Mabon Ideas

Pagan Parenting Corner
Mabon
By Michele Sinclair

• Have your children draw a horn of plentiful with foods, and what they feel they have harvested this year.
• Your children can help decorate for the feast by collecting leaves to use at the table arranged in a bowl. Try to have several colors of leaves for a nice mix of color.
• Collect pine cones with your children, and have them tie harvest colored yarn at the top, and hang them from the ceiling, away from the dining table,around the edges of the room.
• You can have your children help you collect pine cones, colorful dried leaves, wheat, acorns, and fallen pine branches, to arrange in a basket to set next to your door.
• Buy some Indian corn, and hang the dried ears of corn on the front door, or door posts.
• Take your children for a nature walk and gather dried plants for use as altar decorations.
• If you are really ambitious, try making bread, muffins, or scones with your children.

Autumn Equinox Music
Equinox Chant

Onward we go round the spiral

Touching darkness, touching light

Twice each turn we rest in balance

Make choices on this night Make choices on this night

Burn Fire
Deirdre Pulgram Arthen

Burn fire, burn bright

Pure vision come to me

Guide my path tonight

With your strength and light

Sparks
J. Robin Gall

We are sparks from the hearth

Of the queen of death and life

We swarm through the dark

And dance through the night