mabon is the last harvest, the time ripe to gather the latest results from the Earth gives and to store them in anticipation of cold winter and even the death of God that after heating the Mother Earth during the spring and summer dies to ensure that the earth can stand waiting to be re-impregnated by the rays of light which is the God bearer. In fact, the God dies to be reborn from the Goddess to the Winter Solstice itself will resume where to grow for restoring fertility in the Mother Earth needs to give us fruit.
During the equinox the ancient people gathered to celebrate the last of the great feasts and ceremonies, banquets worthy of kings and queens, but without losing sight of the profound significance of this day. It's time to pull the threads of the past year in anticipation of winter rest, it is necessary therefore to reflect and internalize the successes and failures of the past year by a further step, that is to thank for what has been given and understand the grounds of our mistakes asking the gods to help us have a better harvest in the years to come. The God
dies and does so with great celebration, knowing himself, and us with him, that his sacrifice is necessary for the Earth and her spouse can be regenerated.
There were many traditions associated with this festival, the rituals associated with Demeter and Persephone mystery to those linked to the grape harvest and the divinity associated with it, Dionysus; Still other myths, later, were tied Equinox d 'Fall from the myth of Mithra.
in Southern Europe was the period of the grape harvest, were those busy days leading up the collection and processing of fine grains in the mash, but when the collection was being made a party out of the ordinary feel, banquets were made, the smell of must intoxicated on the streets and houses, Dionysus was the "owner" of the world. In his honor, there were mystery cults, still today object of study and assumptions that are difficult to prove, the followers of Dionysus met and partied with booze and orgies
their God the same way in this period fell on a party more important for the faithful of the mysteries of Eleusis, where Greek had become the main protagonist in Demeter and Persephone, in this case, the rites are mostly still unknown, but at the Equinox was the period of initiation, because the initiative was delivered an ear of corn with the word "Silence is obtained il Seme di Saggezza”.
Come detto per festeggiare questo giorno è necessario fare una profonda analisi interiore, senza sopravvalutarsi né sottovalutarsi, capire dove si è arrivati, come e perché è necessario per poter poi riposarsi in attesa di ricominciare la vita con maggior vigore nei mesi avvenire. È un periodo di riposo, di relax, sono consigliabili visualizzazioni e viaggi sciamanici (dove si conosca chi è in grado di farli sperimentare), e di tutte le pratiche connesse con la meditazione.
Nonostante sia una festa che riguarda la morte è necessario capire che non si tratta di una morte fine a se stessa, ma di una morte per la fecondità, anche in questa festa sono appunto presenti the reference points of Wicca rituals, birth, death and rebirth, the death of the God of Light allows the community the rest generator winter and the rebirth and the survival of all Nature. Thanks to the site
http://www.speculumdeorum.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=69
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