This is a series of articles dedicated to earth based spiritual practices, aimed for people that are healers, or are working with high frequency energies to reconnect with the earth, nature, and thus ground themselves to the cycles that mother earth goes through the year, hoping these practices will assist in balancing out the sometimes taxing high vibrational work they’re engaged with, with the calm energies of nature observance.

In the Neopagan spiritual circles, the holiday based on the Neopagan Wheel of the Year called Mabon, is observed on Autumn Equinox around September 21^st to September 22^nd each year.

Mabon is a very special time of year for me, because I like winter more than the summer because where I live the summers are too hot for my liking.

Beyond my personal preferences though, Mabon is another Neopagan holiday that signifies the turning point from the warm months of spring and summer to the colder ones that of fall and winter.

Mabon marks a time in the year where you can witness the shifts that take place in nature, along with the softening of the harsh heat that was present during the summer. It is also a time of internal “cooling down” that takes place within all of us (at least to the people that are spiritually aligned or sensitive to these subtle energies).

Beyond my personal preferences though, Mabon is another Neopagan holiday that signifies the turning point from the warm months of spring and summer to the colder ones that of fall and winter.

In this article we are going to explore how to attune ourselves was the energies of Mabon, along with the themes that surround this holiday. From simple acts to moments of self-reflection, I’m going to discuss how you can attune yourself to the idea of preparing yourself for the inward journey towards silence and rest.

Embracing Mabon as a Sacred Threshold of Balance and Reflection

A Seasonal Turning Point with Deep Spiritual Meaning

As I mentioned above, Mabon is a turning point where we leave the energetic months of spring and summer behind and moved towards the months that are energetically calmer.

You can see this all around you by witnessing how nature behaves: the leaves turn from green to golden and brown, the days are clearly getting shorter, and there’s a sense of preparation for the colder months to come.

These signs are an invitation for us to turn inwardly and prepare ourselves, to face the darker months ahead as a reflection of going inwardly into our own unconscious corners of our psyche, the darker parts of ourselves. This is a good time to reclaim the many parts of us we buried because of social conditioning and we didn’t pay m much attention during the warm months where conscious mind is more active.

As I mentioned above, Mabon is a turning point where we leave the energetic months of spring and summer behind and moved towards the months that are energetically calmer.

This brings us to a topic again of balancing the conscious mind with the unconscious, the light with the dark as it’s also being experienced during the equinox where the day and the nights are of equal length.

Honoring Your Sensitivity and Intuition During the Seasonal Shift

As an intuitive, and an empath, there’s another important theme that surrounds Mabon that has to do with my relationship to my energy field and how it reacts to the energetic changes that take place around me all year long as the seasons change.

During this time, I can sense the type of cooling of the intensity of the energies that were present during summer.

For me, it’s also a chance to take advantage of this lessening of intensity by recalibrating my energetic constitution.

As an intuitive, and an empath, there’s another important theme that surrounds Mabon that has to do with my relationship to my energy field and how it reacts to the energetic changes that take place around me all year long as the seasons change.

For me, the colder months of the year help me recharge by drawing my senses inwardly to my center, a stark contrast to the extroverted way that our society forces us all to operate, whether we are introverts or extroverted. Especially for sensitives and empaths, this can be a really taxing state of operating.

5 Soulful Ways to Celebrate Mabon and the Autumn Equinox

1. Take a Sacred Nature Walk to Gather and Ground

If you have followed my previous articles around the holidays based on the Wheel of the Year, you surely have noticed the pattern of reconnecting with nature by taking sacred walks.

It doesn’t matter if you live in a rural area or a busy urban one, because even in the cities you can find spaces to reconnect with the earth.

During Mabon, when you tune into the energies of the day, it doesn’t take long to notice the surrounding changes, like the shifts in the light, the scents in the air, and the sight of leaves turning brown and the first ones falling.

If you have followed my previous articles around the holidays based on the Wheel of the Year, you surely have noticed the pattern of reconnecting with nature by taking sacred walks.

During this walk, you can also gather items you can use to either decorate your home or set up an altar to honor the day. These items can vary from fallen tweaks, dried leaves that fell from the trees, to small stones that are calling for you to pick them. This is a great way to amass these items, and bring the energy of the holiday back to your place.

2. Offer Herbs to Trees and Honor the Spirit of the Forest

Since the trees are the forefront of the season’s transition (by shedding their leaves), it is a great opportunity to leave offerings to the spirit of the trees, which in some way represent the humans through their structure.

The roots can represent our legs, the trunk, our torsos, and their branches, our hands, both of us trees and human beings being seen as the Axis Mundi or the axis of the world that connects the heaven and the earth.

Making small offerings to the trees, in appreciation of holding balance between the energies of the sky and the earth, along with helping us keep track of the changing of the seasons, is a great way for us to engage into nonverbal communication with their spirits and thus align ourselves with these sacred sentinels.

3. Cleanse Your Altar with a Homemade Cinnamon Blessing Spray

Cinnamon is a perfect spice, to represent the intention of bringing warmth into your own psyche and life as it sent and taste warms your senses. It is also connected to the sun and its fiery properties, thus making it an excellent ally for you to cleanse your home and especially your altar dedicated to Mabon.

Cinnamon is a perfect spice, to represent the intention of bringing warmth into your own psyche and life as it sent and taste warms your senses.

You can prepare a blessings spray, by adding in the bottle of water where cinnamon has been boiled, and spray it above your altar and at any place that you wish to remove negative energy from.

4. Create an Autumn Altar as a Reflection of Inner Harmony

As with any holiday of the Wheel of the Year, you can also set up an altar dedicated to Mabon.

This altar can be decorated with the items that you have collected during your sacred walks, like twigs, dried fallen leaves, small stones, etc. Along with them, you could even place grounding crystals such as smoky quartz, or a piece of sardonyx.

As with any holiday of the Wheel of the Year, you can also set up an altar dedicated to Mabon.

Setting up an altar dedicated to this day, reinforces your intention to attune with the theme of the day of recognizing that the warm days are slowly giving their place to the colder ones, the idea of balance signified by the autumn equinox, and also the idea of going within and preparing yourself for your resting face that will take place during the months to come.

5. Practice a Gratitude Leaf Ritual to Carry Light into Darkness

Another beautiful practice you can engage in is doing a Gratitude Leaf Ritual. This is a simple ritual where you write anything that you’re grateful for on leaf shaped paper, and instead of burning it, you place it either in a box or a jar.

The energy that this “stash” of paper leaves caring your gratitude towards the most basic things like the food you have on your table every day, the clothes that keep you warm, and also your home that is your shelter, gratitude can be a powerful energy that can balance you out during the days that you do not feel aligned, or even having the energy to engage in life by simple holding the container of these leaves.

Conclusion

I hope with this light introduction to the holiday of Mabon, helped you become more acquainted with the themes of the day, regarding ideas of letting go, preparing yourself for the introspective parts of the year, and also the idea of resting into the arm of the cold coming months.

Till next time, take care.