18/09/2025
The weekend of Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September will mark the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Day and Night are equal and the dark half of the year begins, where there are more hours of night than of day. For many LGBTQIA practitioners of nature based religions, as well as many humanists, atheists and pantheists, this is an important milestone. The pagan bookstore in Glastonbury, Goddess and the Green Man, notes as follows "Night and day are again of equal length and in perfect equilibrium - dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer, in balance. But we are again on the cusp of transition and from now the year now begins to wane and from this moment darkness begins to defeat the light. 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. So Mabon is a celebration and also a time of rest after the labour of harvest. In terms of life path it is the moment of reaping what you have sown, time to look at the hopes and aspirations of Imbolc and Ostara and reflect on how they have manifested. It is time to complete projects, to clear out and let go that which is no longer wanted or needed as we prepare for descent, so that the winter can offer a time for reflection and peace. And it is time to plant seeds of new ideas and hopes which will lie dormant but nourished in the dark, until the return of Spring." If you are celebrating, we wish you a very happy time. Here are a couple of pagan radio stations that might help in your celebrations.
https://www.internationalpaganradio.com/
