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For turning toward the dark with full hands

What Remains

  1. 1 Gather something. An apple, a handful of seeds, the last of the garden, or whatever you've been storing. Hold it. This is what you carry into the dark.
  2. 2 Stand at a threshold. Doorway, window, edge of the yard. Face west, where the sun sets.
  3. 3 Name what you're grateful for. Not a list—one true thing. The harvest that mattered most. Say it aloud.
  4. 4 Acknowledge the descent. Say: The light and dark stand equal. From here, I go into the dark. I go with what I have. It is enough.
  5. 5 Eat or store what you gathered. Take it in, or put it away for later. Both are acts of faith. You will need what you've saved.
✦ Hedgewitch Almanac

What Remains

Mabon is the autumn equinox—Ostara's mirror. Equal light, equal dark, but now the scale tips toward night. From here, the days shorten. The descent begins.

This is the second of three harvests. The grain is already in; now come the fruits, the roots, the wine. In Welsh mythology, Mabon ap Modron—the divine son—was stolen from his mother three nights after his birth and imprisoned in the underworld. The name carries that weight: something taken into darkness, waiting to be found.

Mabon asks you to take stock. What do you have? What will sustain you? This is not scarcity thinking—it is honest reckoning. You stand at the threshold of the dark half of the year. Go with full hands and open eyes.

Correspondences

Materials
Apples, seeds, wine, preserves, baskets
Plants
Apple, grape, blackberry, hazel, oak
Moon
Waning or dark (descent)
Time
Dusk, or the moment of equinox
Direction
West (descent, completion, the setting sun)

The light and dark stand equal.
I face the west, where the sun descends.
I name what I am grateful for.
I hold what I have gathered.
From here, I go into the dark.
I go with what I have.
It is enough.
I am enough.

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