Mabon Activities

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• Arrange baskets of fresh fruit for friends or family
• Fill a bowl with fruits and leave it as an offering to the gods
• Fill a basket with pine cones, colorful dried leaves, wheat, acorns, and fallen pine branches and leave it by your door
• Make a protection charm of hazelnuts strung on red thread.
• Hang dried ears of corn on the front door, doorposts, or outside light fixture.
• Serve a Mabon meal of wine/nectar from the God and beans and squashes from the Goddess. Some sort of Soup with carrots, onions, potatoes, radishes, and/or corn combines both the energies of the God and the Goddess.
• Collect milkweed pods to decorate at Yuletide and attract the fairies.
• Call upon the elementals and honor them for their help with:
  (North=Earth) the home and finances
  (East=Air) school and knowledge
  (South=Fire) careers and accomplishments
  (West=Water) emotional balance and fruitful relationships.
• Make wine
• It is a good time to walk the forests, gathering dried plants for use as altar decorations or herbal magic.

Solitary Activities

• Take a walk outside and enjoy the cooling weather.
• Gathering autumn leaves in bright colors.
• Take a trip to a farmer's market (I love Pike Place Market in Seattle for this reason!)
• Private Meditation on the meanings of Mabon.
• Private Ritual
• Become a volunteer. Be a mentor, or read stories to kids at the public library. Do something to help those who would otherwise go without.

Some information taken from www.collegwicca.com © Rhaevyn Sunrise

Group Activities

• Go to an Autumn Festival.
• Host an open Sabbat Ritual for your community.
• Try making wine.
• Prepare a feast of foods appropriate for the season.
• Research the practices for Mabon of other traditions, and try them out.
• Eat lots of Apples and drink apple cider.

Activities for Kids

• Make bird feeders
• Make paper bouquets of autumn flowers.
• Make Leaf Prints
• Make a place mat using dried leaves, flowers and flattened seeds.
• Make a wax paper "leaf" suncatcher.
• Read stories about Autumn and the changing seasons. Try Kat Dyer's Meagan Stories . They are wonderful.
• Talk to your child about the season, and answer any of their questions honestly. Keep your answers simple, and don't offer them any extra information, unless they ask you directly.

Try going to www.paganparenting.net and www.paganparenting.com for example.