Spring Equinox: Autumn Equinox: The Enchantment of Mabon [Paperback]

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (June 8, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0738706248
ISBN-13: 978-0738706245
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Ellen Dugan
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Autumn Equinox: The Enchantment of Mabon [Paperback]

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"In recent years, some people started to refer to this vacation as the `forgotten sabbat', which mystifies me. How can it be forgotten when the modify in the air, the turning of the leaves, and the shortening days are doing everything conceivable to catch your focus?" - From the book
The Autumn Equinox is an enchanting time of year. As the days get shorter, the clime turns cooler and leaves burst with color-their final hurrah just before withering. Hues of orange, russet, gold, and auburn adorn the landscape, hearth, and dwelling. Folks gather the fall crops, celebrate the harvest, and give thanks for family, buddies, health, and bounty.
Mabon, Feast of Avalon, Festival of the Vine, Harvest Property-there are a large number of names for the magickal vacation that celebrates the Autumn Equinox. Ellen Dugan, frequently known as the "Garden Witch", has written an engaging new book examining this "forgotten" Sabbat. Autumn Equinox - The Enchantment of Mabon shows you how you can make the most of this time of year - imbuing sacredness, fun and creativity in both solitary and group celebrations.
Taking a fresh look at the fall season, Dugan shares private anecdotes of household celebrations, gives strategies on garden and moon magick, discusses the autumnal correlations for crystals, Tarot cards, planets and candles, and shares tempting recipes applying seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Autumn Equinox - The Enchantment of Mabon also capabilities hassle-free, inventive craft projects, over 40 holiday charms, spells and rituals, and many Pagan prayers.
I in particular enjoyed the sections on harvest goddesses, gods of vegetation and vine, harvest legends, and the astrological energies of September. The author's description of Demeter and Persephone are especially engaging, especially as she delivers her original take on just what Persephone might have genuinely been thinking! After all, she asserts, Persephone was a goddess. Would she have really been a damsel in distress? Or was she in fact pining for an exciting "bad boy" to take her away from her "ordinary" life? And could it be that she produced Hades work (and function tricky) for her affection?
Some of the fascinating discoveries that await you in Autumn Equinox incorporate:
Scarecrow folklore and magic
Michaelmas, Oktoberfest, Holy Rood Day, and other harvest celebrations from around the world
Autumn faery meditation
Tarot and candle spells for Libra and Virgo
Full moon solitary ritual: The Wine Moon
Persephone, Pomona, Dionysus, Green Man, John Barleycorn, Herne the Stag King and other legendary figures and harvest deities
Autumn in the garden (such as 13 magickal fall plants, fall foliage enchantments, bulb planting charm, U.S. cold hardiness zone map, color magick with several trees, and a lot more)
Herbal soap recipes
Leafy luminaries, lighted fall garlands, grape wreaths and other effortless crafts
Harvest Deities correspondence charts for Autumn enchantments
Recipes for harvest goodies like Rosemary Garlic Potatoes, Shoepeg Corn Casserole, Pumpkin Bread, Roast Pheasant, Vegetarian Spinach Lasagna, Apple Sauce Cookies, Harvest Apple Upside-Down Cake, and a lot of far more
Though Autumn Equinox - The Enchantment of Mabon is geared towards Wiccans and Pagans, the author's engaging prose, creative tips and hints, and witty insights weave a bewitching autumnal spell-luring in even non-Wiccans like myself. I found this book to be utterly charming-complete of myth, magic, and mystery. Autumn is my absolute favorite time of the year, so I reveled in Dugan's enthusiasm as she shared personal stories, practical and sacred rituals, and harvest customs and legends. In fact, she has whetted my appetite for incorporating ritual and mindfulness in the everyday sacred, specifically when correlated to the seasons and sabats. And quite frankly, I can not wait to attempt the tempting recipes!

Wow! One more absolute WOW! Ellen Dugan had completed it again. If you are a fan of this witty and wonderfully charming author, "Autumn Equinox: The Enchantment of Mabon" is a have to have for your Craft collection. Inofrmation, ideas, spells, recipes, traditions...it really is all in this uncomplicated,accessible, 208 page package.
As a practicing Wiccan for 7 years, I believed that I had always had a deal with on the Sabbats. You know...cast a cirlce there, whip out the athame here, say your stuff and move correct along, suitable? Confident...for a newbie. I've frequently wanted to move on to the history, the ideas and the understanding behind these absolutley fascinating holidays. What far better way to understand than from one particular of Llewellyn's hottest up-and-coming authors with my preferred Wiccan holiday of the year?
As generally, Mrs. Dugan breaks it down clear and very simple, beginning with her own private stories of this bewitching time of the season, continuing with the mythological backbones to autumn by means of the tales of Persephone, Demeter,Elen, Pomona, Dionysus, the Green Man and Herene the Hunter. Yet, Ellen only does this immediately after humoursly deciphering the which means of the word "maize" (you have to read and obtain out for oneself now, won't you?). And just what else would this Garden Witch contain as a chapter in her book? You guessed it! A chapter completley devoted to "The Garden in Autumn: Fall Flower and Foliage Fascinations"--with an included Cold Hardiness Zone Map to easily pick out no matter if an Oakleaf Hydrangea or a Sweet Autumn Clematis would be greater to plant in your backyard.
All I have to say is that with spell right after spell, charm soon after charm, tid-bit immediately after tid-bit, you come to wonder how the Autumn Equinox became identified as the "forgotten sabbat" as Mrs. Dugan dutifully points out. I mean this season deals out the most recognizable modifications of any other Sabbat. Just appear at the leaves in your own neighborhood! If you want to come and fully expertise such a amazing holiday and time of year, I strongly recommend for you to choose up this fabulous book, get readin' and prepare to knowledge Mabon in a complete new "changed" way.