Mabon

At Fall Equinox, also called Mabon or Harvest, we are again at a point of balance between light and dark, but this time it is the dark that will soon overtake the light. The Goddess aspect of Crone comes forth as Reaper, and the Mother Goddess mourns her consort whom she knows must leave her. The God is seen as the Great Stag who falls, and the grain that is reaped, in order that the people might have sustenance through the cold winter to come. It is a time of feasting and celebration of the harvest, but also of the full realization of the sacrifices that are necessary in order to see us through the dark time that is to come. Even as we celebrate, we prepare for winter.