Autumn Equinox (Mabon) falls on the 21st March in the Southern Hemisphere and is a beautiful time to hold a women’s circle.
It is the second harvest festival of The Wheel of the Year and is a time of equal day and night, the balance between light and dark as the year then gets darker and colder.
Your circle can be held anywhere within the week to honour this change of season.
With a month to go, now would be the time to set the date and start sharing your circle, inviting women to book in.
🍁 Themes of Mabon 🍁
- Balance and harmony
- Harvest
- Gratitude
- Letting go
- The beginning of the inner and outer retreat
Rituals and Activities
🍂 Facilitate a sharing circle with the guiding question: “Where is your life out of balance?”
🍂 Collect autumn leaves and have the women write what they want to let go of, and call in — on the leaves.
Create nature bunting with the leaves threaded on string; these can be hung in the home. Instruct the women to keep them until the Spring Equinox, reflecting on how these intentions have unfolded.
🍂 Create a harvest earth altar with plant materials — leaves, sticks, seasonal flowers, fruits and vegetables.
🍂 Make nature craft together or get the watercolours out to create art based off elements within the earth altar.
🍂 Guide the women on a visualisation or drum journey themed around balance, letting go, or gratitude.
🍂 Share a cake baked with apples.
Beyond the activities, often the most potent part is sharing stories.
Your circle can be very simple and powerful just by gathering women together.
🍁 Are you holding a Mabon circle?
If you would love to learn how to facilitate circles like this, I teach all of this and more inside my facilitator training, Together. Check it out and start gathering your community.
