The Autumn Equinox, Magicks of the earth, and an Ecology of the spirits

Welcome to an ONLINE meditative event, in the spirits of all pagan, neo-pagan, wicca, and earth-based spiritual practices.

In modern commodity cultures, we often find ourselves disconnected from the natural rhythms that define human existence (cosmos, solar, lunar, earth-based). The September harvest feast of Mabon invites us to reconnect with the Earth—its cycles, its energy, and its sacredness.

Mabon, the Autumn Equinox, is a harvest feast celebrated in September as part of the Wheel of the Year. Falling between September 21st and 24th each year, Mabon marks the balance between day and night and serves as the second of three harvest festivals, symbolizing gratitude for nature's abundance and preparation for the coming darker half of the year.

Mabon is the pagan festival celebrated around the Autumn Equinox in late September, a time of balance when day and night are of equal length. Also known as the "pagan Thanksgiving," it's the second of three harvest festivals, focusing on gratitude, abundance, and transitioning into the darker half of the year. People celebrate Mabon by harvesting and feasting, spending time in nature, planting bulbs, and completing unfinished projects as they prepare for winter.

In this season of abundance, we are invited to embrace new magics that bring us back to our roots, not just in the soil but in the spiritual relationship we have with the land around us. In Earth-based religious practices – Wicca, Druidry, and neo-paganism -- Mabon marks one of the eight sacred Sabbats. These traditions affirm that the Earth is not an object but a conscious presence, a divine partner in the rhythms of becoming.

At the Autumn Equinox, the Earth offers her first fruits and we are called to balance -- to offer something in return: gratitude, restraint, care. To take without offering is to break the oldest spiritual covenant there is. We’ll explore Lammas as an important human marker of spiritual ecology—a sacred threshold in the Wheel of the Year where Earth’s abundance meets human accountability. This ancient festival is more than a harvest feast. It is a spiritual reminder: that everything we receive emerges from a magickal, living world we are bound to protect.

This spiritual ecological view energizes the Gaia Hypothesis, which sees Earth as a self-regulating, interconnected organism—a planetary body with its own intelligence and balance. For many modern practitioners of Gaian spirituality, this isn't metaphor—it is a sacred science. We do not live on the Earth; we live within it. The festival also aligns with lunar traditions. The Lammas full moon is known as the Grain Moon, Barley Moon, or Corn Moon. These moon names, passed down through folk calendars and Indigenous knowledge systems, are more than poetic. They are ecological notations, marking what is growing, what is ripe, and what must now be honored.

It is a time to become stewards of abundance, tenders of Earth’s grief, and sowers of renewed covenant. Join this online presentation with hands open—ready to receive, remember. Join us. Leave with spirit fed—and a renewed promise to walk gently on the skin of the world.