Pronounced: may-bon

Also known as: Harvest Home and Michaelmas

Northern Hemisphere Date: circa September 21

Southern Hemisphere Date: circa March 21

Astrological Sign: 1 degree Libra

Primary Focus:
Second harvest, offering of vegetable and fruit harvest, corn festival

Origins:
Mabon is the named after a Welsh fertility God, Mabon, and marks the Autum Equinox. The word means "Divine youth."

Meaning:
Mabon is the completion of the harvest begun at Lughnasadh. Once again day and night are equal. Nature declines, draws back its bounty, readying for winter and its time of rest. The bounty of the harvest is celebrated in wine festivals, knowing that soon winter will bring uncertainty.

Myth:
The God prepares to leave His physical body and begin the great adventure into the unseen, toward renewal and rebirth of the Goddess. She nods in the weakening Sun, though fire burns within Her womb. She feels the presence of the God even as He wanes.