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BLESSED LITHA

And Happy Summer Solstice!

Today is the day we celebrate the sun!

My plans today:

- put together a peach, mint, green tea to infuse in the suns rays

- a little sunny craft

- bake this amazing honey cake in my honeycomb silicone mold: https://www.moodymoons.com/2018/06/12/honey-cakes-summer-solstice-recipe/

What do you have planned for today?

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14/15 of my LGBTQIA+ boots series!

intersex flag themed💛💜

I'll be posting 1+ per week until the 1st of pride month 🏳️‍🌈 and then I'll post all of them!

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stickers or prints of this series here

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the colours of nature

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in retrospect it was so obvious that I wasn't straight because I made Barbie be gay before I knew what that even was

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The Love Witch (2016) dir. Anna Biller

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Gardening by the Moon

Credit: animamundiherbals

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There's people out there who are like, "Your magical practice needs ROUTINE it needs DISCIPLINE you need to REACH YOUR HIGHEST POTENTIAL AND MAXIMIZE YOUR RESULTS!!!" Like I dunno how else to break it to ya, but that's just magical grindset/toxic workout culture mentality ya got going on there.

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Been MIA for quite some time, how are my fellow wild witches doing?

Let your witch mama Amber know how your practice has evolved and what sort of content you’d be looking for!

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it’s a witchy life

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⛤Mabon Spells, Part I⛤

Before we start, I’d like to inform you that this topic has been broken down in 3 posts since I’d like to share some Spells, Deity Spells and Kitchen Magic, before the actual celebration, to make the entire thing more readable and give our fellow witches enough time to get ready!

I will also share a Mabon Masterpost with all the content I’ve posted regarding the festivity.

This is a list of spells that are a MUST for Mabon!

⛤An Acorn Mabon Spell for Prosperity

⛤Ingredients:

An acorn

Marker or paint with paintbrush

Small spell bag or sachet

Small bell (you can get these from craft shops)

⛤How to:

Cleanse your space in whatever way you prefer.

Set the magical Mabon mood – turn on music, burn incense, light a few candles, etc.

Gather your ingredients and tools.

Cast a circle, if you so choose, and invoke the elements.

Hold your acorn in your hands and envision prosperity flowing from the acorn into your hands and through your entire body like a soft orange light.

Keep the acorn in your left hand and pick up the little bell in your right.

Say the following 9 times:

“Blessings of oak, earth and the Mabon season.

Flow through this acorn into my home.

Each time the front door opens,

The Mabon bell rings and prosperity flows in.”

Now draw or paint the Mabon symbol onto the acorn

Place the acorn and bell in the small bag.

Thank the earth, Mabon spirits, and energies present. (Release your circle if you cast one).

Hang the Mabon spell bag on your front door, until the Autumn season has ended.

Then bury the acorn near the front door. Cleanse and re-use the bell.

⛤A Mabon Bath Spell for Balance

Wherever balance is needed, decide you’re ready to improve those things and cast this Mabon spell.

⛤What You’ll Need:

Sunflower petals: linked to the Sun and properties include good luck and joy. 

Also a traditional herb used on Mabon.

Chamomile: also linked to the Sun and properties include prosperity and warding off negative energy.

Rosemary: for purification, health, and clarity of mind and memory

3 crystals (of your choice, but I recommend clear quartz, citrine, and amber)

Muslin bag (optional)

⛤How to:

Cleanse the space and set the mood. Turn down the lights and turn on some music, if you choose.

Light a candle or two.

Draw a warm bath and add the herbs to the water (if you have a bag, add your herbs to the bag and then to the water. This makes clean-up much easier!)

Place the 3 crystals around 3 sides of the bathtub (not in the water, but on the tub itself).

Get in and soak while focusing on balance. 

Meditate on what balance means to you and how you could use more of it.

You can chant or repeat the following incantation:

“I invoke the energies of Mabon,

On a day of balance,

We welcome the Autumn season,

May the balance of night and day

Bring my life balance in every way.”

Soak in the bath for as long as you feel it’s necessary.

Then emerge feeling balanced within yourself and all around you.

⛤Quick Balance Spell

Mabon is observed on an equinox, a time when there are equal parts of light and day. It is the perfect time to reassess and work toward balance in all parts of your life.

⛤You’ll need:

Black candle

White candle

A pen

Some paper

⛤How to:

Set up your altar to reflect the harvest. 

Place a black and a white candle on opposite sides of the altar, and place a piece of parchment in between them. 

On this paper, write down the aspects of your life that you feel need to be brought into balance. 

As you contemplate those aspects, light the candles and say:

"As day and night are now in balance,

so to let my life find balance."

⛤Mabon Ritual

This is a ritual to honor the duality of life and death, sadness and celebration.

⛤You’ll need:

White Candle

Black Candle

A red apple

Some spring flowering bulbs

⛤How to:

 Place one white and one black candle on your altar.

