27/09/2022
LGBTQIA Pagans will be sending their greetings this week for the festival of Mabon, a term which had been used since the nineteen seventies when modern neo-paganism was in rapid development. As the Autumn equinox, Humanists and many atheists also mark this passing of the seasons, as day and night are equal and for the next six months, there are more hours of darkness than light in the Northern Hemisphere. Many denominations of Christians, including gay friendly congregations like Unitarians, Quakers, UCC and MCC will also mark their Harvest festivals at this time of year. Glastonbury based pagan bookstore “The Goddess and the Green Man” reveals more about the symbolism of all these festivals: “The cycle of the natural world is moving towards completion, the Sun's power is waning and from now on the nights grow longer and the days are are shorter and cooler. The sap of trees returns back to their roots deep in the earth, changing the green of summer to the fire of autumn, to the flaming reds, oranges and golds. We are returning to the dark from whence we came”. However you mark this passing of the seasons, we wish you a Happy Harvest festival.
https://www.goddessandgreenman.co.uk/mabon
https://www.facebook.com/LGBTQWiccanPagans
https://thefriend.org/ - Quaker magazine
https://thequeerness.com/2017/03/12/queer-and-wicca-a-contradiction/
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