Vernal 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 folks began to refer to this holiday as the `forgotten sabbat', which mystifies me. How can it be forgotten when the adjust in the air, the turning of the leaves, and the shortening days are performing every thing potential to catch your attention?" - 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 last hurrah before withering. Hues of orange, russet, gold, and auburn adorn the landscape, hearth, and house. People collect the fall crops, celebrate the harvest, and offer thanks for household, friends, health, and bounty.
Mabon, Feast of Avalon, Festival of the Vine, Harvest Property-there are lots of names for the magickal vacation that celebrates the Autumn Equinox. Ellen Dugan, generally recognized 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, entertaining and creativity in each solitary and group celebrations.
Taking a fresh look at the fall season, Dugan shares personal anecdotes of family celebrations, supplies suggestions on garden and moon magick, discusses the autumnal correlations for crystals, Tarot cards, planets and candles, and shares tempting recipes making use of seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Autumn Equinox - The Enchantment of Mabon also capabilities painless, inventive craft projects, over 40 holiday charms, spells and rituals, and a few 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 particularly engaging, particularly as she provides her original take on just what Persephone can have seriously been thinking! Soon after all, she asserts, Persephone was a goddess. Would she have certainly been a damsel in distress? Or was she essentially pining for an exciting "negative boy" to take her away from her "ordinary" life? And could it be that she produced Hades function (and perform difficult) for her affection?
Some of the fascinating discoveries that await you in Autumn Equinox contain:
Scarecrow folklore and magic
Michaelmas, Oktoberfest, Holy Rood Day, and other harvest celebrations from around the planet
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 (like 13 magickal fall plants, fall foliage enchantments, bulb planting charm, U.S. cold hardiness zone map, color magick with diverse trees, and a lot way 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
Even though Autumn Equinox - The Enchantment of Mabon is geared towards Wiccans and Pagans, the author's engaging prose, inventive hints, and witty insights weave a bewitching autumnal spell-luring in even non-Wiccans like myself. I located 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 private stories, practical and sacred rituals, and harvest customs and legends. In fact, she has whetted my appetite for incorporating ritual and mindfulness in the daily sacred, in particular when correlated to the seasons and sabats. And pretty frankly, I can't wait to attempt the tempting recipes!

Wow! An additional absolute WOW! Ellen Dugan had accomplished it once again. If you are a fan of this witty and wonderfully charming author, "Autumn Equinox: The Enchantment of Mabon" is a should have for your Craft collection. Inofrmation, suggestions, spells, recipes, traditions...it is all in this painless,accessible, 208 page package.
As a practicing Wiccan for 7 years, I believed that I had usually had a deal with on the Sabbats. You know...cast a cirlce there, whip out the athame right here, say your stuff and move right along, ideal? Confident...for a beginner. I've often wanted to move on to the history, the ideas and the information behind these absolutley fascinating holidays. What much better way to learn than from one particular of Llewellyn's hottest up-and-coming authors with my favorite Wiccan holiday of the year?
As consistently, Mrs. Dugan breaks it down clear and easy, starting with her own individual stories of this bewitching time of the season, continuing with the mythological backbones to autumn by way of the tales of Persephone, Demeter,Elen, Pomona, Dionysus, the Green Man and Herene the Hunter. Nonetheless, Ellen only does this immediately after humoursly deciphering the which means of the word "maize" (you have to read and come across out for yourself now, won't you?). And just what else would this Garden Witch include as a chapter in her book? You guessed it! A chapter completley dedicated to "The Garden in Autumn: Fall Flower and Foliage Fascinations"--with an included Cold Hardiness Zone Map to easily choose out regardless of whether an Oakleaf Hydrangea or a Sweet Autumn Clematis would be improved to plant in your backyard.
All I have to say is that with spell soon after spell, charm just after charm, tid-bit after tid-bit, you come to wonder how the Autumn Equinox became known as the "forgotten sabbat" as Mrs. Dugan dutifully points out. I mean this season offers out the most recognizable adjustments of any other Sabbat. Just appear at the leaves in your personal neighborhood! If you want to come and totally experience such a amazing vacation and time of year, I strongly recommend for you to pick up this fabulous book, get readin' and prepare to expertise Mabon in a complete new "changed" way.