Autumn Equinox Celebration - 2011

I promised myself this year that I was going to try and do something, anything, to mark the passing of each holiday in the Wheel of the Year. Holidays like Samhain and Yule and Imbolc, the darker, more "wintery" holidays are easy to celebrate alone or with my partner. (And Beltane... there's a holiday made for couples to celebrate alone if there ever was one.) But in the past when I've tried to do this "celebrate all eight" thing, I've always somehow skipped over the Autumn harvest time holidays. One reason, I think, is that it feels odd holding what I know, somewhere, deep in my bones should be a community celebration, all by myself or with one other person.

So, this year, I decided we were having a Mabon party. After some wavering by both my partner and me about the wisdom of having a big cooking extravaganza on a weekend well into our teaching semesters, we decided that celebrating the equinox with friends was worth the trouble and the lost time prepping for class. I'm glad we did.

( Further Description and Pictures Under the Cut )