It’s that time again.
Your co-workers are all back from their vacations, and kids are back at school. The slower, languid days of late summer are giving way to cooler temperatures. And yes, there are even people who are living for the fact that pumpkin spice everything has hit the food sector.
The season has changed again. The wheel is turning again. It is now harvest time.
Technically, in paganism, there are three holidays that are considered celebration of the harvest. Lamas or Lughnassah, which falls at the beginning of August, is considered the first. Samhain, technically, is considered the end of harvest season, and the commencement of the time we travel in the dark part of the year.
In between is Mabon, which falls at the fall equinox.
Of all the sabbats in the Wheel of the Year, Mabon is the one that seems to carry the least legend and story. There is some indication that it was added to the calendar sometime in the mid to late 20th century as a way to round out the calendar and ensure that there was some kind of Sabbat roughly every six weeks.
But while Mabon may feel like a bit of a sidekick among pagan sabbats, it would be foolish to underestimate the spiritual power of this holiday. If the Wheel of the Year is to be viewed as a continuous cycle of birth, growth…