In the center, place one red apple to represent Avalon, the Land of Apples where some traditions believe Mabon was held captive

As a symbol of rebirth, also have on hand a small bowl of spring-flowering bulbs

Light the candles and say:

"You walk the paths of darkness and

light,

You do not fear the coming of the night.

Again you'll rise from the mists of

Avalon,

For you are Mabon, the Great Son."

As a lasting tribute to this holiday, plant the bulbs. When they bloom in the spring, you'll remember Mabon and the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

⛤Isidora⛤

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Witchcraft: Mabon Information and Inspiration

Mabon is only a few days away in the northern hemisphere, so I hope this may help you plan! 🍂

Credit: thewitchoftheforest, witchytips, losillewitch, leladymoon, Spoonie Witches Facebook, blessingmanifesting.com

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⛤History of Mabon⛤

The Mabon or Autumn Equinox is a holiday that takes place from the 21st of September to the 24th of the same month.

⛤The autumn equinox divides day and night equally - here we should all take a moment to pay homage to the impending darkness.

We also thank the sunset light, as we store this year's crop of crops.

The Druids call this celebration, Mea'n Fo'mhair, and honor the Green Man, the God of the Forest, by offering libations to the trees.

On this holiday it is appropriate to dress in elegant clothes and dine and celebrate in luxurious surroundings.

It is time to finish the old jobs and prepare for a period of rest, relaxation and reflection.

⛤ Pagans celebrate the aging Goddess as she passes from Mother to Crone, and her consort, the Lord, as she prepares for death and rebirth.

⛤The feast of the autumn equinox is also known by other names: Feast of the second harvest, Feast of Wine, Feast of Avalon, Autumn Equinox, or Cornucopia.

The Teutonic name, Winter Finding, spans a period of time between Mabon and October 15, which is the New Year in Old Norse.

The Romans celebrated a festival dedicated to Pomona, the goddess of fruit and growing things.

However, the most famous ancient myth comes from Greece. The autumn equinox marks Persephone's return to the underworld:

⛤In ancient Greek mythology, the beginning of the fall is closely linked to the story of the abduction of Persephone, also called Kore or Cora. Daughter of Demeter, goddess of earth and fertility, she was kidnapped and taken to the underworld to become the wife of Hades, the god-king of the underworld. After a period of mourning and struggle, Demeter eventually brought her daughter back from Hades to the light, but only for six months of the year. Each fall, Persephone must return to the underworld to spend six months with Hades. During these months, Nature withdraws.

⛤Mabon is a relatively modern neo-pagan celebration, which takes place around the September equinox.

⛤In the 1970s, the American author Aidan Kelley gave new names to the six pagan holidays rooted in the ancient Celtic tradition and added two new celebrations proper to the September and March equinox.

These holidays are celebrations based on the cycles of the sun.

⛤Inspired by a proper name derived from the Welsh word mab / map, meaning "son" or "boy", Kelly chose Mabon as the name for the autumn equinox celebration, and founded the ceremony he had composed for the festival in the Greek myth of Persephone.

⛤Mabon celebrates the second harvest and the start of winter preparations, and it's time to respect the impending darkness while giving thanks in the sunlight.

⛤Druids and pagans also flock to Stonehenge, the famous 5,000-year-old site in Wiltshire, and Castlerigg, another megalithic stone circle near Keswick, Cumbria, to watch the equinox dawn.

⛤The Christian church replaced many pagan celebrations with Christian observances. The most famous is Christmas, which replaced the ancient Yule festival around the December solstice.

⛤The closest Christian celebration to the September equinox is Michaelmas, also known as the feast of St. Michael and all angels, on September 29th. In this period, the feast of St. Michael is mainly observed in the Catholic church.

⛤Centuries ago in England, the time around the feast of St. Michael also had a commercial side: servants were paid wages after the harvest and workers looked for new jobs at job fairs that also became a place for celebrations.

⛤Mabon is a time full of magic, all connected to the changing seasons of the earth, this is the Second Harvest, the Fruit Harvest and the Great Thanksgiving.

⛤The Goddess is radiant and the God eventually dies with her gift of pure love with the cutting of the last grain. As the grain is harvested in abundance during Lammas and reaches completion, we enjoy the abundance of fruits and vegetables at this time.

⛤It is time to thank the waning sun for the richness of the harvest that has been bestowed on us.

⛤Sometimes it seems like every Holiday calls for thanks, and it really is: every spin of the Wheel brings both inner and outer gifts and insights, so Mabon is a celebration and also a period of rest after harvest work.

⛤In terms of your life path, it is time to reap 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 leave what is no longer wanted or needed as we prepare for the descent, so that winter can offer a time for reflection and peace.

⛤And it's time to plant seeds of new ideas and hopes that lie dormant but nurtured in the dark, until spring returns.

I'll be posting more Mabon related content during the week so stay tuned for spells, rituals, prayers, history and affirmations!

Hopefully, you'll have a great Celebration this year too!

⛤Isidora⛤

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