A thanksgiving celebration for the second harvest Mabon—also known as the Autumn Equinox—is a time to honor the spiritual significance of harvest, sacrifice, and survival. This guide shows you how to perform rituals and work magic that incorporates the shifting balance between light and dark that reaches its pinnacle during the equinox. Rituals Recipes Lore Spells Divination Crafts Correspondences Invocations Prayers Meditations Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch's year.

A little girl discovers the meaning of the Wiccan harvest holiday Mabon.

The Pagan Thanksgiving for the harvest It's the season of changing colors; crisp air filled with the scent of wood smoke; and festivals offering wine, hot cider, and apple pie. At this time of equal day and night, we give thanks for the harvest that will sustain us through the dark winter months. This book explores the history, legends, and traditions of the season that is honored from the Far East to the Celtic Lands, and from Scandinavia to South America. Create your own Mabon tradition with the help of the book's many recipes, magical workings, equinox rituals, and crafts for all ages. ·Part of Llewellyn's successful series on each of the eight Pagan sabbats, or holidays ·The author is well-known throughout the Pagan community ·For anyone who celebrates the turning of the seasons and the ancient holy days ·Relevant to any culturally-based path

Acclaimed homeschooling author Madden shows how to celebrate autumn with myths surrounding Mabon (the Harvest), customs and traditions from around the world, recipes, unique rituals, crafts, and fun facts about animals, astronomy, and nature.

Bat Hollow seems like the ideal town. It's small, the people are friendly, and the shops are locally owned. Nothing seems to stray out of the ordinary. Hayden lives here with her fiance, Travis and her dog Murphy. They are content in their lives and enjoy the mundane, until something unexpected happens. While sleeping one night, Hayden wakes in a strange, unfamiliar place. As she attempts to find her way back home, she is approached by a group of powerful witches. They ask her to join them by the autumn equinox; Mabon. She is given an ultimatum; to join them or face the consequences. Over the course of the next few weeks, she is visited by witches, to help persuade her decision. With her world turned upside down, she must decide what her future holds.

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-affected was the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The existence of a new regime in Tehran led to increasingly vitriolic confrontations between these two states, often manifesting themselves in the conflicts across the region, such as those in Lebanon and Iraq, and more recently in Bahrain and Syria. In order to shed light upon this rivalry, Simon Mabon examines the different identity groups within Saudi Arabia and Iran (made up of various religions, ethnicities and tribal groupings), proposing that internal insecurity has an enormous impact on the wider ideological and geopolitical competition between the two. With analysis of this heated and often uneasy relationship and its impact on the wider Middle East, this book is vital for those researching international relations and diplomacy in the region.