Mabon: A Time of Balance

The opening image is a 1902 painting by H. A. Brendekilde called A Wooded Path in Autumn. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34007466

Autumn Equinox arrives Monday. It is the official start of my favorite season. I love autumn. I love the changing of colors (mostly viewed in pictures), the crispness in the air (it will get here, I keep telling myself), the scents, pumpkins, Halloween decorations coming out… there’s not anything I can think of that I don’t like about this season. The image that I’ve used for this post is a perfect place—I would love to be on that path, dressed in clothes from another century, breathing the air filled with the scent of dying leaves trodden underfoot.

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