#FediCoven Q11 How do you acknowledge the autumnal equinox and do you celebrate Mabon?
While I don't directly set out to celebrate Mabon, when the leaves turn, I feel and celebrate the change of the season. I find myself doing things and reflecting in ways that pretty much coincidentally match the sentiment of this Wiccan holiday.
Summer is nice for its abundance, but autumn is the time in which I feel most myself. Specifically nearing the equinox, I start to feel a strong urge to craft using thing I've harvested or foraged.
When trimming my gardens, I make a simple wood wreath. It's an almost meditative thing to do, seeking that tension and delicately bending branches, and it sort of confirms the change of the season for me. Connecting nature, and the passage of time through my hands, symbolically making it tangible. I reflect on what this past season has brought me, in both a literal and a spiritual sense.
The autumn equinox is me celebrating a return to the crafty time of the year.
