| 03 September 2009

Herbs are Benzoin, Marigold, Myrrh, Sage, and thistles, Honeysuckle, Milkweed, Oak Leaves, Pine and Roses for decoration.  You can try your hand at celebrating Mabon with your family by serving a meal of wine from the God and the beans and squash from the Goddess. (Grape Juice may be substituted for the non-alcoholically inclined!) You may also make a protection charm of hazelnuts (filberts) strung on red thread.
Celebrating new-made wine, harvesting apples and vine products, and visiting burial cairns to place an apple upon them, were all ways in which the Celts honored this Sabbat. (Avalon, one of the many Celtic names for the Land of the Dead, literally means the “land of apples”.) These acts symbolized both thankfulness for the life-giving harvest, and the wish of the living to be reunited with their dead.

Taken from “Celtic Myth and Magick” by Edain McCoy